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Food, Food Medicines, and Recipes
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don’t Be Misled About Carbs
Evidence says people, including science teachers, don’t understand the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates. Yikes!
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Fibre-the Real Superfood and we’re all deficient
Fibre: We can’t digest it, but our gut microbes can. We feed them. They give us rewards.
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Time for an Oil Change?
Vegetable oil implies health, but it’s bad for you and terrible for people with MS. Here’s what to get instead.
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The Surprising Origin of Calcium
And why it matters for people with MS. Turns out cows are not calcium-making factories for the dietary benefit of humans, after all.
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MS Waterfall: What’s Standing in the Way to Your Best Life
Multiple sclerosis is a multifactorial disease, meaning different things combine to create a winning ticket for this powerful deluge. But there are streams we can stop, redirect, and slow down.
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Remyelinating Mushrooms — the future wave of MS treatments may live in the forest
They’ve had culinary and medicinal use in ancient cultures since antiquity. Now scientists are looking back for the next wave of MS and other neurological treatments.
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The Benefits of Eating ‘Nooch’ for Multiple Sclerosis
Nutritional yeast, known as ‘nooch’, is great for people with MS because it contains powerful antioxidants, b12 and other B vitamins and a complete protein. Plus it’s fingerlickin’ umami good.