Study Finds Vitamin D Raises Risk of Schizophrenia - http://clapway.com/2015/10/29/new-study-vitamin-d-tied-to-schizophrenia123/

We get Vitamin D for a wide slew of things: sunlight, fish, soymilk, milk, even chocolate. A healthy level of Vitamin D gives us healthy bones and teeth, and it’s even been linked to help keep type 1 diabetes at bay. A new study has linked it to the incidence of multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia, and its results reveal that while vitamin D deficiency has a surprising effect on specifically schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis.

This Study Finds Interesting Evidence about Vitamin D’s Link to MS and Schizophrenia

Did your doctors ever say that if you get a lot of sunlight exposure, you’d get tons of good sunlight and it would decrease the chance of getting multiple sclerosis? Actually, Vitamin D has been linked to a couple neuropsychiatric disorders, like schizophrenia, autism and Alzheimer’s. It’s been clear with most of them, but not as much with schizophrenia. A new study attempts to analyze the real effects of vitamin D deficiency on the incidence of schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis.

The main focus of the study was to explore if a variation of a gene associated with vitamin D deficiency had any effect in chronic psychosis and if it played any roles in multiple sclerosis by testing it on chronic psychosis patients. The results of the study were quite disparate: one of the results showed that increased vitamin D levels can increase the risk of multiple sclerosis while at the same time decrease the risk of schizophrenia.

What Does This Mean?

The study isn’t conclusive enough to draw any definite conclusions, but this can only mean one thing: nothing in excess or surplus is good for the human body. So to all of that vitamin D loaded orange juice, milk, those fish oil supplements, and the soymilk in your coffee: just keep it simple. You might end up having to deal with multiple sclerosis. Some will argue that you’ll at least not go crazy.

Jokes aside, being healthy and not health-obsessed goes a long way. Spend ten minutes under the sun but cover up well and wear sunblock if you have to, and talk to your doctor about your vitamin levels, because it is always better to be safe than sorry.

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Study Finds Vitamin D Raises Risk of Schizophrenia

Ultra"s Violet Will Save You From A Miserable Sunburn - http://clapway.com/2015/10/14/adventure-without-sunburn/

We hate the rain, but the sun is often the bigger enemy. We’ve all experienced the aftermath of a difficult sunburn. Suddenly, your pleasant daytime hiking adventure turns into a painful excursion, full of unwelcomed chafing, peeling skin and lots of poking from friends who like to laugh at your misery.

Now you can avoid this unfortunate situation by investing in Violet, the first-ever wearable device that helps track your UV exposure and measure levels of sun-generated vitamin D. With this neat gadget, adventure after adventure is possible and it’s all thanks to Ultra, Inc., a company founded by CEO Nattapon Chaimanonart and engineer Nabyl Bennouri.

The idea for the product came when Nabyl, who is normally an active and healthy person, mysteriously fainted one day. After several tests and numerous visits to the doctor, the verdict was in: he suffered from a vitamin D deficiency – a condition that results from the inadequate nutritional intake of vitamin D (needed for strong bones), coupled with inadequate sunlight exposure.

Since that faithful day, the duo, along with a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, engineers, and biomedical doctors/researchers, began working on Violet, a tool that they hope will provide an innovative health solution to empower people to “live ultra healthy.” It works by monitoring your real-time UV exposure, alerting you before the measured UV dosage approaches a limit and calculating your daily natural vitamin D production.

The Violet also conveniently syncs to your smart phone via a mobile app that is compatible with both iOS and Android devices. The app wirelessly receives data from your device in order to generate personalized advice that will help you to optimize and achieve a balanced level of sun exposure. By doing so, the Violet serves both the “travel around the world adventure lover” who is concerned about over-exposure to the sun, as well as the “stay-in all day couch potato” who hisses at the very thought of light.

Currently, there is no similar product on the market, so keep an eye out for this trend and place a pre-order to snag yours while you can.

I know you’ve had it with the chafing.

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Lack of Vitamin D May Cause Multiple Sclerosis #vitamind #ms #multiplesclerosis - http://clapway.com/2015/08/27/vitamin-d-multiple-sclerosis123

A study published in the journal PLoS Medicine has, for the first time, established a possible causal role for vitamin D deficiency in the susceptibility to multiple sclerosis ⎯ a debilitating neurodegenerative condition that has no cure yet.

Vitamin D and multiple sclerosis: what’s the deal?

Multiple sclerosis(Ms) is an autoimmune condition wherein the body’s own immune system attacks the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. The attack is specifically directed to myelin, the insulating material that sheaths nerve cells. Destruction of this coating disrupts communication between nerves, thereby causing both physical and mental problems. Since this disease has no known cure yet, efforts are ongoing to detect any risk factors that may increase the likelihood of developing the disease. A low level of vitamin D is one such risk factor; multiple studies have found an association between deficiency of the vitamin and an increased risk for MS. This study wanted to take it a step further and determine if vitamin D deficiency could actually cause MS. For that purpose, the researchers studied four genetic variants linked to low production of vitamin D and quantified how much each variant affected vitamin D levels.

Genetically lowered vitamin D strongly increases the risk for multiple sclerosis

The study used a method called Mendelian randomization to rule out confounding factors that generally plague genetic analyses. They examined the four genetic variants among participants of the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium study, a genome-wide association study with up to 14,498 people with MS and 24,091 healthy controls. All the participants of this study were of European descent. When looking at the relationship between the genetic variant-induced reduction in vitamin D and the risk for MS susceptibility, they found that a decrease of one standard deviation of the vitamin levels increased the risk of MS twofold.

Still some questions unanswered

Since the genetic variants are randomly inherited in individuals, the results from this study are majorly unbiased and credible. However, there are still many confounding factors that cannot all be accounted for, even after randomization. Therefore, the causal link between vitamin D and MS cannot be established unequivocally. Nevertheless, more studies that replicate these findings may establish this close to a certainty. Meanwhile, research exploring the effect of vitamin D supplements on the prevention or stalling of MS symptoms could be a viable avenue.

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Vitamin D pills may not always be beneficial

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Lack of Vitamin D May Cause Multiple Sclerosis