Vitamin D Deficiency Study Raises New Questions About Disease And Supplement

Mij

Mij

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Date: January 27, 2008

Source: Autoimmunity Research Foundation

Low blood levels of vitamin D have long been associated with disease, and the assumption has been that vitamin D supplements may protect against disease. However, this new research demonstrates that ingested vitamin D is immunosuppressive and that low blood levels of vitamin D may be actually a result of the disease process. Supplementation may make the disease worse.

In a new report Trevor Marshall, Ph.D., professor at Australia’s Murdoch University School of Biological Medicine and Biotechnology, explains how increased vitamin D intake affects much more than just nutrition or bone health. The paper explains how the Vitamin D Nuclear Receptor (VDR) acts in the repression or transcription of hundreds of genes, including genes associated with diseases ranging from cancers to multiple sclerosis.
 
Keep it at low dose and discontinue the supplement for a few months? That's what I do with most supplements because who knows.

The healthcare here stopped testing vitamin D levels unless you're a senior or diabetic. Same with B12. So now I take a a supplement b/c in the past my D and B12 levels were always low.

Some people take super high doses which isn't a good thing.
 
I’ve never supplemented vit d with the goal of improving me/cfs. Just with the goal of supplying adequate levels to my body since i dont get sunshine and try to protect against Ostheoperosis.

I don’t think this changes anything for those like me?
 
Mij said:
What is interesting is that I started taking vitamin D3 25 years ago after testing low, and ever since then I started feeling 'viral' all the time. I was fine before that :unsure:
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Interesting. I have had a similar experience.
About 20 years ago my doctor told me my Vit D levels were ridiculously low. I was told to take vit D supplements. The supplements, made my ME worse. Terrible brain fog, flu like feeling. So I gave up and figured maybe I was meant to have low Vit D levels.
I can't tolerate sunlight either though.
 
I don't get much sunlight except for a few weeks during the summer months and I can't tell if it negatively affects me because I feel 'viral' 90% of the time now. I stopped taking vit D for a few weeks here and there but I it's difficult to know.

One thing for sure is that my immune symptoms amplified or changed since taking Vit D 25 years ago. Or it could have been a coincidence.
 
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