Does an MS recovery diet work? Yes, it actually does work, but to understand why means to understand the disease. The Maya and other ancient cultures pointed out on many occasions that knowing your problem or enemy is the first and greatest step to overcoming it.

Multiple sclerosis is caused by deterioration of a fatty tissue called myelin. The myelin sheath coats nerves like an insulator on wires, allowing their signals to come through strong and pure. Like with wires, if the coating is degrades, the signals are weaker and interfered with. The breakdown of myelin, called demyelination, is the crux of the MS problem.

See, when these signals are faded, weak or not there, organs, all organs on the affected lines, begin to lose power and control. This is due to the brain not being able to talk to them.

This phenomenon causes symptoms such as vertigo, pains and …

The MS Recovery Diet is a name for a specific diet developed by Ann D. Sawyer and Judith E. Bachrach.  It is by no means the only diet showing promise in controlling MS, but is the subject of this short article.

The MS recovery diet testimonials are many, and it seems to have helped many.  It is actually an extension of an earlier diet developed by a Dr. Roy Swank, a professor of Neurology at Oregon Health Science University.  His reports chronicle his own study of 144 patients and showed that after 34 years of following his diet, 66% of the 70 participants who followed the diet were still living while only 20% of those not adhering to the diet survived.

The premise of the MS Recovery Diet

The idea behind the diet is that partially digested proteins can stimulate an allergic immune response that makes antibodies mistake …