Planning The Unpredictable

I am a bit of a childbirth nerd. I have been trained to be a doula and attended three births. I don’t know if I will ever have kids so my family reading this shouldn’t get the wrong idea or anything.
I decided to do some research on breastfeeding with Copaxone. [...]

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Gender has become a dominant factor in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) during the last decades. Already with a ratio of 3.2 to 1 MS is gradually changing into a disease predominantly among women. Since genetic factors can be ruled out as a cause of this gender related increase, scientific attention is on environmental factors that may [...]

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Well, drink all the diet coke you want. Drs. Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz says the link to Diet Coke is debunked:
3. Diet Coke and MS: The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation has debunked the notion that Diet Coke can cause or worsen multiple sclerosis symptoms. Its verdict is backed up by the Food and Drug [...]

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If you caught Oprah the other day, she had the founders of 23andMe on her shot. 23andMe is a company that will look at your DNA to find out your risk and preferences for a number of things. It is done via spit that you send in the mail. 4-6 weeks later [...]

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It was reported today that Multiple Sclerosis can be cured (like bacon!) with the help of a known cancer medication. The problem is, this medications job is to stop your immune system. As you can imagine, this might cause some problems. In fact, one person has died during this trial. I wrote [...]

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I saw this come through the google: Veterans’ MS study awaits Bush sign-off
The Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, now awaiting President Bush’s signature, contains a provision to determine whether veterans of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and of post-9/11 wars are at increased risk for multiple sclerosis.
Senate Bill 3023 passed the House last [...]

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Stem cell research is always a touchy topic in politics. It’s a complicated topic to. The republicans say they for stem cell research and the democrats say they aren’t. The truth is, there are two types of stem cell research. The republicans are for adult stem cell research. The stem [...]

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Well, color me shocked… another study linking vitamin D to MS:
“The biomarker of vitamin D status was significantly lower in children diagnosed with MS to date,” Hanwell said. “Children diagnosed with MS had lower vitamin D levels than those not diagnosed. Another way of looking at it, as vitamin D status increased, children had a [...]

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I had my summary visit with my wonderful weight management doctor today. I am happy to report that my thyroid is finally stabilized. I think it took about 6-8 months to get the right dose but none the less, I feel so much better.
About 3 months ago I was put on 10,000 IU [...]

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My friend (well technically, my mothers friend) Linda said that for the first three months of her diagnosis she set out to learn everything she could on Multiple Sclerosis. She went to meetings with the local MS chapter to hear about the latest research, she read anything she could find and do what a [...]

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