How Vitamin D Deficiency is Linked to Type 2 Diabetes?

[RoyParker]

Is there any link between Vitamin D and Type 2 Diabetes? I read in an article that Vitamin D active metabolites can defend insulin-producing cells in the pancreas from getting certain specific signals that stimulate cell death and inflammation. Is vitamin D deficiency leads to type 2 diabetes.

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Type 2 Diabetes is usually caused by insulin that does not work properly. type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune problem where the beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body’s defence mechanisms.

[TheAwfulToad]

A lot of diseases have multiple contributory factors, but there's usually one particularly important factor. Heart disease, for example, correlates strongly with inactivity (sedentary lifestyle), to a lesser extent with poor diet (excessive refined carbohydrates) and lesser still with stress. But those factors all interact: if you're sedentary, eat junk, and very stressed, your heart attack risk is huge; if you're highly active, eat a bit of junk, and are slightly stressed, your heart attack risk is very low.

I'm only guessing here, but it's probably the same with diabetes. Diabetes-2 clusters with heart disease as metabolic syndrome, and it has many of the same underlying causes (eg., sedentary lifestyle and excessive refined carbohydrates). Lack of Vitamin D might be the last straw in some cases, but I doubt it's a critical factor.