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'Vitamin D3 has been show to protect us from background radiation, cancer, heart failure, and many other diseases by influencing hundreds of genes.
While our bodies do manufacture vitamin D on exposure to sunshine (UV-B radiation with a wavelength between 290 and 315 nm), the levels in some northern countries are so weak during the winter months that our body makes no vitamin D at all.
Halts Multiple Sclerosis
Writing in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. the US-based team investigated the potential of different combinations of vitamin D therapy had benefit on the course of multiple sclerosis (MS) in a mouse model of the disease known as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).
Led by Professor Colleen Hayes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the team assessed the outcomes of varying combinations of the active vitamin D hormone calcitriol and vitamin D3 from dietary supplements -- finding that an initial single oral dose of calcitriol followed by daily supplementation with dietary vitamin D3 "was a runaway success."'
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