Article : Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health. They’re surprising.

Not a recommendation.

Title : Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health. They’re surprising.

Subtitle : Immune responses to viruses like SARS-CoV-2 may affect mental health, and vice versa. Doctors are uncovering exactly how.

Link : https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22783685/covid-19-depression-mental-health-risks-immunology

Date of publication : Dec 1, 2021

Based on the title of the article and the URL this article had a name change or two before publication.

This article comes across to me as just lazy journalism.

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Something I read about quite some time ago is that anyone with vitamin D deficiency has a much greater risk of developing schizophrenia than someone who is replete in vitamin D.

References for the above - there are lots :

World J Clin Cases. 2021 Oct 6; 9(28): 8295–8311.
Link : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8554424/

Some People With Schizophrenia May Simply Have a Vitamin Deficiency
Link : https://scitechdaily.com/some-people-with-schizophrenia-may-simply-have-a-vitamin-deficiency/
Published online 2021 Oct 6. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i28.8295

Vitamin Supplementation in the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4083629/

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When we look at risks for more severe cases of Covid what do we find? Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of being severely affected by Covid-19 - but only where publishers have been allowed to link the two in writing - which has often been fudged and rarely mentioned.

Title (a BMJ Editorial) : Vitamin D and covid-19
Link : https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n544

Title : Link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 gets stronger
Link : https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/...deficiency-and-covid-19-gets-stronger-767093/

Title : Vitamin D deficiency as risk factor for severe COVID-19: a convergence of two pandemics
Link : https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR158640

Title : Vitamin D deficiency may raise risk of getting COVID-19
Link : https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/fo...-deficiency-may-raise-risk-of-getting-covid19


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I thought the possible connections between vitamin D deficiency, schizophrenia, Covid-19 and mental illness might be of interest. But overall, the link I started with ignores the whole possibility of a connection, and I think that is terrible.