You have all reasons to find yourself blessed if you are staying in a regions flooded with lots of sunshine throughout the day — not only a natural source of light and energy, but also ‘health’.
Besides a healing touch for osteoporosis, the sun may also help prevent multiple sclerosis – the nervous system disease that affects one’s brain and spinal cord. If you are suffering from this irritating disease, try to spend a great deal of time outdoors.
With women being its predominant victims, especially of age groups between 20 and 40, it is still not known what leads to its cause.
Though the central nervous system-attacking disease has no cure till date, medicines to slow it down do exist.
Besides, the prevailing physical and occupational therapy being practiced to keep the symptoms under control, the sunlight can also be of great and effective help.
It is to the extent that sun-tanning lowers ‘multiple sclerosis risks’ by 49 percent. This sounds quite effective!
Yes, exposure to ultra violet rays may help protect against multiple sclerosis by alternative mechanisms, like –
* By directly altering the cellular immune response,
* By indirectly by producing immunoactive vitamin D
Since, there are no real preventive measures for the largely hereditary disease, get your dear one suffering from multiple sclerosis exposed to the sunlight, a privilege for ones living in the tropical zones.
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