Vitamin D is good for Protecting Kidney Functions

It has been found that vitamin D is good for protecting and preserving kidney functions and recent studies have found that lack of vitamin D will do a lot of harms to health.

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system will kill the body’s own cells and scientists think that vitamin D can function as immune suppressant and it might help prevent excessive abnormal reactions of the immune system. Vitamin D can also help to control blood pressure. Vitamin D is used by the parathyroid of the thyroid. They can secrete a kind of hormone which can regulate the calcium level in the body and this can help regulate blood pressure thought scientists have not completely understand this process.

As we know that high blood pressure and blood sugars are major risk factors for kidney patients as well as healthy people. Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney diseases and high blood pressure is the second most common cause of renal damages and diminished kidney functions. Therefore the effective control of blood pressure and blood sugar is of great significance for people and especially those have kidney diseases. This can help slow down the decline rate of kidney functions.

What is more, vitamin D can reduce insulin tolerance which is the one of the main factor causing heart diseases and vitamin D plays vital role in regulating cellular proliferation so as to prevent certain cancers.

Vegetable foods nearly have no vitamin D and vitamin D is mainly contained in animal foods such as sea fish, animal liver, egg yolk, lean meat, skim milk, cod liver oil, nuts, cheese and seafood, etc. However for some kidney diseases patients, sea products, animal offal, egg yolk should be avoided. Therefore it is recommended that kidney disease patients to consult the doctor and dietitian and ask for doctor’ permission and guidance before adding any foods to the diets.

Besides foods, vitamin D can come from self-synthesize and it only needs to have some sunshine everyday which can prevent lack of vitamin D.

At last, one more thing needs to be noted that excessive supply of vitamin D can cause toxicity such as loss of appetite, nausea and loss of weight, etc.