Re: Another source for Vitamin D, Johng Taken from a newsletter by Gwyneth Paltrow the actress

John,
the conclusion of the first study you posted is thus...........

"This may have significant biological relevance and may be a factor in the association of vitamin D deficiency with susceptibility to autoimmune disease".

What part of the last half of the sentence don't you understand?
It clearly states that Vitamin D DEFICIENCY is associated with a SUSCEPTIBILITY to autoimmune disease, or in other words: Autoimmune disease is associated with Vitamin D DEFICIENCY.

Further the study begins by stating that Vitamin D is a "MODULATOR" & "REGULATOR" of TLR's (Toll-like receptors): NOT an Immunosuppressive.

The second study..........
"And it seems possible that vitamin D may be used as a THERAPEUTIC OPTION by modulating TLR2 and TLR4 expression of monocytes".

AND Your comment..........
"Vit D just like a drug, to "control" an over active immune system. where have you seen that before? any number of drugs".

Read up on "Orthomolecular Medicine" a term coined by Linus Pauling in the successful treatment of disease at the cellular level with high dose or mega-dose NUTRIENTS.
By your own reasoning this would mean that Ascorbate or Vitamin C taken at high doses, and produced artificially is a drug.
Absolute and utter nonsense.

Nutrients John are essential to life and cannot be subjected to safety analysis like environmental toxins or synthetic drugs. Essential nutrients heal organisms at the cellular level: they act together or synergistically to bring about organ repair, and cause systemic healing when given in very high doses. Science has known for at least a century that deficiencies cause standard diseases.

By contrast, all synthetic drugs without exception are systemically toxic, meaning they are toxic to more than one body system as well as on a cellular level. Hence the constant need to weigh the benefits of their use with the known risks of their toxicity; specific doses of just so many mg; timing of ingestion; duration of treatment - and the prescription requirement.

All this doesn't apply to apples, magnesium or probiotics. If you eat too many apples, you get the runs --- same mess for too much vitamin C.
Furthermore, all drugs, from Aspirin to Zocor, also deplete essential nutrients. Most accumulate in body tissues because they cannot be metabolized by our enzymes which freak out when encountering this phony chemistry and simply move on. Used for a long time, drugs frequently shut down the body's natural detoxification center, the liver, and in extreme cases destroy it - necessitating a liver transplant.
Of course, essential nutrients (such as Vitamin D) are readily metabolized and distributed in accordance with the laws of nature, while simultaneously nourishing the liver.

Vitamin D is produced naturally within the skin from exposure to sunlight in the form of Cholecalciferol or Vitamin D3 as it is better known. Cholecalciferol is Cholecalciferol whether from sunlight or supplements. They are chemically identical and classified as a NUTRIENT.

Show me and prove to me that Vitamin D is a "DRUG"!!! or any chemical substance that is manufactured and produced artificially: such as Aspirin from its natural derivative........white-willow-bark.

Your quest here against Vitamin D is all but over as you have no support in your position that I am aware of.

Give-up the ghost John, you are banging your head against a brick wall.

Chrisb1.




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