Originally Posted by tkrik

I sometimes go back to the idea that MS is also somehow a metabolic condition. It may start with the immune system but something goes haywire. I find it interesting that many MSers are deficient in nutrients that they would normally get in their diet and I recently read a study on antioxidants and MS (I posted a thread with some of the links). I found it interesting that on autopsy all MSers were deficient in magnesium in their brain, while healthy subjects weren't (although this was only done on 5 MS patients and 5 controls so it was a small study). And, how many MSers are deficient in vitamin B12 and vitamin D and who knows what other deficiencies we have that they don't test for. But, I also wonder if we are not absorbing the nutrients and/or, again, metabolizing them correctly. If this is the case, is the answer to helping us MSers in our stomachs? Such as leaky gut syndrome?

If this is the case, then I really do think diet is important and a diet specific to they type of disease. So, Dr. Mercola is definitely, IMO, on the right track.