𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐃 ☀️ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠.👵🏼

As we say goodbye to the last of the summers sun ☀️ here in the UK, we thought we could take a closer look at the “Sunshine vitamin” and ask the question?

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐃 ☀️ 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬?👵🏼

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐃 ☀️ 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 👵🏼 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬?

Over the course of the last 7 years Muhdo Health have identified key nutrients such as vitamin D ☀️ and lifestyle interventions from 1000’s of time stamped and series epigenetic 🧬samples, as well as real time health and fitness data which have shown clear correlations for their positive effect on reducing biological age.

From the epigenetic 🧬 data that we have seen, vitamin D3 intake was correlated with superior biological age scores. Individuals had either stable biological ages or reduced ages.

Research📚 is clearly demonstrating the importance of vitamin D ☀️ on our health, such as with the enhancement and regulation of the innate 🦠 immune response, which is our first line of defence against bacteria, viruses 🦠, and infection.

Unfortunately, vitamin D ☀️ deficiency affects almost 50% of the world’s population. Factors contributing to this include lifestyle factors, such as reduced outdoor activities ⛱️, old age 👵🏼, obesity 🍔, darker skin 👱🏿, living in northern hemisphere 🌍, air pollution 🚭, poor dietary choices and genetic factors. 🧬

Some studies suggest that around 900 genes 🧬, or 1/24 of your entire genome may be at least partially regulated by vitamin D, ☀️ which is found in every cell in the body and exerts its effect on target tissue such as bone 🦴, immune 🦠, skin, nervous, endothelial, hair follicle etc via the vitamin D receptor.

The research is also demonstrating that many of the clinical effects of vitamin D ☀️ are due to the impact of it on the inflammatory genes and the immune- regulating role of the 🔥 pro-inflammatory and ❄️ anti-inflammatory cytokines.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 🧬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐃 ☀️

Your genes 🧬 encode for a variety of predispositions and traits, such as your ability to process and absorb vitamins such as vitamin D. ☀️

Vitamin D ☀️ does not exert its effect due to it simply being present within the blood, which seems to be a popular misconception amongst most people.

Active vitamin D ☀️ is synthesised firstly in the skin from a cholesterol precursor. The next stage is synthesis of the circulating molecule, 25 hydroxy vitamin D ☀️ in the liver, followed by 1,25 hydroxylation in the kidney which then exerts its effect through the vitamin D receptors (VDRs).

Vitamin D ☀️ is not like other vitamins, which can predominantly be obtained by food sources. This is why getting your supplementation 💊 and nutrigenomic interventions right is critical in optimising the uptake of this crucial vitamin.