Note to new readers: The author has an irresistable urge to be humorous that is usually not recognized by people who take themselves seriously. He is not an expert on anything.
So, one day she stumbled into my office with double vision, no sense of balance, overcome by emotion. My 28 yo patient was having an acute exacerbation of MS and had just been told by her neurologist to go quit her job and get a wheel chair because her life was over. He told her there was nothing he could do for her. She had been having periodic episodes of MS for 4 years but her specialist had not made the diagnosis until this one. I guess that's why she hadn't mentioned it to me before this.
She had stopped first at her job at the Honda dealership where her boss had fired her. So much for workplace compassion! MS creates a "new normal" for you no matter what decade you get it in.
That day was one of the most shocking experiences I ever had as a doctor. I knew very little about multiple sclerosis and had never treated anyone for it. My practice was Urgent Care, not incurable diseases. So began a really exciting journey for the two of us. 8 weeks later she was back to work. She never did get the wheel chair and 3 months later she was symptom free. 16 months later I treated her for a broken arm she got falling off her bicycle while out riding with her kids!
I still don't know much about multiple sclerosis because in the 24 years since then very few of my patients have had MS and they were all under the care of specialists. But I do know what worked for Karen (and one other patient of mine):
FOODFORM VITAMINS. Manna
I doubt if you have ever heard of the company (see above link) that makes these vitamins and minerals because they have never been advertised or sold in stores. At this point I need to introduce the word
PROPOGANDA: Propoganda is advertising. You and I have been immersed in it since the day we were born. The purpose of propoganda is to make you believe stuff that isn't true and then go pay more money for it than it's worth. A good example is the most advertised vitamin ever:
CENTRUM. Centrum is probably as good as most vitamins you see at the store and I'll bet you have seen it advertised thousands of times. It won't hurt you. It probably will help you. But it is a
big waste of money and it won't have any effect on an acute MS attack in a 28 year old woman. Like most vitamin brands it primarily produces "vitamin water" that ends up in your toilet.
The need for something like FOODFORM was understood soon after the first vitamin was discovered. Vitamin C was known as a life saver for centuries but when people first started extracting it from plants they found out that the vitamin c powder didn't work very well. The same is true today when you put ascorbic acid into pills .... it doesn't work very well because it can't get inside the cells in your body as well as nature intended. But if you take the vitamin C in food it is wrapped up inside carbohydrate or protein complexes that your cells know how to grab and take in. The vitamin industry has made sure that almost no one understands this simple truth.
The Foodform process took 20 years to develop and it's patented. It is expensive and time consuming but it beats anything on the planet in terms of absorption and utilization by your body. It's the only one that has laboratory tests that prove it's efficacy for every vitamin and mineral it's formulas contain. For example, Iron deficiency is common and difficult to treat because iron is one of the most difficult minerals to absorb from the GI tract. Foodform iron is absorbed and utilized 15 to 20 times better than any other form of iron supplementation.
One thing I knew about my patient was that she had a mild iron deficiency which made her tire easily. I wondered about other vitamin deficiencies, especially B-3, B-6 and B-12 because a lack of these can hinder mineral absorption, affect nerve function and cause fatigue. When she responded to a couple of B-12 shots I started getting a little hope. In a couple days her double vision was much better an also her sense of balance. The only special lab work I got was iron studies because I wanted to document how fast those became normal on the foodform. (She was normal in about 2 weeks and it correllated well with her symptoms resolving.) At that point, weakness and lack of coordination were her main problems but her level of hope was sky high!
I enrolled her in my strengthening and conditioning program for low back
injuries even though her back was fine. I couldn't charge for that but it
really helped. She felt so much better after a few weeks that she started Tai
Kwan Do. It was kinda sad! She didn't need me at all anymore! Waaaaaa (From the beginning with her I had the idea that turning her into a "fighter" might be a key to turning this thing around. She turned into a real Tiger!
So, if you know any young people with MS, tell them to try some Foodform
Manna. It will cost a little more than $1 a day and it might work! Good Luck!
DrDan
