Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• There are several different types of diets that are recommended for Multiple Sclerosis.  The 2 that we have found that appear to help the most are the MS Recovery Diet and The Best Bet Diet, although there is some controversy, depending on who you talk to as far as which diet helps the most.

• Dietary changes do make a difference with Multiple Sclerosis, but it doesn't appear that one particular diet helps everyone who has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. It appears that the MS diet changes that do help can depend on what other problems you are experiencing with you particular case of Multiple Sclerosis (as in it depends if you have problems detoxifying where the liver or kidneys are not working as well, or if you have problems with your thyroid or adrenal glands being under active, as examples).

• Cutting out saturated or trans fats (often called hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, that are in many processed foods). This does helps to take the stress off of the digestive system and help the body to start to recover from the effects of Multiple Sclerosis, as well as help to start to reduce the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

•  Add in the healthier fats to your diet (or unsaturated fats, which are liquid at room temperature), including extra virgin olive oil, safflower oil, nut and seed oils (like almond, walnut, sesame seed oils).

• In addition, we have found that adding extra virgin coconut oil to hot food or using this oil to cook with, helps to aid the body in digesting the other fats that are eaten and ease the burden on the digestive tract.

• We also recommend that initially that you cut out butter, cheese and other dairy products, during the initial healing phase, to ease the burden and the stress on the digestive track and to free up more of your body's energies to speed up the healing process.  If your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis are severe enough, we would suggest to continue following this recommendation for at least the first 2 to 3 years of initiating the dietary changes for Multiple Sclerosis.
  

• Also adding taking the supplements of Evening Oil Primrose and vitamin E does show benefits in the long run for those with Multiple Sclerosis.

• We hope that this helps you with getting started on your quest to recovering from the often devastating effects that Multiple Sclerosis can cause.

• Nerves can be stimulated to redevelop neural pathways by stimulating the muscles that are connected to the nerves that are being targeted for restoring function to specific parts of the body. 

• Intense Physical therapy helps to redevelop neural pathways throughout the body. It depends how the exercises are done and which type of exercises are chosen and how they are administered for being able to target the desired part of the body.

• Other Exercises can be done at home, if physical therapy is  not available to you or if it is too expensive for you to afford.  As long as you start somewhere with doing whatever exercises you can do and do them consistently, you will gain the benefits of exercising.

• Gradually adding more types of exercises, as your body starts to function better, can help to improve more and more of the parts of the body that haven't been able to function very well because of the effects of Multiple Sclerosis on your body.

• Other exercises can include Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga and others, in addition stretching, strengthening, increasing balance, increasing stamina can be done using things such as a balance ball, a rebounder, stretch bands, small hand and/or ankle weights, an exercise bike, step exercises (practice stepping up and down a step, pushing, pulling or picking up smaller objects like cans of fruit or cans of vegetables, pushing a box with a few cans in it across a table or going up and down a small hill (it may be possible for you to do this a little, even if you are in a wheelchair, if you build up to it).

• Stress can aggravate MS attacks causing more relapses, exacerbations and attacks.  Stress can cause more frequent and severe attacks to occur.

• Several ways are very helpful in reducing internal stress levels including:

• breath therapy (or yoga breathing) -- helps calm down the nervous system to some degree unless extreme stress is being experienced, then more drastic measures are needed to be effective.

• traditional meditation -- this requires spend large amounts of time (possibly even years) to learn the techniques for this method to be effective.

• tone therapy/meditation -- this requires much less time  to learn or to do; this is the method that I personally use that has helped reduce my stress levels greatly. If you  are interested in learning more, click on the link:  ms stress reduction through meditation **

• Detoxifying the body is very important for those of us diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

•  Toxins can include anything our bodies can't tolerate and that our body can't tolerate (including: food additives, food colors, allergens of all kinds (pollen, dust, food allergies) and others.

• Chemical toxins can include metals and other chemicals  (added to foods, antiperspirants, shampoos, hair care products, toothpaste, after-shaves, perfumes, beauty products, cleaners, cosmetics (makeups), carpet and other building materials, printer ink, etc.) and others.

• Chemicals given off by newer building materials (carpeting, dry-wall, curtains, upholstery, fabrics on furniture, glues, dyes, paints, shackling, etc.)
  

• Environmental toxins in general are also a problem (these include: off gases and other chemicals from manufacturing plants, computers, printers, copiers, from chemical industries such as: paper production, production of cleaners, etc.)

• Mercury contamination -- mercury is known to attack and damage nerves when the levels that accumulate in our bodies becomes too high when we are not eliminating toxins well from our bodies by natural body functions working as they should (possible mercury sources include:

•  dietary sources (shellfish, tuna fish, majority of fish that eat the bottom feeders, bottom feeders like shrimp, flounder, shark, tile fish, cat fish, etc.)

• coal burning power plants

• products using mercury to manufacture them (some "energy efficient" light bulbs, some electronic parts made in China, dental amalgams (silver colored fillings in teeth), certain types of switches, etc.

• Yoga can help those of us with Multiple Sclerosis to reduce spasticity, reduce tightness of muscles, including other benefits.

• Yoga can help to exercise the muscles to prevent atrophy, along with increasing MS fatigue, like some other forms of exercise can do.

• Yoga helps to increase stamina, balance and flexibility, along with reducing stress through yoga breathing and meditation.

• This means that we do earn a small referral fee, when others click through these links and purchase at the site that these links take others to. We only refer people to ways, methods, techiniques, products or services, that we have tried or are now using -- only if we find that they work for helping to reduce or reverse the symptoms or effects of Multiple Sclerosis or for whatever we are describing that these techniques help with doing.

•   We are letting you know about these methods, products or services as an added service to you, to help you gain the benefits of what we have found has helped us with reducing the effects of Multiple Sclerosis during our own battles against the effects of Multiple Sclerosis that we have also experienced. Our hope is that you will also find relief to the symptoms and effects of Multiple Sclerosis that you have also been battling against tohelp you regain more of what Multiple Sclerosis has taken away from you for a period of time.