Vitamin D for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Crohn's Disease
"Believe it or Not: 80% of Your Immune System is Actually in Your GI Tract"
When looking to effectively promote your immune system health, you need to look no further than your intestinal tract. Learn about a great way to start promoting your digestive health and overall health as well.
To get on the track toward building a solid foundation for your best health, I believe the best place to start is where good health begins – in your digestive tract.*
And the best way I’ve found is by introducing billions of tiny microflora (good bacteria) into your digestive system through the use of high quality probiotics.* Putting back the good bacteria in the gut...
What happens is that the good bacteria go to work keeping your entire digestive system working at its peak while boosting the health of your immune system in the process.*
How do I know? Because scientific research shows that 80% of your immune system actually lives right in your digestive tract...
The all-important nutrient, Vitamin D, may help to reduce some of the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease, new research suggests.
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University note that "Anecdotal data suggest that the amount of vitamin D available in the environment either from sunshine exposure or diet may be an important factor affecting the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in humans."
They decided to test the theory in animal experiments by using mice genetically predisposed to develop symptoms resembling human IBD. The mice were separated into 3 groups.
• One group was made vitamin D deficient
• Another group was kept vitamin D sufficient
• Another group was supplemented with active vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol).
Vitamin D deficient mice rapidly developed diarrhea and a wasting disease, leading to death.
The vitamin D sufficient mice did not develop diarrhea, didnt waste or die.
However, mice who received the active vitamin D supplement had their symptoms of IBD significantly reduced in as little as 2 weeks. It also blocked the further progression of the disease.
Journal of Nutrition. 2000;130:2648-2652
This form of vitamin D is only available as a prescription and it is called Rocaltrol. It is typically used for kidney failure patients as that is where the second hydroxylation occurs to make the pro hormone vitamin active to the real hormone vitamin D.
For those with inflammatory bowel disease who are not responsive to the eating plan this might be something to consider. Additionally I have seen some patients with IBD improve with Probiotics.
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