Vitamin D and COVID-19

The Beat podcast is designed for healthcare professionals and is brought to you by Nutricia. In this episode, Avril, an NHS midwife and educator, is joined by Professor Zulf Mughal to discuss the importance of Vitamin D in the first 1,000 days of life and beyond. Professor Zulf Mughal is a Consultant in Paediatric Bone Diseases at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, and Honorary Clinical Professor in Child Health at the University of Manchester. He has written over 160 peer reviewed scientific papers and in 2015 was awarded with the prestigious Charles Slemenda Award from The International Conference on Children’s Bone Health (ICCBH). In this podcast Avril and Professor Zulf look at the role of vitamin D for immune system support and discuss the potential link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19.