MS Diet
After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and then the ensuing spine and brain MRI scans – my life changed.
Initially I was grateful – I now knew what was wrong – but after the prognosis, the treatment prescribed by the neurologist really sucked!
With the symptoms no better after a month of Rebif subcutaneous injections – tingling, numbness, bad balance and tiredness, I decided on a dietary approach to combat the effects and possibly cure multiple sclerosis 
There have been numerous articles on the Internet where it has been reported that a change in diet was beneficial – e.g. The Swank Diet – helps reduce symptoms. Then there are some diets that supposedly eliminate relapses in Relapsing/Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS).
So desperate and frustrated I bought a copy of Mark Anastasi’s “Multiple Sclerosis Breakthrough”. What a waste of $47 dollars!
This ebook was filled with nothing but common sense. The extras? Crap! Don’t buy it – Google will serve you better.
Peeved, I hit Yahoo and Google and found some substance and numerous referrals to another ebook – “The MS Recovery Diet“. So I paid some more dollars ($16.95) and at least it has given me some valuable and usable tips that I now use to control and test the foodstuffs I eat.
With MS, finding healthy food has become a nightmare in its own right.
Just avoiding foodstuffs containing preservatives, additives, flavorings and those crypto numbers like 200,202,220 etc cuts your possible shopping list options down by 75%
Some things are easy to cut out aspartame - good bye Coca Cola! As part of trying to find out what triggers my MS relapse, I had a Coke. About an hour later I had a sudden increase in the MS tingling!
Avoid aspartame – avoid Coca Cola ;-(
The MS Recovery Diet also mentions dairy as a trigger. So far I’ve found that cheddar cheese and yogurt is no longer on my shopping list. However plain white cheese seems fine. As for organic milk – well the jury is still out on that one. Probably know by the end of the week.
So far the only safe – multiple sclerosis friendly – food seems to be fish. I’ve been told that swordfish should be avoided because it is high in mercury? Don’t know about that but then I wouldn’t know where to get swordfish anyway! Stick to the standard tuna, salmon etc.
Where does shellfish fit in? Oysters, muscles etc.
I found this site that has a mercury calculator.
Wheat has a bad side too in the journal article “Cereal Grains: Humanity’s double edge sword“. Problem with this is that pretty much everything on the food shelfs down here in Australia has wheat or a derived ingredient. Difficult one.
Step by step, I think it is possible to find a “completely natural diet” that not only halts the progression of the MS disease but rebuilds the myelin layer and repairs the central nervous system (CNS).
“Let medicine be your food and food be your medicine” – Hippocrates (460-377BC)
Well I hope so
