New findings on vitamin D

This may explain the reported that "vitamin from sunlight ' prevent or reduce the symptoms of the disease.

Multiple sclerosis is often found in people who live far from the equator, where there is less sunlight trigger vitamin D production in the skin. The disease is caused by the body's immune system compromised do affect the transmission of the signals up the nervous system. It also causes other symptoms such as numbness, blurred.

The researchers conducted experiments on rats by injection of high doses of vitamin D for hamsters was multiple sclerosis. They detect symptoms of the disease have been.

"Vitamin D could not replace the function of the immune cells are affected but can stop acting on the brain" Anne Gocke, a top scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.

In the human body, the immune system fighting cells known as T cells, have the task of finding and destroying the substance affects the central nervous system.

Experiments on mice also found that T cells are found in the blood, also in the brain and the nerves in the spine, the back a little.

' Vitamin D seems to not cause immunodeficiency "Dr. Gocke said. "With people with multiple sclerosis then these vitamins can slow the production process adhesive substance, allows T cells attack the capillary. This can help them to circulate and prevent the impact on the brain ".

Peter Calabresi, a Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins and co-author of the study, said: "Vitamin D can be a very safe therapy, but we still have to be careful with it. It is not just a type of vitamin. It is really a hormone ".=