Vitamin D for COVID-19, Diabetes and Heart Health

Have you gotten enough sun exposure today? Doing so helps optimize your vitamin D levels, boosting your heart health and lowering your risk of COVID-19 and diabetes in the process.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Vitamin D levels affect the severity of COVID-19 infection and maintaining optimal levels may reduce symptoms and related long-term complications

• Vitamin D modulates innate immunity by maintaining the integrity of physical barriers, helping to keep infectious agents from entering the body

• Vitamin D also affects adaptive immunity, increasi…