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A decade-long study into treating multiple sclerosis has found lifestyle changes can slow its progression and in some cases remove the symptoms.

Melbourne researchers found that a low saturated fat, plant-based diet, exercise, sunlight exposure and relaxation techniques can improve the health of sufferers.

Study leader Professor George Jelinek says those lifestyle approaches, along with drug treatment, can improve quality of life for those with MS by 20 per cent.

He says the finding is quite a breakthrough.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/1693

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Here is the actual study, published in Neurological Sciences. These were participants in Dr. Jelinek's 5 day retreat who then went home and answered questionaires over an extended period, and had MSQOL and HRQOL evaluations.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/7534m81178534157/

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This may be more successful in rrms but it is a problem with ppms if u do not have the balance or energy. I have been to this retreat and did not find it helpful to me nor did the books he wrote. As he has rrms it is more centered around this. However u may be able to slow/halt disease progression if u are able to get in earlier enough.

Just my opinion.



Jam

Here's another study confirming the above information.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z2Sp2WFNIE

The study discusses sunlight's ability to unlock nitric oxide to widen the arteries.


I wonder if it widens the viens too. This would be helpful with folks with CCSVI.

Couldn't find that particular study, but found these two Review/Opinion papers with same author outlining the process in a bit more detail, makes you wonder what other processes are mediated by sunlight and UV exposure:
http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/con ... /1041.full
http://www.vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index. ... +June+2012

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Thanks for that story, Rogan---
The connection of UV rays to nitric oxide production has been known for awhile. It makes sense when we look at the vascular connection to MS/CCSVI. I got interested in all of this with my endothelial studies. And yes, the NO affects the veins as well as arteries--but it's always the arteries that are studied. Here's a section from a note I wrote up on Facebook a couple of years ago.



https://www.facebook.com/notes/ccsvi-in ... 8879427210

sunshine/UV rays are good things, and need to be studied in more depth-
cheer

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CCSVI in MS

A statistical study on subjective measurements. Yes eating well and using your body is good for you so why this study?

Cheerleader,

Thanks for the links back to your older posts and the information on the research of Nobel Prize winning researcher, Dr. Robert F. Furchgott. I had read your posts on nitric oxide's relationship to vasodilatation but many times I have to read things twice for it to sink in.

This is a huge connection to me. And yes I know that correlation is not causation, but whenever I mention to folks with loved ones with MS that MS may be a vascular issue in their neck and brain they always come back and site the very strong statistical evidence that MS is a disease related to Vitamin D deficiencies and Northern Latitudes. Every time I don't really have a good answer to that correlation.

Perhaps the above statistical correlation is exactly true but it not just a Vitamin D problem but a lack of UV light that causes some folks go over that point of manageable partial vascular stenosis to becoming a sick person with MS.

Sunlight helps to open up your veins. MS may be a vascular disease. MS is more commonly found in sunlight deficient areas. Sounds plausible to me.

Oh, and thank you for that link to SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. I knew Dr. Sclafani had worked there but I had no idea of the breathed of practical deep useful research happening there. It sounds like a wonderful research institution. You have no idea how much I respect medical researchers.

You and me, both, Rogan. It's these researchers, thinking outside the current paradigm, who are broadening our understanding of MS.

Here's a researcher who looked at UV rays and MS, using the EAE model. (Not my favorite model of the disease, but he learned some interesting things)--UV rays were able to suppress EAE, independent of vitamin D production.


https://www.facebook.com/notes/ccsvi-in ... 8879427210

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Husband dx RRMS 3/07
dx dual jugular vein stenosis (CCSVI) 4/09
dual stents placed 5/09
CCSVI in MS