Health and Wellbeing

Here’s Why Vitamin D Is Vital for Immunity and What We Can Do About It.

Researchers recommend raising vitamin D levels to above 50 ng/ml to prevent new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA
Published in
7 min readDec 11, 2021

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Vitamin D is a potent epigenetic regulator influencing more than 1000 genes. Therefore, any improvement in vitamin D status will significantly affect the expression of genes with a wide variety of biological functions of more than 160 pathways.

These pathways have links to cancer, autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and acute respiratory tract infections associated with vitamin D deficiency.

If I tell you there are noticeable inflammation patterns when vitamin D deficiency is compared to COVID morbidity and mortality, such as IL6, TNFa, IFNy, Th1, ACE2 expression, and coagulability, you might pay more attention to the message of this article.

In September, I posted a research-based article related to the significance of vitamin D, but it did not create significant visibility. Perhaps the title of my writing did not resonate with the readers. However, as it is a critical vitamin and, in fact, a hormone for all of us, I feel…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com