The academician named a vitamin that saves from coronavirus
The risk of contracting coronavirus infection will be reduced by prophylactic2 taking vitamin D.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with Izvestia, the General Director of the National Medical Research Center named after V.A. Almazov Ministry of Health of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeniy Shlyakhto, answering the question of how to protect yourself from becoming infected with coronavirus infection.
“I take multivitamins and microelements myself. In the spring, data for Italy were announced, and they surprised: patients were diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency - this is despite their sunshine! Now data for Mexico has been published - the same situation,” said the academician.
He added that previously vitamin D was considered as a hormone that regulates phosphorus-calcium metabolism and prevents rickets and osteoporosis.
“Then they discovered a connection with cardiovascular diseases. And now they have discovered a connection with the immune system: it works as a modulator of the immune system, an activator of T-cell immunity. In general, the mechanisms of its positive effect are clear,” Shlyakhto concluded.
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