Vitamin D on the Joe Rogan Experience

“It's like 85% of the people who have low, less than 30, have it. And as you move up the scale to the higher level, greater than 60, you see 90% of the people h…”

The speaker claims a study found 85% of people with vitamin D below 30 ng/mL got COVID-19 or its illness, versus 90% of people above 60 ng/mL having no symptoms.

“the people had like an 8% or were eightfold, eight times less likely to have a severe form of COVID-19. And if they had, and they were 20 times less likely to …”

Patrick cites a Philippines study finding people with higher vitamin D levels were 8x less likely to have severe COVID-19 and 20x less likely to have critical COVID-19.

“70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels, which is considered less than blood levels, less than 30 milligrams, nanograms per milliliter.”

Patrick claims 70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels (below 30 ng/mL).

“Obese people are like three times more likely to be vitamin D deficient in the United States.”

Patrick claims obese individuals are three times more likely to be vitamin D deficient than non-obese individuals in the U.S.

“It's so common that I think the number was 74% of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.”

Bowden claims 74 percent of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.