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The sunlight/vitamin D theory/connection to MS is a popular and long standing belief. While I am not questioning the importance of Vitamin D to the health of human beings, I have yet to hear and explanation of why Eskimos, who have always had minimal sun exposure have ZERO incidence of MS? Shouldn'...

Jeff's are fine---he had a tiny bit of intimal hyperplasia in the first 6 months, and was retreated. All good since then. We really don't know as much about venous stents as we do arterial---since they are in a low flow environment, with less internal/external force than arteries. http://evtoday.com...

Nothing? I mean, nothing? What are neurologists reading or researching during their free time? Are they blind? They are sticking to the pharma model, because that is where the $ remains. But they know about it. Dr. Steinman (inventor of Tysabri) commented last year that newly diagnosed are healthie...

In 2015, researchers further explored how Vitamin D decreases gray matter atrophy in MS, reduces symptoms and promotes endothelial health. More reasons to optimize Vitamin D levels. Looks like Dr. Embry and Direct-MS were on to something 10 years ago...glad they funded the research! More info and 20...

Anyways, I am not asking for opinion on the likely hood of MS or if you think I have it. What I am asking is, when you get a relapse, are your symptoms bad 100% of the time during that relapse, or do they symptoms sometimes come and go? The only symptom that hasn't disappeared since this all starte...

Hi Dr. Flanagan--

TERRIFIC review article published in Neurology Research International! Well done!
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/nri/2015/794829/
Thank you for publishing and continuing to educate on the craniocervical junction.
all best,
cheer/Joan

Hi ANothing--- Great info---looks like you've gotten a lot of stuff from the Upright Doc and our wonderful Dr. Schelling's book. I first met Dr. Schelling via e-mail in 2008 after finding his book online, and later in Bologna in 2009. I was thrilled to know he and Dr. Zamboni had connected. No argum...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge set out to find what controls oligodendrocyte progenator cells (OPCs) ability to differentiate and create myelin--and discovered that it is Vitamin D which binds and activates vitamin D receptors and controls myelin sheath regeneration. In fact, remyelinati...

What I'm trying to determine is if the D protocol is to prevent relapses, or will it also help PPMS? D is good for every body, tzootsi. It maintains gray matter through protection of endothelial cells. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607301/pdf/pone.0140370.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wil...

PN--
Have any docs recommended VDR activators (like paricalcitrol) to you?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573827/

cheer

ISNVD 2016 will be at the Academy of Sciences in New York City in April. Keynote speaker will be Jonathan Kipnis---his lab discovered the brain's lymphatic vessels and immune system--which rely on veins for drainage. Also, lots of international presentations on CCSVI clinical trials and registries. ...

No one on this site ever said repairing CCSVI was a cure, Frodo---we've always stated that it was about aetiology and understanding blood flow and brain health. Sadly, the word cure was used by the media in Canada, and people with MS latched onto that. But the first 40 Stanford patients who met on t...

Endothelial cells line veins and arteries. Although this study is on arterial endothelial cells, the fact that they refer to the "vasculature"--and reference such a "diverse array of inflammatory disease" and "altered hemodynamics" --which involve veins, as well as arte...

Great to see researchers further describing how Vitamin D affects the vascular system, by making endothelial cells stronger in the face of inflammation. Sure important for people with MS! Here's the full pdf of the paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607301/pdf/pone.0140370.pdf Dieta...

Elliot-- all beef and lamb contains heme (red, purple--both are a DARK color) It is an attribute of the meat, which is not affected by what the animal eats. Heme is highest in beef and organ meats...no matter the diet of the animal. If paleo works for you, GREAT! I know Dr. Wahls. and her program is...