Dr. Nancy Agmon-Levin and colleagues of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel recently reviewed the evidence that vitamin D is involved in autoimmune disorders.
Agmon-Levin N, Theodor E, Segal RM, Shoenfeld Y. Vitamin D in Systemic and Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2012 Dec 14.
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Interesting.
As quoted from above: “Primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disorder with a female to male ratio of 9:1 in which antibodies attack the small bile ducts in the liver. Such patients have low levels of vitamin D and disease severity is correlated with the lowest levels.”
I wonder if this condition might possibly cause scarring which would be detected on an ultrasound.
I wonder if once an individual had achieved and maintained optimal 25(OH)D levels the liver might then heal.
This Dr. and his team treats autoimmune diseases with very high doses of Vitamin D3. The doses are individual and based on tests. The patients take from 20.000 IU to 200.000 IU each day. I have MS and I am following the protocol. It is about time that the medical community makes this treatment available all over the world. We cannot wait for more research. People are getting their lives back.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erAgu1XcY-U VITAMIN D3 IS THE ANSWER TO PREVENT AND TREAT AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES!!! To the Medical Doctors who reads this: Go to Brazil and learn the protocol from Dr. Cicero Galli Coimbra
PLEASE
Dear Ashatara,
If you have ever read my prior posts on the members’ blog and the VDC FB page, you know that I am very much pro-vitamin d (actually this is an understatement).
I have many, many times expressed my upset regarding how slowly change moves in the medical community, and how I believe it will take the public to move (push) the medical community on vitamin d.
I am a bit of a Pollyanna. And, I should know better, as I am employed by a research institution. A BIG ONE.
So let me explain to you how the research system works here in the good ‘ole USA:
Studies must be approved by an institutional review board (IRB), also known as an independent ethics committee or ethical review board. This is a committee that has been formally designated to approve, monitor, and review biomedical and behavioral research involving humans.
The IRB conducts some form of risk-benefit analysis in an attempt to determine whether or not research should be done.
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (specifically Office for Human Research Protections) regulations have empowered the IRB to approve, or require modifications in planned research prior to approval. Or to disapprove research in its entirety.
No research can be initiated with review and consent by IRB.
IRB approval is the controlling force.
It has power.
And, as the number one priority of the IRB is to protect human subjects from physical or psychological harm, the entire process is very stringent.
And slow.
Slow…like molasses.
What you are talking about is at best 50 years in the future; and perhaps at worst, 100 years in the future–imo.
Now, with that ugly truth being stated, I still believe (yes, I am Pollyanna) that the public can move (push) the medical community on this issue.
Apathy is the enemy.
And at times all of us are prone to apathy.
Correction to one of my above paragraphs:
“No research can be initiated with review and consent by IRB.”
SHOULD READ: “No research can be initiated withOUT review and consent by IRB.”
Little Freudian slip there…
@Rita and Misty
Did you see this one? about NAFLD.
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Nutrition/Vitamins/vitamin_d_nonalcoholic_fatty_liver_0302130315.html
@Rita and Misty
You forgot to mention the conflict of interest , the marriage between Big Pharma, Big Food and what you call the medical community. Research is often done, just to maintain the status, the power, the fond money for more research, not to the benefits of sick people/patients.
Dear Eelisabethpuur@gmail.com,
I thank you for the information on NAFLD. The more information I have, the better off I will be-imo. I’m grateful for your help. My energy level and endurance continue to be awesome, so I am (slowly) regaining my composure…My HMO is known as the “death plan” here where I live and work, so I tend to take what it says with two or three grains of salt. My plan is to live at least another 50 years.
Regarding “conflict of interest, the marriage of between Big Pharma, Big Food and the medical/research community,” yes…I know first hand that research is (mostly) done to maintain status, power and to fund money for further research.
But, how much can I (one person) say? I too am prone to exhaustion at times… I can’t do this alone. So, thank you for your help!
And, I look forward to your future posts. After all, we are all in this together. And we exist because we choose to belong.
Dr. Cannell,
What is the difference between prescription Vitamin D and Vitamin D3? Which do you recoomend for D deficiency?
Thanks!
Amy, usually they’re the same thing. Vitamin D is a broad term to describe both vitamin D3 and vitamin D2. Often times when a supplement bottle says “vitamin D,” it’s usually vitamin D3.
We recommend the use of D3 rather than D2, so be sure to check somewhere on the bottle that it is indeed D3.
I just got my Vit D level result back…it is >92. I am a night shift nurse and have been having issues since 2011, including pneumonia, pleurisy, pleural effusion resulting in 4 thoracenteses this past year. My previous Vit D level a couple of years back was 109, so I have always been a bit higher than the “normal” range. I am beginning to suspect RA as the culprit in my pulmonary issues. Had a transesophageal cardiac echo this a.m., heart is cleared. Last chest xray 3 weeks ago, no further pleural effusion. Still having worsening chest pressure & SOB, lots of fatigue. Any ideas? Just read some emerging research on helminth (parasite) therapy. Also, pregnenolone supplementation. Interestingly, most of this trouble seemed to start within a week of getting a betamethasone injection for tendinitis in my R elbow. Thanks for any suggestions.