The Light Side of MS

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Mom of Twin Girls — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:13:29 GMT

In April 2006, when my twins were five months old, I was diagnosed with MS. I was dizzy, so very dizzy and I could not see or walk. I stopped driving and when I was able to make an appointment with my neurologist, he confirmed, by doing in office tests, I had MS. In May, I went and had an MRI done which confimred my worst fears. Today, in 2008, I am able to walk, talk, have vision and drive again. I am doing an injection therapy that, for now, seems to be working for me.

My twins are 2 years, 4 months today. I would love to be able to stop taking my injections, but with my twins being so needy still, my hubby and parents say, NO, do not get off this therapy which is working so well for me right now.

Along with taking this injection, I drink, when I can, Riso Trene (rice soluable) and drink Mon Vie. I will really never know which one is working for me, I guess, until I get off this injection.

This article talks about sunlight. Well, I grew up in SoCal and was at the beach all the time! Summer, Spring, Fall, it did not matter. From the time I was 8 years old until I was 25 and moved up North. I mean, I was a sun goddess. I loved being tan and looking tan. How then, could I be diagnosed with MS? I soked in so much sun in my childhood, I tend to disbelieve this article. As far as I know, nobody in my family had MS.

With my recent MRI, my neurologist told me some of my lesions were going away, while some were worse. If I were to just totally remove ALL chemicals, Cherry Coke, ALL CANDY, ALL SWEETS, from my diet, would I them be cured? I am looking for a cure.

Who here can give me a cure? I hate being sick and I HATE DRUGS!!! I have been taking Tergerol for epilesy since I was 9 as well.

Somebody, find me a cure. I HATE lining the pockets of evil drug companies and letting our government know which drugs I am on.

Thanks and God Bless!!

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saynotoquacks — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:59:39 GMT

I wonder what role psychiatric drugs and asthma drugs play in increasing MS risk? I have a lot of numbness, tingling and muscle weakness, mainly from protracted withdrawals from psychiatric drugs. It is improving, but VERY slowly. I'm concerned about getting MS from all the drugs and emotional trauma and seizures those DUCK-TORS put me through.

Krill oil seems to help a lot. I am happy to announce that there is not mercury in Dr. Mercola's krill oil. If there were, I would know!

Sunbathing makes a world of difference as well.

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NO ONE — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:06:48 GMT

MS is caused by a profound psychological shock event, where the individual feels completely helpless to carry on with life. This causes a gradual shut down of neural functions in the sensory cortex and as a consequence a gradual shut down of the neural pathways from the motion enabling part of the body to the motor cortex. The cure for this is help provided by understanding family members and healthcare providers. The "understanding" part is optainable through education in a completely new paradigm of medicine. It is called German New Medicine: germannewmedicine.ca/.../sbsintro.html , and was re-discovered by Dr. med. Mag. theol. Ryke Geerd Hamer of Germany. The circumstances of the active suppression of this knowledge, available since 1981 are very tragic! Millions of people have died needlessly through ignorant treatment methods by the prevailing medical establishment. The above URL will lead you into the world of understanding, as Nature intended. Cheers.

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cbvaughn — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:35:10 GMT

I have been diagnosed with ms for about 6 years. I was diagnosed when I went numb from the waist down. Got most feeling and use back in about 3 months. Long story short, 3 years later, pregnancy brought back all feeling and muscle tone, like I had never been sick. After the birth of my baby, I started having weakness, tingling, the whole familiar crap that goes along with ms. After much research, I started taking mega doses of Vitamins A, B1, B6, B12, C, D, E, and magnesium. All the symptoms disappeared. (I wouldn't recommend taking the A and D in mega doses unless under doctors care, as these are fat soluble vitamins and can become toxic if you take them in mega doses for too long.) I happen to work in a lab where I can check my own levels. I now take normal doses and do not have symptoms unless I stay off the vitamins for a week or so. I also stay away from anything diet, and anything with nitrates, which brings back symptoms, even in small amounts. It is amazing the things that cause symptoms. When I use aerosol hairspray, my legs with tingle all day. So guess what I dont use anymore? I have to agree with this article, I too feel better in the summertime when I can be outside in the sunshine, but I too, am fair skinned and can't be out too long, hence the vit. D supplement. As for rebuilding the myelin sheath coming strictly from DNA - I disagree. I think it is a combination of DNA, environmental factors, and how people abuse their bodies, aware or not. I havent done much research on LDN, as I am under the impression this is for people with severe ms.

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Turmeric — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:27:45 GMT

I suspect my almost life long condition is caused by a specific fungal organism, but have no proof. It is certainly similar to a mild, fluctuating, MS. It has included sight loss, (now recovered).

As a result of experience, I avoid continuous daily intake of many of the foods/supplements that have proved helpful. A typical example of this is cod liver oil. This brought on a remarkable, almost complete, recovery. Yet, within a few months, it became ineffective. I found that to maintain effectiveness it was necessary to have a 'starvation period' each week. I retained about 95% of the gains by only taking the oil on weekends. (Until I was targeted by a drug company, and abandoned with devastating visual & brain damage). Turmeric, however, has proved continuously helpful when taken daily.

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globi1017 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:17:22 GMT

In reference to getting sun:

If I were to lay outside in the sun without putting on any sunblock I would get pretty red, freckly, or burned, depending on how long I stay out there. My diet is very high in raw vegetables at this point and I have been really good about omiting refined carbs and sugar. But is this supposed to make a difference? How much sunlight is enough? At what time of the day is it best to sunbathe? Also, how can I get sun in the winter months?

Is there a guide to sunning that I missed? If so, please reply to my message with a link.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:16:29 GMT

There is no proof that 85% of illnesses are emotionally driven. Cancers and neurological diseases are not related to emotions, nor are autoimmune or immune disorders, nor endocrine disruption, and on and on.

And, sunlight is everywhere. While it may aid in some diseases, the absence of sunlight is not the only risk factor in other diseases. If it were, everyone would have these diseases. But, not everyone does. However, some people have a greater risk of getting certain diseases because of both their lifestyle, and the lifestyle of the industries in their communities, which may be poisoning their air, soil, waters, and agriculture of both foods imported in and exported out of their communities to others around the world. Hence, you can eat what was once called a healthy diet, but if your diet has been inadvertently polluted by industrial chemicals, including pesticides, you may still experience the disease.

Example: Methanol is released by myriad of healthy fruits and vegetables, and it has also been on lists of active and inert ingredients used in pesticides. Methanol, which has been linked to multiple sclerosis is "released during the metabolism of food additives such as the artificial sweetener, aspartame, and /dimethyl dicarbonate/ (DMDC), a yeast inhibitor added to a variety of beverages."

[DHHS/NTP; NTP-CERHR Expert Panel Report on the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of Methanol p.7 (April 2002) NTP-CERHR-MeOH-02.

was available from: cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/.../methanol_final.pdf as of July 20, 2005.] However, the file may have been lost when the Bush Administration eliminated our right to know via the dismantling and closure of numerous libraries, including those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and possibly the NIH/NLM.

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Nlreed — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:32:11 GMT

I have had MS for 3 years now and the ONLY thing I did wrong, health wise, when in college and HS was consume A LOT of diet pop. I am a believer in the ANTI-ASPARTAME!!! I am only 28 and in GREAT shape, spent 10 years in the ARmy National Guard, I have ran a marathon, I teach group fitness classes... No one in my family has MS... ..Diet is the devil! However, I do take glyconutrients and am Just fine!! They are a God-sent. (and scientific!!)

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cbfindlay — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:39:08 GMT

My step brother has MS (at 40)and my step sister has had signs of MS (at 30). We all lived on the coast near Seattle, getting more sun than inlanders, but I do recall something about where they lived that differs from most people. They lived near an airport. In the beginning the airport was far from town, but as populations grow, people were living around the airport. Years later I learned that airplane fuel is toxic, of course, but the amount of exhaust coming from these engines is enormous, similar to an invisible cropdusting. This always reminds me of these kids (now in their 50's) but in their 30's developed a rare cancer. Putting the pieces together, these now adults had all lived in the same town. When talking to them as adults about contributing environmental factors, they recalled that, as kids, they would try to figure out what color sunglasses the RayBan factory was making that day but the color of the exhaust or fumes from the stacks. (This had been on a 60 Minutes type show). When Michael J. Fox was trying to figure out where his Parkinson's came from, they discovered that two other crew members from a series he did as a teenager, also had Parkinson's. These are not coincidences. There is always a reason. And while good people are trying to discover how, why and who, there are more people with more money that are trying to keep it quiet. If we put all of our collective heads together, we can probably help to discover the catalysts for these diseases.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:11:09 GMT

Interesting! When going to TOXNET and searching for aspartame, methanol, this heading came up:

ASPARTAME

Synonym: methanol,

22839-47-0

Other synonyms for aspartame include: CANDEREL, EQUAL, NUTRASWEET, SWEET DIPEPTIDE, TRI-SWEET, APM; 3-AMINO-N-(ALPHA-CARBOXYPHENETHYL)SUCCINAMIC ACID N-METHYL ESTER;

3-Amino-N-(alpha-methoxycarbonylphenethyl) succinamic acid, and so forth.

A related HSDB record includes:

93 [METHANOL] (Metabolite)

In searching for aspartame, formaldehyde (a breakdown product), this came up:

FORMALDEHYDE

Synonym: aspartame,

50-00-0

**... Methanol is metabolized in human beings by the same enzymes that metabolize ethanol, alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase, to toxic intermediates, formaldehyde and formic acid. [Hardman, J.G., L.E. Limbird, P.B., A.G. Gilman. Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 10th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001., p. 1886]**PEER REVIEWED**

**The first step in the metabolism of methanol is oxidation to formaldehyde. In rats, a catalase-peroxidase system is primarily responsible for the initial step, whereas in humans and monkeys, alcohol dehydrogenase plays a major role. Despite the difference, the initial metabolic step proceeds at similar rates. The third possible pathway in methanol oxidation is hepatic microsomal oxidation involving the cytochrome P450 system.**

[Bingham, E.; Cohrssen, B.; Powell, C.H.; Patty's Toxicology Volumes 1-9 5th ed. John Wiley & Sons. New York, N.Y. (2001)., p. V6 p.374]**PEER REVIEWED**

**Methanol is a hydrolytic metabolite of aspartame accounting for 10% of aspartame consumed.**

[DHHS/NTP; NTP-CERHR Expert Panel Report on the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of Methanol p.10 (April 2002) NTP-CERHR-MeOH-02. Available WAS, but is no longer available from: cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/.../methanol_final.pdf as of July 20, 2005. ]

But, methanol is not only a metabolite of aspartame. Stay tuned.

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Beccadog — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:39:04 GMT

Has the rise on Multiple Sclerosis been linked to aspartame? I read that it may be at the web site of disabled nurse Betty Martini's site alerting the public to aspartame. Martini noted (and excerpts of studies at the National Library of Medicine confirmed at the time that aspartame metabolized into methanol, one of the breakdown products, in the body. Searching further, I traced the metabolites all the way to formic acid. Much of the original data has been removed from the Hazardous Substances Data Bank at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

Are there other people, other than disabled nurse, Betti Martini, who have linked the symptoms of aspartame to MS? Two web sites link the symptoms of MS to methanol, a breakdown product in aspartame.

**A l997 study found that macrophages exposed to aspartame produces a threefold rise in leukotriene (B4, C 4 and 15 hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid) and arachidonic acid metabolites. This would be detrimental to patients having autoimmune disorders such as lupus, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS and rheumatoid arthritis. Clinically, there is some evidence for worsening of two of the three conditions (MS and Lupus) by aspartame use....** It is the opinion of Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. **and the opinion of many others, that aspartame is a

dangerous neurotoxin and its use should be discouraged generally, but especially so in those harboring neurological diseases.** More at: www.medhelp.org/.../14204.html

www.truthinlabeling.org/Blaylock-AspartameAndMultipleSclerosis-Neurosurgeon'sWarning.html

Multiple Sclerosis may be linked to environmental factors.

**octors believe environmental factors may play a role in dozens of other diseases, including multiple sclerosis and lupus...**

www.ourstolenfuture.org/.../2003-0124-WSJ-zipcodepollutants.htm

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alpdesigns — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:28:15 GMT

I was diagnosed with MS by my ex-neurologist, Lyme disease and mercury toixicity by a homeopath. I was always in the sun as a child into my early 30's and, because my dad was a fsherman, I ate LOTS of fish. I don't think that I had a vitamin D defeciency when I was young(er). I believe having dental amalgams was the cause of this disease and since I had them removed, I have improved. I also changed my diet to raw, vegan, whole foods and I'm regaining my mobility, slowly, but surely. There's poison in those processed foods!

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Almond — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:30:31 GMT

How will the legal mandate of imposing fluorescent lighting on the US population by 2014 (as incadescent lighting is phased out) affect human health? Sunlight is best. Many studies show FL is harmful. In some cases, FL even causes blindness. I do not see that sensitive individuals have options other than stockpiling incadescent light bulbs or going to bed when it gets dark. Either way, both are ultimately a drain on our national health and economy.

See: Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,

Signed Into Law on Dec. 19, 2007

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Dr Rik — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:50:07 GMT

Interesting to see the trauma connection noted. Chiropractors have always gotten good results with people with MS. In the Chiropractic College Clinic we were taught to note that all our MS patients had a history of physical trauma, often a motor vehicle crash with whiplash. Damage to the cervical spine with demyelination following some years later. Clearly these people have a (genetic?) predisposition. It seems like a logical connection

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yodaclay — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:06:07 GMT

Dont want to tell people about LDN?