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[I224]Incidence Of Multiple Sclerosis

by Groshan Fabiola, Gro

Although no diet can compete with existing medication treatments for multiple sclerosis in terms of curative effects, a special regime can help alleviate existing symptoms by controlling a series of biological and chemical processes inside the body. Recent research has revealed the fact that nutrition plays a major role in multiple sclerosis; while an inappropriate diet can amplify the autoimmune response of the body, determining an acceleration in the process of demyelization (destruction of myelin ? protein which covers the body nerve cells, enabling the communication between the central nervous system and peripheral nerves), a proper diet can reduce the intensity and frequency of multiple sclerosis symptoms by regulating a series of processes at the level of the immune system.

Considering the fact that nutritional factors play major roles in the progression of multiple sclerosis, patients diagnosed with the autoimmune disease should ask for the advice of their physician or nutritionist in order to establish an adequate, special curative regime. The regime should contain foods that can help the body suppress the autoimmune response and exclude foods which have been identified to generate autoimmune reactions.

Persons with multiple sclerosis are advised to include in their special food regime nutrients such as vitamin D and omega-3 essential oil. Vitamin D can be found in vegetables and fruits, as well as dairy products and certain meats (be cautious though, as some fatty dairy products and meats can generate autoimmune reactions), while omega-3 essential oils can be found in fish meats (salmon and mackerel in particular) and flax (it is best to use refined flax oil).

Vitamin D and omega-3 essential oils can also be purchased under the form of pharmaceutical nutritional supplements. In order to obtain the best curative effects, patients with multiple sclerosis should ensure that their body receives between 4000-5000 IU of vitamin D each day and several milligrams of omega-3 essential oil every week (the required amount of the nutrient can be ingested by including fish in the regular diet ? three or four meals of fish every week are sufficient ? or by taking a capsule of omega-3 essential oil each day).

The foods that should be excluded from the special multiple sclerosis diet are fat-rich dairy products, grain products (wheat, barley, oats and rye) and dried beans. Some animal fats, as well as omega-6 essential fatty acids (contained by regular vegetal cooking oil) have also been identified to trigger autoimmune reactions in patients with multiple sclerosis and thus should be excluded from one's diet. It is advisable to replace regular cooking oil with olive oil - which contains monosaturated fat ? and fatty meats (especially red meat) with lean chicken meat and fish.

The other day I read about multiple sclerosis. They describe this disease as incurable. Fact is that MS had been unknown until about the middle of the nineteenth century. Around that time, the French neurologist Charcot discovered the symptoms first. Interestingly enough this disease has been diagnosed always more often since then and this development is unstopped. Today MS belongs to the fastest growing neurological diseases.

Of course, that causes questions to come up.

1. How come that the symptoms where rare at that time and even unknown before?

2. What had changed in those days?

3. What can one do about it?

Let's talk about the third question. Information available on the web gives over and over the same answer to it: nothing, except giving some medicine. However, these medicines appear to do nothing else but to relieve patients from their pain and even that only to limited extent.

Another question: What causes the symptoms at all? The answer is that medical science has no answer to it until today. There are many assumptions. The latest among them is that something destroys the myelin sheath surrounding the axon of neurons. Good to know, but what does it help? Nothing at all.

Then I stumbled over a website on MS treatment of the health and nutrition expert G. Joel Ullisperger, M.S. He says that the German physician Dr. Joseph Evers healed about 12.000 MS patients between 1940 and 1975. That is exciting and sounds compelling, doesn't it?

Now some critics could say, prove would be missing. If Doctor Evers would have been a medical doctor with a simple practice, I could feel inclined to agree. However, Evers had a clinic where he exclusively treated MS patients and he was famous nationwide for his success. This doctor got even people out of their wheelchair.

So what did he actually do to help so many people? He changed their diet. Among others, he eliminated all industrially produced food. Of course, there are a lot more elements to consider and to change than just such food, says Joel Ullisperger.

Unfortunately, it appears as if this chance to cure or better said, get patients free of MS symptoms is kept secret; maybe even purposefully. National MS societies who are supposed to be the spokespersons of MS patients and whose first goal should be to make an effective solution available are uninterested in cooperating, as Ullisperger had to find out sadly.

The worst of all is he says that even if people get to know this unique chance and read of an even improved, still more effective approach, they seem to have a hard time to give it a try. One reason is that people, even if they suffer from cancer, try to avoid changing their beloved way to eat. More likely is they are so manipulated, so negatively conditioned by the misinformation of mass media to this "no cure possible" that they simply resigned, says Joel Ullisperger.

I tell you what:
If I had a disease that made my life miserable, I would do all and everything to get better. If that would only mean a simple change of my diet, I would jump and start right away especially if I had a specialist who tells me exactly how and why to do it.

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