(November 18, 2018 at 3:30 am)Astreja Wrote: Atlas, how's your Vitamin D consumption? The doctors here recommend that MS patients take extra D (at least 2000 IU a day).
The MS incidence in Manitoba is quite high, and it's suspected that it may be because we're at a high latitude (Winnipeg is nearly 50°N) and avoid going outside in really cold weather, so we're not getting adequate sunshine (which causes the body to make its own Vitamin D).
I take it daily in the form of capsules, I'm not sure about the amount taken though; but it's probably 2000 IU.
I don't get a lot naturally, I lost interest in eating eggs and my tolerance for the sun is not enough for me to take vitamin D.
I came to think that the lack of Vitamin D does help in developing MS, but it is not a main cause. Back in my childhood until late teenage years I used to stay in the sun for hours but I still got the disease. I'll put more betting on the additives in food & the environmental factors. There is a lot of oil refineries in Saudi Arabia, I can throw a blind bet and say the sun here is strengthening the protection of the body from M.S, unlike environments which lack enough Vitamin D naturally.
