Live the best life with MS
Articles about Food, Movement and exercise, Nature, Mindset, growth and mental health.
Select a category below or scroll through the archive.
- Body
- Food
- Food medicines
- Hormones
- Meaning
- Mind
- Mindset
- Movement
- Nature
- News
- Recipes
- Resources
- Stories
- Uncategorized
-
What if We’re Wrong about Stress?
Living with MS, we’re often told to reduce stress. But stress is part of life. Fear, excitement and learning to reframe some uncomfortable experiences rather than automatically avoiding them.
-
HIV drugs for MS? The EBV clue we shouldn’t ignore
Could HIV drugs hold a clue to the role of Epstein-Barr virus in MS? Some remarkable case reports suggest they might.
-
Put the Kettle on: Why Green Tea Belongs in Your MS Toolkit
Let’s be honest: when you live with multiple sclerosis, the internet loves to sell you miracles. Drink this swamp-green smoothie, stand on one leg at sunrise, and poof—your myelin sheath will miraculously re-spool like an 80s cassette tape! At Best Life with MS, I prefer facts over fairy dust. So let’s talk about a beverage…
-
Why I’m Talking About Estrogen This World MS Day
MS and menopause can share many of the same symptoms, such as brain fog, anxiety, sleep issues, and heat senstitivity.
-
Is This a Breakthrough for Progressive MS?
A new neurogenesis-based approach to progressive multiple sclerosis is challenging the traditional model of immunosuppression.
-
Diet for Multiple Sclerosis: Simple Food Medicine Guide (5 rules)
What is the best diet for multiple sclerosis? A whole-food, plant-forward diet that reduces ultra-processed foods and saturated fat may help support energy, gut health and inflammation in people with MS.
-
Your MS Feels Worse — But Your MRI Is ‘Stable’. What Now?
What do you do when you’re already on a good medication and still feel worse? This is what I would do.
-
Thrive: The Simple Guide
A simple, evidence-based, non-pharmacological lifestyle habits for people with all types of multiple sclerosis based on research and lived experience
-
Is Taking a B-Depleter Your only Weapon against MS?
B-depleters are highly effective for MS. Is it because they target inflammatory B-cells or reduce the EBV? What about PIRA?
-
Evidence that Nature helps Healing
There’s substantial evidence that nature does heal. Trees release phytoncides, for example, which boost our natural killer cells. Governments fund Japanese and Koreans to practice shinrinyoku or ‘forest bathing’. How you can do the same.
-
How to Support Your Body’s Myelin Repair
Myelin repair has the potential to be blockbuster drugs for people with MS. But we can already do it. This is how to repair myelin.
-
Exercise May Help Repair Damaged Myelin from Multiple Sclerosis
Our body can already repair the myelin that gets damaged from MS attacks. But exercise supercharges the myelin repair.
-
MS Twins Gut Microbiome Research Breakthrough
Apply the findings. Scientists gathered 81 pairs of identical twins where one twin had MS and the other didn’t. Why twins? They shared almost identical genes, making it easier to pinpoint what’s truly different between them. What they found.
-
Should I eat egg yolks if I have multiple sclerosis?
Many MS diets recommend not eating the yolk (the yellow part of the egg) due to the saturated fat and cholesterol. I respectfully disagree. Here’s why.
-
Vitamin D and MS
There’s no evidence that high-dose vitamin D3 will stop your MS, but there is strong evidence that it’ll help you live a happy, healthy life.
-
THE MS TOOLBOX: Questions for a Whole Person Approach to Multiple Sclerosis
I’ll walk into that consulting room, not as ‘me,’ but as a collection of symptoms. I’ll be assessed and scored. But they’ll miss who I am. What questions could your MS team ask if they took a whole-person approach?