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MS: Try this FIRST for Multiple Sclerosis for better Energy, Mobility & Recovery

If you have Multiple Sclerosis, and are looking for “what else you can do,” you will want to know about recent health discoveries that give hope for slowing and reversing the degenerative processes of MS -- even if your diagnosis is “progressive” MS!

• Individuals are using new discoveries in their road to recovery from Multiple Sclerosis symptoms -- regaining energy and function -– with relapsing remitting as well as with progressive MS!

• Should you consider going to places like Costa Rica for "Liberation therapy," stem cell therapy or stem cell transplant treatment?

Liberation treatment is still a hope for recovery for many, but a disappointment for others. And we still don't know if CCSVI or a blocking or narrowing of the veins in the brain and neck is a CAUSE or an EFFECT of having MS.

Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cells?

Again, many of us will know someone who has gone to China or to Germany for stem cell therapy or stem cell treatment.

• In many cases the stem cell therapy is of benefit for 6 months of improved mobility and MS symptoms, but after that there is a disappointing decline.

WHAT TO TRY FIRST?

For now it may be best to add BRAIN nutrition based on clinical trials that provide neuro PROTECTION to the brain and myelin sheeth around your nerves.

Why? There are discoveries of

medical proteins that will PROTECT your NERVES and your BRAIN and the ENERGY centers of your CELLS on a day to day basis. You can add these to your DAILY regime.

• This day to day approach has given many people their energy and mobility back.

MS Cause or Effect: CCSVI Blocking Veins in the Brain?

People with MS and scientists are still sorting out whether Multiple Sclerosis is CAUSED by or RESULTS in CCSVI or "Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency."

• CCSVI is a narrowing of veins in the brain and neck, and this is the basis of "Liberation Therapy," discovered by Dr. Paolo Zamboni from Italy.

• Dr. Zamboni found CCSVI in 100 percent of people with MS, and zero per cent in people without Multiple Sclerosis.

Other researchers have found the vein abnormalities in people who did NOT have MS, but NOT in all people with Multiple Sclerosis.

• The studies that have been done are all over the map, but Canadian researchers analyzed 8 studies from Italy, Germany, Jordan and the U.S. with a total of 664 MS patients.

The result of this analysis?

• People with MS were from 13.5 per cent to 3.7 times more likely to have CCSVI.

(Source: Dr. Andreas Laupacis, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Oct 2011)

CHICKEN OR THE EGG? Scientists are not willing to say that CCSVI causes MS.

U.S. Neurologist Robert Fox states in an accompanying commentary to the research that CCSVI "May just be a phenomenon of a diseased brain that is NOT specific to MS.

• CCVI may be seen in Alzheimers disease, it may be seen in other inflammotory disorders of the brain," according to Dr. Fox, medical director of the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic.

• "CCVI may just be a final end result of an injured brain and not related to CAUSING Multiple Sclerosis."

POSSIBLE CAUSE OF CCVI?

Dr. Fox says that CCSVI in patients with MS may be due to dehydration!

Why? People with MS are more likely to have problems with their bladder, and the natural response is to drink less, so they don't have to shuffle off to the bathroom as often. As a result they are mildly dehydrated.

• NOW THAT'S AN EASY ONE TO TEST!

Why?

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Dr. W's Miraculous Recovery from Progressive MS

While medical treatments for Multiple Sclerosis are being developed the best strategy for YOU is to use BRAIN and NERVE PROTECTIVE nutrition.

Using recent Health Discoveries can create miracles for recovery.

Here's what happened for Dr W who has PROGRESSIVE MS:

Dr. W, MD, regained his walking and physical strength after suffering 8 years from progressive Multiple Sclerosis and attributes this to a nutritional supplement.

Dr. W was forced to stop working as an anesthesiologist when he began to find it difficult to do his job.

At first his one foot began to drag and slip off his bicycle pedal, and he began to find it difficult to use the needles in his work.

He was then diagnosed with MS -- the progressive kind -- by the best neurologists on the continent.

As he increasingly lost his balance and strength, he bought a wheel chair and prepared for the worst.

Now, more than 10 years later, Dr. W has sold his wheel chair, and he is telling others about his remarkable recovery due to the NUTRITION that builds glutathione MIRACLE.

Lecturing across the continent, Dr. W explains that MS can be considered an auto-immune disease, in that there is damage to the nerves and spinal cord, which are being “picked on” by the white blood cells.

There is also damage to the “energy center” of the cell, or mitochondria, from free radicals, which is what makes people with MS feel exhausted.

This damage decreases when glutathione is boosted through a nutrition supplement.

• Dr. W says that this auto-immune degeneration is similar to what happens with psoriasis, where it is the skin that is being “picked on” by the white blood cells.

• With rheumatoid arthritis, this same process damages the joints;

• with Lou Gehrig's or ALS, the white blood cells are taking on another part of the brain and the central nervous system.

• With Meniere’s Syndrome, it is the inner ear, and with Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative cholitis, they go for the gut.

Conditions such as asthma and allergies are also due to an “over-reactive” immune response.

• The good news according to Dr. W is that cysteine has been discovered to be the missing building block that allows our bodies to make glutathione, which is what keeps the white blood cells in line.

Glutathione building protein also “mops up” the free radicals before they cause damage, and this can make a huge difference in the outcome for people -- like himself-- with serious diseases.

• "With the latest scientific knowledge of the protective role of glutathione, and the discovery of this protein supplement that boosts it, we can go a long way to prevent the effects of stress and aging, and the diseases associated with it," says Dr. W.

Help for Lou Gehrig's, ALS

Auto Immune Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis and the Immune

Auto Immune Disease: Crohn's Disease

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A Big Puzzle With Many Pieces

But...Researchers Have Now Found A Major Culprit!

Dr. Jimmy Gutman FACEP, has added up new research about a protective molecule called glutathione, GSH, and its relationship to Multiple Sclerosis. He presents many studies that have compared groups of Multiple Sclerosis patients to healthy individuals.

Among other things, researchers have measured levels of reactive metabolites (breakdown products of oxidation) and of PROTECTIVE ENZYMES, ESPECIALLY GLUTATHIONE.

• A number of recent studies suggest that an important role is played by oxygen-derived free radical formation and/or LACK OF ADEQUATE ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSES.

Who Dunnit?

An Italian group headed by Vince Calabrese, for instance, drew samples of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through spinal taps. CSF analysis is a good indicator of brain metabolism.

• THEY FOUND THAT GLUTATHIONE-PEROXIDASE LEVELS IN THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OF Multiple Sclerosis PATIENTS WERE CONSISTENTLY LOW.

• Their conclusion was that in Multiple Sclerosis, the fundamental activity of anti-oxidation is abnormal and that OXIDATIVE STRESS plays a causative role.

Another study looking at CSF was performed by the Swedes G. Ronquist and G. Frithz who tested spinal taps from a large number of patients including those with stroke, seizures, brain tumors and Multiple Sclerosis.

• THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OF Multiple Sclerosis MS PATIENTS WERE FOUND TO BE ALMOST ENTIRELY LACKING IN Glutathione.

There is further evidence of the involvement of FREE RADICAL ELEVATION AND GSH DEPLETION IN MS. Helen Langemann in Switzerland measured GSH levels within Multiple Sclerosis MS plaques themselves. Without exception, they were depleted.

Researchers led by I. Singh at the University of South Carolina examined the fundamental tissue abnormality in multiple sclerosis.

• The actual myelin breakdown occurs to a large part because of the release of strong inflammatory chemicals called cytokines.

These cytokines generate huge numbers of free radicals. Pre-treating neurological tissues with glutathione-enhancing proteins, protected these tissues from demyelination.

• Conversely, when glutathione was chemically depleted the demyelination grew worse.

• Simpler studies have demonstrated DECREASED BLOOD LEVELS of glutathione in Multiple Sclerosis MS patients, and these have been repeated by many Scandinavian, Italian and North American researchers.

• THESE LEVELS AS WELL CAN BE INVERSELY CORRELATED WITH THE DEGREE OF SEVERITY OF AN ATTACK.

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My Miracle With MS!

Yes, There Is A Common Thread...

It turns out that the myelin sheaths destroyed by Multiple Sclerosis are made of lipids, fatty substances highly sensitive to damage by lipid peroxidation, a particularly aggressive type of oxidation.

• Our key metabolic defenses are glutathione and SOD (super-oxide dismutase). It has been shown that elevating these natural defense systems reduces the damage of oxidative stress.

Investigations looking specifically at the breakdown products of oxidation have revealed significantly higher levels in MS patients. Pradlip Toshniwal and Edwin Zarling from Loyola University in Chicago went one step further in their studies.

• They were able to show that these levels of oxidative stress corresponded to the severity of the MS attack!

MS An Autoimmune Disease?

Some authors including S.M. LeVine from the University of Kansas suggest that the pathological process leading to the demyelination of nerves is possible because the immune system cooperates with a free radical generating system present within the myelin sheaths.

• This explanation combines the two hypotheses that describe Multiple Sclerosis – that it is an autoimmune disease, and is also caused by oxidative stress.

He describes how during a demyelination episode, macrophages (cells of the immune system that are supposed to act protectively) seek out myelin and release powerful chemicals (lipases, proteinases, H202 and others).

These biochemicals result in tremendous levels of oxidative stress.

• Such a hypothesis leads us to believe that either blunting the immune response or minimizing oxidative stress could help MS patients.

• Immunosuppressive drugs e.g. Interferon that blunt the immune response have had only limited success.

This has driven researchers to find ways to improve antioxidant protection, glutathione modulation being one of the most promising areas.

Recovering from Auto Immune Diseases

Best Protection for Energy and Recovery?

There is, fortunately a huge amount of scientific knowledge this substance called glutathione.

There is a world-wide accumulation of studies about this small defensive molecule that is made in virtually every cell of our bodies.

It turns out that this is the body’s very own protective mechanisms against oxidative stress!

DID YOU KNOW ... THAT IN EVERY CELL OF OUR BODY, nature has built in glutathione as a defensive substance to PROTECT us.... free radicals and oxidation as well as from toxins, carcinogens, bacteria and viruses?

A Big Missing Link

The picture that emerges from this research is that glutathione’s role is to protect us against the main villains that are at the root Multiple Sclerosis in the various theories of its cause:

1) free radicals and oxidative stress, 2) an over or under-active immune response 3) toxins and pollutants, and 4) mutations in our DNA.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT GLUTATHIONE IS RAPIDLY CONSUMED ON A DAILY BASIS THROUGH NORMAL METABOLISM, ILLNESS AND EVEN EXERCISE.

Without a good supply of glutathione, you have an inadequate defense system, and this can eventually lead to illness and to neurodegenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis.

Why Have We Not Heard More About This?

Because it has not been medically known how to stimulate the body’s own production of glutathione safely and effectively without drugs, so as to promote and restore health.

• You cannot just take a glutathione pill -- it is INEFFECTIVE!

• Taking the drug NAC is NOT a solution. Why?

NAC accumulates in the BRAIN and can cause amyloidosis, a rare but deadly disease.

Dr. Gustavo Bounous, at McGill University in Montreal, discovered that when provided with the nutritional precursors for making glutathione, the body has the needed tools to fight off most threats, naturally.

• His discovery of raising glutathione through NUTRITION rather than through drugs or pills, is considered by some doctors and researchers to be the biggest medical discovery since penicillin.

Because boosting our glutathione levels on a sustained basis had remained somewhat of a mystery, in that it is not simply a matter of eating it in your food, or taking it in a PILL.

• Why? Because although it is contained in food, it is destroyed by the digestion. Even when supplied intravenously, IV glutathione has not been found to be effective, as it deteriorates before it gets to where it is needed.

It needs to be made by the cell itself, from 3 amino acids, glycine, glutamate and cysteine, and cysteine turns out to be the most important, but most difficult to get.

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What's Missing if you have Multiple Sclerosis MS?

Certain findings have been demonstrated consistently in MS patients:

• The breakdown products of oxidative stress are present in large numbers, and the level of free radical formation corresponds to the severity of the MS attack.

• Furthermore, glutathione activity is clearly impaired in this disease.

• Also, individual tissues suffer less free radical damage when antioxidants and glutathione therapy are used.

Although this is not a cure, many authors have suggested that reduced oxidative damage would help MS patients, and suggest in particular the helpful role of elevated glutathione levels.

Certainly, many people have improved their LEVEL OF ENERGY and dramatically REDUCED their MS symptoms by adding glutathione building protein to their diet!

More Pieces for Solving The MS Puzzle!

There’s more! The myelin sheaths destroyed by MS are made of lipids, fatty substances highly sensitive to damage by lipid peroxidation, a particularly aggressive type of oxidation.

The brain also is composed of about 60% fatty substances!!

• This makes it crucial to protect the brain and myelin sheaths by adding essential fatty acids to your diet!

• Add OMEGAS and FISH OIL to your diet for MS!

Research also suggests that low SELENIUM levels are connected to the development of MS.

• The trace mineral SELENIUM is an essential part of the glutathione peroxidase enzyme and low selenium levels certainly decrease glutathione’s effectiveness.

VITAMIN D, the sunshine vitamin is now considered to play a role in regulating the immune system. Certainly, the incidence of Multiple Sclerosis increases the further you are from the equator.

• Researchers at the University of Toronto have found evidence that vitamin D may be a natural inhibitor of MS!! They recommend supplementing with doses much higher than the normal guidelines.

Multiple Sclerosis & Vitamin D3 Deficiency

The lack of natural vitamin D from the sun correlates to the geographic distribution of MS.

The rate of MS increases the further people live from the equator, but in some Scandinavian countries there appears to be a lower rate of MS among people who eat a lot of fish, a rich source of dietary vitamin D.

• Researchers say that inheriting genetic risk factors for Multiple Sclerosis is not sufficient to cause this demyelinating disease of the central nervous system; exposure to environmental risk factors is also required.

At the University of Wisconsin, researchers have used a form of vitamin D to see if it can inhibit the development of the animal model of MS in mice. Those treated with the hormone 1,25-(oh)2d3 did not develop the disease while those on placebo became ill.

• Vitamin D may be a natural inhibitor of MS, with evidence coming from experiments with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (eae), a model of MS.

• If you have Multiple Sclerosis it will be very likely that you need THERAPEUTIC doses of Vitamin D.

Is Vitamin D the Most Overlooked Vitamin for MS?

How Much Sunshine Or Vitamin D Do I Need for Multiple Sclerosis?

MS & Neurological Diseases

Restless Legs and Stress Relief Pills for MS

Best Help for Auto Immune Diseases?

• Let us know your success with cell therapy -- multiple sclerosis stem cells -- or liberation therapy and we will post your experience.

Either way you still need to add natural remedies and medical IMMUNE proteins to protect your NERVES and BRAIN from being "attacked" by your own immune cells or destroyed by free radicals.

• You can, hopefully, like Dr. W, recover your energy AND your mobility and enjoy your life with energy and adventure in spite of your MS!

Health Discoveries for MS -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Cure for Energy & Pain with Medical Nutrition Supplements or Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cells & Liberation Therapy?

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