Enough sleep is key for beating multiple sclerosis for lots of reasons. It also helps you look like a million dollars
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Sleeping enough is key to beating multiple sclerosis — especially in the winter months
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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Who is pulling your strings?
Dramatic improvements in MS from lifestyle change don’t make headlines!
Why is it that a new drug therapy, usually purporting only to slow down the progress of MS makes headlines, yet Prof Jelinek’s lifestyle approach as studied at the Gawler Foundation, which has been shown to improve the health of people with MS significantly, does not?
To beat MS, avoid viral and bacterial infections
The research is clear. Both viral and bacterial infections can make MS worse and trigger relapses. Some frequently ignored ways of avoiding infections can and should be used. Even dental care matters.
...Read more / leave a commentInstitute of Medicine’s recommendations about vitamin D intake alarmist and unhelpful
A report published in the New York Times on November 29, 2010 has created undue alarm amongst people taking vitamin D supplements.
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Beating MS may sometimes require being smarter than your doctor
As part of being your own best advocate, planning a periodic checkup checklist is a good idea because it can help you increase your wellness. Identifying what laboratory tests can help stay on the path to wellness is a good idea.
...Read more / leave a commentProfessor Jelinek reviews Judy Graham’s new book: Managing Multiple Sclerosis Naturally
I wonder how many lives Judy Graham has touched in her 36 years of having MS
...Read more / leave a commentCCSVI not enough on its own: diet and supplements vital too
Treatment for CCSVI on its own is not enough to treat MS. You also need to change your diet, take supplements and make other changes to your lifestyle. This is a lifelong thing
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Can diet & supplements reduce CCSVI severity?
Can dietary intervention reduce the severity of CCSVI? If you eat the right diet and take the right supplements can this impact not just on the central nervous system, but also the vascular system?
...Read more / leave a commentWhat are we to make of CCSVI?
With contradictory research findings, and a variety of conflicts of interest, teasing out the real role of CCSVI in MS is difficult.
...Read more / leave a commentTo beat multiple sclerosis forget about grieving and be determined
Ever since, Dr, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote about the five stages of grieving (denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance), well-meaning advice givers have been advising those with multiple sclerosis (MS) to take time to grieve and to learn to cope with what is certain to be a difficult future ahead. If you have received this advice and are frightened half to death, it is helpful to remember there is plenty of hard evidence that this well-meaning advice is the worst advice any newly diagnosed person can get. Even if you have had MS for years, as I have, this advice is lousy.
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