Can we prevent or treat multiple sclerosis by individualised vitamin D supply?
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:4 doi:10.1186/1878-5085-4-4
Jan Dörr 12 jan-markus.doerr at charite.de, Andrea Döring 123 and Friedemann Paul 12
1 NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, 10117, Germany
2 Clinical and Experimental Research Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3 Current address: Department of Neurology, DIAKO, Flensburg, Germany
Apart from its principal role in bone metabolism and calcium homeostasis, vitamin D has been attributed additional effects including an immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, and possibly even neuroprotective capacity which implicates a possible role of vitamin D in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). Indeed, several lines of evidence including epidemiologic, preclinical, and clinical data suggest that reduced vitamin D levels and/or dysregulation of vitamin D homeostasis is a risk factor for the development of multiple sclerosis on the one hand, and that vitamin D serum levels are inversely associated with disease activity and progression on the other hand. However, these data are not undisputable, and many questions regarding the preventive and therapeutic capacity of vitamin D in multiple sclerosis remain to be answered. In particular, available clinical data derived from interventional trials using vitamin D supplementation as a therapeutic approach in MS are inconclusive and partly contradictory. In this review, we summarise and critically evaluate the existing data on the possible link between vitamin D and multiple sclerosis in light of the crucial question whether optimization of vitamin D status may impact the risk and/or the course of multiple sclerosis.
First clinical trial of 3 pages in the PDF
PDF is attached at the bottom of this page
See also VitaminDWiki
- Overview MS and vitamin D
- Multiple Sclerosis prevention by Vitamin D: 10 year, 30 million dollar trial - Sept 2013
- Full-on Multiple Sclerosis was 3.3X more likely in patients with the lowest vitamin D levels – July 2013
- Multiple Sclerosis increased 10 percent in 5 years - Oct 2013 MS seems to still vary with latitude - see following map
- MS updates from Brazil
*Treatment with daily high doses of vitamin D Overcoming MS May 2013
Of course, this is not a cure it's a life-long treatment.. but at least it stops the progression and in many cases even revert back some (sometimes all) of the brain lesions. - Huge page - all in Portuguese about Coimbra's work
- Web site of patients who have been cured by Dr. Coimbra Australia 150 ng is the target
Great sequential posts, over a year. by an Australian patient whose MS was reversed by Dr. Coimbra - I Have Multiple Sclerosis: I Am Treating My MS With High Doses Vitamin D experienceproject. May 2013
Gives a fair amount of details, such as taking lots of water and monitoriing for excess Calcium.
Note A home test kit for excess Calcium in the urine is available $10 for 10 tests - Dr. Holick visited with the patients in Brazil Sept 2013