People who are overweight or obese require even larger doses to get their vitamin D levels to where it should be. I recommend taking one high dose if the initial level is low and then taking a regular supplement of around 5,000 a day in winter. If more is required, a 10,000IU dosage should still […]

Vitamin D Supplementation A simple blood test can be used to measure the amount of vitamin D a person has in their bloodstream. Laboratories have recently changed their recommendation of how much vitamin D a person should have in their system. In the past, 10-20 ng/mL was considered a mild deficiency. Now laboratories suggest that […]

Another study, which was conducted in Tasmania and published in the journal Neuroepidemiology, compared the rates of malignant melanoma and those of MS in the major cities of Australia. Researchers Ingrid A. van der Mei, PhD; and Co-researchers compared these rates with the general amounts of sunlight in the area. There turned out to be […]

Goldberg’s Study Goldberg continued to study the effects of vitamin D on MS, and in 1986, along with Co-researchers, conducted a study on vitamin D supplementation in MS patients, which they presented in the journal Medical Hypotheses.[1] The study was very small; only 16 patients were involved and there was no control group. In the […]