Vitamin A
Vitamin
A
Saga
by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD
Cod Liver Oil Basics
Weston A. Price Foundation
Vitamin
A
on Trial: Does Vitamin A Cause Osteoporosis?
by Chris Masterjohn
Vitamin A will not work properly without vitamin D. Also, Vitamin D is
necessary to prevent Vitamin A toxicity.
Environmental Illness
Vitamin A deficiency and disruption is an important element of environmental illness. Both articles mention pre-existing vitamin A defects as a risk factor.
Perilous
Pathways:
Environmental Chemicals and Environmental Illness: A Major Role for
Vitamin A
by Frederick W. Plapp, Jr. PhD
Connects autoimmune illness and environmental illness with genetic
difficulties in synthesizing vitamin A. Describes how pesticides,
dioxins, and PCBs poison the enzymes that synthesize vitamin A and the
carrier protein that transports it.
Is
Autism a G-Alpha Protein Defect Reversible with Natural Vitamin A?
(PDF)
by Mary N. Megson, MD
The combination of gluten damage to intestinal microvillae, measles
virus, pertussis toxin, and synthetic vitamin A (palmitate) affects
the metabolic pathways modulated by G alpha protein. This affects
vision, sensory perception, language processing, and attention. In
case studies, autistic children dramatically improved with cod liver
oil (natural vitamin A), a gluten-free diet, and/or an additional
neurological drug. The biochemistry is also relevant to chronic
fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, and gluten
enteropathy (celiac disease), among others.
Open Questions
Can damage to vitamin A metabolism by environmental chemicals be reversed?
Updated 7/26/2010