Lately I’ve taken to watching videos from TED conferences on TED.com. This one felt like it belonged on this blog. Jill Bolte Taylor’s illness was a massive revelation that changed her life. Her talk is deeply inspiring. “Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive...
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I was born on April 24th. Apparently that makes me a shoe-in for MS. In today’s UK Telegraph online, it read “Scientists found mothers who were pregnant during the autumn and winter were most likely to give birth to those who would suffer from the debilitating neurological disease.” Awesome! The Scotland-based study, published in...
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I watched the documentary Food, Inc. a few days ago with great interest. As some of you may know, I treat my illness primarily with diet and supplements, so food has become a major issue in my life these past few years. A funny thing happened when I stopped eating gluten, dairy, wheat, and...
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Yesterday I had an appointment with my neurologist, who I’ll refer to from here forward as Dr. N. This was my second appointment with him. My first was a month earlier, when I explained that I had been treating my MS with diet and supplements alone, and LDN beginning in March of 2009, and...
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Tags: diet, doctor, MRI, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, neurologist, Personal, progress, status update, supplements
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I’ve been following the news on Dr. Zamboni’s recent discovery of CCSVI but I found today’s article about it in the Huffington Post particularly interesting because it directly addresses the political aspect of this potential breakthrough. In other words, who stands to gain from this discovery, if it proves to be the miracle cure...
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Tags: breakthrough, CCSVI, dr. zamboni, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, politics, press, studies
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The following is a healing exercise excerpted directly from Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Brennan: Lie down, and imagine the nice pleasant sun inside the solar plexus (stomach area) of your body. Pretty soon, you will feel much better, and your stomach will feel warm. Probably even your breathing will...
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