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Multiple Sclerosis and (lots of) Vitamin D: My Eight-Year Treatment with
The Coimbra Protocol for Autoimmune Diseases


"The Coimbra Protocol relies on doses of vitamin D that range from 40,000 IU to 200,000 IU per day."
Mounting scientific evidence clearly shows that vitamin D has a powerful effect on autoimmune diseases, yet most doctors continue to prescribe no more than 1,000 IU or 2,000 IU a day to patients that suffer from such conditions. In this book, Ana Claudia Domene describes her experience with multiple sclerosis and the treatment that has radically eased her symptoms, allowed her to discontinue all conventional medications, and restored her health. Developed by Dr. Cicero Galli Coimbra, a neurologist practicing in São Paulo, Brazil, the Coimbra Protocol is a therapeutic approach that relies on high doses of vitamin D to halt the misguided attacks of the immune system, and it has enabled thousands of patients around the world to keep their autoimmune diseases in permanent remission.


https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Scleros ... 519165315/

The Miraculous Results Of Extremely High Doses Of The Sunshine Hormone Vitamin D3 My Experiment With Huge Doses Of D3 From 25,000 To 50,000 To 100,000 Iu A Day Over A 1 Year Period


Upon realizing that taking 4,000 IU of Vitamin D3 a day was not enough for me, I decided to embark on a "dangerous" experiment that directly contradicted everything MD's had told me for years:

“DON'T TAKE TOO MUCH VITAMIN D IT IS DANGEROUS!”

I started taking 20,000 IU a day-50X times the recommended dose of 400 IU a day.

After about 4 months upped the dose to 50,000 IU a day or 150X the old recommended “safe” dose I then boosted it to 100,000 IU a day or 300 x TIMES the old maximum safe dose!

What happened over these last 10 months? Did I die? get sick? No! Just the opposite!!

High dose Vitamin D3 therapy over the last year-
CURED ALL MY CHRONIC CONDITIONS-
SOME THAT I'D HAD FOR 20+ YEARS!

A painful snapping hip syndrome which I had been suffering from for 23 years and no Dr could help me-It is now 100% gone. No pain and NO SNAPPING!!
Yellow fungus infected toenails (under the nail)- I tried everything over 20 years and nothing worked-10 months of high dose Vitamin D3 and they are clear as a bell! 100% cured.
A knobby bone spur on my elbow that made me look like Popeye the sailor man-It has now 100% dissolved and my elbow is back to the way it used to be 20 years ago.
Painful , clicking, popping, stiff Arthritic shoulders that prevented me from even throwing a ball from home plate past the infield. A condition I’ve had for 15 years. Gone. No more popping snapping or clicking and I can throw the ball twice as far .
A ganglion cyst that persisted on my wrist for over 5 years has shrunk from the size of half a golf ball to the size of a pea and now it is rock hard ,painless, and shrinking.
A small subcutaneous cyst on my face that had not gone away for 20 years –now gone!
AND-Without even trying my weight has dropped by 25 pounds from 204 to 179.


This book tells you detailed results of my experiment, dangers to avoid, and also discusses a simple and elegant new theory that suggests how High Dose Vitamin D3 therapy Should help PREVENT OR CURE all the epidemics of disease and health issues that have been plaguing us since the 1980’s when Doctors started warning us to stay out of the sun and always use sunscreen. This has created the huge epidemics we see today of Obesity, Autism, Asthma, and many others!

When your Vitamin D3 levels are low, your body gets you to prepare for winter by overeating, slowing you down to conserve energy, and even making you depressed to keep you housebound. Interestingly it is this same drop in Vitamin D3 levels that signals a bear to start hibernating!

If your body expects famine-like conditions caused by winter to be likely- it will conserve your critical resources for the future. This leads to what I call the Incomplete Repair Syndrome which in turn causes most of the diseases humans face other than spontaneous gene mutations that cause syndromes and diseases caused exclusively by aging. High D3 can be used to prevent or treat a huge number of diseases MS, asthma, 17 kinds of cancer, lupus, arthritis, heart disease, obesity, depression, Parkinsons+many more...

This IS the better mousetrap! Most MD's get just a basic 4 years in Med School, then work to earn not learn. I've researched diseases and aging for 20+ years, with a 10 year stint where I spent 12 hrs/day everyday in the Northwestern Med School's library just reviewing clinical and scientific studies! I've had 3 major papers published; the publishing journal has 5 Nobel Prizes between the editors. And described my papers as extremely exciting and of major importance

http://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Result ... 491243821/

Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications, Volume 1 (Nutrition and Health)

Dr Michael F. Holick
In Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition, Volume 1, leading researchers provide a comprehensive, highly readable overview of the biological functions and clinical applications of vitamin D and its metabolites. Presented in a newly affordable softcover format this volume contains Parts IV through VII of the previously published hardcover text. Topics range from the most recent recommendations for vitamin D intake to new approaches for the treatment and prevention of vitamin D deficiency and the development of active vitamin D drugs to treat psoriasis and cancer. The book demonstrates the significant role that vitamin D has in maintaining good bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis, an important health problem for adults over the age of fifty. In addition, it authoritatively reviews the relationship between sunlight exposure, vitamin D, and increased risk of colon and breast cancer; how vitamin D is made in the skin; and the sequence of events that leads to its activation by the kidney. Also examined are the biological functions of 1,25-dihydrovitamin D3 on the intestine and bone, as well as other tissues, such as skin, the immune system, prostate, and breast, and vitamin D's molecular mechanism of action on the cell membrane and nucleus. Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition, Volume 1 is designed and organized not only to be an up-to-date review on the subject, but also to provide medical students, graduate students, health care professionals and even the lay public with a reference source for the most up-to-date information about the vitamin D deficiency pandemic and its clinical implications for health and disease.

http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Physiolog ... 461460484/

The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems

Michael F. Holick Ph.D. M.D
The world's leading expert on vitamin D reveals the missing link to achieving optimal health

Vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world. In America alone, over 200 million people lack sufficient levels of vitamin D and may consequently suffer from chronic health conditions, ranging from daily annoyances like fatigue and pain to life-threatening illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But few people know why vitamin D is so important and what they can do to avoid the myriad ailments associated with deficiency, including heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis.

There is no better person to demystify this vitamin and showcase its place in human health than author Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D.-the father of modern vitamin D research. With more than three decades spent studying the relationship between vitamin D, limited sun exposure, and human well-being, Dr. Holick shares his findings on how combining the natural curative properties of the sun along with small lifestyle changes can help everyone to live a substantially healthier life.

Armed with a three-step plan incorporating safe amounts of sun exposure, the right supplementation, and eating foods rich in vitamin D, Dr. Holick provides prescriptive advice for anyone- from relatively healthy people to those suffering from chronic or even fatal diseases- on how to easily rebuild and maintain optimal levels of this essential hormone.

Rich with anecdotes and entertaining case studies, The Vitamin D Solution also presents research from around the world to serve as a wake-up call on this potentially lifesaving hormone for health.

http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Solution- ... 003NX7OHS/

Vitamina D e Esclerose Múltipla - A Chave Brasileira Das Doenças Autoimunes (Portuguese only)

Biography of Dr. Coimbra
Author: Walter Feldman


http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/p/vit ... -43001153#

WHY IS THERE NO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AT THE EQUATOR? HOW BRAZILIAN DOCTORS ARE CURING MS WITH HIGH-DOSE D3




This book is for MS sufferers or their friends who do not want to take NO for an answer...there is a cure...and here it is! It will only cost you $2.99 plus the cost of high doses of two vitamins... (actually 1 hormone and 1 vitamin...Vitamin D3 is a hormone and was mislabeled when it was discovered)..Sounds too good to be true right? Wrong.-.this is true and there is no downside, no side effects..try it and see for yourself!

Doctors scare you off from taking high doses of D3 with the boogie man of "Vitamin D toxicity".
.add high dose Vitamin K2 to the mix....and virtually all the risks of D3 toxicity go away....D3 is the hormone your skin makes when exposed to sun...People at the equator used to not get MS before sunscreen and sun avoidance....Lots of sun or lots of D3 will prevent and CURE MS........adding K2 makes it safe!

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK FOR CASUAL READING..THIS IS FOR MS SUFFERERS , THEIR FRIENDS, OR FAMILY ONLY.!

This IS the better mousetrap! Most MD's get just a basic 4 years in Med School, then work to earn not learn. I've researched diseases and aging for 20+ years, with a 10 year stint where I spent 12 hrs/day everyday in the Northwestern Med School's library just reviewing clinical and scientific studies! I've had 3 major theory papers published; the publishing journal has 5 Nobel Prizes between the editors. And described my papers as extremely exciting and of major importance!

During my research into the amazing results of taking high doses of the bone and joint remodeling hormone (also known as Vitamin D3) I have run across an amazing account of a doctor in Brazil who has recently been treating his MS patients with high doses of Vitamin D3- and it not only helps them it seems to be curing them. In interviews his patients now refer to the time when they had MS in the past -as they are in fact cured.They loved switiching from interferon injections to high dose D3 as D3 was much more effective and had no side effects! It seems the bone and joint remodeling hormone is also the nerve sheath remodeling hormone.

This book also takes you step by step how to institute your own high dose D3 therapy, what to expect, dangers to avoid, and how to mitigate any chance of Vit D toxicity.


http://www.amazon.com/MULTIPLE-SCLEROSI ... 008M0KB3G/

Power of Vitamin D: A Vitamin D Book That Contains The Most Scientific, Useful And Practical Information About Vitamin D - Hormone D

Sarfraz Zaidi MD



A mounting scientific evidence clearly demonstrates a wide range of incredible health benefits Vitamin D may provide, yet most people continue to be low in Vitamin D---despite the vitamins they take, the food they eat, the milk they drink or the sun exposure they get.

In "Power of Vitamin D", you will learn:
• Why we are facing a true Pandemic of Vitamin D deficiency.
• The crucial role Vitamin D may play in the Prevention as well as Treatment of various Cancers.
• How Vitamin D may help Prevent Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension and Kidney Disease.
• How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Muscle Aches, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Bone Pains and Osteoporosis.
• The vital role that Vitamin D plays to help you fight off Colds, Flu and other infections by boosting up your Immune System.
• How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Autoimmune diseases such as Asthma, Lupus, Arthritis, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Thyroid Diseases.
• How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, and other neurologic diseases
• The essential role of Vitamin D during Pregnancy for Mothers and Babies.
• Doctor often miss the Diagnosis of Vitamin D deficiency because they order the wrong test.
• The right test to Diagnose Vitamin D deficiency
• The best way to Prevent and Treat Vitamin D deficiency.
• What is Vitamin D Toxicity and how to Prevent it.
• Amazing health benefits of Calcium And Magnesium. How much you need on a daily basis.
• Incredible health benefits of Vitamin K2. Its synergism with Vitamin D


http://www.amazon.com/Power-Vitamin-Sci ... 00WFN8QAG/

Vitamin D Prescription: The Healing Power of the Sun & How It Can Save Your Life




From children to seniors, up to 80% of us are deficient in vitamin D, claims Dr. Eric Madrid, in his illuminating new book Vitamin D Prescription-The Healing Power of the Sun & How It Can Save Your Life. Vitamin D not only builds strong bones, but it can help prevent or control diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, lupus, and even cancer. Madrid urges readers to have their blood vitamin D levels checked by their physicians and to supplement with vitamin D pills. He also advises to limit the sunscreen and soak up the healthy rays of the sun instead. Filled with thought-provoking research studies, personal anecdotes and case histories, Vitamin D Prescription is meant to be an easy-to-read and informative book about the healing powers of this astonishing vitamin.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439229465/

Vitamin D Revolution

Soram Khalsa, M.D. Elected to "Best Doctors of America"

Recent, groundbreaking medical research has made a connection between Vitamin D deficiency and 17 types of cancers, including breast, colon, and prostate. Illnesses such as influenza, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and coronary heart disease have also been connected to a lack of this vitamin. Until not too long ago, not getting enough Vitamin D (the sunshine vitamin) was only associated with rickets, the childhood bone disease. Now, Soram Khalsa, M.D., sheds new light on the power of this long-forgotten vitamin. He reveals how to recognize signs of Vitamin D deficiency, which has reached epidemic proportions in North America, and then shares insights from his Beverly Hills medical practice, where he normalizes his own patients’ Vitamin D levels for their optimal health.

http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Revolutio ... 1401924700

AntonioBR wrote:Multiple Sclerosis and (lots of) Vitamin D: My Eight-Year Treatment with
The Coimbra Protocol for Autoimmune Diseases


"The Coimbra Protocol relies on doses of vitamin D that range from 40,000 IU to 200,000 IU per day."
Mounting scientific evidence clearly shows that vitamin D has a powerful effect on autoimmune diseases, yet most doctors continue to prescribe no more than 1,000 IU or 2,000 IU a day to patients that suffer from such conditions. In this book, Ana Claudia Domene describes her experience with multiple sclerosis and the treatment that has radically eased her symptoms, allowed her to discontinue all conventional medications, and restored her health. Developed by Dr. Cicero Galli Coimbra, a neurologist practicing in São Paulo, Brazil, the Coimbra Protocol is a therapeutic approach that relies on high doses of vitamin D to halt the misguided attacks of the immune system, and it has enabled thousands of patients around the world to keep their autoimmune diseases in permanent remission.


http://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Sclerosi ... 01BVRZX02/

I was able to download this book for four dollars for my Kindle application.

Many thanks to Points and Antonio for posting this available literature on vitamin D...HUD

Stop Zika Birth Defects with Vitamin D: Strengthen your immune system now to fight infection and prevent birth defects


This book will teach pregnant women what you need to know to prevent or greatly reduce your chances of devastating birth defects from the Zika virus with Vitamin D.

You are probably familiar with the threat of your baby being born with microcephaly if you are bitten by a Zika-carrying mosquito. But microcephaly is only the most visible of several incapacitating brain defects due to the Zika virus. Others can be equally life-destroying, and are even more common. But you can fight the infection and have a good chance of preventing a Zika birth defect from happening to your baby if you take enough Vitamin D early enough in your pregnancy or soon enough after being bitten.

You need to know that there there are two types of mosquitos presently carrying the Zika virus, both from the Aedes family of mosquitoes. We will show you where these live and what to do to protect yourself from them. Of course, avoiding all mosquito bites would be ideal, but isn’t always possible. Zika can also be transmitted through humans. Having an excellent immune system is a great defense, whether you are pregnant or not.

When bitten, your success in preventing infection will depend on many factors: how soon after the bite you take Vitamin D; your stage of pregnancy; your weight, skin color, and prior immune system health; and how much Vitamin D you take. Of course, taking Vitamin D before you get pregnant or in early pregnancy, especially before you get bitten, provides the best protection.

We explain why we are confident that large initial doses of nontoxic Vitamin D3 are safe for you in pregnancy and really can work to prevent Zika infection. This has been proven with many other similar viruses. You will learn how Vitamin D can contribute in many ways to your healthy pregnancy and newborn, beyond just fighting Zika. We’ll tell you how best to supplement with Vitamin D for your individual situation, and link you to numerous scientific studies that back up our recommendations.

We truly believe that since there is presently no vaccine or cure available for the Zika virus, cheap, safe Vitamin D provides an excellent defense for pregnant women - and for everyone else.


https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Zika-Birth- ... 01I41TNZY/

Vitamin D and Autoimmune Disease: How Vitamin D Prevents Autoimmune Disease



Researchers are discovering more and more evidence that vitamin D deficiency is associated with virtually all of the most serious disease risks that we face today. Recently, compelling evidence has been found that the current epidemic of autoimmune diseases is also associated with vitamin D deficiency. Furthermore, researchers have shown that while the official published guidelines for vitamin D are adequate for preventing rickets, higher vitamin D levels are associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing many other diseases.

This book describes the details of how autoimmune disease can develop by exploiting certain features of our immune system. And it explores the role that vitamin D plays in assisting our immune system in preventing the genetic alterations that can lead to autoimmune disease, cancer, and other life-altering issues.

The information in this book can be used to learn more about how our immune system relies on vitamin D to function properly and to help safeguard our future health, and to assist in determining an optimum vitamin D level to meet our own personal needs.

https://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Autoimmu ... 00O1LX7PE/