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My wife is 44 year old. She had symptoms of MS from 5 years but we were late in detecting that it's MS. We found out that it's MS in 2011 November. She has been using Avonex from 2011 November. In the beginning, She became better but then Symptoms became getting worse again... These days, She has double vision, Trouble with walking, Weakness and few other symptoms.... and they're getting worse. How is Avonex working for everyone? Should She continue using Avonex or switch to some other medicine? Any suggestions on what we should do?

Drugs are not the answer. There is no majic pill. She should switch to the paleo diet and her symptoms will go away. As with Roger MacDougall it doesn't happen overnight. The body will heal itself when you give it the vitamins and minerals it needs and those ingredients are in the fruits and vegetables.

http://www.direct-ms.org/rogermcdougall.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJyQTTZr ... _embedded#!

Hi pavuluri,

You might want to read this thread. general-discussion-f1/topic21861.html#p206105 I don't quite understand what is going on there yet, but perhaps acth is something that might help your wife.

What has her neuro prescribed her other than avonex? Any diet plan or physical therapy?

Here is a chart I previously posted. Hopefully it helps you with your decision. Although, different medicines seem to work better for some regardless of the efficacy rates. Good luck! Sam

Neuro suggested tysabri but we decided to wait for 6 months before moving to a drug that risk. Currently she isn't following any special diet or physical therapy. can you please suggest any diet?

That is great information. Thank you.

There are many MS related Diet websites - direct-ms, ms recovery diet, Dr. Terry Wahls, Swank Diet to name a few. In a nutshell eliminate dairy, gluten, most saturated fats and red meats, highly processed foods, high sugar. Eat lots of greens, seafood, nuts and berries.

unpacking the nutshell

example: best bet diet


OR figure out why your system might be overreacting to foods and fix it. i had had no dairy products for YEARS before ms dx and i still got it. my system was just broken with or without dairy. what these recommendations do, uniformly, is allow your body to redirect zinc intake to immune function vs dairy, gluten and phytate digestion.


OR figure out why your system might be overreacting to foods and fix it. there is a very strong correlation between leaky gut and zinc status. actually, zinc is critical to the integrity of all kinds of body membranes, not just the intestines.


this is one instruction i can get a little more on board with.. note the zinc connection with glucose handling.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ELIMINATE CATEGORY DOES NOT CONTAIN RED MEAT



these i can definitely see. but red meat once a week is far from eliminating it. good nutrition in there to balance out what is found in other meats. grass fed organic beef is my choice - or as close as i can get to that anyway local farm raised, not certified organic, and grass munchers augmented with standard feed. i'll take it over grocery store beef when i can!



INCREASE GAME MEAT yay venison so very very red tasty and nutritious

totally agree re dumping processed foods. i consider them overseasoned junk food.

love greens and veggies, seafood, nuts, seeds, berries, all so yum!!!

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my approach: no meds so far - just balanced whole foods (partial 'paleo', much less outright elimination), science, supplements, & bloodwork
my regimen - www.thisisms.com/ftopict-2489.html
www.whfoods.com, www.nutritiondata.com

Generally, none of the MS drugs are intended or able to stop MS symptoms. They stop the progression of the disease.

I was on Avonex but continued to get new lesions on MRIs. My neuro switched me to Tysabri, and no new lesions have happened since I started it. That doesn't mean I have no symptoms, however.

That was very helpful. We will start the diet right away. Thank you.

i was typing something earlier today related to this subject, ie in this thread, related to ensuring proper nutrient status to avoid food sensitivities, rather than avoid food sources of nutrients IN CASE of potential 'allergic' reaction, and in the other thread, related to zinc status and consumption of certain foods (highlighting dairy).

regimens-f22/topic2489-525.html#p207253
"....adding this to the pile on zinc depletion from imbalanced dairy intake (won't stop me enjoying cream in my coffee but it's good to know.. esp given the ice cream sundae bonanza i recently enjoyed to celebrate my bday.. extra zinc here i come!):
Binding of zinc to casein.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/35/5/981.short
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/35/5/981.full.pdf ..."

the take home message is don't baby a broken system, fix it. ideally, ensure basic zinc nutrition and measure status to be certain it is fixed. you don't need to totally eradicate gluten dairy phytates coffee sugar etc but these things do need to be properly managed so as to maintain optimal zinc balance.

dietary measures are okay as a day to day approach, but may take a very long time to redress longer term depletion situations. in such cases therapeutic supplementation may be of value.

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my approach: no meds so far - just balanced whole foods (partial 'paleo', much less outright elimination), science, supplements, & bloodwork
my regimen - www.thisisms.com/ftopict-2489.html
www.whfoods.com, www.nutritiondata.com