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Vitamin D in children with MS - more data supporting a link
Submitted by art on Mon, 2008-10-06 07:02.
Hanwell's team studied 125 kids who had evidence of MS symptoms such as numbness. Twenty of the children were diagnosed with MS within the next year, Hanwell said. Blood tests showed 68 per cent of those children had vitamin D insufficiency.
On average, the children with MS had much lower levels of the vitamin than children who did not experience any other MS-like symptoms.
When I see this theory
When I see this theory (vitamin D deficiency) it confounds me as I was born in the Los Angeles area, spent my early life in numerous southern states, living at swimming pools, etc.
Has anyone researched whether this is an inability to process/use Vitamin D as opposed to a lack of it?
That is one of the
That is one of the hypotheses. But it is certainly different for different people. It's just a risk factor that probably requires additional genetics background, and may or may not be causative.
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Art Mellor, Accelerated Cure Project for MS, art-msnews -at- acceleratedcure.com