So let's talk about how vitamin D can actually reduce your inflammation.

But the first thing we need to understand is what actually is inflammation?

Well, it's this.

The immune system responds to a stimulus that is viewed as foreign or toxic to your body.

We call that an antigen.

So an antigen is something that is foreign to the body.

It's a threat to the body where your immune system then has to attack it and get rid of

it and dismantle it or neutralize it.

In the process of dealing with this foreign threat, we're going to create inflammation.

And inflammation is going to mobilize our defenses, the white blood cells.

So inflammation is part of the defense mechanism, very similar to the TV series The Game of Thrones

where they had to defend the wall.

Well, in your body, you have an army of cells that are constantly defending against foreign

attacks.

So there are some incredibly sophisticated strategies and complexities within your immune

system.

You have cells like the B lymphocytes that act as advanced guards to protect certain tissues.

Neutrophils are like kamikaze pilots that will drop certain chemical bombs to kill invading

microbes.

Then you have macrophages which basically gobble up the invaders, they just eat them.

There's no bombs involved, they just will consume them.

And then the T lymphocytes track down and destroy the invaders and they use certain chemicals.

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