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Ikm Jun2007 11 PDF
Ikm Jun2007 11 PDF
NJJA
AUUA
ANN PPU
USSTTA
AKKA
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Albiner Siagian
ABSTRACT
Vitamin D is one of the fat soluble vitamins. This vitamin is usually known as
vitamin that takes apart in bone health thorough its role in increasing efficiency of
calcium absorption in small intestine. Without vitamin D, human small intestine
can only absorb calcium up to 15%. Vitamin D can increase efficiency of dietary
calcium absorption up to 30%. Until 1980s, vitamin D was primarily known by its
role in bone and tooth formation However, recent epidemiologic studies have
revealed that sunlight exposure that increases the production of vitamin D in skin,
takes apart in preventing degenerative diseases, e.g. cancer, diabetes mellitus type
1, and hypertension. The mystery of the role of vitamin D in the prevention of
degenerative diseases started to reveal since researchers found that most of body
cells and tissues, including heart, pancreas, stomach, intestines, skin, and
lymphocytes, have the receptors for vitamin D. It proofs that vitamin D is needed
by those tissues. One of the important findings was the ability of vitamin D in
decreasing cancer cell proliferation. Many of cancers, such as colon cancer, breast
cancer, and lung cancer have enzymatic tools to modify the inactive vitamin D to
become active. Then vitamin D functions to regulate cells growth and to decrease
their proliferation.
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