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Study shows how higher vitamin D changes genes to fight disease

Do you think you are getting enough vitamin D? New evidence shows for the first time, even if your level is not low, higher levels of the vitamin could have an important role for fighting heart disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases and infection. Research shows how vitamin D changes gene expression when levels in the bloodstream are higher to boost immune defenses.

Boosting levels of the so-called sunshine vitamin in the body could help fight a variety of diseases even for people whose vitamin D status is considered normal, according to the findings based from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/index.cfm/vitaminD

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