EczemaParent

Vitamin Deficiencies tied to Nerourlogical disorders

Posted on 06/18/08, 11:24 am

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/scr...
Vitamin D: Vital Role in Your Health: Researchers conclude the "sunshine vitamin" is good medicine. By Richard Trubo WebMD Feature Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD "mounting evidence that links LOW levels of the VITAMINS to an INCREASED risk of type 1 diabetes, muscle and bone pain, and, perhaps more serious, cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, ovaries, esophagus, and lymphatic system."
"If you're trying to reduce your risk of diabetes, or lower your chances of heart attacks, rheumatoid arthritis, or multiple sclerosis, then vitamin D should be at the front of the line in your daily supplement regimen"


http://www.cancer.org/docroot/eto/...
Vitamin D is an essential vitamin the body needs to regulate the amount of calcium and phosphorus in the body. It is best known for its role in using calcium to help build bones and keep them strong. (See also Calcium.) Vitamin D affects many other tissues of the body, including the kidneys, intestines, and parathyroid glands.
Some experts note that vitamin D acts more like a hormone than a vitamin, in part because the body can make its own vitamin D if the skin gets enough ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight.

It Goes on to say that Steriods reduce absorption and metabolism of vitamin D and calcium(needed for B12 absorption)

http://www.fred.psu.edu/ds/retriev...
Restless Leg Syndrome is classified as a "motion disorder" where nerves feel like they must move.
This study shows how a iron deficiency due to a defect in the absorption process is at the root cause for some RLS patients.
Specifically a lack of a protein needed for iron absoroption leads to an iron deficiency at the cell level.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...
Research ties vitamin B12 and Folate deficiencies wit Alzheimer's Disease.
I think the title is self-explainitory.
FYI Folate is NOT folic acid it is another name for B9

• Reply #1 06/18/08  11:29am
  
  EczemaParent
  Realize that some of these issue have been confirmed as Malabsorption problems.
  
  A vitamin deficiency is due to a person NOT ingesting enough of a vitamin or in the case of Vitamin D3(activated in skin by sun) not enough sun exposure ie 10-15min a day.
  
  MALabsorption issue (absorption problem) is when a person DOES take in enough nutrients but a PROBLEM in the body keeps the nutrients from getting to the cells(step beyond blood).
  
  The RLS study proved MALabsorption was at the heart of the problem as I believe some of these other diseases may be caused by ie MS, RA, etc.
  
  See my vitamin B12 and D Absorption Flowcharts in this Neuropathy group. They are incomplete but are a good place to start. I created these flowcharts from READING MANY medical abstracts from places like medline, etc
  
• Reply #2 06/18/08  11:33am
  
  EczemaParent
  If you are interested in reading more about my MALabsorption theory which I believe is a DIFFERENT absorption problem of a few key nutrients in the body in DIFFERNT people then you can go to the following links.
  
  
  http://dailystrength.org/c/Multipl...
  
  http://dailystrength.org/c/Multipl...
• Reply #3 06/18/08  11:35am
  
  EczemaParent
  The flowcharts are located at http://dailystrength.org/groups/ne...
• Reply #4 06/18/08  11:54am
  
  EczemaParent
  The reason for me puting out info on B12 & B9 defic. tied to Alzheimer's disease is because MS "brain fog" symptoms seem so similar to this disease. There are other studies out there saying these vitamins or better stated the lack of key nutrients like these are correlated to higher risk of dementia.
• Reply #5 06/18/08  12:47pm
  
  EczemaParent
  Question: Has anyone with MS or RA gotten a blood workup with:
  1. 25 hydrox-Vit D
  2. Homocysteine & Methyl Malonic Acid (B12 in cell, step beyond blood)
  3. B panel
  4. Hormone levels (estriol levels)
  etc..
  If you have please post results of these specific tests above especially for 1 and 2.
  
  -THANKS
  
• Reply #6 06/18/08  4:42pm
  
  rvpj
  My rheumy , neurologist, or reg. dr. hasnt ordered those tests. Makes me wonder why. I have RA, dystonia, myofascial, sjogrens, and fibro. Should I be asking for them?
• Reply #7 06/18/08  4:54pm
  
  EczemaParent
  I would ask for the following plus what ever you and your doc want.
  
  1) Homocysteine & Methyl MalonicAcid - (B12 in the cell itself)
  2) DEXA
  3)CBC(includes Diff/Plt)
  4)Comprehensive Metabolic Panel w/Egfr
  3) Tsh, 3rd Generation
  4)Lipid Panel
  5)Folate, Serum
  6)Vitamin B12 (blood refrig)
  7) Magnesium
  8)Celiac Disease
  9)Helicobater Pylori lgg Antibody (infection in intestines)
  10)Copper
  11)Selenium (frozen)
  12)Zinc
  13)Fatty Acid Profile, Essential S (frozen)
  14)Vitamin B1, whole blood (fozen)
  15)Vitamin B2 (frozen)
  16) Niacin (frozen)
  17) Vitamin B6 (frozen)
  18) Vitamin D with DOH
  19) Calcium
  20) Potassium
  21) Iron
  22.) 25 hydrox-Vit D
  23) Hormone levels
  24) B9
• Reply #8 06/18/08  11:27pm
  
  petitep
  Fabulous information! Thank you!
• Reply #9 06/24/08  6:55pm
  
  EczemaParent
  Has anyone got testing like this?
  
  If you do PLEASE Post
• Reply #10 06/25/08  1:56pm
  
  EczemaParent
  Someone shared this info with me so I will post.
  
  http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cg...
  In the nervous system, calpain activation is believed to be responsible for the calcium-mediated cell injury seen in ischaemic stroke (Bartus et al., 1995), spinal cord injury (Li et al., 1995), closed head injury
  
  So this validates the trauma theory for some.

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