Study--shows more red-heads have MS

[RedFlame]

I'm interested in what everyone thinks about this:

New studies indicate a significant increase in some diseases among women with red hair.  One study found that multiple sclerosis may be more common in red-headed women, but similar association was not found for men with red hair. Woman with red hair are also more likely to have endometriosis compared to infertile women of other hair colors, have a higher incidence of melanoma and have more complications after surgery.  Red heads require more medicine to be anesthetized and have a lower pain tolerance for thermal type of pain.  


I found this interesting as I have managed to have had endometriosis that resulted in an early hysterectomy (32) and complications from one surgery (infection).  I have also required much more sedation when undergoing procedures.  It will be interesting to see what the future holds.  Here are a couple of links:


Read more at Suite101: Red Hair - What Medical Research Says about It: Hair Color May Affect Your Pain Tolerance and Cancer Risk http://healthcare-

research.suite101.com/article.cfm/red_hair_what_medical_research_says_about_it#ixzz0qYLP8SnS
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/8/583

http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/kim-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms/red-hair-and-ms/

Any red-heads here with MS?

[Tina0987]

I've been thinking about this - especially after seeing the fair haired people around me looking at little off at time lately. Interesting your point about less tolerance to thermal.

My theory is that we are more impacted by everyday electrical sources - or rather their by-product dirty electricity, possible EMFs from towers, cell phones, microwaves etc. because of our fair skin.

I guess I basically get red face when I sit too close to my computer monitor on too bright a setting, etc. I can literally feel a burning sensation from some monitors when too large.

So we don't have the protection from the harm of this things like others have - the same way we are more likely to get burned from the sun.

If you can find it, there are references to Lyme doctors not treating patients until they clean their environments of these sources of dirty electricity, etc.

I think MS, diabetes, RA can all have electrical exposures as causal factors and seems like there is a lot of symptom overlap or combos out there - like a little MS and RA at once.

That is my theory that I've been wondering about.

Also, MS is more common in northern latitudes.

Definitely vit D matters - but in northern latitudes we have more dark days of winter and electricity use also.