Vitamin D to reduce severity of Covid-19!
Hey Uplifters,
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! We understand that the past year has been slightly stressful, which is why it is very important that we all make sure we are maintaining a healthy immunity! Thus, we are sharing an article from the New Hope Network, on how Vitamin D can play a vital role in your immune system, thus also having a big effect on the outcome of Covid-19.
Let us all take the time to fill our body with nutritious foods, and our healthy happy body's will thank us!
The article opens with explaining how vitamin D can reduce the risk of infections through moderating our body's inflammation response. Specifically researchers discuss how vitamin D has a role in down-regulating the inflammatory response related to the body mediating blood pressure and fluid balance.
Now that we understand, the effect vitamin D has on our body Turkish researcher points out how vitamin D has the potential to work against COVID-19 induced damage through reducing levels of renin as well as decreasing the body's inflammatory cytokin storm (the body attacking its own cells instead of just fighting off the virus).
The article concludes that the positive health benefits of vitamin D may in fact reduce the severity of responses to the COVID-19 infection. It is important to note that our vitamin D status does align with our exposure to the sun. Therefore, due to the clear positive correlation between vitamin D and COVID-19 outcomes, we can see how vital vitamin D supplementation is.
Here, at Uplift Food our Daily Uplifter contains organic high vitamin D mushroom powder alongside lots of other gut healthy nutrients that are great for helping to build a stronger immune system.
You can try one of our many recipes with vitamin D, prebiotic and probiotic rich ingredients on our website, or try our recently launched Gut Happy Cookies here, packed with prebiotics probiotics and other health benefits!
We hope this article was helpful for you all, and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
In good gut health,
Team Uplifters!