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Originally Posted by DM
I think Vit D deficency is a big problem out there for women.
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I forgot to add this before -- there are studies that show that by relative standards, there is a high incidence of vitamin D deficiencies within the MS population. (Higher Homocysteine levels too -- but that is another topic!
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Impossible to say if it's the chicken or the egg but it does get you thinking! It also frustrates me because I think that things like this are worth looking at more than they are. But as we know, non-pharmaceutical studies are few and far between and tend to be smaller when they do occur.
Also wanted to add this recent news::
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=45660
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Discovery of direct link between vitamin D and MS susceptibility 'gene'
Now, in a study funded by the UK's MS Society, the MS Society of Canada, the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia have established a direct relationship between DRB1*1501 and vitamin D. The researchers found that proteins activated by vitamin D in the body bind to a particular DNA sequence lying next to the DRB1*1501 variant, in effect switching the gene on. "In people with the DRB1 variant associated with MS, it seems that vitamin D may play a critical role," says co-author Dr Julian Knight. "If too little of the vitamin is available, the gene may not function properly."
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So although this deals with susceptibility to developing MS, it's obviously the same train of thought that leads some to believe that supplementation/correcting deficiencies can help control it after onset.