How Vitamin D Can Help Save You from the Swine Flu
Surely you’ve heard the importance of vitamin D when it comes to your health. And now, a new study suggests that vitamin D is SO essential to your immune system, that it’s been preserved in the human genome for over sixty million years! With a history like that, you can’t go wrong in getting more vitamin D. Keep reading to find out more about this discovery.
The importance of vitamin D is beginning to be more widely known. In fact, vitamin D has been called the “miracle nutrient.” This is because it is the catalyst that kicks the immune system into gear. It is so important that a recently published study by Oregon State University points out that vitamin D is so important to immune system functioning that it has been preserved in the genome for some sixty million years.
According to the Oregon State University press release this vitamin-D mediated immune response is yet found in squirrels, monkeys, baboons, and humans. Because this has been retained throughout all of the millions of years of evolution the logical conclusion would be that it is crucial to survival.
Adrian Gombart, an associate professor of biochemistry and a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University said, "The existence and importance of this part of our immune response makes it clear that humans and other primates need to...
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