Vitamin D Reduces Fibromyalgia Symptoms
Vitamin D Reduces Fibromyalgia Symptoms
There is no cure for fibromyalgia in Western medicine. Western medicine treats fibromyalgia’s various symptoms with a variety of medications. Fibromyalgia is likely the second most common inflammatory disease of the joints and muscles behind osteoarthritis.
Fibromyalgia is also accompanied by fatigue, sleeplessness, mood swings, and memory loss.[1] The medical industry once considered the condition to be in people’s mind but now evidence supports the condition is actually in the body.
Fibromyalgia has been linked to deficiency of the vitamin D hormone, but one time the Western medical industry only recognized vitamin D as being involved in bone health.
Science has now determined there are vitamin D receptors in nearly all the cells in the body, and vitamin D is involved in far more functions than previously thought.
Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D Deficiency
Some studies showed an association with fibromyalgia and vitamin D deficiency. This lead to the development of various clinical trials to test if increasing vitamin D levels lessened fibromyalgia symptoms.
Results varied but in the end researchers determined that increasing vitamin D levels did reduce fibromyalgia symptoms, but the reduction in symptoms was dose dependent.
Raising vitamin D blood levels to to 30 didn’t have much of and effect on fibromyalgia pain and other symptoms. Raising vitamin D blood levels to 50 did have a significant effect on reducing fibromyalgia pain and symptoms.
Unfortunately Western medical institutions have set a vitamin blood level of 30 as being acceptable. Fortunately some researchers are now recommending 50 for the minimum level.
Some researchers are even calling for 70 to be the ideal blood level for vitamin D. For more information read, What Should Your Vitamin D Hormone Level Be?
It is best to have your body produce its own vitamin D by getting adequate sun exposure daily. And remember darker skinned people need more sun exposure.
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Sources
[1] Fibromyalgia and related conditions.
[2] Effects of vitamin D on patients with fibromyalgia syndrome: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.
