[ThePythonicCow]

There is a more accessible explanation of all this at a site called Bacteriality.com, prepared by a young lady named Amy Proal. See for example the article Why the Marshall Protocol makes sense, posted Nov 28, 2007.

She does a good job of explaining these new insights into how our immune systems work, why recent evidence suggests that many chronic diseases have a bacterial cause, and how the Marshall Protocol works.

Admittedly, beginning with the very title of her article, she does little to persuade those who dismiss all this as "Marshall worship."

That's tough.

[devere]

Since a minor amount of summer sun exposure generates 10,000 IU of Vitamin D in the skin, Dr. Marshall and his supporters need to explain clearly how much smaller amounts of Vitamin D in the diet can have a pathological effect. The assertion seems counter-intuitive. Is there a clear theory why cholecalciferol generated in the skin by sunlight has a different physiological effect than that ingested through the digestive tract?

[Quix]

Thanks much.

I hope all your prayer concerns are . . . as you wish and need them to be.

Blessings,

[Joya]

Post 51 marker.

Vit D marker.

[Joya]

Thanks for post #51.

Note to self, links to bacteriality.com and to Marshall Protocol.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Yet these researchers still remain completely unaware of the molecular models showing that high levels of the precursor form of vitamin D (25-D) obtained from supplements and excess sun exposure (which is an immunosuppressive secosteroid) thwarts the entire transcription process."

But again, this doesn't argue for not supplementing vitamin D up to normal levels--it argues against OVER supplementation. We humans don't get anywhere close to the sun exposure that our progenitors did. After all, they evolved where the sun's intensity was high, and were exposed to it all throughout the daylight hours. The need to get more Vitamin D was probably the driving force for the loss of melanin among those Africans who migrated away from the tropics eons ago. But we Caucasians today don't begin to approach the sun exposure that our ancestors had, even if we live at lower latitudes, because we have a much more "indoor" lifestyle.

I have no doubt that bacteria can indeed explain much chronic illness, but it's painting with a GIGANTIC brush to claim it can account for all of it.

[Joya]

Post #51

OK, here it is, Pythonic Cow posted info on the

MARSHALL PROTOCOL

which helps people with all kinds of autoimmune disease.

See post #51.