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I've read in a couple of places that some of the MS diets eliminate yeast. What's the thinking behind this? My wife and I are brewers and beer aficionados, and eliminating yeast would be a sacrifice for us. I found this article ( http://nutritioninstitute.com/?page_id=169 ), but the way the author t...

jimmylegs, thanks for that link to all the causes of B12 deficiency. Nothing really jumps out. We eat well, not vegetarian, and she's not on any medications (except for birth control). She hasn't had any stomach discomfort but I suppose that there could be a problem with gut microbiology unknown to ...

she eats plenty of meat -- that can't explain the low B12 level. She doesn't have the enlarged blood cells that usually indicate pernicious anemia.

thanks jimmylegs!

I'm looking through Lauren's blood test results, and I'm not finding results for vitamin D, uric acid, magnesium, or zinc. Do you think the test she got just doesn't test for those? It's frustrating.

Specifically, her B12 level is 157, whereas the reference range is 200-1100 pg/mL.

Hi everybody -- My wife has just been diagnosed with CIS today. She has four small demyelination lesions on the brain. One thing that jumped out on her blood test is that her B12 numbers are below the low-normal level. Our neuro is recommending that we start copaxone or one of the beta interferons. ...