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Third Point: Learning Doctor Speak The examples above are parts of opening descriptions of MS from medical journal articles written by MS researchers. Clearly in order to understand what they say one needs to understand some of the more technical language of MS and medical research. I bought a copy...

Second Point: Separating “is” from “likely” If you go to the Medicinenet website, you’ll find that a number of the words in the definition are further defined with hyperlinks. I have not included all the hyperlinks because it’s a lot more work to write a post with lots of links in it. What I liked ...

In trying to explore various issues relating to supplements, I realized that I needed a more detailed understanding of just how exactly MS works and demyelination comes to be. So this is a thread that is strictly for trying to understand what is known and unknown about how the disease process happen...

Here's a journal article about vitamin c that I'm trying to read. About 1/3 of the way into the article it says this in reference to cancer: Cancer Vitamin C may protect against cancer through several mechanisms in addition to inhibition of DNA oxidation. One potential mechanism is chemoprotection a...

I'm interested in comparing a number of published regimens to see how they compare and contrast and then study the differences. Meaning, I'm looking for ones that are "publicly out there" and have had a good bit of public scrutiny. I've identified 3 so far: The one in the Allen Bowling boo...

I hate to admit it, but I know something about getting a nonprofit organization started - a lot more than I know about MS, unfortunately. The IRS is the entity that grants NPO status and they have, as you would expect an IRS-like process that is not simple. Here's some links to the IRS info about be...

I’ve seen a lot of posts about Turmeric and the entire topic is very interesting to me. Although I admit to being something of a supplement junkie, I do like to have a good idea about why I’m taking something and whether the basis for taking it is reasonable. So I’ve been working on a “layman’s” rev...