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When your body uses vitamin D properly, it helps calm down your immune system by turning off genes that cause inflammation, which can make you feel less swollen or sore.

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This study found that vitamin D helps calm down overactive immune cells in pregnant women with a dangerous condition, by turning down the signals that cause inflammation, like NF-κB and cytokines. So yes, vitamin D helps reduce inflammation as the claim says.

Vitamin D turns on a switch in immune cells that turns down the body’s alarm system, specifically by blocking a key inflammatory signal called NF-κB and calming down the production of inflammation-causing chemicals.

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