March 30, 2016 In December 2011, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society convened a two-day meeting of 40 MS experts from around the world. They were neurologists, epidemiologists, clinical trial specialists, laboratorians like me, molecular...
March 23, 2016 Barbara van Amerongen and I met at a Vitamin D Workshop in Brugge, Belgium in 2012. She was very interested in what GrassrootsHealth was doing with a non-clinical trial research approach...
March 16, 2016 The amount of material the major multiple sclerosis organizations have on vitamin D, latitude and MS is colossal. MS organizations are funding research, but it may not adequately represent vitamin D’s...
March 2, 2016 Vitamin D is great for prevention of disease, but what about treatment after you’ve been diagnosed? We will study and report on leading-edge treatments using vitamin D as we find them....
February 24, 2016 The number one question I receive continues to be, “How much should I take?” The answer to that question also continues to be, “There is no magic amount. You have to...
February 17, 2016 As highlighted in our newsletter at the beginning of the month, February is American Heart Month. One of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease is diabetes – a disease known...
February 10, 2016 We are proud to announce HYLIONTM: a set of tools developed with your help and input over the past several years designed to facilitate moving research into practice… NOW! It’s a...
February 3, 2016 February is American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, is responsible for one out of every three (about 800,000) deaths in the United...
January 27, 2016 How do we get information to make decisions about public health from randomized controlled trials (RCT’s)? Can we? Especially for nutrient trials? At this point, we have seen so many problems...
January 20, 2016 In this newsletter, we present yet another set of vitamin D information from a different research point of view – enzymology. I had the pleasure this last week to talk with Dr....