Healthline: Chronic Inflammation: Low Vitamin D Levels May Be a Possible Cause
“Hyppönen explained that vitamin D is a hormone precursor that inhibits the production of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-12 (IL-12).
“By doing this, it acts to modify the immune responses so that T-cell polarization moves away from an inflammatory type response (Th1) to the production of more protective T-cell phenotypes (Th2 and regulatory T-cells),” Hyppönen told Healthline.
According to the study, these actions may help to lower inflammation, thus reducing the risk or severity of many chronic diseases.
Study data also indicates the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is around 40% in some European countries.
Therefore, the authors suggest that increasing vitamin D consumption across the population by adding it to widely consumed food products could be a cost-effective way to reduce chronic disease.”
Some Insights From This Article
Vitamin D may be more important than we previously thought. There’s still many functions of vitamin D that we still don’t understand. A vitamin that plays a hormone within the body there are a plethora of signaling pathways in the body that rely on Vitamin D.
Vitamin D deficiency is perhaps one of the most common deficiencies in the world today. We’re beginning to understand the side effects of such deficiency such as fatigue, low energy and impaired calcium metabolism
According to this article Vitamin D may be linked to an important function of inflammation, as chronic inflammation of the body has been linked to vitamin D deficiency. While inflammation is part of our body’s natural function, chronic inflammation causes us more harm the longer it lasts.
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@sunnyWriting4806
Hello!
I was unaware that vitamin D deficiency is one of the most common deficiencies in the world! I actually bought some vitamin D supplements recently. However, I admit I have not been the most punctual in taking them. Now, I definitely will make more of an effort. Thank you for this informative post!🌿🌺
@innateJoy9602
Given the rise of homebodies especially the pandemic a lot of people are missing out on their healthy sun levels for vitamin D. It's one of the hardest vitamins to get from a natural diet so our skin has important function producing them! There's increasing research how vitamin D deficiency can affect our bodies causing symptoms such as fatigue, chronic inflammation, etc!
@sunnyWriting4806 Vitamin D is quite controversial so researches like this are needed to finally declare. it's definitely a very important thing to consider as all vitamins are important for our overall health. Thanks for the post!
@calmDew1576
It's definitely one of those that haven't been studied as much. We're finding out so many of it's functions in our body and the importance of keeping healthy levels of it!