New hope on autoimmune diseases: sunlight

It turns out that sunlight could be good for more than your mood. A story at American scientist Explore the assembly evidence that UV light could help treat autoimmune diseases such as MS, Crohn and rheumatoid arthritis – not just vitamin D, but by composing excessive immune reactions. Rowan Jacobsen’s play focuses in particular on Kathy Reagan Young, a woman from Virginia diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008. Young saw her symptoms improve considerably after daily sessions with a UV “light box”, a device the size of a radiator. His fatigue was up to his fatigue, his cerebral fog has risen and his score of activity of the MS disease affected the bottom of the rocks – in the right way – and stayed there for more than a year. The sessions last less than 10 minutes.

Scientists say that there can be more to this than coincidence. Private sun regions tend to see more autoimmune cases, and now researchers dig why. The molecules in the skin – such as urocanic acid and lumiterol – bring to respond to exposure to UVs so as to trigger immune effects throughout the body. It is early and the experts take care not to be too seller. “UV light therapy is promising”, is the way the researcher MS Annette Langer-Gould says it with caution. More important studies are necessary before anyone can call UV therapy a miracle solution. However, the results open up new doors for people who fight against the conditions that often leave them some good options. (Read the full story.)