Vitamin D through sun exposure and supplements

it is important to ensure that sufficient vitamin D (4000 IU/day) is acquired through sun exposure and supplements.


"It's pretty clear that when level of vitamin D Vitamins are too low, there's a greater tendency for cells that cause autoimmune problems to come out in those genetically susceptible people," says Cantorna "And it's pretty clear that taking supplemental vitamin D Vitamins is a good idea. You're hard-pressed to get enough vitamin D solely from food or from sunlight in the winter."

Other recent studies link a Vitamin D deficiency to a greater risk of other autoimmune disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, unexplained muscle and joint pain, heart disease and various forms of cancer. As with MS and other autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue and organs in the body, the secret may be in how this nutrient affects cell activity.

Throughout most of the two million years of human development, humans had a relatively high intake of vitamin D (~5000-10,000 IU/day) from the sun. Major environmental changes brought on by the agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions have resulted in large populations in northern climates experiencing a subclinical and chronic vitamin D deficiency and this deficiency is more pronounced in persons with MS. Vitamin D deficiency is just one of a number of nutrient-related factors which play a role in MS.

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