Wow, the discussion went back almost three years, and I had a hard time finding the information. In fact, the forum where he posted it crashed for about 3 months a few summers ago, so it took a pile of googling to find bits and pieces of this reference.

So it seems it has to do with "Glutamate excitotoxicity being an important mechanism in autoimmune demyelination", and that was described in the following link:

http://www.biomedexperts.com/Abstrac...iple_sclerosis

When I asked which products might help us, he responded with "Current drugs (CRABs) generally seem to work by preventing inflammation, yet disability seems to be more a result of neurodegeneration. Glutamate excitotoxicity seems to be a factor in neurodegeneration."

Some products that he identified as potentially helpful were:

- Riluzole; drug already approved by the FDA for ALS and inhibits glutamate, hence is neuroprotective.

- Cannabinoids inhibit glutamate.

- LDN also serves this function.

- Vitamin D

Also, in my search I found one of the articles on inflammation perhaps being part of our "healing process":

"However, it should be stressed that inflammation does not have only a detrimental effect in MS. In fact, parts of the inflammatory events are crucial for the control and conclusion of the acute phase of damage and it is probable that they actually favor regeneration and recovery"

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18133960

Of course, there's always information to contradict everything we hear somewhere else , but thinking "inside the box" hasn't worked, so I'm always open to new ideas.

Cherie