Vitamin D

"Use of vitamin D during pregnancy may prevent a child born in the emergence of various diseases, claim German experts." Recent studies show that vitamin D helps immune system and can prevent autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and thyroid problems. Pregnant women usually lack vitamin D.

According to the British study, the supplements of vitamin D help prevent diabetes type 1. Thus, if the theory is true, this vitamin may play a crucial role in children and prevention of this disease. According to the study, children who were taking vitamin D supplements had 1/3 less chance of diabetes.

Vitamin D, we remember from childhood, when it was administered as cod liver oil. Under normal circumstances, vitamin D works in the skin by the action of sunlight on a pro-vitamin, because in the past, children could partially fed cow's milk and products thereof, vitamin D from milk. Today, when the cows are out grazing only on some organic farms, we must find additional resources, which include mainly fish.

More vitamin D may help in the defense against breast cancer. Scientists from Birmingham University and Hospital of St. George in London, found that breast tissue contains an enzyme that activates vitamin D. The level of enzyme is increased when there is incidence of cancer.

Osteoporosis - thinning of bone tissue disease - is one of the most common diseases of civilization. Osteoporosis is not a natural part of aging, it is an improper, unhealthy intensified the process of degradation of bone mass. In the course of the disease occurs proportional to the decrease of all components of bone tissue and changes in microarchitecture and bone quality.

Elderly patients who suffer from osteoporosis (thinning bones) can not be said to prevent fractures by the use of calcium and vitamin D in the form of food supplements. It claims that, according to Reuters Scottish scientists. People with osteoporosis are at increased risk of bone fractures, especially if they already had fractures.

Vitamin D may help delay the aging and protect against some diseases associated with aging. This conclusion was reached in its study by British scientists at Kings College London, which informed the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Scientists examined 2160 women aged 18-79 years.

Terrestrial animals have learned to produce vitamin D from about 300 million years ago: when the ocean environment left vertebrates, calcium-rich, have become dependent on the formation of vitamin D in the skin effects of UV light, a photochemical reaction. Vitamin D increases calcium resorption in the small quantities contained in food, črevom. The main function of vitamin D is to maintain homeostasis of calcium and phosphorus, which is subject to the proper signal transmission, metabolic activity, neuromuscular function and bone mineralization.

Seventy percent of American children suffer from a lack of vitamin D. The lack of this vitamin increases the risk of heart disease and disorders of growth cartilage. Yet until recently was regarded as a lack of vitamin D in the United States for a relatively rare phenomenon.

According to 2 days old study as published by the prestigious vocational journal Archives of Internal Medicine, vitamin D reduces the death rate of people who shall enjoy it. The study was carried out on more than 57,000 people and has shown that the use of 300-2000 units per day for at least 6 years old reduces the mortality of 7%. Although it is not entirely clear what exactly vitamin D helps, it is clear that his administration has antitumor effects as well as acts and against atherosclerosis and heart and vascular diseases.

In the past it was assumed that vitamin D could play a role in preventing colon cancer. This assumption was also confirmed in a recent study conducted at Harvard Medical Faculty American University in Boston. Doctors found that patients with higher levels of vitamin D in their blood, have a lower risk of death doubled for colorectal cancer compared with those who had low concentrations of this vitamin.

In recent years, still listening to that we should not sunbathe because they threaten us with skin cancer. But even those who hide from the sunlight constantly, do not make good. The best source of vitamin D is a sunlight.

Increased intake of vitamin D can help retain mental freshness in a man in the older age. Says a study of doctors from the University of Manchester.

Analysis of earlier studies have shown that vitamin D at higher levels may reduce the risk of cancer of the colon and rectum. The mechanism and the optimal doses are not yet known. When studying the role of vitamin D to cancer of the colon and rectum were analyzed various studies associated with this problem.

Researchers from the Medical University of Graz found out that low levels of sex hormone testosterone in men may be a lack of vitamin D. Experts now want to determine whether it would be possible to replace the hormonal treatment vitamin therapy. Informed the server kuriet.at.