Can the Sun Enable you to Prevent MS?

May 11, 2012 by VersieHessee

For the last few decades we have talked about little else aside from why you should stay away from sunlight. We’ve recognized exactly how real a risk skin cancer can be and are doing every little thing we can think of to prevent it from happening. We choose the highest SPF sunscreens we could find and then slather on layers and layers of it. We place big old floppy hats on our heads. We wear long pants and sleeves even during the hottest months of the year. We make an effort to stick to the shady areas-some people have even taken to carrying parasols around with them to keep the sun from ever making contact with their skin. Now we are beginning to realize that sunlight can in fact help us. Can you actually be helped by the sun?

A new study has been performed and it shows that people who allow some time in direct natural light aren’t as likely to get MS as the people who do everything they can to keep out of the sun. The study was originally conducted to discover how Vitamin D affects the progression of Multiple Sclerosis. It didn’t take much time for them to realize that it is the Vitamin D our bodies produce after exposure to sunlight that is at the center of the issue.

It’s been acknowledged for a very long time that Vitamin D and the sun’s rays can influence the way the immune system works and how it can contribute to Multiple Sclerosis. This study, however, deals chiefly with the effects of sunshine on the people who are just starting to experience the very earliest symptoms of the disease. The actual objective is to observe how sunlight and Vitamin D may affect the symptoms that are now known as “precursors” to the actual disease symptoms.

Unfortunately there are not really a lot of ways of really quantify the hypothesis of the study. The purpose of the study is to determine if sunlight can actually prevent the disease. Sadly, the only real way to know if this is true is to monitor a person over his or her entire life. This is the only way to effectively measure the previously existent levels of Vitamin D in a person’s blood before the symptoms of MS start to show themselves. As it appears right now, people with normal sun exposure seem to have fewer MS symptoms, specifically in the beginning, than those who live in darker and colder climates-but this was already widely known.

There is also the astonishingly significant problem of the fact that increased amounts of exposure to the sun increase your risk of getting skin cancer. So, in an attempt to stave off one disorder, you could be causing yourself to develop a different one. Of course, if you ever get skin cancer early on enough you are a lot more likely to cure it. MS even now has no cure.

So what should you do: risk skin cancer or risk MS? Ask a family doctor whether or not this is a good idea. Your health care provider will determine if you are in danger for the disease (and how much) by checking out your genetics, medical history and current health. This will help your doctor determine what the best thing for you to do is.

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