Nothing surprising here, just more evidence that stress induces a worsening of MS symptoms. For those of you who are rallying around the latest evidence suggesting that MS is not an autoimmune disease, digging around what the well-known effects of stress on the human body and endocrine system may reveal a gold mine...

"Sources of stress like marital problems and trouble at work may worsen the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a new study reports.

Writing in the online version of the British medical journal BMJ, researchers said that a review of 14 earlier studies had turned up a "consistent association" between stress and a new onset of symptoms...

Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system, is chronic, but the symptoms generally come and go for reasons that are not well understood. A review of the earlier studies, the BMJ report said, establishes that one reason appears to be stress. It called the association modest but significant."

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Another study that links extreme stress to the onset of Multiple Sclerosis. The way the study was formed was kind of interesting-- they theorized that if stress causes MS, it can't be your everyday stress because then everyone would have MS. So they looked only for events that were INCREDIBLY stressful, and the loss of a child was a perfect example. In fact, the unexpected loss of a child was more strongly correlated with developing MS than the expected, which is even stronger proof that stress does indeed have a role in MS.

"Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark found parents who had lost a child unexpectedly were 50% more likely to develop MS than parents who had not...

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