A study is of the suggestion that vitamin D is capable in protecting the body system from a variety of chronic illnesses by strapping to the DNA of the cells inside the body and, therefore, directly managing the genes caught up in the developmental process of many diseases, like multiple sclerosis, cancer and diabetes.

It is for the foremost time that this team of scientists that has conducted the study has been able to find a clear proof, suggesting that `sunshine vitamin', which is formed by the skin when direct sunlight comes in contact with it, directly manages a network of genes that is related to numerous serious disorders.

Though studies that have been carried out previously were able to show connection between instances of increasing illnesses and deficiency of vitamin D, particularly the autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and type-1 diabetes, until now scientists had not been able to decipher how it could increase a number of disorders.

The most recent study is a probable device, by which this can be illustrated that vitamin D sticks directly to the fractions of human genome that are related to the process of developing serious level ailments.

Professor George Ebers, a Clinical Neurologist at the Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, said that it was surprising to learn that various genes associated with the development of autoimmunity disorders can be regulated with the help of vitamin D.