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CCSVI 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?

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What 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.

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To 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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Why is eating right considered “alternative” medicine?

For some reason, it is the accepted wisdom that “conventional” medicine consists of pills, injections, infusions and even surgery, while adhering to a restricted diet, exercising and meditation are “alternative” medicine. It’s funny that we are all attuned to the risks of “chemicals” ON our bodies, but give virtually no thought to the vast majority of substances we put INTO our bodies every day – our food.

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Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis: an idea, a book, a website

My book Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (http://overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org/book) tells the whole story of my recovery. But in short, I found hope, and probably in the unlikeliest of places.

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