When your body uses vitamin D properly, it helps seal your gut lining and activates natural defenses that calm down overactive immune responses, which might prevent autoimmune diseases.

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Human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) gene is a direct target of the vitamin D receptor and is strongly up‐regulated in myeloid cells by 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D3

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2005 Jul

This study shows that vitamin D turns on a gene that makes a natural antibiotic in human cells, which helps protect the gut from germs. This supports the idea that vitamin D helps strengthen the body’s defenses.

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