Health Benefits Of Vitamin D

From Years doctors believed vitamin D, is a call sunshine vitamins, the sunlight triggers the body to produce it. Then the milk with vitamin D, rickets was reinforced rather than disappear, the problem of a lack of vitamin D seemed to have been solved.

But Michael F. Holick, director of the Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory, who spent 30 years at Boston University Medical Center says "Vitamin D deficiency, rickets can be considered to be the tip of iceberg".

The importance of Vitamin D

• It helps the intestine absorb nutrients like calcium and phosphorus. This provides a strong bone and a strong immune system.
• Vitamin D prevents rickets and osteomalacia. That can cause brittle bone weakness of the muscular system, Vitamin D deficiency is most common among in the adults. Rickets is a skeletal deformity mostly seen in children with vitamin D deficiency.
• Vitamin D provides Balance of calcium which helps the body to prevent osteoporosis, or arthritis.
• Vitamin D, regulates blood pressure, reduces stress and tension, reduce muscle spasms, reduces body aches and pains, reduces respiratory infections, helps the differentiation of the cells, insulin secretion AIDS, to reduce wrinkles by helping to combat depression improves overall skin health and make skin soft, strong and smooth and provides the protective lining for blood vessels to increases cardiovascular strength.
• Vitamin D is recommended in the treatment of several diseases. It may prevent pre-eclampsia by improving kidney function, cancer by controlling abnormal multiplication of cancer cells, diabetes mellitus by controlling insulin production, hyperparathyroidism by reducing parathyroid numbers, osteomalacia by improving bone and muscle strength, hypophosphatemia by controlling the phosphates in the body, hypocalcaemia by preventing abnormal deposition of calcium, and renal osteodystrophy by regulating calcium content and fibromyalgia.

Tuberculosis, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, hip fractures and chronic pain are linked with lack of vitamin D. Today a lack of vitamin colon, prostate and breast cancer and other maladies, including that the mother was related to. How many vitamins may play a role in various diseases? Answer vitamin necessary for the proposed overall optimal health, the human body (and only the intestine and help to remove the calcium in bones), receptors for vitamin D in the tissues and cells that appear to lie in fact. In addition, in some cells, to generate an active form of vitamin D to convert the high concentration of tissues locally for these enzymes is available.

Boston University did an experiament on circulating form of vitamin, the growth of prostate cells and that it may prevent the growth of cancer. Holick points out, directly or indirectly, cell proliferation, differentiation and death is responsible, as well as "an active form of vitamin D up to 200 different genes in control."

Theories about vitamin D's cancer-preventing qualities has to be approved. In June, Joan M. Lappe, professor of nursing and medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, and her colleagues published the results of a 4-year, double-blind, randomized trial in which nearly 1,200 healthy postmenopausal women took calcium alone, calcium with 1,100 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day, or a placebo. The women who took calcium with vitamin D had a 60 percent lower risk of developing cancers of any type than the placebo group; the calcium-only group’s risk didn’t significantly change.

At this time, adult Americans average having only 230 IU vitamin D intake in a day; Lappe recommended dose of 1,500 to 2,000 IU was prompted by the results of the study. "This is probably the result of the high and low risk that," he told to the newspaper in Canada in June. Vitamin D comes from three sources: the skin penetration of the sun's ultraviolet (UVB) rays, fatty fish and some fortified foods, and a few Vitamin D rich foods such as supplements. The Canadian Paediatric Society has already recommended that pregnant or breast-feeding women get 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily.

Some clinicians have suggested that increased vitamin D intake might help ward off multiple sclerosis (MS) may help overcome the progressive autoimmune disease that has increased is proposed. Last December, Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions group of researchers between vitamin D levels and MS as a result of the first large prospective study published. The analysis of stored blood samples taken from 7 million military personnel and those who developed MS within 12 years after it has been determined, the team of the risk of MS in the blood concentration of vitamin D in order to put them was 62 percent lower than that of the bottom quintile than for those in the top quintile. Study of low vitamin D levels lead to MS or MS risk was a marker may be, however, did not make clear.

Vitamin D status may affect vulnerability to the infection. For example, African Americans than Caucasians to have enough vitamin D is sunlight, they also increase the risk of suffering from tuberculosis. Breakthrough study published in March, a number of UCLA, scientists have discovered a possible link. TB bacillus encountering the immune system scavenger cells known as macrophages to destroy the buyer bacillus that produces a peptide in an active form of vitamin D circulating in order to give impetus to the conversion. The turnover rate is low, then vitamin D activation of macrophages is to start this answer. A similar scenario, maybe even the flu virus, can be operated with the representatives of other infectious.