Vitamin D controls our genes
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Vitamin D we eat in the diet, or synthesized in the skin due to solar radiation is a powerful regulator of our genes. A study published in the journal Cell Cycle has found a new effect of this vitamin as a regulator of histone proteins that act as ' supprte´ of our genes.
Vitamin D does not act directly, but it does so by means of a chain reaction. First, the liver modifies it slightly, and gets a new compound called calcidiol, transported by the blood to the kidney, where it becomes calcitriol. This derivative of vitamin D goes to all our cells and there modulates the speed of many gene expression different in a way that acts as a hormone with very large effects.
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