[Natalie8]

New research. I've never heard of this before.

http://t.nbcnews.com/health/foodborn...est-2D12006668

[TXBatman]

That is VERY interesting and sounds very promising. Thanks for posting!

[SallyC]

Thanks Natalie, sounds great. I wonder if it's too late to be of any help
for me and for the Peeps, who have had MS for many years??

[Natalie8]

Apparently this has been in the news since Oct. 2013. Here is a much more detailed explanation of the phenomenon. Probiotics might be a solution. Or vaccines (which already exist for animals to protect them from this particular species of bacteria).

http://www.news-medical.net/news/201...sclerosis.aspx

[Sparky10]

Thanks for posting the article, Natalie. Personally, I think life could be a trigger for MS!

Good article, but that number of 400,000 people in the US with MS is so old. Or is it zero population growth? People with MS die as often as people are diagnosed?

[TXBatman]

I have often wondered if there are not actually multiple triggers for MS, and the path a person's MS takes is dependent on which trigger they are susceptible to a how often they are exposed. That would explain things like why CCSVI only applies to a subset of folks with MS, why certain drugs only work on a portion of the MS population, and why some people progress rapidly, while others stay relatively symptom free for long periods of time.

[Natalie8]

@Sparky: I totally agree that the statistic that 400,000 people have MS is old and needs serious revision. Didn't Congress have a bill before it a few years ago that called for the official tracking of numbers (kind of like they do through the CDC for certain diseases like syphilis etc.?). Obviously it didn't pass. It might be helpful to know how many people have it. The NMSS cites a Reuters article stating that the number of people with MS in the USA has increased by 10% in the last 5 years. So does that mean we are now at 440,000?!

As far as triggers, I agree there have to be many out there. I know the stars aligned for me: I got Epstein Barr 12 months before I was diagnosed, I was severely Vitamin D deficient, a close relative has MS, and I was born in a cold climate. And maybe I had a bad case of food poisoning! All I can say is that I've had more food poisoning events in my life since I've been on Tysabri (suppressed immune system) including one nasty illness that involved a trip to the ER. I had to be wheeled in from so much pain. I now try to avoid dirty restaurants, undercooked meats, and salad bars of any sort.

[Riverwild]

I swear FB is eating my posts because I posted this a few weeks ago and was surprised there were no responses to it!
In my case I blame it on the freaking cows and sheep now because no matter how much I complained I still had to do chores and inhale all the dust associated with it, and I ate the meat!
Wouldn't it be nice if this was actually "IT" and we could all be cured by eating some probiotic yogurt with Jamie Curtis?
(am I the only one who hearkened back to when I was first diagnosed and reading the stats discussed in the Swank Diet? It talked about how they found that people close to the coast of any country have a lesser number of MS cases than people inland, and surmised that it was because they ate fish rather than animals?)
((did any of those darned mice get cured again? They are the LUCKIEST MICE!!))