Re: Sarcoidosis & Vitamin D Dysregulation

My interest in reading more about this, is the similarities that have been found with me with a couple of different biofeedback tests...they've both told the same things. For sure Lyme's (and different coinfections)..but also an allergy to Aspergillus, and many of the foods that are named as containing it-- dried beans, all the tree nuts, peanuts--wine, beer (which I don't drink anyhow)
(plus both Baker's yeast and Brewer's yeast)

I knew about the Vitamin D dysregulation because of Newport's "rants" :) and because of him talking about it with his father and Rickettsia (Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever- I think), which has been one of my Lyme coinfections...
But, having it show up as being high in my blood without me taking any kind of supplements containing it, still came as a surprise.

I wouldn't want to be doing the Beck BE for 6 hours a day.
:) How do you keep up with the batteries for that long per day? Even with the rechargable ones.
Doesn't it cause sore spots?

Vitamin D dysregulation
>>>Sarcoidosis frequently causes a dysregulation of vitamin D production with an increase in extrarenal (outside the kidney) production.[20] Specifically, macrophages inside the granulomas convert vitamin D to its active form, resulting in elevated levels of the hormone 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and symptoms of hypervitaminosis D that may include fatigue, lack of strength or energy, irritability, metallic taste, temporary memory loss or cognitive problems. Physiological compensatory responses (e.g., suppression of the parathyroid hormone levels) may mean the patient does not develop frank hypercalcemia. This condition may be aggravated by high levels of estradiol and prolactin such as in pregnancy, leading to hypercalciuria and/or compensatory hypoparathyroidism.[21] High levels of Vitamin D are also implicated in immune-system dysfunctions which tie into the sarcoid condition.

The connection between Vitamin D disregulation, its effects on immune function, and how the combined effect might mediate sarcoidosis, is currently being explored by Dr. Trevor Marshall. The theory which Dr. Marshall is currently researching via a protocol (the Marshall Protocol) under FDA oversight, asserts that L-form or cell wall deficient bacteria infect the body, and evade the immune system by inducing or enhancing this Vitamin D disregulation, which in turn suppresses the body's immune response to said bacterial infection.>>