Vitamin D!!! and Sunshine (if you can find it in Nottingham in February)!!!

Seriously; GOOGLE Vitamin D3.

Recent studies indicate that D3 is important for maintaining the innate immune system in the skin, as well as maintaining strong bones and teeth.

Sunshine converts a cholesterol metabolite present in skin to another substance, cholecalciferol, vitamin D3. D3 is then converted, mostly in the kidney, to calcitriol, which is actually a hormone that stimulates the absorption in the small intestine of dietary calcium.

Persons with kidney disease often have to take pre-made calcitriol because they can't do the second step and often develop degenerative bone and tooth disease.

This process can also apparently occur in keratinocytes in the skin after injury, and the calcitriol, or active D3, causes the release of antimicrobial peptides as part of the innate immune system.

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Wishing the best to you, dear lady:

Robert