Suara.com – Covid-19 patients need the intake of nutrients and vitamins to increase immunity. One of them is necessity vitamin D which plays an important role in maintaining and increasing body immunity.
The Association of Internal Medicine Specialists has recommended vitamin D as one of the nutrients that Covid-19 patients must receive during treatment.
“There is already an association of internal medicine specialists. One of them must be vitamin D supplementation,” said an internal medicine specialist, dr. Jeff Aloys, Sp.PD., in a webinar with Holisticare D3 1000, Wednesday (5/4/2021).
Supplement Vitamin D is even recommended for Covid-19 patients who have no symptoms, added Doctor Jeff.
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The reason is because vitamin D is very good for boosting immunity by working on important immune cells, namely B cells and T cells.
“It turns out that the receptors or recipients of vitamin D are in these two cells,” he explained.
Not only immune cells, other cells in the body can also become receptors for vitamin D. So that the formation of vitamin D can also be done from various cells other than immune cells.
“This is why vitamin D is very important because it has many factories and also receives a lot of cells, which require a lot, especially immune cells. Of course, we know that B cells T cells play a very large role in eradicating viruses in the body, including Covid-19. “he explained.
Apart from the SARS Cov-2 corona virus which causes Covid-19 infection, vitamin D is of course useful for preventing other diseases. Doctor Jeff mentioned things like cancer, autoimmune, even diabetes.
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“That is why we have to arm B cells and T cells with sufficient ammunition, one of which is vitamin D so that it can eradicate viruses that are not only Covid but also other viruses that can be eradicated with cells that have sufficient vitamin D,” he concluded.
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