Vitamin D metabolites as clinical markers in autoimmune and chronic disease.

[PlateletGal]

Vitamin D metabolites as clinical markers in autoimmune and chronic disease.

Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Sep;1173:384-90. Authors: Blaney GP, Albert PJ, Proal AD.

Affiliation: Stillpoint Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

This was e-mailed to me through co-cure, an organization that keeps physicians, researchers and patients in on the latest research for (mostly) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia.

For a link to this article on vitamin D deficiency and DYSREGULATION... check out:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122582826/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

[PlateletGal]

If you would like your physician to check your vitamin D ratio... you need him/her to order a vitamin D level AND a vitamin D 1,25 hydroxy level on you. For additional information, visit our discussion on this in the lyme forum... here's the link:


http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Lyme-Disease/Vitamin-D-metabolites-as-clinical-markers-in-autoimmune-and-chronic-disease/show/1055825

[Lori707]

Hi!
Ditto with Myown. I can't really grasp it so much. Some of it. But I also need more indepth understanding.

Thanks!

[Myown]

Hi,
I read this a few times and its not sinking in;o)  I couldn't get the wiley study to open, but the other one I read. But I don't get it.  If we have autoimmune disease, does it mean that when we take vitamin D its possible that our bodies won't use it properly and the level will then show high amount in blood test?  And they mentioned the innate immune response in relation to vitamin d so I am wondering what the tie is. And other things I didn't understand either.

If you get a minute, I would appreciate if you can explain what the studies mean. I'm lost in the sauce when I tried to get a grasp.

Thanks,
MO

[PlateletGal]

Reversing Bacteria-induced Vitamin D Receptor Dysfunction Is Key to Autoimmune Disease:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758226


Vitamin D metabolites as clinical markers in autoimmune and chronic disease:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758177


Dysregulation of the vitamin D nuclear receptor may contribute to the higher prevalence of some autoimmune diseases in women:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758159