Not Just for Bones, Vitamin D3 Also Helps Cardiovascular

Many benefits the body gets from exposure to the morning sun. Among them are able to prevent cardiovascular damage, namely diseases related to the heart and blood vessels.

A study conducted at Ohio University, a little more sunlight can help restore damage to your cardiovascular system. The study shows that vitamin D3 can significantly restore damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.


"Generally, vitamin D3 is associated with bone, but in recent years, in a clinical setting people realize that many patients who have heart attacks will have a D3 deficiency. Not that deficiency causes a heart attack, but it increases the risk of heart attack, said Professor Dr. Tadeusz Malinski when quoted from Eurekalert.org.

Malinski said his team used nanosensors to see the benefits of vitamin D3 to prevent and restore the cardiovascular system. Nanosensors that are 1000 times smaller than that of human hair can track the effects of vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, an important regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

The observations made, it appears that Vitamin D3 acts as a strong stimulator of nitric oxide (NO), a major signal molecule in the blood flow regulation and prevention of clot formation in the cardiovascular. In addition, vitamin D3 significantly reduces the level of oxidative stress in the cardiovascular system.

"Not many, if any, known systems can be used to restore damaged cardiovascular endothelial cells, and Vitamin D3 can do it," Malinski said.

Therefore, the authors suggest that vitamin D3 may be of clinical significance applied in post dysfunctional heart failure, endothelium capillaries after brain ischemia (stroke), hypovolemia, vasculopathy, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

This suggestion is also supported by several clinical studies showing that higher doses of vitamin D3 are beneficial for the treatment of dysfunctional cardiovascular systems.

"This is a very cheap solution to improve the cardiovascular system, we do not need to develop new drugs. We already have it," he said.

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