the article said...
The treatment involves giving mice that exhibit MS symptoms a single dose of calcitriol, the active hormone form of vitamin D, followed by ongoing vitamin D supplements through the diet. The protocol is described in a scientific article that was published online in August in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.
"All of the animals just got better and better, and the longer we watched them, the more neurological function they regained," says biochemistry professor Colleen Hayes, who led the study.
I am also from the Ulcerative Colitis forum and many of us find vitamin D to be an important supplement to help relieve our symptoms. So I am not surprised that it also helps with MS. Check out this chart which is not from a bunch of healy-feelies but the result of RECENT research from real scientists.
www.grassrootshealth.net/diseasepreventionchart.pdf www.grassrootshealth.net/