Symptoms:
Earlier stages: occasional dizziness, mood swings or depression, numbness in the fingers and feet, weakness in the hands and feet, loss of balance, nausea and vomiting, muscular stiffness, tremors, slurred speech, and difficult breathing. Later stages: difficulty in walking, a staggering gait. Later still: spastic movements, paralysis, extreme fatigue, and bowel and bladder incontinence.

Symptoms flare up, and then nearly disappear for a time. Yet the problem keeps worsening, over a matter of weeks, but sometimes slowly over decades.

Cause:
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The nerves are covered with a coating called myelin. MS destroys this covering, leaving scar tissue (called plaques) in its place. Eventually the nerves themselves become sclerotic (hardened) and stop functioning.

Possible causes include an autoimmune attacking by the white blood cells of the myelin sheaths; malnutrition or poor diet; stress; possible food allergies (dairy products or gluten); metal poisoning (lead, mercury, etc.); chemicals (industrial chemicals, pesticides, etc.); toxins from bacteria and fungi in the body; and vaccinations.

Diet appears to be a primary factor: heavy consumption of meat, sugar, refined grains, and rancid oils.

Overwork, emotional stress, fatigue, pregnancy, acute respiratory infections, chemical poisoning, and poor diet are known to precede the onset.

MS usually begins between 25 and 40, and twice as often in women as men.

There is no known cure, but suggestions, below, will help retard (and possible halt) the progress of the disorder.

Treatment:
• Give attention to solving as many of the above possible problems as possible.

• Eat a nourishing diet with supplemental vitamins and minerals. Fruit and vegetable juices are important.

• Avoid meat, milk, eggs, dairy products, and caffeine.

• Avoid sugar, excess fat, white-flour, rancid oils, fried foods; all of which are able to destroy nerve cells.

• The mercury fillings in your teeth may be a factor. The levels of mercury in people with MS are seven times higher than those in other people. Get rid of your mercury fillings, if you have any symptoms of MS.

• Massage and regular exercise are helpful. Keep mentally active.

• Avoid stress and anxiety; they can bring on attacks.

• Short fasts are helpful.

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used successfully in some other countries (outside the U.S.).

• Helpful herbs include ginkgo, suma, gotu kola, kelp, hop, chamomile, skullcap, and valerian.