Micronutrient deficiencies can impair biochemistry and immune system function.

“Yes, micronutrient deficiencies & inflammation do.”

“Deficiencies or suboptimal status of these nutrients can impair immune functions by decreasing lymphocytes, impairing phagocytosis, altering cytokine production or reducing antibody response.”

“Deficiencies or insufficiencies in micronutrients negatively affect immune function and can decrease resistance to infections. Micronutrient support the integrity of physical barriers that inhibit infection such as the skin and mucosal layers of the gut and respiratory track. Micronutrients are also involved in producing anti-microbial proteins in differentiation, in motility, in phagocytic and killing activities of neutrophils and macrophages and promotion of and recovery from inflammation.”

“Deficiencies or suboptimal status of these nutrients can impair immune functions by decreasing lymphocytes, impairing phagocytosis, altering cytokine production or reducing antibody response. It seems possible that suboptimal intakes of a range of micronutrients could contribute to variation in immune outcomes that is seen in the general population.”