Pregnant Moms Take Your Ditamin D to Protect Your Baby Against MS

  According to a Danish registry study higher levels of vitamin D in newborns was associated with less risk of developing multiple sclerosis decades later.
Neurology 2016 Nov 30;[e-pub]
  Comparable findings were reported in a Finnish registry measuring the mother's serum vitamin D level.
NEJM JW Neurol May 2016
JAMA Neurol 2016;73:515

Immunologic Profile in MS Patients Altered with High Dose Vitamin D

   Those with low Vitamin D levels have been shown to have have an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis in previous studies as well as an increased number of brain lesions on MRI. NEJM JW Neurol Dec 2015, JAMA Neurol 2015;72:1458
  A newer study revealed reduced percentages of IL17+CD4+T cells and effects memory cells CD4+ in patients that received 10,400 IU of vitamin D3 daily.
Neurology 2015 Dec 30

Increase In MS Exacerbations With Increased Dietary Sodium

  High intake of dietary sodium increases exacerbations of multiple sclerosis almost four-fold.
  These studies suggests that clinicians advise their patients with MS to follow a low-salt diet.
Nature 2013;496(7446):513-517
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2014;Epub2014 Aug 28