Vitamin D is a nutrient your body needs to build and maintain healthy bones. This is because your body can only absorb calcium - the main component of bones - when vitamin D is present. Vitamin D also regulates many other functions in your body's cells. Its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and neuroprotective properties also support a healthy immune system, muscle function and brain cell activity and results vary regarding the benefits of vitamin D in preventing cancer, hereditary bone disorders vitamin D may be used to help treat hereditary disorders of body function resulting from the inability to absorb or process vitamin D and multiple sclerosis Long-term use of vitamin D supplements reduces the risk of multiple sclerosis and other diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia, osteoporosis, psoriasis, and rickets.
