Jeff T. Bowles - WHY IS THERE NO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AT THE EQUATOR? HOW BRAZILIAN DOCTORS ARE CURING MS WITH HIGH-DOSE D3

The above graph said it all. The further you go t away from the equator, the higher the rate of MS is found. And areas between 17 degrees north and 17 degrees south of the equator basically did not have any MS at all.

What could it be? Of course you have the answer already.lots of sunshine all year around at the equator. Now this is an older graph and the more recent results show that there is now MS beginning to rear its ugly head even at the equatorial regionsWhy? Sun screen and sun avoidance are the obvious answers. I got this graph from VitaminDwiki.com where they discuss how recently MS has been reaching lower and lower latitudes (higher and higher if you are in the southern hemisphere). Here is their web page info:

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.jns.2011.09.003

Nils Koch-Henriksen a, b, Per Soelberg Sorensen c,

a Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital in Aalborg, Denmark
b The Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry, Neuroscience Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
c Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of Copenhagen and Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Received 2 June 2011; revised 2 September 2011; Accepted 5 September 2011. Available online 7 October 2011.

The traditional view, based on numerous early studies and reviews, is that MS is particularly prevalent in temperate zones both on the northern and southern hemisphere. This uneven distribution of MS can be attributed to differences in genes and environment and their interaction. Diagnostic accuracy and case ascertainment are sources of error and have their shares in the geographical and temporal variations, and improvements in diagnostic accuracy and case ascertainment influence incidence- and prevalence rates. In addition the prevalence also depends on survival. With this meta-analysis we have focused on the trend in the incidence and sex ratio of MS through the last five decades, and we have analyzed the latitudinal distribution of MS incidence, based on a recent literature search.

Our findings indicated that the prevalence and incidence rates had increased in almost all areas, but the previously reported latitudinal gradient of incidence of MS in Europe and North America could not be confirmed even when restricting the search to surveys published before 1980 or 1970. Conversely, the latitudinal gradient of prevalence rates seemed to be preserved. This apparent discrepancy can be explained by the circumstance that incidence estimates only depend on complete ascertainment for a relative short recent period of time, whereas reliable prevalence rates presuppose complete ascertainment decades back in time. A contributory explanation for the missing latitudinal gradient for incidence may be changes in environmental factors, leveling out differences in habits of life across Europe and North America, and, not least, that the interpretation of a latitudinal gradient in Europe was based primarily on prevalence studies and reviews.

In addition, we observed in most regions a profound increase in female incidence of MS. The last observation should prompt epidemiological studi es focusing on change in female life style.

( Okay-my note.enough of this jibber jabber-MS has hit the equatorial regions due to the modern day advent of sunscreen and sun avoidance and air conditioning).MS association with latitude has virtually been eliminated - Lancet June 2010 Probably due to air conditioning being used in th e Southern part of the U S (My note -AC keeps people inside/ out of sun-decreases their d3 and increases their MS!)

A tan is no longer a sign a beauty for women, so not outdoors as much

Increased use of sun-screen when outside - concerned about wrinkles and skin cancer
Following graph shows a large recent increase in Melanoma, which like MS , is associated with vitamin D deficiency

( My note-OK they get it apparently!-That D3 or sun deficiency causes MS,

But they dont realize that high dose D3 or sun can also cure MS! )

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So how does sun prevent MS?

The evidence is piling up day by day that low Vitamin D3 levels are involved with MS.

Why D3? Because Vitamin D3 is not a vitamin at all, it is a hormone. It was just mislabeled when it was discovered because scientists thought it came from the diet. In 1920 they fed dogs that were indoors their whole lives cod liver oil which is rich in Vitamin D3, and they did not get sick. Since vitamins A , B and C had been discovered before; they named this substance Vitamin D.

It turns out you can also make Vitamin D3 by just sitting in the sun without sun block and letting the sun hit your skin. The UV-B rays penetrate your skin and cause a reaction that converts Vitamin D1 & D2 (relatively inactive forms of the hormone) into Vitamin D3-the super charged sunshine hormone that tells your body summer is here. Anyway we can get into that all later in the book.

In my research of illnesses and disease over the years it was always obvious that somehow low vitamin D3 levels eventually caused MS to develop in some people.

I always wondered however, could high doses of Vitamin D3 actually cure MS. I always expected that it should be the case but I never had any evidence.

Just recently I got that evidence from a reader of my book on Vitamin D3 from Brazil. He emailed me and asked me a few questions about where to get Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 as he was planning on treating his mother with D3 for her recurrent cancer-he just wanted to see if it would work. He also started taking 25,000 IU of D3 a day himself and found that his 2 year case of Plantar Fasciitis that had him limping all day, was completely resolved in 2 weeks on the D3. Since then he has been sending me interesting things he has been finding on the internet about Vitamin D3 and just recently he sent me a 30 minute YouTube video link to a hour video of a Brazilian doctor and 4 of his MS patients describing how they basically have been cured of their MS after having taken high dose D3 for just 6 months or less.

The patients discuss how they had previously been on interferon injections which made them feel terrible, were expensive, and only reduced their relapses by 30%! As you will see if you browse the MS/Vitamin D3 abstracts I add at the end of this brief writing, you will see one where they discovered that interferon INCREASES VITAMIN D3 LEVELS!!! And this might be the only reason interferon has been shown to help MS in its limited way!

The D3 used by the patients was cheap, cost almost nothing, had no side effects, and basically led to a relapse reduction of 100%.

Sounds too good to be true right? Well think about it, there is no way that the Dr. in the video could make any money on ithow could he make money selling Vitamin D3?- it is cheaply available everywhere! No he is just trying to get the word out about this amazing hormone.