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FYI: A new article is on the bacteriality site that poses some hypothesis on why women are more susceptible to autoimmune disease.
http://bacteriality.com/2008/03/09/cognitive-dysfunction/
Michele
Interesting that they found yet another 'conversion site' but as she says in the article…
The team also tested whether the endometrium is a site where 25-D – the secosteroid precursor form of vitamin D – can be energetically converted to 1,25-D (the active form of the substance). The team found that the endometrium does indeed ?represent a site of local conversion from the precursor to the active form? of vitamin D, and that levels of 1,25-D produced in this manner were similar to those detected in other areas of the body except for the kidneys, where conversion occurs at an even greater rate.
She's only talking about downtream. If you follow those hormones back upstream, you get to the HPA Axis where all hormone regulation takes place. When men are affected, IMHO, it's more likely adrenal or pancreatis pathways.
Pip
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