In 1868 the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot discovered the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Back then it was a very rare to find disease. Neither had it been mentioned in ancient literature. MS is a modern disease. As time passed by MS has been diagnosed more often and today it is next to epilepsy one of the fastest growing neurological diseases in the world.

Many triggers have been named as potential causes but none of them is the true trigger. Otherwise a medicine to totally and effectively suppress the symptoms would have been developed already long ago. Many people are surprised to learn that pharmaceuticals have nothing but the ability to suppress symptoms. They cannot heal because they lack the ability to eliminate the root cause. Any medical doctor will agree with this if you ask them.

Medical science is far from offering something that cures MS. Thus patients have been told since the discovery of MS that this illness could not be cured. All that is available are a lot of information like books ON how to live with multiple sclerosis and how to arrange your life to make it somehow through the day if the symptoms get worth.

If we surf through the web and look at other sources we find the same stereotype information again and again. You can read about signs and symptoms, get information about the changes in the human organism and especially in the brain as a result of MS and so ON.

As potential triggers have been identified the genes; infectious agents; environmental toxins; organic solvents; food allergies; hormone imbalances; dietary fat. Other potential causes are Linoleic and Gamma-Linoleic acids, antioxidants and Vitamin D and B12 deficiency to mention only a few. Anyhow science admits not to know the true trigger (s) at all why those mentioned above remain theory.

The patients find little help to improve their situation. All there is are drugs that alleviate the symptoms and make the situation a little bit more bearable. But to live a bearable life is much too little if there is a possibility to live a normal life and you can live a normal healthy life again.

Unfortunately people with MS have been told that there would be no cure and that they would have to arrange themselves with the disease and make it through the day when things get worse. That's easy to say for those who don't suffer from MS.

The saddest thing of all is:
There has been a cure since 1940 that successfully helped some 12,000 patients and i.e they got free from their MS symptoms. The German physician Dr. Joseph Evers discovered the relationship between MS and nutrition.

He found out that as soon as people change their diet in a certain way their symptoms get better and totally disappear after some time. The modification of nutrition was the basis of his treatment. To complete it he ordered physical action as soon and as far as his patients were able to. His success was tremendous and easy to explain.

Remember and MS was first discovered in the second half of the 19th century. Around the same time many other so called civilization diseases occurred for the first time as well. Something else happened back then that changed the world completely: The industrial production of foods.

One consequence of it is that these products get processed to such a high degree (milling, heating, homogenizing and pasteurizing and more) that they lack most if not all of their nutritional value. They fill the stomach and keep you alive and that's pretty much it. In opposite, if we eat too much of this denatured food we get ill and some sooner some later but we surely do. The result can be seen in any overfilled doctor's practice.

There is another problem with industrial manufactured foods. They need a lot of additives to make them look nice and appealing and they have to have a long shelf life. To achieve this, the food industry has a huge selection of artificial additives like preservatives, homogenizers, colors and flavors and flavor enhancers. They accumulate to some 25,000 to 30,000 additives today.

In the meantime the food industry acquired so much knowledge that they manufacture many products that are completely artificial. To my horror I have to admit that some of them taste really good. They taste so well that one could eat tons of them. But they extremely undermine our health and exhibit destructive impact. By the way the craving for more is a result of additives as well.

Additives can be evaluated as harmful to the human organism. Our defense mechanism is designed to detect viruses, bacteria, simply natural things that could cause infections and inflammations and other problems. Most bacteria are harmless and many of them even essential. One example is intestinal bacteria which are in charge of building vitamin B12. Billions of bacteria reside our colon. Our immune system knows them and remains quiet. But if it detects harmful bacteria or viruses the immune system immediately gets active to eliminate the invaders.

This defense is stymied when we ingest artificial food additives. The same is the case with other substances like herbicides and pesticides. Although these substances are harmful our organism is unable to identify them as harmful. The immune system remains inactive. A big portion of these artificial substances is not excreted and remains circulating in the body or gets stored for instance in fat depots. The consequences are neurodermatitis and ADHD to mention only two. Both are symptoms of the nervous system like multiple sclerosis.

Did anybody ever tell you that the artificial sweetener saccharin has been used in pig fattening? Do you want to know why? This substance stimulates the brain and the organism starts craving for food. Consequently the pigs START eating like a horse and get faster fat to become ham and sausages.
This works the same in both and men and animals. Although foods containing artificial sweeteners have a little less calories and drinks even zero they stimulate people to eat more and they gain weight instead of loosing it what they actually desire by consuming such products.

Since the food industry started to lavish men with their gifts the health situation especially in the western world decreased dramatically. We have never had so many chronically ill people like today and this development will remain unbroken as long as people go ON eating the way they do today.

But there is still more than just the problem with industrially manufactured foods. Everything has to be fast including eating - the faster the better. Fast food restaurants spring like mushrooms. Every child knows in the meantime how questionable fast food is. Regardless the objections of doctors, nutritionists and the WHO and the consumption of fast food booms. The more industrial processed foods and fast food we have been consuming the more the state of health has been decreasing and will be in future.

Further questionable and alarming is the little consumption of FRESH fruits and vegetables and salads. Many people don't even eat any. There exist so called food deserts - areas where it is nearly or even totally impossible to buy any FRESH produce at all.

There is another interesting factor to mention. At the beginning of the 20th century there were less than 2,000 medical symptoms known. Until today this number multiplied more than 10-fold and exceeds 20,000 symptoms. MS is one of the many.

What I have been asking myself since I started to study nutrition is: What makes it so difficult to medical and nutritional experts to clearly see the correlation between the changing way of nutrition and the decreasing health of the world population? A sad aspect answers this question. Think about how many chronically ill people live in the world. They have to take medicine every day and sometimes for the rest of their life. That means billions of Dollars of annual turnover and revenue.

Of course and thanks to pharmaceuticals many infections and inflammations Lost their scare. If we suffer from such a disease we can be glad to have penicillin and other medicines to help us. But to put people ON high-priced drugs knowing a change in nutrition would do the very same without side effects is more than questionable. Many people say it's a crime towards humanity.

Also medical care has developed to a self growing dinosaur that engulfs billions but the health condition did not get any better because of all the technical instruments and diagnostic methods. The opposite is true.

In contrast to high priced drugs and medical care the improvement dietetic therapy is free of charge. You safe even money because you would eat less of the expensive foods offered nowadays. Another question is: What has been done so far to control and reduction this development? We have to take a closer look at medical science to answer this question.

The purpose of medical science is to isolate a trigger of a disease to be able to develop a medicine against it. If the symptoms disappear when the medicine has been administered it is effective. Conclusion: We have a symptom and a trigger and a concrete active agent that makes the symptom disappear. This is comprehensible and evident to anybody. The reverse of it: no known trigger no medicine!

With dietetic therapy it's different. If someone suffers from a certain disease and gets well after changing his nutrition nobody can tell what exactly caused the cure. Is it Vitamin C or D, is it nutrients in general, is it cauliflower or carrots and salad or apples? If it's carrots it could be provitamin A or any other nutrient in it. Nobody knows because science has not been interested in investigating this at all.

Rosalind Kalb, an associate vice president of the MS society and said in a NY Times article about studying the influence of nutrition ON MS: Thus far and no researcher has been interested in taking this ON. The medications seemed to show more promise.

Her colleague Patricia O'Looney, vice president for biomedical research at the Multiple Sclerosis Society and said in an interview: We'd never suggest changing one's diet in place of taking a therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Comment unnecessary!

To make the latter passages easier to understand let me put it this way. An orchestra consists of many musicians with different instruments. In order that the concert sounds good all the instruments have to be tuned. If you would tune only one of them and leave the rest untuned it would sound horrible.

It's the same with the human body. Taking medicine means tuning one instrument. In contrast changing your nutrition means tuning and synchronizing the whole orchestra within you and to bring it back to harmony where all the instruments (organs and functions) play perfectly together.

If you change your nutrition and get well the cause is your improved nutrition and effect is the symptom/s disappear. That's all we should care for and whether medical science agrees to it or not.
A very important aspect of dietetic therapy is that, in contrast to medicines and it is free from negative side effects.

After all this theory let's step a little further and have a look at how you can improve your health by optimizing your nutrition. That is actually easy to answer. A very important requirement is to know what happens within your body and to synchronize your nutrition with these processes. Then it is necessary to understand the biological processes and what impact nutrition has ON them. Without this knowledge dietetic efforts are futile because sooner or later most people tend to stop eating the way they need to improve their health. They just follow instructions and who likes to follow those without knowing why?

To explain all the necessary details blows the boundaries of an article. Therefore I can only give you some advices that you can implement easily.

If you already want to do something right away here is some information you can START with.

- Dairy - Avoid all kind of dairy like milk, butter, cheese and yoghurts and all products that contain them. Where appropriate and replace them with almond or coconut milk. You have to put a little effort into it because you have to prepare this kind of milk yourself. What you buy in supermarkets has been pasteurized and is useless - has no nutritional value. It more likely threatens your health.

- Gluten - Avoid all wheat, rye and barley and oats and all products containing them. There is more to it than just the gluten but if you do this you already support your health and healing process.

- Vegetables - Eat as much FRESH vegetables and fruits as possible. Avoid soy beans and other soy products and anything containing soy.

- Fruits - Eat as many fruits as you can and want at any time of the day. Eat them preferably before lunch and dinner and wait a while before you eat anything else. Otherwise you initiate unwanted reactions.

- Refined sugar must be eliminated from your diet wherever possible. Natural and COLD centrifuged honey is the alternative. Acacia honey is a great sweetener because it has a mild flavor. You can use stevia as the second choice.

- Stop drinking anything with your meals. It dilutes the digestive juices and makes the digestion more difficult. Drink either before you eat or wait an hour after your meal.

These few information is a good START. But to really get rid of MS symptoms by optimizing your nutrition there is a lot you can do and you must do and there is a lot you need to know about nutrition and how your body works in order to make your diet improvement effective and to relieve you from MS.

In 1988 G. Joel Ullisperger and M.Sc., had been told that his health problems would be incurable. Since then he has been studying the effects of nutrition ON human health and health improvement. He got well again within only three months. Today it's his passion to help people regaining their health as well and even if their symptoms should be called incurable. Feel free to visit Joel's websites at http://ms.health-dynamicx.com

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