Vitamin D and Improved Immune Function

• Does micronutrient supplementation improve outcomes in adult gastrointestinal surgery patients? A systematic review.

  • 2025-12-12
  • Systematic Review · n = 12
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Daoud Salman
    • Trevor Smith
    • Philip C Calder

  • PubMed: 41459083
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1719617

  9 Insights on

  • Improved Immune Function

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Another trial found that vitamin D helped support the immune response following surgery; this could lead to fewer infections, although that outcome was not reported

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Consumption of a Probiotic Blend with Vitamin D Improves Immunity, Redox, and Inflammatory State, Decreasing the Rate of Aging-A Pilot Study.

  • 2024-10-25
  • Clinical Trial · n = 14
  • Biomolecules 14(11)
  • • Judith Félix
    • Adriana Baca
    • Luz Taboada
    • Guillermo Álvarez-Calatayud
    • Mónica De la Fuente

  • PubMed: 39595538
  • DOI: 10.3390/biom14111360

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Immune Function

  • Moderate evidence

  improves immunity

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes