Multiple Sclerosis: modern diet doomed us

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There are so many things in the diet it could be. Or a combination of many of them. For example it could be intestinal permeability combined with milk consumption. People in the west evolved to be able to drink cow's milk after we got into the habit of drinking it. The gene for being able to tolerate lactose should switch off after childhood but now it's continued into adulthood. I read an article about humans are still evolving and this was one example. I've always had a low level intolerance to milk which got worse in my 40's which is when I got MS. The theory of molecular mimicry for MS postulates that leaky gut syndrome allows lactose into the blood where the immune system learns to see it as a foreign body. And permeability in the blood brain barrier allows it to get through to the brain. So I also suffered from Glandular Fever (Mononucleosis, Epstein Barr virus) over 20 years ago which has also been linked to MS and this could have damaged the blood brain barrier.

I have also wondered about processed oils. They get processed way beyond what they would naturally be eating and appear in almost all the food you buy in the supermarkets. Manufacturers don't care. There is little demand for food without these oils and they allow for greater profits as food can last on the shelf longer. I have often spoken to people who don't have MS but other undiagnosed conditions that they treat by eating healthily. That means whole food and decent unprocessed oil.

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[Astreja]

Atlas, how's your Vitamin D consumption? The doctors here recommend that MS patients take extra D (at least 2000 IU a day).

The MS incidence in Manitoba is quite high, and it's suspected that it may be because we're at a high latitude (Winnipeg is nearly 50°N) and avoid going outside in really cold weather, so we're not getting adequate sunshine (which causes the body to make its own Vitamin D).

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Atlas, how's your Vitamin D consumption?  The doctors here recommend that MS patients take extra D (at least 2000 IU a day).

The MS incidence in Manitoba is quite high, and it's suspected that it may be because we're at a high latitude (Winnipeg is nearly 50°N) and avoid going outside in really cold weather, so we're not getting adequate sunshine (which causes the body to make its own Vitamin D).

I take it daily in the form of capsules, I'm not sure about the amount taken though; but it's probably 2000 IU.
I don't get a lot naturally, I lost interest in eating eggs and my tolerance for the sun is not enough for me to take vitamin D.

I came to think that the lack of Vitamin D does help in developing MS, but it is not a main cause. Back in my childhood until late teenage years I used to stay in the sun for hours but I still got the disease. I'll put more betting on the additives in food & the environmental factors. There is a lot of oil refineries in Saudi Arabia, I can throw a blind bet and say the sun here is strengthening the protection of the body from M.S, unlike environments which lack enough Vitamin D naturally.