Tag: Multiple Sclerosis

At Harvard Medical School during my first formal Mind-Body training, Dr. Herbert Benson shared something he learned in medical school, “that the greater part of what you was learning about the human body would be obsolete in five years.” That was 15 years ago, and guess what? Everything has changed! Neuroscience, Nutritional Science, Exercise Science […]

A lot of the press study touts “Exercise therapy is one of the most promising treatment strategies in MS rehabilitation.” Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1985, it is good to see this turn-around on the topic of exercise and MS. We have come a long way from being told by neurologists to take […]

One of our biggest obstacles in, first, believing we can live a full and complete live with Multiple Sclerosis and, second, actually doing it, is that silent self-critic that makes anything less than perfect a problem. Perfectly imperfect. A diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis automatically makes us feel less than perfect and it’s never something we […]

Through the current avalanche of research we know how gluten damages the microbiome (gut) to activate the immune system. Because of this, the importance of avoiding this food protein in anyone with multiple sclerosis (or any autoimmune condition) has become very real. While obvious foods like a loaf of bread are easy to identify, the […]

For decades I have found people who work shifts respond very differently to my treatment plans – in fact, I have consistently found them the most difficult to treat. I did not, however, know that the disrupted circadian rhythms put shift workers at greater risk of multiple sclerosis. In a way, it was no surprise […]