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Vitamin D and MS
06/2016
Neurology Now:
June/July 2016 - Volume 12 - Issue 3 - p 9
doi: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000484614.34972.c5
Departments: Letters
This is just anecdotal, but my husband was diagnosed 18 months ago with MS, and at that time had vitamin D blood levels of less than 20 ng/mL. He has supplemented with vitamin D at 5,000 to 8,000 IU a day. After approximately six months, his vitamin D levels measured 24 ng/mL, another six months later 35, and six months after that 59. Clearly he is able to absorb the vitamin and has the proper receptors to do so, debunking, in his case, a theorized inability to uptake vitamin D. In addition, his MRIs, also performed every six months since, have shown no progression of MS lesions. Just one case illustrative of the benefit of higher vitamin D levels.
—Bella Kaye
Spencer, OH
© 2016 American Academy of Neurology
Neurology Now:
June/July 2016 - Volume 12 - Issue 3 - p 9
doi: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000484614.34972.c5
Departments: Letters
This is just anecdotal, but my husband was diagnosed 18 months ago with MS, and at that time had vitamin D blood levels of less than 20 ng/mL. He has supplemented with vitamin D at 5,000 to 8,000 IU a day. After approximately six months, his vitamin D levels measured 24 ng/mL, another six months later 35, and six months after that 59. Clearly he is able to absorb the vitamin and has the proper receptors to do so, debunking, in his case, a theorized inability to uptake vitamin D. In addition, his MRIs, also performed every six months since, have shown no progression of MS lesions. Just one case illustrative of the benefit of higher vitamin D levels.
—Bella Kaye
Spencer, OH
© 2016 American Academy of Neurology