Originally Posted by soccertese

http://www.picrx.com/resources/Vitam...eSubstance.pdf
http://acta.uta.fi/pdf/978-951-44-7547-4.pdf

Originally Posted by VICTORIALOU

Thanks soccertese and others for your great personal experimentation and information about vitamin D. The following from the above referenced article was eye-opening to me,


"Reported biological effects in the nervous system include the biosynthesis of
neurotrophic factors and at least one enzyme involved in neurotransmitter synthesis[72]. Vit-D3
metabolites can also inhibit the synthesis of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and increase
glutathione levels, suggesting a role for the hormone in brain detoxification pathways. Vit-D is involved
in the glutathione cycle and in cysteine transport. Brain gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GT) is
increased after vit-D administration and this positive effect was noted in pericytes and parenchymal
astrocytes. Gamma-GT is thought to participate in the scavenging of reactive oxygen species and it was
hypothesized that vit-D could be an effector controlling detoxification processes in the brain[73]."


Besides the detoxification- also affecting the glutathione cycle and the synthesis of neurotropic factors!
Sounds promising to me.
Thanks, I'm going to make a point of more sun exposure.

Originally Posted by Conductor71

Just as a side note on the importance of sunlight. I don't know about all of you, but as a kid I was outside a lot, year round...yes even in the dead of a bleak, dreary Michigan winter, I ice skated on a lake and played in the snow...yet I have PD. If vitamin D insufficiency truly has a role in many diseases, I hate to think what the future holds for the wii generation.

It is alarming to see so many affluent neighborhoods in the school district where I teach look like ghost Mcmansion villages; there are rarely any people outside on the front lawn, retrieving their mail; let alone kids playing street hockey, kickball, or even just riding a bike. There are never any children outside period. It is creepy. The prefab $700-800K homes that still have families do not even have sidewalks. They are all designed to be conveniently accessed by the expressway. What are we doing to ourselves?

I can't begin to tell you how many kids have off the chart allergies! All I know is a 4 inch binder is not big enough to hold all the allergen profiles I get for the kids we teach. The ironic thing is that these children are not born with so many allergies, rather their hyper vigilant, over protective parents induce them. The kids have no pets, no carpet fibers to contend with, no dirt under their nails, no skinned knees to band aid, and they don't spend any time out doors, so you can imagine the list of allergens stemming from this. They of course, all have nut allergies, but it extends now to include a vast array of tree nuts. Those with more severe allergies are required to don a fanny pack holding an epi pen the entire school day. I swear I wonder how they actually can manage to breathe when outdoors lest it bring on allergy attack. I shudder to think of the health problems they will face as adults and am almost certain there will be a fallout of major proportions from this insane lifestyle and parenting approach. Ironically, in their zeal to protect, they are instead laying the ground work for future auto-immune related health issues.

To these parents, I have two words "George Carlin" and his take on germs and the immune system...it needs practice. If you link to the video it is funny stuff but there is a language alert...don't click if you are easily offended by the F-bomb.

"When I was a kid the big scare was Polio, but me and my friends never got it. You know why? Because we swam in raw sewage..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmMNdiCz_s

-Laura

Originally Posted by mrsD

Look what appeared today!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/...beat_vitamin_d

One could say poor methodology... Big Pharma lobbyists,
or whatever.

There are just so many papers saying the reverse! But you KNOW this one will get TV coverage and be everywhere.

I am going to continue with my 5,000 IU daily.

Originally Posted by mrsD

Look what appeared today!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/...beat_vitamin_d

One could say poor methodology... Big Pharma lobbyists,
or whatever.

There are just so many papers saying the reverse! But you KNOW this one will get TV coverage and be everywhere.

I am going to continue with my 5,000 IU daily.