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I started the Swank diet in 2007. At first I lost weight. Then I started eating loads of sugary foods, carbs, but cutting all the oils and fats. I have since incorporated more modern diet understanding to my approach and seem to be doing pretty well. I don't think Swank understood as much about Omeg...

I have been there several times myself and understand your worry. However, worry is a big enemy to you right now. You need to cool down the inflammation in your body. By the way, your neuro may be the person you turn to right now, but some of us have learned that they have very few tools in their ba...

I remember jogging in high school gym class, about 15 years old, and asking the guy next to me, "does your brain bounce when you run". I remember the bewildered look he gave me and I never mentioned it again. Some days, it would feel like someone was hitting the back of my head with someth...

Interesting find, but I think the researchers are on the wrong track by focusing on caffeine. Should we drink red bulls and Mountain Dew for MS? I have a theory about MS I've never heard anybody else mention. I think it has to do with a sluggish bowel and the gut bacteria changes/fermentation that i...

in addition to grass fed meats, do you also eat the three heaping plate fulls of vegetables and greens and berries that Dr. Wahls recommends for daily consumption? She says that when she started eating 3 cups greens, 3 cups color, and 3 cups sulfur, the "magic happened". Though I find most...

as far as I'm concerned, Dr. Wahls' diet is only anecdotal, and is irresponsible to promote. There is no published data to support her claims (other than a subjective reduction in fatigue). She appears to be the only one who benefits from her eating pattern.

I am very sympathetic to the OMS/Swank crowd since I have followed the diet pretty closely since 2007. But there has to be more to the picture. I think the reason Swank's patients did so well was that they eliminated dairy fat (in my opinion). If red meat caused MS, then why did MS only pop up about...

I read about all the wonderful benefits of magnesium, how safe it is, how good it is for MS, etc. A few years back, I could take it with no problems. Indeed, it did make me feel better. Now, I can't handle it at all. I took some today for the first time in several months because I felt a little stif...

let me throw a monkey wrench in the mold argument. I did grow up in a house with mold and I sneeze like crazy when I breathe mold. The first time an air conditioner runs in the spring will send me to misery land quickly. Even going into stores, etc. can make me sneeze hundreds of times, and no aller...

Mine looks more like this. https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8qEv5SlVKHkAcbOJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIzOWxmbzMxBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANmNTFiMzIzOTI5ZWExMzdiYzYxY2U0ZTcwNWViZTJjNARncG9zAzMxBGl0A2Jpbmc-?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Doptic...

thank you both for the good information. I'll research these suggestions.

Sorry to go on about myself here. But does all this sound right to you? I had optic neuritis (right eye), about nine years ago. It didn't resolve. Ten months later, ON again in both eyes. Left me visually impaired with very little resolution. (see halos at night as I described here, color loss, cent...

I haven't taken these things since 2007 and I hated them then. They didn't really do much. But, I woke up with optic neuritis out of the blue, and in three days I lost about three years of progress in my vision. No changes in how I felt, stress level, diet, nothing. The only thing I did differently ...

for those on Copaxone, why do you take it and why does your neuro prescribe it? I'm not trying to be negative here. But this is a drug that leaves bruises, requires a daily shot, (ouch), and as far as we know from the research, does a whole lot of nothing. The FDA clearly states in the prescribing g...

with Biogen at risk of losing billions on this blockbuster when patients keep getting PML, it's amazing to me how much progress they have made and how fast with this PML stuff. They now have specific tests, they understand the mechanism, they have some potential treatments. hmm, imagine what would h...