Sun light not just vitamin D

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Old Mike

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Posted 8/7/2015 1:12 PM (GMT 0)

Another FYI.

Old Mike

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07315724.2015.1039866#.VcSv1__JDDc

Canada Mark

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Posted 8/7/2015 2:35 PM (GMT 0)

A different take on Vitamin D and Chronic inflammation.

Inflammation and vitamin D - the infection connection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160567/

EDIT: It's an interesting look at an alternative (instead of simply lack of exposure to sunlight) to perhaps why there is low levels of vitamin D in chronic inflammation.

garylouisville

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Posted 8/7/2015 4:16 PM (GMT 0)

I'm surprised they have never nailed the vitamin D thing down yet. It seems like they could follow a bunch of normal health people that may be genetically or inheritantly predisposed to IBD and find out for sure if it is part of the cause of IBD or just the result. One thing we do know is that the farther you get from the equator, the more prevelant IBD seems to be but, it that really the factor or are countries farther from the equator just more "industrialized"?

pb4

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Posted 8/7/2015 4:37 PM (GMT 0)

Gary, I think that's what they're doing with the GEM project in Canada, they have siblings and children of IBD patients sign up for the program and "follow" them somehow to compare them with their IBD relatives....

http://www.gemproject.ca/

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