Some recent research have suggested that maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D may have a protective effect and lower the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).
Another study suggest that for people who already have MS, vitamin D may lessen the frequency and severity of their symptoms. More research is needed to assess these findings.
How does vitamin D have a protective and therapeutic effect in MS?
Here is a related article:
https://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/how-vitamin-d-repairs-myelin-multiple-sclerosis
Regards,
Joachim
Vitamin D
In 2016 scientists found that children born with very low levels of vitamin D were more likely to develop MS in later life. This suggests that vitamin D levels during pregnancy might affect a child’s future risk of MS. The study did not find that increasing levels of vitamin D beyond the recommended levels reduced the risk of developing the condition though.
This adds to previous research linking the month you were born in and the risk of developing MS. In 2016 a large and very detailed study was carried out, involving over 21,000 people with MS. Researchers found that people who had been born in November were less likely to have developed MS than those born in April.
The link between month of birth and risk of MS suggests that some environmental risk factors for MS could act before birth.
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https://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-research/emerging-areas/vitamin-d
Update in vitamin D and multiple sclerosis
By Fatimah M. Alharbi
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common neurological disease, and its etiology remains unknown. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the possible association between MS and vitamin D deficiency. Here, we review the current literature between MS and vitamin D, showing clear evidence that vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for MS despite the lack of direct evidence for the effects of vitamin D in MS progression.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727614/
Vitamin D: evidence for its role as a prognostic factor in multiple sclerosis.
By Mowry EM
Abstract
Vitamin D insufficiency has been shown to be associated with increased susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS), but until recently, it was unclear if vitamin D status also influences the prognosis of the disease. In experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a mouse model of MS, the administration of vitamin D reduces the severity of the disease. Initial reports in MS of inverse associations between vitamin D levels and disability or relapse rate were encouraging, but the cross-sectional or retrospective study designs limited their interpretability. More recently, studies of pediatric-onset and adult MS have demonstrated that among those with established MS, those with lower vitamin D levels are at higher risk for subsequent relapse. These observational data provide strong support for randomized controlled trials of vitamin D supplementation in MS.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21762931
Vitamin D and MS: Is there any connection?
Is there any proof that vitamin D supplements can prevent MS or keep symptoms of MS from worsening?
Answers from Jerry W. Swanson
The link between vitamin D and MS is strengthened by the association between sunlight and the risk of MS. The farther away from the equator a person lives, the higher the risk of MS. Sunlight is the body's most efficient source for vitamin D — suggesting that exposure to sunlight may offer protection from MS. In addition, in studies of a group of nurses, the risk of developing MS was substantially less for women taking 400 international units (IUs) or more of vitamin D a day.
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http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/expert-answers/vitamin-d-and-ms/faq-20058258
Multiple sclerosis
What is the link between multiple sclerosis and vitamin D?
When immune system cells are exposed to vitamin D in laboratory experiments they become less inflamed. This could mean that vitamin D affects your immune system and makes it less likely to attack other cells in your body. Some researchers believe that this means vitamin D has the potential to prevent MS from developing. It could also affect relapsing remitting MS by reducing the number of relapses and how severe they are.
Most people get vitamin D from exposing their bare skin to sunlight. Some research has suggested that children who get lots of sun are less likely to develop MS as adults. So, if you grow up in a place that gets lots of sun, you’re less likely to develop MS than someone who grows up in a place where there is little sun.5
Exposing your skin to sunlight could affect your immune system in other ways apart from producing vitamin D.6 However, research does show that people with higher vitamin D levels in their blood are less likely to develop MS or have a relapse if they already have it.
https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/
Hi Milorad Toša Zikic
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a
1- Common neurological disease, and its etiology remains unknown.
2- In recent years, the researcher show the increasing association between Multiple sclerosis (MS) and vitamin D deficiency.
3- Vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for Multiple sclerosis
4- Here is a related article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727614/
Thank you very much Joachim Pimiskern, Mohannad Husain Al-Sherravi, and Moaed E. Algazal, respected and dear colleagues on the delivered responses, the inclusion in the discussion and the proposed reference articles.
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