Help for Multiple Sclerosis

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society notes that about 400,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and worldwide, the disease affects about 2.5 million people.
The majority of people experience the disease as a series of attacks where they'll have some difficulty with sensation or coordination or vision or balance, and then they’ll heal. There may be weeks or months before another attack.
Below are common symptoms of MS in particular. A diagnosis is made by ruling out other conditions.
Visual
Double vision or vision loss
Uncontrollable rapid eye movements
Flashing lights before the eyes
Blurred vision and color blindness
Motor
Muscle atrophy or spasms (especially in the legs)
Paralysis or foot drags the floor when walking
Slurred speech
Tics, jerking and twitching muscles
Sexual dysfunction
Sensory
Numbness, tingling sensations
Pain in the arms and legs and or face
Burning, itching or electric shock-like sensations
Coordination
Decreased ability to control small movements
Loss of coordination
Dizziness and Loss of balance
Stuttering
Vertigo
Bowel and Bladder
Urinary leakage, frequency, urgency or hesitancy
Constipation or Bowel urgency
Cognitive
Decreased attention span and memory
Decreased judgment
Anxiety
Dementia
Other
Fatigue
Acid reflux
Impaired taste and smell
Swallowing problems
Sleeping disorders, depression
Hearing loss

Typically, the first symptoms to appear are blurred vision, fatigue, tingling sensations, muscle weakness, electrical shock-like sensations, and bladder problems.

What Causes Multiple Sclerosis?
The exact cause is not known, but MS is believed to result from damage to the myelin sheath, the protective material that surrounds nerve cells. Scars (scleroses) form on the nerve fibers in the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. These scars result from lesions that destroy the myelin sheath, a process known as demyelination.
Inflammation occurs when the bodies own immune cells attack the nervous system. The inflammation destroys the myelin, leaving multiple areas of scar tissue (sclerosis) – thus the name Multiple Sclerosis.
Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases
Multiple Sclerosis shares much in common with other autoimmune diseases.
Even though someone may look perfectly healthy, if they have an autoimmune disease, they are truly ill. Sometimes the symptoms are “invisible” and a definite diagnosis is difficult to come by.
The following symptoms are common in many autoimmune diseases. All of them are common in Multiple Sclerosis.

Fatigue
Short Term Memory Loss
Depression
Low Thyroid Function
Gastrointestinal Problems
Swollen Glands, Chemical Sensitivity, Headaches
Candida Yeast Infections
Overdoing
Fluttering heart, panic attacks, rapid heartbeat, mitral valve prolapse
Why Does The Immune System Malfunction?
When you have a disorder such as Multiple Sclerosis, these symptoms occur because your immune system attacks itself. Here is how it works:
Your immune system has two different modes. Th-1 or T helper-1 cells fight pathogens like viruses, mycoplasma and bacteria that are inside the cells. Th-2 or T helper-2 cells fight pathogens outside the cells.
When the immune system is healthy, these two modes function together, supporting each other in keeping the body healthy. But if they get out of balance, if the Th-1 side becomes weak and the Th-2 side is over activated and the Th-1 side is not able to control this over activation and serious problems develop. It needs to be modulated back into balance.
Several things may cause Th-2 cell over activation:
Stress produces cortisol and cortisol stimulates the production of Th-2 cells. For this reason autoimmune diseases may manifest after a stressful event.
Overexposure to toxins wear out the immune system and thus may cause Th-2 cell over activation.
When Th-2 cells are activated and Th-1 cells are worn out, your bodies only defense against pathogens ends up being Th-2 side RNase L activity.
RNase L cannot kill pathogens. It can only stop them from reproducing.

What is supposed to happen when a healthy person encounters a virus or mycoplasma? The regular form of RNase L inhibits replication and then the immune system steps in and wipes them out. After that everything down-regulates, and they recover.
In an autoimmune situation, the RNase L activity shifts to a more destructive lower weight form, and does not shut off. It stays activated much longer, resulting in pronounced cellular metabolic dysfunction. Over activation of RNase L also affects the liver. Liver function declines because the enzymes used by the liver to detoxify toxins are being used up by the activity of the aberrant RNase L.
When this happens, a person become susceptible to toxins. The result is high levels of toxicity that cause major problems in the body.
Steroids and the Immune Response
When a doctor gives a person suffering from an autoimmune disease prednisone or another steroid, they are trying to turn off the immune system. Unfortunately, the success rate is low because they are using a poor tool.
Steroids don’t just turn down the Th-2 side - they also wipe out the Th-1 side. This side needs to be boosted, not depressed. Because unless it is brought up to normal, it will allow the Th-2 side to over activate. Both sides need to balance. If one is too low, the other will naturally be too high.
Following are some thoughts on helping to turn around the situation:
Lack Of Oxygen Is Common In Autoimmune Conditions
The lack of Oxygen at the cellular level may cause problems associated with autoimmune diseases. Decreased oxygen to the left side of the brain can result in the short-term memory loss. It may also be a factor in the long term malfunctioning of glandular and hormonal systems in the brain.

Oxygen is also needed to oxidize and remove toxins. When cells don’t have enough oxygen, they are not able to detoxify themselves adequately plus, they won’t be able to produce adequate amounts of energy, which can be a major cause of fatigue.
Oxygen kills anaerobic bacteria, mycoplasma and viruses. It works so well it is used to purify water in many cities. (Ozonation.)
If you want to fight mycoplasmas and viruses with oxygen, you need to produce oxygen inside the cells. Some good quality oxygen supplements are able to do this (see link at the end of this article).
Energy Production and Protein
One of the common characteristics of a body in distress is that the energy required to release the needed building blocks from food is not available.
Thus, an all natural essential protein food supplement that comes - fully absorbable AS IS can be especially helpful. Products with a high hydrolysed amino acid content and Fulvic acid for example, are valuable. Among its manifold benefits, Fulvic acid intensifies the metabolism of proteins.  It also increases DNA content in cells and increases the rate of RNA synthesis.
Collagen is an example of a complex structural protein which, when hydrolyzed into amino acids, provides the major building material for growth, repair and maintenance of skin, ligaments, bones, nails and hair. (Many Doctors consider hydrolysed collagen and vitamin C as the two most essential supplements for rebuilding health and strength).
Once your body has a supply of high quality amino acids from collagen AND the assistance of Fulvic acid, it can go to work on the repair and regeneration process - producing cells that follow the correct DNA blueprint and assisting overall health.
Detoxification and Free Radical Damage in Autoimmune Diseases
The problems in autoimmune conditions run much deeper than a messed up immune system, wiped out enzymes, oxygen depleted cells and depleted protein synthesis.

When your liver can’t effectively detoxify your body because its enzymes have been wiped out, toxins build up in your cells. This is especially true if mycoplasma are also producing toxic build up in them. This toxic buildup causes much damage - damage that can persist even if the autoimmune response is turned off.
Glutathione (the bodies most effective detoxifier) deficiency has been found to be virtually universal in autoimmune diseases and due to this deficiency, people slowly become toxic, storing away poisons in fatty tissue, muscles, organs and the brain.
Because glutathione is a potent antiviral and anti-microbial weapon, glutathione deficiency compromises antiviral and anti-microbial defenses leaving viral replication unchecked. Raising glutathione levels inside the cells can stop the replication of almost any pathogen.
There has been a good deal of research that show how important glutathione is. Here are several sources:
Immunology 61: 503-508 1987.
(Bounous et al., 1991).
(Droege et al., 1997) and in the maintenance of T-lymphocytes (Gutman, 1998).
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 47: 1021-28 1994
Biochemical Pharmacology 47:2113-2123 1994
The Lancet 344: 796-798 1994
Annual Review of Biochemistry 52 : 711-780 1983.
(Lamestro, 1995)

Researchers now believe that the damage caused by Multiple Sclerosis may occur early in its progression. The earlier you begin to address the condition, the more likely you are to decrease the injury to the nervous system.
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