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    Razz wpływ wit D na panel hormonalny.

    Witamina D jest podzielona na dwa rodzaje D 1,25 OH jest to hormon który powinien być w średniej wartości normy jak jest wysoki to zaburza inne hormony LH test, gonadotropowy, jądra, TSH, receptory insulinowe, jest odpowiedzialny za skórę, za kości, włosy może powodować osteoporozę. Wynikiem jego wysokiego poziomu jest obniżenie zawartości wit D 25 OH w organizmie i skutkiem tego wszystkie te powyższe niedomogi.
    Sorry za słaby wygląd rysunku ale musiałem go zmniejszyć i tak wyszło
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    Nikt nie zwraca na to uwagi, a nie dobrze. Wit d i jej poziom jest jednym z największych rzeczy na które powinnismy uważać. Od dłuższego czasu suplementuje i różnica jest kolosalna w samopoczuciu jak i uodpornieniu na przeziębienia itd. Gruba wiekszosc osób ma niedobór
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    ja tez mam niedobór z badania w 2005r wyszło że witaminy d 025oh mam zaledwie 9 a hormonu d1,25oh wysoko ponad norme ktora jest do 40 a ja miałem 68.
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    Science behind vitamin D
    A number of studies have suggested that patients with chronic inflammatory diseases are deficient in 25-hydroxyvitamin D ([link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]) and that consuming greater quantities of vitamin D, which further elevates 25-D levels, alleviates disease symptoms.
    Some years ago, molecular biology identified 25-D as a secosteroid. Secosteroids would typically be expected to depress inflammation, which is in line with the reports of short-term symptomatic improvement. The simplistic first-order mass-action model used to guide the early vitamin studies is now giving way to a more complex description of action.
    When active, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (VDR) affects transcription of at least 913 genes and impacts processes ranging from calcium metabolism to expression of key [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. Additionally, recent research on the Human Microbiome shows that bacteria are far more pervasive than previously thought, dramatically increasing the possibility that the spectrum of chronic diseases is bacterial in origin.
    Emerging molecular evidence suggests that symptomatic improvements among those administered vitamin D is the result of 25-D’s ability to temper bacterial-induced inflammation by slowing VDR activity. While this results in short-term palliation, persistent pathogens that influence disease progression proliferate over the long-term.
    Forms and structure of vitamin D
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    All forms of vitamin D are secosteroids, sharing a close structural and functional resemblance to steroids. The full implications of a “vitamin” acting as a steroid has yet to be fully appreciated by many in the research community. The overlap between steroids and secosteroids is key to understanding the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. It explains how a “vitamin” can exert short-term palliative effects and long-term harm. Patients on the MP are advised to avoid consuming vitamin D, because of its immunomodulatory effects.
    Steps for synthesis of vitamin D
    There are a number of vitamin D metabolites in the body. The steps by which one form of vitamin D changes into the next are as follows:

    • The body has natural stores of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] precursor.
    • When exposed to energy, specifically ultraviolet light, 7-dehydrocholesterol becomes pre-vitamin D3.
    • Pre-vitamin D3 spontaneously isomerizes to Vitamin D3 via a process called sigmatropic shift.
    • In addition to the endogenous production of Vitamin D3, people get D3 from animal meats. Vitamin D2 is found in plants and fungi, and is functionally similar to D3.
    • Vitamin D3 and D2 are hydroxylated in the liver, and becomes 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-D).
    • 25-D is further hydroxylated by the enzyme 1α-hydroxylase, into the main biologically active hormone [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (1,25-D). While this reaction was originally thought to occur only in the kidneys, is now known to take place in tissues throughout the body, including within white blood cells called macrophages.

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    The foundation of the Marshall Pathogenesis is “Figure 1,” a graphic which appeared in Trevor Marshall's 2008 Bioessay.
    It's important to understand that the body tightly regulates the different forms as it might a steroid.
    Metabolism of vitamin D and the Vitamin D Receptor in chronic disease
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    A number of studies have suggested that patients with chronic inflammatory diseases are deficient in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (25-D) and that consuming greater quantities of vitamin D, which elevates 25-D levels, alleviates symptoms of disease. Some years ago, molecular biology identified 25-D as a secosteroid. Secosteroids would typically be expected to depress [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], which is in line with the reports of symptomatic improvement. The simplistic first-order mass-action model used to guide the early vitamin studies has given way to a more complex description of action. When active, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (VDR) affects transcription of at least 913 genes and impacts processes ranging from calcium metabolism to expression of key [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników].
    Located in the nucleus of a variety of cells including immune cells, the VDR is a control system of sorts. When exposed to infection and damage, especially that which is caused by pathogens, the body begins to convert the inactive form 25-D into the active form, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. As cellular concentrations of 1,25-D increase, 1,25-D activates the VDR, turning on any number of genes the receptor transcribes.
    According to a 2010 analysis, the VDR significantly affects 229 human genes. Many of these genes have long been associated with [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] including, for example, the genes IRF8 (linked to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]), and PTPN2 (connected to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]).[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] The activation of certain genes also leads to the synthesis of
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    antimicrobial peptides. The antimicrobial peptides are the body's “natural antibiotics” and have a potent anti-bacterial effect.
    However, bacteria create ligands, which like 25-D, inactivate the VDR and, in turn, the innate immune response. This allows the microbes to proliferate. In response, the body increases production of 1,25-D from 25-D, leading to one of the hallmarks of chronic inflammatory disease: a low 25-D and a high 1,25-D.
    This pattern is a result of the disease process rather than a cause. For a variety of reasons, neither increased consumption of vitamin D nor the body's synthesis of additional 1,25-D is ultimately effective at combatting infection.
    Supplemental vitamin D tends to be immunosuppressive
    Related section: Sunlight can be immunosuppressive
    Supplemental vitamin D has been widely lauded for conferring immunosuppressive effects.
    Vitamin D affects the immune system at many levels and by a number of mechanisms…. Vitamin D has multiple immunosuppressant properties…. On the whole, vitamin D confers an immunosuppressive effect.
    Aronson, Amital, and Shoenfeld 2
    Supplemental vitamin D is being touted as having a wide range of benefits in different diseases. A puzzling picture that emerges from the totality of the diseases that they are claimed to affect beneficially, is the belief that supplemental vitamin D will both reduce infections and suppress the immune system at the same time. While it is clear that there exist substances that can be “immunomodulating”, implicating that it can increase production/release of both immunosuppressive and immune activating substances, the important question is what the overall effect is. It is hard to envision that a substance can have strong anti-infectious properties while at the same time having a strong immune suppressive effect.
    Supplemental vitamin D show no consistent effects on infection
    In studies on acute respiratory tract infection3, tuberculosis4 and overall infections5, the effects of vitamin D have been mixed (and largely unsuccessful) in terms of reducing infectious burden.
    A complete evaluation of the above mentioned studies, and the differences between them that can help explain the different results, is not suited for this article. However, on a general basis, one of the reasons for differing effects may be that vitamin D works differently in relatively healthy people as compared to sick people. Thus, vitamin D supplementation may give a marginal benefit in preventing infections in healthy people (see section below), but not in sick people. As of today (Dec 2012) we are not aware of any studies that have shown an actual reduction in infections in sick people (for instance tuberculosis or COPD) by vitamin D supplementation, as measured by culture or genetical detection methods. Furthermore, a general trend seems to be that apparent beneficial effects on infection in healthy people are not seen in individuals who have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels within the normal range678, adding, as a side point, further weight to the mega dose vitamin D supplementation craze being without merit.
    It is however not certain, in spite of some reported benefits in a few studies, that any level of supplementation is beneficial in terms of reducing infection. The studies are still too few to draw firm conclusions, and publication bias, as in any field science, may skew the overall results. Another factor which makes the reported benefits doubtful is that not all studies have reported an actual reduction in infection, but merely symptom based outcomes. Symptom based outcomes are relevant, but in light of the symptom reducing effects therapies that are immune suppressive may have, it is not clear that symptom reduction in the vitamin D supplementation studies are due to an actual reduction in infection. Further, most of the symptoms in upper respiratory tract infections are caused by the body's own immune response, and not the infectious agents9.
    In sick people vitamin D supplementation increases infectious burden, and suppresses the immune system:
    • monocytes – According to a 2011 interventional study in which patients with multiple sclerosis were given high doses of vitamin , peripheral blood mononuclear cells (monocytes) lose “abnormal reactivity” at 40 ng/mL.10
    • Epstein Barr virus – In a 2010 study of pregnancy-associated breast cancer, higher levels of 25-D were positively correlated with serum antibodies to Epstein Barr Virus, suggesting that EBV is able to better proliferate in patients who take vitamin D.11
    • toll-like receptors – As discussed elsewhere, the toll-like receptors (TLR) represent an ancient front-line defense system that enables the host organism to sense the presence of microbial components within minutes. As inducers of inflammation, TLRs act as important triggers of distinct entities such as sepsis or autoimmune disease exacerbation.12 For example, found that the TLRs are naturally upregulated in the autoimmune disease, Behcet's disease.13 However, a 2006 study showed that vitamin D3 suppresses the expression of TLR2 and TLR4 protein and mRNA in human monocytes in a time- and dose-dependent fashion.14 Dickie et al. further showed that expression of TLR9 was downregulated in monocytes by vitamin D3 supplementation.15
    • reduction in levels of inflammation – A 2011 study showed that in colorectal adenoma patients, the vitamin D supplementation group, TNF-alpha decreased 13%, IL-6 32%, IL-1 beta 50%, and IL-8 15% relative to placebo.16
    • short-term symptom resolution – Further evidence for vitamin D’s activity as an immunosuppressant comes in the range of reports of short-term symptom resolution in autoimmune patients taking vitamin D. Online forums are full of such reports.
    Role in select diseases and conditions
    The following articles discuss the role of vitamin D in select diseases. A more complete list of diseases that have been shown to have low level of 25-D is also available.
    Osteoporosis
    Main article: Osteoporosis and osteopenia
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    Both [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and osteopenia are diseases marked by a decrease in bone mineral density. Osteopenia is a less severe form of and sometimes precursor to osteoporosis. The loss of bone mass leads to a porous bone structure, frequent fractures, and delayed healing.
    Among doctors, and even many researchers, it is conventional wisdom that vitamin D supplementation reverses osteopenia and osteoporosis. However, a growing body of interventional trials and molecular evidence shows this is not the case. Instead, current research has demonstrated that osteoporosis and osteopenia are often the direct result of infection with the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], which produce inflammatory [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and inactivate the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. The only way to achieve long-term reversal of bone loss is to kill the Th1 pathogens driving the disease process.
    Rickets
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    Rickets (osteomalacia) is a softening of the bones that leads to fractures and deformity. The majority of cases of rickets occur among children in developing countries who suffer from severe malnutrition. The disease is cited as a primary reason for consuming [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] regularly even though research has demonstrated that rickets is not caused by vitamin D deficiency but by hypophosphatemia.
    The latest molecular evidence does not support adding high levels of vitamin D to the food chain in the name of “preventing rickets.” The health of the public would be much better served by regulations ensuring that they obtain adequate calcium and phosphorous rather than vitamin D.
    Cancer
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    A variety of studies have suggested that vitamin D protects against [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. This seemingly intuitive proposition is supported by neither epidemiological nor molecular evidence. In fact, the very opposite is true. This article reviews why this body of research is most likely incorrect – or at the very least, much more complicated than articles in the popular media would have a person believe.

    • [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] - The “latitude studies” are observational, as opposed to interventional, studies, which use ambient solar UV radiation as a proxy for latitude and vitamin D status. For these studies, researchers compare rates of certain major cancers - most notably breast, colorectal and prostate cancer - to rates of sunlight exposure. This group of research has the liability of being wildly inconsistent. The choice to publish research on a specific latitude gradient may be a better proxy for a researcher's bias.
    • Interventional studies - While some randomized controlled trials have suggested that consuming vitamin D reduces rates of cancer, larger and more carefully controlled studies show no such effect.
    • Studies of vitamin D status - Many of the studies examining the relationship between vitamin D status and incidence of cancer argue that low levels of 25-D contribute to cancer. This conclusion has been invalidated by larger well-controlled studies. Although the immune system works to downregulate 25-D (25-hydroxyvitamin D) in inflammatory diseases such as cancer, very high levels of 25-D are a clear indication of regular supplementation. These studies suggest that consuming large amounts of vitamin D predispose a person to increased incidence of cancer.
    • Observational studies – Some case control studies have found that vitamin D intake seems to increase incidence of certain types of cancer.

    According to the Marshall Pathogenesis, alteration of vitamin D metabolism by a pathogenic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] prevents any benefit from vitamin D supplementation.
    Cardiovascular disease
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    According to a 2010 paper by Swales and Wang, “despite substantial clinical evidence linking vitamin D deficiency with increased cardiovascular risk, it remains to be established whether this represents a causal association.”[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] Indeed, data from a 2011 prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial[cite needed][link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] has cast real doubt on the alleged cardioprotective benefits of vitamin D. Researchers performing a small study report that treatment with vitamin D for four months had no significant effect on endothelial function, vascular stiffness, or inflammation in healthy postmenopausal women.
    A recent cross-sectional study involving 340 African Americans with [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] found that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were positively associated with increased calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the aorta and carotid arteries.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    Depression and seasonal affective disorder
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    According to the Marshall Pathogenesis, light-related changes in mood can be attributed to fluctuations in 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-D). Such reactions exist in people who suffer from “[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]” as well as those who are addicted to or dependent upon tanning.
    Contrary to popular belief, epidemiological research points to an increase in suicide across countries during the beginning of the summer months when people tend to get more light exposure.
    Light exposure does nothing to resolve underlying disease state and can actually delay progress for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (MP) patients. Certainly prolonged light exposure has been shown to increase skin melanoma – the World Health Organization now categorizes tanning beds under the highest cancer risk category.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    MP patients who have completed the treatment have been able to attest to the fact that sunshine is not necessary for good health or happiness.
    Despite what some researchers have argued, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] that try to tie ambient solar UV radiation to prevalence of disease have been inconclusive.
    Pregnancy
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    1,25-D rises by 40% in the early pregnant decidua, meaning that its ability to dysregulate the nuclear receptors and the antimicrobial peptides (AmPs) they express is particularly prevalent during the first trimesters of pregnancy. The subsequent decrease in immune function slows immunopathology, resulting in symptomatic relief. But when the surge in 1,25-D disappears after pregnancy, AmP expression and immunopathology increase once again, leading to exacerbation of disease symptoms. This may explain why some women with autoimmune disease experience periods of palliation during gestation only to become increasingly symptomatic after giving birth.
    Problems with some vitamin D research
    Insufficient followup of study subjects
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    One of the abiding weaknesses of studies on the effects of vitamin D on health is that researchers simply do not follow subjects consuming the secosteroid for a sufficient period of time. Instead, they tend to track subjects over the course of weeks, months, or one or two years, during the period of time when study participants are usually feeling the palliative effects of the steroid. This practice is a mistake as it does not account for the long-term immunosuppressive effects of a steroid.
    Failing to control for biases inherent to observational studies
    Main and related articles: [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    It is arguably impossible to sufficiently control for the socioeconomic factors, which drive a person to participate in a therapy or take a supplement. The case of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is instructive. For decades, researchers thought that HRT prevented disease, but it was ultimately shown that it caused it.
    Studies of vitamin D's efficacy are especially fraught with challenges. For one, the secosteroid is palliative and the negative side effects can only be seen after decades of use. Also, people who take vitamin D are demonstrably different than those who don't. They almost always have a higher socioeconomic status.
    Not all studies on vitamin D's efficacy are observational, but those that are may warrant a special amount of skepticism.
    Mistaking correlation for causation
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    Many vitamin D studies suffer from methodological errors including [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], but perhaps their most egregious liability comes in mistaking correlation for causation.
    It's undisputed that a wide array of studies point to the fact that 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-D) – typically referred to in the media as vitamin D – is low in people with numerous chronic inflammatory diseases. However, these studies fail to prove that low 25-D causes disease. Even so, some studies assume that doubling serum levels of 25-D would drastically reduce mortality.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    In fact, molecular science has revealed that the levels of the vitamin D metabolites through a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], mechanisms that belie the simplistic first-order mass-action model used to guide the short-sighted vitamin studies. Also, epidemiological evidence suggests that while 25-D is low in chronic disease, 1,25-D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D) tends to be very high, an observation which is at odds with the theory that vitamin D deficiency causes or exacerbates disease.
    There have been lots of observational studied showing an association between various diseases and vitamin D deficiency, but there is not any evidence yet that that is a casual relationship… it may be that vitamin D deficiency is a marker of ill health.
    Dr. Ruth McQuillan, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
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    A classic mistake in correlation vs. causation. This vintage advertisement implies that children are skinny because they eat and drink sugar. In the current age of skyrocketing obesity rates, sugar probably gets more blame than it deserves, but no one would say that sugar protects against obesity.
    Populations that avoid vitamin D remain healthy despite low levels of 25-D
    According to Professor Roger Bouillon of the University of Leuven, “over one billion” people worldwide need to increase their vitamin D intake due to vitamin D “deficiency.”[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] One Saudi study [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] 87.8% of healthy men were “deficient.”
    Yet, observational studies show that populations which avoid vitamin D consumption have naturally low levels of 25-D and remain healthy with such levels.

    • healthy Chilean women – A study which tested the level of 25-D in 90 “healthy, ambulatory Chilean women” showed that 27% of the premenopausal and 60% of the postmenopausal women had 25-D levels under 20 ng/ml.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    • healthy Saudi medical students – A 2012 study collected data from 95 male and 103 female students with an average age of 19.5 years old. In 100% of the students, the vitamin D level was considered low. The mean 25-D level was 26.83 nmol/L in males and 16.03 nmol/L in females.
    • healthy Bangladeshi women – A study on healthy Bangladeshi women found that approximately 80% of the women had a level of 25-D under 16 ng/ml.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] A separate study of premenopausal Bangladeshi women came to a similar conclusion.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    • healthy Chinese infants – In a 1992 study, healthy full-term infants from China had serum concentrations of 25-D ranging from an average of 5 ng/ml to 14 ng/ml.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    • healthy Omani women – A 2011 study of 41 apparently healthy women (ages 18-45 years) working at the Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman found that all study subjects had 25-D levels below 50 nmol/L.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    • young healthy adults in western India – Among young healthy adults from the western part of India, the average serum level of 25-D indicated vitamin D “deficiency”: 17.4 ng/ml.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    • healthy Saudi Arabians – Severe hypovitaminosis D is widespread and more common in non-diabetics than diabetics in Saudi adults.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] Nevertheless, this 2010 study's authors conclude a bit bizarrely, “The study further underscores the need for vitamin D fortification of the Saudi diet, and the promotion of vitamin D supplementation in both groups.”
    • healthy lactating mothers – Even when lactating mothers take all but exceedingly high levels of vitamin D – 6,000 IU which is 15 times the United States' Recommended Daily Intake – the vitamin D content in breast milk remains very low.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] This is confusing for advocates of vitamin D supplementation who would think that breastfeeding mothers would give their infant extra levels of vitamin D during formative stages of growth.

    The Vitamin D Council, an organization that advocates vitamin D supplementation, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]:
    One of the great mysteries in human biology is the fact that most human breast milk is deficient in vitamin D. How could Nature overlook such an important nutrient in the “perfect food”?
    Vitamin D Council
    One research team, studying patients with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disorder in which patients are unable to repair damage caused by ultraviolet light, found that vitamin D levels are maintained even when patients practice at least six years of rigorous photoprotection and not supplementing with vitamin D. More importantly, the researchers also concluded that the clinical manifestations of vitamin D “deficiency” were absent.
    The patients all wore protective clothing and sunscreens when outdoors. Estimated mean vitamin D intake was normal. The mean values of serum 25-OHD were low normal, but 1,25-(OH)2D, calcium, ionized calcium and parathyroid hormone levels were normal [italics added]…. Despite rigorous sun protection normal vitamin D levels can be maintained in ambulatory patients with XP.
    Armando Sallitto et al.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    Ramifications of a simplistic understanding of vitamin D metabolism
    Numerous studies have identified patient populations that are “deficient” in vitamin D. Patients suffering from [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], schizophrenia, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], multiple sclerosis, autism, etc. all seem to be suffering from vitamin D deficiency. One could list [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników].
    Although it is not unheard of, few seem to explore the possibility that a low 25-D is the result of disease. Perhaps it is because researchers conceptualize vitamin D as they might a resource which gets used up and needs to be replenished – not unlike gasoline when a car runs low. This metaphor is not at all apt, because vitamin D is regulated like the steroid it is.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    Large segments of the population are consuming vitamin D at historic levels. Like the first-line treatment for many autoimmune diagnoses, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] Prednisone, vitamin D temporarily reduces symptoms of disease, but long-term use dramatically increases the odds of disease relapse.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    In practice, widespread and systematic supplementation of vitamin D may serve to drive a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy. When whole populations are given large amounts of vitamin D, the only members of that population who remain “deficient” are those whose immune systems are fighting disease by actively downregulating 25-D. In other words, the more rigorously vitamin D is added to milk, juice, snack bars, and breakfast cereals, the less likely it is that someone has low levels of vitamin D but no chronic disease.
    Supplemental vitamin D given to healthy people
    According to the Marshall Pathogenesis, limited amounts of vitamin D may be helpful for a time to healthy people. Because the body is able to properly regulate the VDR, ingested vitamin D is rapidly converted into 1,25-D, which activates the VDR. This may explain the one (barely) significant finding from a 2011 Cochrane systematic review.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] ([link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] may have also tilted the findings towards intervention.) However, this is certainly no basis for forced fortification.
    Marshall Protocol and vitamin D
    As opposed to certain treatments which employ [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], patients on the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (MP) use the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], and pulsed, low-dose antibiotics to gradually eliminate the Th1 pathogens. Patients on the treatment must refrain from supplementing with vitamin D or eating any foods that contain vitamin D. These measures allow 25-D levels to drop to a point where the VDR can most optimally activate the innate immune system.
    Because the vitamin D metabolites are dysregulated in chronic disease, most patients on the MP also become sensitive to light. Although light sensitivity improves as the Th1 pathogens are killed, most patients must avoid bright sunlight and block bright light in the eyes with special sunglasses during the healing process. However, once the Th1 pathogens have been killed and the vitamin D metabolites have re-stabilized, patients are able to tolerate sunlight and bright lights once again.
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    Metabolism of vitamin D and the Vitamin D Receptor
    A number of studies have suggested that patients with chronic inflammatory diseases are deficient in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (25-D) and that consuming greater quantities of vitamin D, which elevates 25-D levels, alleviates symptoms of disease. Some years ago, molecular biology identified 25-D as a secosteroid. Secosteroids would typically be expected to depress [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], which is in line with the reports of symptomatic improvement. The simplistic first-order mass-action model used to guide the early vitamin studies has given way to a more complex description of action. When active, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (VDR) affects transcription of at least 913 genes and impacts processes ranging from calcium metabolism to expression of key [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników].
    Located in the nucleus of a variety of cells including immune cells, the VDR is a control system of sorts. When exposed to infection and damage, especially that which is caused by pathogens, the body begins to convert the inactive form 25-D into the active form, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. As cellular concentrations of 1,25-D increase, 1,25-D activates the VDR, turning on any number of genes the receptor transcribes.
    According to a 2010 analysis, the VDR significantly affects 229 human genes. Many of these genes have long been associated with [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] including, for example, the genes IRF8 (linked to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]), and PTPN2 (connected to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]).[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] The activation of certain genes also leads to the synthesis of antimicrobial peptides. The antimicrobial peptides are the body's “natural antibiotics” and have a potent anti-bacterial effect.
    However, bacteria create ligands, which like 25-D, inactivate the VDR and, in turn, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. This allows the microbes to proliferate. In response, the body increases production of 1,25-D from 25-D, leading to one of the hallmarks of chronic inflammatory disease: a low 25-D and a high 1,25-D.
    This pattern is a result of the disease process rather than a cause. For a variety of reasons, neither increased consumption of vitamin D nor the body's synthesis of additional 1,25-D is ultimately effective at combatting infection.
    Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) controls innate immunity
    Related article: [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    The [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] is the body's first line of defense against and non-specific way for responding to bacterial pathogens.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] Located in the nucleus of a variety of cells, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (VDR) plays a crucial, often under-appreciated, role in the innate immune response.
    When functioning properly, the VDR transcribes between hundreds[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] and thousands of genes[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] including those for the proteins known as the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. Antimicrobial peptides are “the body's natural antibiotics,” crucial for both prevention and clearance of infection.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] The VDR also expresses the TLR2 receptor, which is expressed on the surface of certain cells and recognizes foreign substances.
    The body controls activity of the VDR through regulation of the vitamin D metabolites. 25-hydroxyvitamin D ([link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]) antagonizes or inactivates the Receptor while [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] (1,25-D) agonizes or activates the Receptor.
    Another component of the innate immune response is the release of inflammatory [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]. The result is what medicine calls inflammation, which generally leads to an increase in symptoms.
    Before the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] Project, scientists couldn't link bacteria to inflammatory diseases. But with the advent of DNA sequencing technology, scientists have detected many of the bacteria capable of generating an inflammatory response. All diseases of unknown etiology are inflammatory diseases.
    Greater than 36 types of tissue have been identified as having a Vitamin D Receptor.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    Regulating the VDR
    [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    1,25-D is different than 25-D in that it possesses a single 1-alpha hydroxylation. It is this additional hydroxylation, which stabilizes helix 12 in the Vitamin D Receptor binding the promoter which allow activation of the VDR and leads to the transcription of thousands of genes.
    A general appreciation for how 25-D and 1,25-D compete for [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] gets to the heart of their opposing roles in the body. According to the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], the VDR is foremost a control system. Under most circumstances, the active form, 1,25-D, acts as the “on” switch and the inactive form, 25-D, is the “off” switch.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] 25-D is not completely inactive, but it does not and cannot activate the VDR. As Leow states in Respirology, “25-D levels are not associated with levels of cathelicidin or beta-defensin-2 [antimicrobial proteins transcribed by the VDR].”[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    Further underscoring this role for these two D metabolites is that 25-D and 1,25-D “happen” to share similar binding affinities for the VDR. According to molecular modeling by Trevor Marshall, PhD, 1,25-D has an affinity of 8.48 (as measured by nanomolar Kd) and 25-D has an affinity of 8.36.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] It would seem that activation of the Vitamin D nuclear receptor is achieved by a delicate balance between the concentrations of a number of endogenous hormones. Indeed, at the risk of overgeneralization, the body increases and decreases the production of 1,25-D to control the innate immune response.
    As mentioned before, exposure to injury and infection enhances production of 1,25-D, which in turn leads to the creation of antimicrobial peptides and activation of TLR2.
    However, certain feedback mechanisms are also in place, which allow the body to limit the production of 1,25-D to just that amount needed for proper transcriptional activation of the VDR.

    • When the VDR is activated, it transcribes the gene for the enzyme [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników], which increases conversion of 1,25-D into inactive metabolites.
    • An activated VDR also controls 1,25-D concentration by limiting transcription of the gene CYP27B1, which converts 25-D into 1,25-D.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]

    Bacteria and the VDR
    The [link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] lists hundreds of antimicrobial peptides known to kill or inhibit the reproduction of bacteria,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników] 793 AmPs found in animals as of January 5, 2009. The sheer diversity of these proteins coupled with the fact that they have been conserved over millenia suggests that enough pathogenic bacteria exist in sufficient quantities to warrant the evolution of these defense mechanisms. It would seem that is in the strong interest of the human body to destroy or disrupt these bacteria.
    Pathogenic bacteria are likewise driven by evolutionary impetus: it's in their interest to disrupt the proteins, which interfere with their growth. In what way or ways could bacteria interrupt production of the AmPs?
    According to one researcher, it is nearly impossible for bacteria to develop resistance to the AmPs:
    Acquisition of resistance by a sensitive microbial strain against antimicrobial peptides is surprisingly improbable.
    Michael Zasloff[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]
    However, what if it were possible to disrupt the expression of the Vitamin D Receptor by secreting ligands, which bind to and inactivate the receptor? Such bacteria would have an undeniable reproductive advantage.
    Think about this for a minute – if you were a persistent pathogen, wouldn’t it seem a good idea to disable your host’s ability to produce antimicrobial peptides? And if you discovered
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    that disabling just one receptor, the VDR, would get rid of both cathelicidin and defB2, wouldn’t you try to evolve a mechanism for doing that?
    Trevor Marshall, PhD
    Bacteria disable the VDR


    Capnine is a protein created by bacteria, a protein which may bind to and antagonize (inactivate) the VDR. The secretion of capnine and substances like it fulfills an important evolutionary need for bacteria: to disrupt the innate immune response.
    In the arms race of host–microbe co-evolution, successful microbial pathogens have evolved ingenious ways to evade host immune responses.13
    Studies have indicated that the dysregulation of VDR may lead to exaggerated inflammatory responses, raising the possibility that defects in Vitamin D and VDR signaling transduction may be linked to bacterial infection and chronic inflammation. Further characterization of Vitamin D/VDR will help elucidate the pathogenesis of various human diseases and in the design of new approaches for prevention and treatment.
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    Since the VDR is at the heart of the innate immune system, bacteria can survive by discovering how to disable it through a variety of different actions. Actions accumulate and are more powerful than individual actions.
    In keeping with evolutionary theory, a growing number of substances and species have been shown to downregulate the activity of the VDR:
    • Borrelia burgdorferi – Live Borrelia burgdorferi reduced VDR expression in monocytes (phagocytes) by 50 times, and lysates (“dead” Borrelia) reduced it by 8 times15
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis – shown to downregulate the VDR 3.3-fold 16 which makes sense given that an active VDR helps phagocytes to suppress the intracellular growth of M. tuberculosis 17 18
    • Mycobacterium leprase – produces microRNA-21 to target multiple genes associated with the VDR19
    • “Gliding” biofilm bacteria have been shown to create Capnine – Capnine is a 2-amino-3-hydroxy-15-methylhexadecane-1-sulfonic acid, and is created by the genera Cytophaga, Capnocytophaga, Sporocytophaga, and Flexibacter.20 21 The secretion of capnine meets an important evolutionary need for bacteria. Capnine possesses a high affinity for the VDR as evidenced by the fact that molecular modeling shows that its stable in the ligand binding pocket. Molecular modeling further shows that when capnine is docked in the VDR, it inactivates the receptor.
    • Chlamydia trachomatis – shown to downregulate the VDR in unpublished work
    The following substances reduce the number of VDR, without which immune function is limited:
    • Caspase-3 – A protein which cleaves (breaks apart) the VDR structure and thus limits the ability of VDR to perform gene transcription.22 The caspases are upregulated by Shigella infection,23 which implies that the VDR may have a faster cycle time in disease than in health.
    According to the Marshall Pathogenesis, pathogens' production of ligands, which bind to and antagonize (inactivate) the Vitamin D Receptor, is one of the fundamental processes by which chronic inflammatory disease occurs. The consumption of other immunosuppressive substances also has an effect.

    Studies have shown that at least several pathogens downregulate VDR expression.
    One promising area for future research is to fully characterize the breadth and diversity of proteins created by bacteria in infected cells.
    Murine models of VDR offer some confirmation
    One can see the effects of a dysfunctional VDR in knockout mice, mice genetically engineered to be born without the receptor. These mice demonstrate what it is like to have a VDR completely blocked by bacterial ligands.
    Mice without a VDR have been shown in separate studies to be born with alopecia, an inflammatory condition in which organisms have no hair24 and age prematurely.25 Scientists have also found that Salmonella is much more virulent and aggressive in mice in which the vitamin D receptor had been turned off.26 These mice showed higher levels of activity of inflammatory molecules, and they lost weight more quickly and were much more likely to die in response to infection.
    Further validating the Marshall Pathogenesis model is this: other research in VDR knockout mice has shown a marked increase, by a factor of ten, in serum 1,25-D and a clear reduction - to almost undetectable levels - in serum 25-D. Such levels persisted at seven weeks until the mice eventually died.27
    Mechanisms by which bacteria affect levels of 25-D and 1,25-D
    Main article: Mechanisms by which bacteria affect levels of 25-D and 1,25-D
    A chronic pathogenic microbiota affects the levels of the D metabolites observed in chronic diseases in several ways. When the immune system is challenged by pathogens, the body activates CYP27B1, causing more 25-D to be converted to 1,25-D, which, of course, increases activity of the VDR.
    However, just because the concentration of 1,25-D reaches high levels - sometimes extremely high values - does not mean that the hormone is successful in binding and activating all of the body's Vitamin D Receptors (VDR). In fact, a 1,25-D that is elevated for an extended period of time suggests that the activity of the VDR is at least partially blocked.
    When bacterial ligands block the VDR, the Receptor is prevented from transcribing CYP24A1, a well-studied enzyme which breaks down excess 1,25-D.
    A full understanding of all these mechanisms supports the conclusion that elevated 1,25-D and depressed 25-D are a result rather than a cause of the inflammatory disease process.
    Viruses and fungi also affect the VDR
    • Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – shown to downregulate expression of the VDR (and by the VDR) by a factor of about five, inducing “eventual immortalization”28 A 2011 paper further showed that a EBV not only down-regulates expression of the VDR protein itself, but also acts to block transcription by the VDR.29
    • HIV – binds to the VDR30 and inhibits conversion of 25-D into 1,25-D31 (see below)
    • Aspergillus fumigatus – In cystic fibrosis patients, the fungus A. fumigatus has been shown to secrete gliotoxin, a toxin which dose-dependently downregulates VDR mRNA and protein levels. This directly results in decreased levels of the AmP LL-37, thereby “providing an opportunistic environment for both bacterial and fungal colonization.”32 33
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