To prevent autumn ailments, and not only those. Vitamin D, essential for bone health, is confirmed as an essential nutrient to ward off various diseases. Especially in old age.
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and carried out by the University of Ulster in Coleraine in Ireland, has in fact discovered a connection between blood concentration of vitamin D and levels of inflammation in a large sample of the elderly.
This translates, among other things, into a higher cardiovascular risk.
Research also shows that older adults with a vitamin D deficiency have weaker immune defenses.
Essential for certain lymphocytes
Previous research had revealed that vitamin D is involved in the activation of T lymphocytes, cells of the immune system that attack viruses and bacteria by activating a series of cascading processes.
In fact, it seems that these lymphocytes need adequate levels of vitamin D to move from the “dormant” to the active state.
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