Are Your Vitamin D Supplements Making You Sick?

[Mazen]

http://autoimmunedisease.suite101.com/article.cfm/autoimmune_disease_and_the_vitamin_d_connection

The Marshall Protocol is an ongoing research study, which believes that where low levels of vitamin D have been associated with disease, this is not because low levels are causing disease, but because the disease processes themselves have taken control of the vitamin D regulatory process. This would mean that the low values of vitamin D are the result, not the cause, of the disease.

 

[fenway1971]

Gotta love medical research. Some say take Vit D, others say don't.

Thanks for posting. I'm still sticking to my daily supplements.

 

[Jefferson]

I take 50,000 units of Vit D daily as my levels are incredibly low but hopefully rising. This high dose doesn't bother me at all and I've felt a lot better (more energy and less depression) since I began the regiment.

 

[D Bergy]

Marshall is in the minority, which does not mean he is wrong, but this is usually in reference to specific diseases such as Lyme Disease, that directly affect the immune system. Lyme disease directly causes a weakened immune response, and this is known. The result of which is Lyme patients can get autoimmune diseases, even Crohn's, as a result of the lowered immune fuction.

Crohn's on the other hand, is not known to cause a weakened immune response, but rather the weakened and or dysfunctional immune response results in the disease. At least that is the more common thought, and i am fairly certain that is more correct than not.

Marshall could be correct in reference to Lyme, but I doubt it. The evidence is even thinner in respect to Crohn's.

There are also quite a few people who have experienced harm from the use of his protocol, and some successes as well.

Dan