Vitamin D regulates hundreds of genes and dozens of physiological functions in the human body, including those responsible for immune system activity. Scientists at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IRZiBŻ PAN) in Olsztyn have just demonstrated that vitamin D in healthy individuals actually helps maintain a state of balance in immune system cells.
“It has long been known that vitamin D has a beneficial effect on human health. In our recent studies, we have confirmed that in healthy individuals, vitamin D stabilises the homeostasis of human immune cells and counteracts molecular stress occurring, for example, due to microbial infection or inflammation”, emphasises Dr Julia Jarosławska-Miszkiewicz from the Nutrigenomics Laboratory of the IRZiBŻ PAN.
As she added, previously this knowledge was presumed, but now, for the first time, it has been confirmed in studies that vitamin D in a healthy organism actually regulates biological functions at the cellular level.
The findings were published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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