date:Sep 05, 2012
The study published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS) is the first to investigate the effect of vitamin D on the immune responses of patients receiving treatment for an infectious disease.
Led by Dr Adrian Martineau from Queen Mary, University of London, UK, the researchers reveal findings to indicate that high doses of the sunshine vitamin can dampen down the body's inflammatory response to infection, enabling patients to recover faster, with less damage to their lu