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Vitamin D can help fight MS by blocking destructive cells

Vitamin D may be able to help combat multiple sclerosis (MS), scientists have announced.

MS is more commonly found the further you get from the equator, as there is much less sunshine to trigger production of vitamin D in the skin.

The disease is caused by the body’s own immune defences damaging myelin. This is a fatty insulating sheath that surrounds nerve fibres and is vital to the proper transmission of nerve signals.

Destruction of myelin leads to symptoms ranging from numbness to blurred vision and paralysis.