When the Wall St. Journal asked the question, “What do heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, stroke and cancer have in common?” would you have guessed the answer would be “chronic inflammation?” To this list of inflammatory diseases, I would add multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and so many […]
Category: Multiple Sclerosis
A Fight MS with Food Case Study: Marion P.
Marion P. is a 65-year old active married woman. She experienced MS symptoms since the age of 24 but was not diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis until she was 63. A busy, successful business owner with a quick brain, Marion and her husband divide their time between their winter and summer homes. In March of […]
Tips for MS and Exercise
I believe in the old adage “Use it or Lose it,” especially when it comes to a degenerative disease like Multiple Sclerosis but really for everyone. My friend Jan DeCourtney at the Stoll Foundation for Holistic Health co-authored a book with Dr. Walt Stoll called Recapture Your Health in which they outline a recipe for […]
Aspartame free chewing gum
I have finally found a chewing gum I can feel good about: Pur Gum. While I am not by any means a regular gum chewer, I like to give the kids some during take-off and landing on flights, and on other occasions here and there. The problem has been that every single gum sold in […]
Multiple Sclerosis and Nutrition in MORE
I was recently interviewed in MORE: For Women of Style and Substance magazine about MS and nutrition. While I tend to focus on removing inflammatory agents from the MS patient’s diet to reduce inflammation and MS symptoms, Thomas Stewart of the Rocky Mountain MS Center also offers good reminders about the roles of vitamin D […]
