Neurologists weigh in on vitamins and supplements

[agate]

The freebie periodical put out by the American Academy of Neurology tends to be mostly filler sandwiched in between pharmaceutical company ads but this brief article on vitamins and supplements might be of some interest:

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This part in particular:

The most recent study of vitamin D's effect on Only registered and activated users can see links., Click Here To Register... (MS), published in The Lancet in 2023, did not show that vitamin D as an add-on therapy reduces relapses, says Dr. Giesser, an MS specialist. “The data for supplements having a disease-modifying effect on MS are just not there,” she adds. Dr. Giesser encourages her patients to get their vitamins and minerals from food as much as possible and only consider taking supplements if they have a documented deficiency.

I hadn't ever heard that anyone expected a vitamin D3 supplement would prevent MS relapses but apparently there are people who have been expecting that. I'm still taking 5,000 IU daily of vitamin D3. It was prescribed originally because many people with MS are at least slightly deficient in that vitamin. My latest level was 79, and originally the doctor had said she'd like to see it at around 80.

[Virginia]

Mine has not been checked in years. I started taking 2,000 IUs daily many long years ago at the suggestion of my then Neurologist. His PCP had put him on it.