Oliver Gillie supports our campaign

“The scientific evidence tells us that insufficient vitamin D in pregnancy and early years is the cause of MS as well as other serious diseases. Shortage of vitamin D at other times of life causes heart disease, cancer as well as arthritis, raised blood pressure and stroke. MS could be largely prevented if pregnant and nursing mothers and children in Scotland were able to get more vitamin D. There isn’t enough sun or enough time when the sun is out to get all we need that way in Scotland. So it is logical to take a vitamin D supplement. Foods such as milk, orange juice and bread should be available with added vitamin D so people can choose to get their extra D that way if they want. But help is needed from the government to make all this easy for people.”

I wish this campaign every success, it is just what Scotland needs.”

OLIVER GILLIE

Oliver Gillie is a freelance medical researcher and writer. Formerly he was medical correspondent of The Sunday Times, then medical editor and later special correspondent of The Independent newspaper. He has a BSc and PhD degrees from Edinburgh University where he studied genetics and developmental biology under Professor C.H. Waddington at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh. He also undertook research at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, under Sir Peter Medawa

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