Since vitamin D is synthesized from cholesterol, does the affected parent have lower than normal levels of cholesterol?
“Since vitamin D is synthesized from cholesterol, does the affected parent have lower than normal levels of cholesterol?”
Wow, I never even thought of that. My mother’s doctor in Nevada (she has since moved), talked with her and my dad, and told them that he had found that patients who were taking Zocor (the cholesterol drug), had had some improvement with their MS. The doctor told my dad that it may just be a fluke, but that most (or many) drugs are just created and then tested to see what they do, and that Zocor had been one of them, so he thought it was just a fluke, or that it could at least be. I have been reading about low fat diets for MS and apparently it’s supposed to help, and on one diet that had success (researched for 35 year, but not double blind, which is the only thing some people accept these days). That diet offered zero red meat for a year, and then only 3 oz on occasion thereafter, with only lean meats (white meat of poultry and white fish), being allowed, and only nonfat dairy.
Anyway, I know I didn’t answer your question, but hopefully I said something that matters.