I’ve deteriorated so much the 3 last years. From being able to walk 3 km with a cane, to a wheelchair, whereas nothing has changed the previous 5 years. The only thing that has changed in my lifestyle during the 3 last years was multiple attempts to stop coffee, going on and off coffee for several weeks every times.I think is the worst thing to do.
There have been studies few years ago that have been overhyped with the claim that the more you drink coffee, the less you have MS.
Who have tried to drink more coffee to see if there was any “symptom improvement” ? Doesn’t that mean that coffee is BAD for MS ?
The thing is that those studies was retrospectives and have used questionaires, and what they have found was an association, not a causation, despite their explanation by a neuroprotective effect.
I am 200 % convinced of the relation between stress and MS, like many MSers i’ve met.
And guess what ?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3862156It appears that anxiety disorder patients have increased caffeine sensitivity which leads to decreased consumption.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press ... -drinking/We are not equals to metabolize caffeine and people naturally modulate their coffee intake depending on their genetic.
So doesn’t that mean that MSers (who are anxious), naturally avoid coffee because they are sensitive to it and because it’s BAD ?
I am personally very sensitive to coffee. It makes me feel more anxious. But I’m addict to the dopamine rush it gives. That’s why it’s hard for me to give up.
This post is also a contract with myself that hopefully will help me to definitively stop.
Regards