Role of Vitamin D in Prevention of Degenerative Diseases

Vitamin D is one of the fat acrid vitamins. This vitamin is usually accepted as vitamin that takes afar in cartilage bloom absolute its role in accretion adeptness of calcium assimilation in baby intestine.

Without vitamin D, animal baby civil can alone blot calcium up to 15%. Vitamin D can access adeptness of comestible calcium assimilation up to 30%.
Until 1980s, vitamin D was primarily accepted by its role in cartilage and tooth accumulation However, contempo epidemiologic studies accept appear that sunlight acknowledgment that increases the assembly of vitamin D in skin, takes afar in preventing degenerative diseases, e.g. cancer, diabetes mellitus blazon 1, and hypertension.

The abstruseness of the role of vitamin D in the blockage of degenerative diseases started to acknowledge back advisers begin that best of anatomy beef and tissues, including heart, pancreas, stomach, intestines, skin, and lymphocytes, accept the receptors for vitamin D.

It proofs that vitamin D is bare by those tissues. One of the important allegation was the adeptness of vitamin D iin decreasing cancer cell proliferation. Many of cancers, such as colon cancer, breast cancer, and lung blight accept enzymatic accoutrement to adapt the abeyant vitamin D to become active. Then vitamin D functions to adapt beef advance and to abatement their proliferation.

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Caution, Too Much Vitamin C Dangerous

THE MORE the many viruses that become sources of disease, erratic weather, more precarious environment and air pollution, can cause decreased immune system.

At these conditions, the consumption of vitamin C is recommended. However, the need for natural vitamin C from fruits and vegetables for the body is often hard to find now-now. Many people choose to take vitamin C in supplement form as it is considered more practical and easy to obtain.

Along with the development of the age, vitamin C supplements were also grown. You need to know also the development of vitamin C from time to time.

"As the times and science, supplements of vitamin C is also growing and more and more benefits. For vitamin C supplement users, need to know its development, "said Dr. Helmin Agustina S of Consumer Health Division of PT Kalbe Farma Tbk when met at the Mall of Indonesia.

Helmin said, in 1928 vitamin C was first purified by the Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi from Cranbridge, England. In the first generation of vitamin C, Albert formulate a component called heksurat acid, which eventually became the ascorbic acid. Later developed into the second generation of vitamin C that are useful to cure (skorbut) thirst, depression, muscle pain, relieve fatigue, shortness of breath and bleeding gums.

The analysis of vitamin C continues to grow, until finally found Ester-C, the type of vitamin C the third generation.

"Recent developments, found Purway C, ie vitamin C is readily absorbed and does not cause kidney stones such as vitamin C before," he said.

Not only good for keeping the immune system, vitamin C supplements derived from Purway C also can enhance skin appearance, reduce inflammation, either because of foreign compounds and cellular reactions, accelerate healing and refreshing the body.

Purway C is a type of vitamin C supplements contain lipid metabolic obtained from the combination of vitamin C rich fruits like oranges, strawberries, kiwi fruit and vegetable choices.

Although beneficial to the body, apparently taking supplements of vitamin C can also cause side effects. According to the nutritional adequacy rate, the maximum recommended intake of vitamin C is 500 mg per day.

If consumed over-the effect can accelerate the emergence of oxalate kidney stone formers. However, despite the use of supplemental vitamin C is allowed, it is still a source of vitamin C which is obtained from natural materials such as fresh fruits and vegetables, is recommended.

"Supplements of vitamin C is recommended for those who are stricken with infectious diseases, in a period of healing, postoperative, the elderly, for healthy bones, heart, skin and prevent degenerative diseases. This vitamin is also good consumed during transition season as the prevention of transmission of epidemic diseases, "said Helmin. (VIVAnews)

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