The Power Of Diet And Lifestyle: How I Beat Progressive MS

Multiple Sclerosis is a tough disease. It put me in a tilt/recline wheelchair at age 48. Yet I consider it one of the most profound gifts I have ever receive because that time in the wheelchair transformed how I thought about medicine and the type of medicine that I now practice.

...Finally, I understood that the best conventional medical care was not going to stop my slide into a bedridden and possibly demented life. Desperate to do something, to take some power back into my own hands, I decided that I should read the scientific papers from the labs that were studying the animal models of MS other diseases that also had slowly shrinking brains. The work was taxing, but eventually I found studies using vitamins and supplements to protect those mouse brains. Eager to try anything (because I had nothing to lose), I translated the mouse sized doses to human size ones. The speed of my decline slowed and I was grateful...