[Nicholas Conradin]

I cannot speak to the Vitamin D angle, but the birth-date relationship seems to me like a spurious correlation. I'm sure that you could plot the data on an astrological chart and find that one sign or another is accorded a some sort of influence.

I was first diagnosed with MS in 1979; the progressive-remitting variety. I have reached the wheelchair stage. Still alive, though. Sure beats the alternative.

[Nov3]

Vitamin D is actually misnamed. It is more like a hormone. The thought that Vitamin D levels during pregnancy could affect the neurological makeup of the child is not that far a grasp.Vitamin D levels vary in a fairly predictable pattern but there are individual exceptions. A large portion of the population is deficient year round.

Now I think there are a variety of factors for this cruel disease but I would look at the people who have claimed positive results with D supplementation. My sister has seen some positive results.