The Fountain of Youth: Can vitamin D 🌞 turn back the clock on aging?

“For centuries, humans have been on a quest to unlock the secrets of longevity and slow down the inevitable process of ageing.

While we may not have discovered the mythical Fountain ⛲ of Youth just yet, researchers are uncovering fascinating insights into how certain nutrients, like vitamin D 🌞, could potentially influence the biological mechanisms of ageing.

Vitamin D 🌞, often referred to as the “sunshine vitamin” 🌞 because our bodies can produce it when exposed to sunlight, is well-known for its crucial role in maintaining strong bones and a healthy immune system.

However, a recent review published in the journal Nutrients suggests that this versatile nutrient may also play a role in modulating the “hallmarks of ageing” – a set of key biological processes that contribute to age-related decline and disease.

This is where vitamin D 🌞 comes in. The authors of the Nutrients review, led by Dr. Carmelinda Ruggiero from the University of Perugia in Italy, propose that vitamin D could potentially target multiple hallmarks of ageing simultaneously, thanks to its wide-ranging effects on various tissues and organ systems”.

https://studyfinds.org/vitamin-d-youth-aging/

Does Vitamin D 🌞 help the Epigenetic 🧬 Ageing process?

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.