Studies show that oral N-acetylglucosamine produced benefits for remitting-relapsing, primary progressive and secondary progressive types of MS. After one month, nearly one-third of subjects reported less disability. No serious side effects were seen even after supplementing for long periods of time. As of last summer, the National Institutes of Health was continuing to study it, but as lead researcher Dr. Michael Demetriou of University of California Irvine School of Medicine points out, "Anyone can get their hands on [it now] if they have $20."
And that’s just what I’ve done, except that it was $17.99 —
for potential MS anti-inflammation and symptom improvement.
Then, instead of just playing defense with symptom
management alone, I’m been open to looking at promising research-study results.
Nothing crazy. I stick to NIH-related stuff. One of my past neuros, who had MS
himself, pointed me to a study about intermittent fasting, which I read and,
yes, gave a try for a few months. It wasn’t for me, but I tried.
Another, I still stick to. Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis is
a program started by Dr. George Jelinek in Australia, who has MS and went
through the scientific literature of the time to come up with his protocol.
It’s a number of lifestyle changes, like exercise, meditation, minimizing
stress and taking daily omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil. The
most difficult step for most would be the largely plant-based whole foods diet,
except for allowing various cold-water fish — so really it’s a pescatarian diet.
The thinking behind it is to minimize saturated fats, which according to the
work of influential doctors Swank and McDougall, contribute to the most rapid MS
deterioration. I tried going the extra step of cutting out meat altogether,
since I was 95% of the way there already, and I did fine with it, and have been
vegan now for about a dozen years.
There are no miraculous cures anywhere on this page. OMS is
about maximizing your well-being while living with MS, including using DMT’S, Jelinek
writes.
Still, taking glucosamine — make sure it’s oral
N-acetylglucosamine for best results — which is available for cheap at your
local anywhere store, to maybe get both anti-inflammation and improvement? With
little or no side effects? Tantalizing, yes?
Related articles:
https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-023-02893-9
https://www.ucihealth.org/news/2024/07/progressive-multiple-sclerosis
