{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":658,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T06:22:02.195523+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"Vitamin D reduces autoimmune disease","slug":"vitamin-d-reduces-autoimmune-disease","published_at":"2026-09-06T10:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/vitamin-d-reduces-autoimmune-disease","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2441074605.mp3?updated=1775702022","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2441074605.mp3?updated=1775702022","summary":"Come on government, change the out dated guidelines. John's text books, free downloads, http://159.69.48.3/ Vitamin D regulates a wide array of genes involved in inflammation and immunity, inconsistently associated with reduced risk of several autoimmune diseases in observational studies Active form of vitamin D regulates genes, inflammation, acquired and innate immune responses Dietary marine derived long chain omega 3 fatty acids decrease systemic inflammation in some autoimmune diseases Evidence is needed on whether omega 3 fatty acids lower the risk of developing autoimmune disease Vitamin D and marine omega 3 fatty acid supplementation and incident autoimmune disease: VITAL randomized controlled trial https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-066452 To investigate whether vitamin D and marine derived long chain omega 3 fatty acids reduce autoimmune disease risk. Vitamin D and omega 3 trial (VITAL), a nationwide (US), randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial N = 25, 871 consisting of, 12, 786 men ≥50 13, 085 women ≥55 18,046 non- Hispanic white 5,106 black 2,152 as other racial and ethnic groups Mean age was 67.1 INTERVENTIONS Vitamin D (2000 IU/day) or placebo Omega 3 fatty acids (1000 mg/day) or placebo Participants self-reported all incident autoimmune diseases from baseline to a median of 5.3 years, these diseases were confirmed by medical record review In the vitamin D arm Treatment group 123 developed an autoimmune disease Placebo group 155 developed an autoimmune disease Hazard ratio 0.78 P = 0.05 In the omega 3 fatty acids arm Treatment group 130 developed an autoimmune disease Placebo group 148 developed an autoimmune disease P=0.19 CONCLUSIONS Vitamin D supplementation for five years with or without omega 3 fatty acids, reduced autoimmune disease…","meta_description":"Come on government, change the out dated guidelines. John's text books, free downloads, http://159.69.48.3/ Vitamin D regulates a wide array of genes invo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1582,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/vitamin-d-reduces-autoimmune-disease/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/vitamin-d-reduces-autoimmune-disease.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}