“I’d rather live my life than have MS live it for me.”
We’ll admit it: For a long time, whenever we saw stories about gut health, diet, and Multiple Sclerosis, we pretty much shrugged our shoulders.
After all, we’ve each been living with MS for more than 25 years. What difference could gut bacteria possibly make for us now?
Turns out, that may have been the wrong question.
In this episode of A Couple Takes on MS, we dig into some recent research that made us think differently about gut health and Multiple Sclerosis, inflammation, and the choices we make while living with MS.
We quickly discovered the conversation raises far more questions than answers.
• How much attention should we pay to what we eat and how it makes us feel?
• What can we actually control when living with an unpredictable disease?
• At what point does trying to live healthier start getting in the way of simply living?
We certainly don’t have all the answers, but we’re realizing that staying open to new information may be just as important as anything we thought we already knew.
And because this is A Couple Takes on MS, we also took a slight detour involving our 21st wedding anniversary, first legal drinks, and a late-night run for Taco Bell. 😉
Here are the links that offer further insights into our conversation:
• A healthy diet becomes a post-diagnosis priority in MS, study finds
• Gut-Microbiota, and Multiple Sclerosis: Background, Evidence, and Perspectives
• Mediterranean-style diet may lower MS risk, study suggests
• Teenagers who eat a healthy diet face less risk of later MS, study suggests
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