{"id":5766,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-and-zinc-play-essential-role-in-immune-function\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","slug":"vitamin-c-and-zinc-play-essential-role-in-immune-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-and-zinc-play-essential-role-in-immune-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C and zinc play essential role in immune function"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This review, conducted by Swiss researchers, gives an overview of several studies investigating the immune-enhancing effect of vitamin C and zinc and their influence on clinical conditions. The results showed that vitamin C concentrations rapidly decline during infections and that supplementation of vitamin C improves the function of the human immune system. Zinc deficiency also showed an impaired immune function. According to several studies, both micronutrients have essential roles in immune function and induce a reduced risk, incidence, severity, and duration of infectious diseases, like respiratory diseases. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Wintergerst et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16373990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This review, conducted by Swiss researchers, gives an overview of several studies investigating the immune-enhancing effect of vitamin C and zinc and their influence on clinical conditions. The results showed that vitamin C concentrations rapidly decline during infections and that supplementation of vitamin C improves the function of the human immune system. Zinc deficiency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}