Multiple Sclerosis Can Be Helped Naturally

Sat. Oct. 8, 2011 by Blanche Scharf

(NaturalHealth365) What is MS and how to treat it are intriguing questions. If you trust the medical model, the treatments will make sense to you. However, just like any of the other so called chronic conditions get ready for one drug after another. So the treatments of choice will be pharmaceuticals. For Multiple Sclerosis this means a healthy pharmaceutical industry, and a disabled patient.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and often disabling condition, which attacks the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Symptoms may be mild or severe, and come or go. The current thinking is that MS is a chronic and disabling condition.

According to Web MD, multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are those whereby the body’s immune systems which normally targets and attacks substances foreign to the body such as bacteria, mistakenly attacks normal tissue. In MS, the immune system is attacking components of the central nervous system such as the brain and spinal cord along with the optic nerves.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a medical mystery with a few theories on how it originates. It isn’t always easy to diagnose since symptoms can be very mild and transient. When it is diagnosed the medical options are symptom relief. This condition like many others is a puzzle to the medical community.

Medical Treatment

Treating MS follows the trend in allopathic medicine, which is using a wide variety of medications to reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms. When one medication stops working they go on to the next one.

The strategy is to modify the course of the disease (slow it down) by treating exacerbations, (flare-ups) manage symptoms and improve function. These treatments are symptom control in an effort to enhance the quality of life for MS patients.

The drugs such as Avonex®, Betaseron®, Copaxone®, Extavia®, Gilenya®, Rebif®, and Novatron® come with the hopes that they can reduce disease activity and progression.

The list of possible side effects: depression, anemia, liver abnormalities, allergic reaction, flu like symptoms, anxiety, palpitations, and even chest pains. Some are short lived side effects, and some aren’t common ones. The real problem is the longer you are on them and the more combinations you take the bigger the danger. The documented effectiveness of each of these drugs can vary.

Real Help

Research shows that living closer to the equator reduces MS risk. This fits in with research that suggests vitamin D from sun exposure may be protective against MS. This suggests that vitamin deficiencies may play a part in this condition.

The one non-existent treatment in the medical and pharmaceutical models is diet. This has the most proof as a way to both relieve and reverse most of the symptoms. There has been a lack of monitoring diet by the medical community, not just because of ignorance and arrogance, but because this condition can abate and relapse on its own.

Diet Connection

However, autoimmune conditions on the whole are responsive to diet. Multiple sclerosis responds to both diet and an exercise programs. The relief from diet and different exercise programs has been chronicled.
In 1948, Dr. Roy Swank created the first known MS diet. This diet is high in vegetables, fruits and nuts while eliminating saturated fats.

There are thousands of patients that went into remission, and had lesions that decreased in size. The type of exercise is usually light: incorporating yoga and stretching exercises. This helps muscles flexibility and will lessen the chance of becoming stiff or developing atrophy.

At the very least this will help keep the condition in check. There are other diets that include gluten and casein free ones. Flavonoids seem to offer some help and so does food allergy testing.

The burning question: can you afford to outsource your care. The notion that drug safety is a safe bet is fading. For quality care you have to be part of the team.

about the author Blanche has been a student of natural healing modalities for the last 25 years. She had the privilege of working with some of the greatest minds in Natural Healing including Naturopaths, Scientist, and Energy Healers. Having seen people miraculously heal from all kinds of dis-ease through non-invasive methods, her passion now is to help people become aware of what it takes to be healthy.