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We asked my husband's neurologist about cord blood banking a few years ago, when I was pregnant with our son. The doctor clearly thought we were kind of crazy for considering it (which may say more about the doctor than about the actual usefulness of cord blood banking). We eventually decided agains...

If you're gluten-free, but not legume free, you might try Dr. Schars gluten-free rolls (google for places to buy online). You'll have to toast them, but we liked them OK for sandwiches and burgers. They do contain a legume though, so they're not for Best Bet Dieters. This brand is handy because the ...

Well, it may be a little late for this year, but how about dill?

I use dill on baked salmon (or any other fish), potato salad, chicken salad, and refrigerator dill pickles.

--Mamacita
http://multiplesclerosisrecipes.blogspot.com/

My husband only tests his D levels once or twice a year when he goes in to see one of his doctors. He takes 5000 IU/day, and he's usually at around 50ng/ml. That's about 125nanomoles/liter, I think. We're going to try to creep him up a little higher though. --Mamacita http://multiplesclerosisrecipes...

No idea if this will apply for you. However, my husband was having vision problems a ways back, and they seemed to get worse in the middle of the day and the evening. We began to wonder if it was connected either to working in front of an older computer monitor or simply just a sensitivity to sunlig...

Very neat. Maybe we'll load up my husband with shrimp and mushrooms when he flies. See if it helps.
--Mamacita

My husband is the one who has MS, not me, and shopping/cooking for the BBD can still be exhausting. I don't know if this will help, but here are some things I do... 1. I always shop at a store that is good at keeping things in stock, so I can shop from a list. There's another store closer, but trips...

My husband and I found that presentation a while back, and it's fantastic.

-Mamacita

Do you exclude all tomatoes or just the underripe ones? Is the exclusion about the solanine? I know that green tomatoes are through the roof on solanine content, but I thought fully ripe tomatoes were practically solanine free. Do you exclude the ripe tomatoes anyway? I'll have to check out the nutr...

I found this healthy-recipe blog the other day, and it's very cool. http://deliciouswisdom.com/ I made the agave mustard dressing from her blog, and it was really good. The shallots make it creamy enough that you'd think there was dairy in there. My husband and I have been mourning the loss of our h...

The massager is such a neat idea. My husband's shots don't usually hurt much anymore anyway, so we probably won't try that. But I did want to confirm your comment about creamy skin that doesn't have any visible veins...we found the same correlation. I love that you charted out all the shots. We're i...

My husband and I are on the Best Bet Diet (He has MS, I don't), so it's a little different from Swank. And I know that technically potato chips are forbidden on Swank. Personally, I try to remember that Swank was writing from a different nutritional era. The research he did and the stats he kept are...

1. Getting someone else to do the research... If you have a partner who is truly competent, committed, and willing, you might consider making them the primary MS researcher. Even though my husband--who has MS-- is super smart and well accomplished, he sometimes has a hard time sorting through MS res...

My husband and I have wondered about the altitude thing from time to time. We travel frequently to visit our family, who are spread out all over everywhere. And the plane trips seems to set off my husband's MS sometimes. When we travel, we're always very careful about trying to reduce stress, eat ri...

My husband has MS, and we've been on the Best Bet diet for a couple of years now. We initially wrote of the diet stuff as quackery, but we ended up trying it out of desperation. We're total believers now. My husband is doing better, and we can actually tell when a specific food is bothering him now ...