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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:17 am    Post subject: Vitamin D 'triggers and arms' the immune system Reply with quote


The so-called sunshine vitamin, which can be obtained from food or manufactured by human skin exposed to the sun, plays a key role in boosting the immune system, researchers believe.

In particular it triggers and arms the body's T cells, the cells in the body that seek out and destroy any invading bacteria and viruses.

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defences and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T cells – will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body...........................

http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=show&pageid=1334
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
To me, this deepens the whole MS to immune system mystery. Do we want to stimulate or dampen the immune system? Both vitamin D and LDN appear to strengthen the immune system - why then do they seem to be beneficial to people with MS?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
tzootsi wrote:
To me, this deepens the whole MS to immune system mystery. Do we want to stimulate or dampen the immune system? Both vitamin D and LDN appear to strengthen the immune system - why then do they seem to be beneficial to people with MS?


Vitamin D3 also alters the bodies respons to the Epstein Barr Virus. It down-regulates (is that the correct phrase?) the way in which T cells react to EBV. EBV is a prerequisite of having MS. The virus is reported as being much more active during an MS relapse and viral activity seems to play a role in triggering MS disease activity.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is a significant body of knowledge that links MS and bacterial infection.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
tzootsi wrote:
To me, this deepens the whole MS to immune system mystery. Do we want to stimulate or dampen the immune system? Both vitamin D and LDN appear to strengthen the immune system - why then do they seem to be beneficial to people with MS?


it may be that the autoimmune hypothesis is not correct. The more we learn, the more we realize we do not know.
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......or it may be one of several correct ideas.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:48 am    Post subject: Re: Vitamin D 'triggers and arms' the immune system Reply with quote
Here's a link to a good review paper on vitamin D. The full paper is available for free. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15951480

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