Lots of reasons for hope, dreams and long healthy life even with MS

By IntelligentGuidetoMS Thursday, May 06, 2010

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After living with MS since 1991 when I was diagnosed and watching others who have MS, I believe more strongly than ever that there is great hope for everyone with MS. More and more scientific evidence supports this view also. I believe the the keys to beating MS are an MS diet (low saturated fat), exercise, sleep, enough vitamin D, not smoking, etc. -- all common sense, low cost health promoting solutions for everyone. Best of all these life style factors make one look drop dead gorgeous. At age 60, despite never taking any medicines for MS, not even steroids, I still have no visible symptoms.

I am totally grateful for professors of medicine Roy L. Swank and George Jelinek for their great leadership in this area. I think that that their programs lead to far better outcomes with MS than any pharmaceutical approach.

I have a blog and I hope that everyone who has experience with Swank and Jelinek approaches will start a blog too. It is great to read about others who have MS but who are living full and healthy lives.

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momdukes

5/ 6/10 4:31pm

Can you find this Swank diet online. Is there a cost to getting it off of the internet? I would like to read about it and see what it involves.

sherry/smomdukes

IntelligentGuidetoMS

5/ 6/10 5:06pm

You can get all of the info. you want for free off of the Swank Foundation web site at www.swankmsdiet.org. Also, you can do what I did first, just borrow his classic book from the library using an interlibrary loan.

Another great web site that is loaded with great top notch and totally free info is by George Jelinek, a professor of medicine from Australia. His web site is www.takingcontrolofmultiplesclerosis.org . Jelinek's mom died of MS and he has MS himself. But he does what I do and is in great shape -- looks like a movie star I like to say. (I wish I looked like a move star.) I have a web site too and you can find a link on that on my home page. I'm just another person with MS, though, and I'm not a doc or a professor of medicine like Swank or Jelinek.

Best wishes. I hope I got you interested in healthy living. You won't believe how cute you can be after a good healthy living program kicks in after a few months.

All the best. The message I try to give others is that MS need not be the end of the world.

Rebecca

momdukes

5/ 6/10 5:37pm

Thx so much!

sherry/smomdukes

tellnhelen

5/ 7/10 9:41pm

Hello I also read your "intellegent guide". I'm glad you found us here on MS Central. I have adopted many aspects of Dr Swanks diet and the MS Recovery Diet. I have to admit though I have not evolved to totally following every rule. (I occassionally cheat). I should also say that I found following the dietary rules, even in general, EXTREMELY important to my well-being, my strength and my stamina. I amvery concious of the effect food has on me.

I hope our readers here visit your site too. I found it informative and interesting in the way you approach MS management.

IntelligentGuidetoMS

5/ 8/10 10:00pm

Thanks for your nice comments. I'm a woman on a mission! I would love to get everyone following the ultra healthy life style that I think can help with the MS a lot! For an example of what a good life style can do, you can take a look at George Jelinek, MD., a professor of medicine with MS. He follows a program almost identical to mine and he looks like a movie star! I know another guy who looks really cute too and is doing great too--hasn't had a relapse since 1992 or 1993. All of the turns the whole idea that MS has to be terrible on its nose. I really don't believe it at all and have not seen that happen to folks I know here in Minnesota where MS is too common.

Lisa Emrich, Health Guide

5/ 9/10 7:23pm

Hi Rebecca,

Welcome to MS HealthCentral. We have a nice little community here which is very open and supportive. On occasion, George Jelinek will stop by and share information and research with us. It would be great if you could talk more about your approach to an ultra-healthy lifestyle. Maybe even share more specific things about your regular routine or choices. Do you have recipes even? I'd love to read some of those if you do.

Lisa

Lots of reasons for hope, dreams and long healthy life even with MS

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