Have you ever noticed how the sun makes you feel HAPPY? Well…
Did you know that the National Institutes of Health recognizes Sun exposure as the most important source for Vitamin D?
In fact, just 15 to 20 minutes of sun exposure 2 or 3 days a week will enhance your natural immune power’s response to infectious and chronic health problems like that!
Some of the benefits to Vitamin D are lower risks to autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 blood sugar issues, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel health problems.
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient, vital for optimal health and optimal natural immune power.
In this article, I’ll be breaking down the relationships Vitamin D has with: Infectious health problems, Immunity and Asthma, and Immune Disorders.
Vitamin D & Infectious Health Problems
Vitamin D stimulates production of potent natural immune power cells – including two critical white blood cell groups, and natural killer cells… As well as inner cell tissues that line the respiratory tract and help protect the lungs from infections.
Evidence suggests that vitamin D can help prevent a wide range of infectious pathogens continues to mount. Additional studies show that skin wounds need vitamin D to protect against infection and begin the normal repair process.
Deficiencies in vitamin D may compromise your body’s natural immune power which work to resist infection, making one more vulnerable to harmful bacteria.
Vitamin D, Immunity, and Asthma
People that live in northern climates are at greater risk for autoimmune health problems, more prone to allergies, and asthma than people in sunny regions near the equator.
Vitamin D can balance two types of natural immune power cells:
– T-helper 1 and 2 cells.
In a normal immune response, these cells work together, ordering B cells to produce antibodies against an invader and killer T cells to attack it.
But…
If T-helper 1 and 2 cells work independently.
The T-helper 1 cell’s natural immune power response can become disorganized and can mistake healthy tissue for harmful germs, bacterium, or tumor. T-helper 2 cells natural immune power response can mistake harmless intruders such as pollen grains and mold spores for deadly threats prompting the release of inflammatory chemicals that cause allergies and asthma.
Vitamin D regulates the development and function of T-cells, to combined the activities of these two types of T-cells to coordinate proper natural immune power responses to REAL threats.
Vitamin D and Immune Disorders
Recent studies suggest that server immune disorder rates are lower in the southernmost regions of the world than in more northern regions.
In fact, people who spent the most time in the sun actually were 35% less likely to develop health problems than those who spent the least time in the sun, regardless of age.
Additional studies show that vitamin D helps strengthen your natural immune power’s ability to identify and destroy immune cell disorders in colon, breast, and prostate before they can multiple.
Wondering what you can do if you’re living in a mostly sunless region???
Well…
Vitamin D can be found in various Foods and Supplements such as:
– Organic: Salmon, Mackerel, Sardines, Tuna, Whole Eggs, Beef Liver, Swiss cheese, Vitamin D-fortified milk, Margarine, Ready-To-Eat Cereals;
-… And Organic Food-Derived Supplements.
by Ime Ntekpere
