Vitamin D may drop multiple sclerosis risk

CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 9 (UPI) — People who have higher vitamin D levels may be less likely to develop multiple sclerosis, researchers in Australia found. Study author [...]

• Caroline says: This news comes a little too late for those of us who already have MS. I will be more excited about vitamin D when I read about its curative effects of MS...this Australian study looked at people who had a first clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), ie not full-blown MS. It found that the rate of conversion to clinically definite MS was lower in those patients who got their vitamin D through sunlight, diet, and supplement use than in those who had less vitamin D.
   

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• Hot off the AAN Press (belatedly): High Doses of Vitamin D Cut MS Relapses

  April 28, 2009 (Seattle) — High doses of vitamin D dramatically cut the relapse rate in people with multiple sclerosis, a study shows. Sixteen percent of 25 [...]

  • Caroline says: A big mea culpa to you, readers! Here I go eating my words about there being no evidence for a connection between diet and MS (I did, however, include a 'note about Vitamin D' and it's MS connection in a previous post). A reader emailed this to me and I decided it was important to add! I obviously missed this in my previous 'Hot off the AAN Press' posts. Apologies!