Multiple Sclerosis

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I am doing research on Multiple Sclerosis for a friend

 

I have just finished typing this out. Perhaps it will give hope to others.

 

 

 

Taken from a book called

 

Lets Get Well by Adelle Davis.

 

 

 

Multiple Sclerosis

 

This disease is characterised by calcified patches on the brain and spinal cord,

muscular weakness, muscular weakness, incoordination, strong jerky movements or

spasm of the arm, leg and eye muscles and difficulty in bladder control.

 

Autopsy studies show a marked decrease in the lecithin content of the brain and

the myelin sheath covering the nerves, both of which are normally high in

lecithin. and even this lecithin is abnormal, containing saturated instead of

unsaturated fatty acids.

 

Furthermore Multiple Sclerosis is more common in countries where the diet is

particularly high in saturated fats, which invariably means that the amount of

lecithin in the blood is markedly reduced.

 

Probably because the need for lecithin has been decreased persons with multiple

sclerosis have had fewer bad periods of shorter duration when given low fat

diets.

 

 

 

Even greater improvement has been made when 3 of more tablespoons of lecithin

have been added to the daily diet .

 

 

 

Probably the lack of any nutrient that prevents lecithin production, whether,

 

magnesium

 

Vitamin B6

 

cholin

 

inositol or

 

essential fatty acids

 

can make multiple sclerosis worse

 

 

 

Muscle spasm and weakness, involuntary twitching and the ability to control the

bladder have been produced in volunteers by a diet lacking in magnesium. These

symptoms quickly disappeared soon after magnesium was given also when patients

suffering from multiple sclerosis have been given vitamins E, B6, and other B

vitamins the illness has been arrested, even advanced cases improved in walking

and had better bladder control and fewer leg and arm spasms. The calcification

of soft tissues has been prevented with vitamin E. It seems to me that all

these nutrients should be emphasised in the diet of any individual suffering

from this disease.

 

Multiple scleroses in the people I have worked withhas invariably brought on by

extremely severe stress during periods when panthothenic acid has been deficient

in their diets. In experimental animals a lack of panthothenic acid causes an

actual loss of the myelin sheath covering the nerves such as occurs in multiple

sclerosis.

 

 

 

Deficiencies of vitamins

 

B1,

 

B2,

 

B6

 

E or

 

panthothenic acid

 

the need for which is tremendously increased by stress-

 

results in nerve degeneration in both humans and animals and in animals such

damage can be corrected by adding the missing vitamin. Furthermore, multiple

sclerosis is often treated with cortisone, indicating that every effort shoud be

made to stimulate normal hormone production.

 

I have seen a number of persons who have recovered completely from multiple

sclerosis when dietary improvement was made soon after the disease was

diagnosed. These individuals have stayed on the antistress programme ( p. 18 and

a highle adequate diet such as the one outlined on page 303.

 

 

 

In some cases 600 units of vitamin E taken with each meal - 1800 units daily -

have brought spectacular improvement.

 

 

 

Recently I was talking to a young woman who told me that for several years she

had been an invalid because of this disease but after following an excellent

diet she had no signs of the illness except occasional foot cramps which

disappeared when she increased her magnesium intake. In advanced cases,

however, irreparable damage may have been done.

 

 

 

Mrs Violet Kazakoff of Arlington, Virginia, who has applied nutrition

conscientiously, wrote me recently: 'I have had MS for almost 19 years. In 1956

I became helpless as a baby.

 

I could not walk, could not speak one word and my hands were too weak to write

my name, yet I recovered and today, although I still have some problems I go to

dances, parties, church, entertain, do much of my housework and live a very

happy life'

 

Mrs Kazakoff wisely adds that plenty of est, a happy mental outlook, and a

determination to try to get well are probably as helpful as sound nutrition. I

have also seen a few cases in which persons with multiple sclerosis made marked

progress when under psycotherapy, which undoubtedly relieved much emotional

stress.

 

 

 

Adelle Davis 1989