Many people with chronic illnesses such as scleroderma who also have very low levels of vitamin D may be…
Wendy Henderson
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Articles by Wendy Henderson
How Does Our Skin Make Vitamin D?
It’s thought that about 80% of scleroderma patients have a vitamin D deficiency. Because vitamin D can help with…
Hard Life, Hard Skin: A Scleroderma Documentary
Scleroderma is a rare but chronic autoimmune disease where the body over-produces collagen. This extra collagen makes the skin…
Morphea Stories: Shannie’s Hope
In this video from Grace Sherry shared in 2013, we get to meet Shannie Carnline.  Shannie is a 16-year-old…
Life with Scleroderma: Dawn’s Determination
Scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease, occurs when the body creates too much collagen which causes connective tissues in the skin and internal…
7 Benefits of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin” mostly because we can get it naturally when the sun’s UV rays interact with…
Project Scleroderma: Beneath the Surface
There are approximately 2.5 million people in the world who have scleroderma — around 300,000 in the U.S. alone. …
7 Facts About Scleroderma-related PAH
Scleroderma (SSc) is a rare but progressive autoimmune disease that mainly affects women between the ages of 20 and 50,…
Scleroderma from Diagnosis to Symptoms
With scleroderma, connective tissues in the body’s major organs become thickened due to an overproduction of collagen.  Scleroderma most noticeably affects…
Scleroderma is a chronic autoimmune disease that can attack various organs of the body. Many patients with scleroderma have…