Next time you are reading through Dr. Mercola's helpful and accurate tips for optimized personal health and happiness, make it on a lap top outside in the sunshine (weather permitting of course).

A link between Vitamin D, MS and Parkinsons:

Client testimonial:
I have Vitamin D Resistant Ricketts ...... result was legs that were crooked, uneven and unsteady.

After 35 years, 15 surgeries on my legs and an inability to even walk a trail near my home ..... My left foot was permanently splayed out about 25 degrees, I walked with a marked wobble and I had a pain that averaged an 8 out of 10 in my right knee and both feet. My surgeons were not able to help much and had indicated that I was as good as I was going to get. ...... in less than a week my foot is now straight and the pain has been brought down to less than a two. What is more, .... the wobble has almost disappeared ..... now I am able to hike trails that have been impossible for the last ten years. M G July 2001.

The connection is the tmj (jaw) muscles and dehydration and mercury.
Tense jaw muscles affects the assimilation of water and magnesium (empirical kinesiology testing). Calcium needs magnesium to be assimilated. If calcium is affected, then Vitamin D is affected, as it needs calcium. What if its not vitamin D deficiency, but the assimilation?
Balancing hydration and tmj usually helps with MS.

Magnesium is also affected by mercury toxicity.
MS clients always react to mercury tested down the spine (30+ clients).
Only worked on a few Parkinsons, but they also reacted to mercury.

Philip

Below is an link to an excellent interview with Giovanni Targher, M.D., a specialist in endocrinology and diabeties regarding the association between hypovitaminosis D3 (low vitamin D levels) and its associated adverse effects on bone health but also is connection with some cancers, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease.

It is very interesting, and supports what Dr. Mercola has been saying for some time. I think it is worth a read...as Russ suggests--out in the sunshine!

http://www.vitasearch.com/CP/experts/GTargherAT12-28-06.htm

Here is from another post on mine about neurological disorders. My question still is, why are we not only segmentalizing the body, but know we segmentalize treatments? It takes looking at the person as a whole, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, nutritionally and so forth.

1. There are some schools of thought that Parkinson's disease (PD) comes from years of chronic dehydration.
2. There are schools of thought out there that say it is the result of heavy metal toxicity, especially aluminum (products, industrial products, rain).
3. There are some schools of thought that altered amino acid function or levels, as well as NT are the cause. One AA is AANB (alpha-amino-N-butyric acid) and it has been shown to be low in people with PD. AANB is a metabolite of threonine, which req B6 and ketoglutaric acid for complete oxidation. Another one is Phosphoserine (metabolite of serine which req B6, folate and Mn), which has been shown to be low in people with PD (shown to have difficulty of neutral and basic amino acids across the blood brain barrier). Another one is Sarcosine, which is shown to be elevated in PD patients.
4. The western school of thought is decreased dopamine production in the brain. Parkinson's disease (PD) is believed to be caused by a deficiency of dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger between nerve cells in the mammalian brain.
5. There are other schools of thought that believe that it is the cause of lesions in the basil ganglia due a chronic parasitic infection that has not been attended to.
6. TCM beleives that this is a liver wind condition that acupuncture, tui na, gau sha and herbs can help to releive.