The book provides competent assistance to all those affected by Multiple Sclerosis to better understand the disease and educates them about current diagnostic methods and treatment approaches. With independent information, the guidebook provides the key to a self-determined life with the disease. Complex medical facts such as the malfunctioning immune system or MRI findings are explained in understandable words and accompanying drawings. This companion also raises awareness beyond conventional medicine to take into account important influencing environmental factors.

The author provides answers to the many questions that are asked again and again in the doctors' practices and cannot always be answered to this extent and with this clarity due to time restrictions. For this reason, it is a highly helpful tool to both MS practitioner and patient.

The book is structured as follows:

What is MS? - How the central nervous system is structured - What happens when the nervoussystem is misdirected - MS relapse and typical symptoms - The path to diagnosis - An excursion into our immune system - The MRI findings - Why lumbar puncture - What to do during an MS relapse - I'm fine, why therapy? - MS and the desire to have children - What can I do myself: Nutrition, Vitamin D, intestine and microbiome.

Part I: MS - Understanding the disease: 1 What is MS? - A first overview

2 Do I really have MS?
3. An excursion into our immune system
4 Why MRI?
5.  The most important facts about the nerve fluid
Part II: MS - Understanding the therapy: 6. How MS is treated
7. What to do in an acute MS episode
8. I am fine - why therapy?
9. MS therapy yesterday and today
10. How the progression of the disease can be influenced - the MS drugs in detail
11. The therapy goal has a name: NEDA
12. MS and vaccinations
13. MS and the desire to have children
Part III: MS - and what you can do yourself: 14. Own initiative helps
15. Forest fire MS
16. "Western Diet" and "Blue Zones
17. Nutrition works
18. The intestine and its inhabitants
19. Microbiota and microbiome
20. How the microbiome develops
21. How bacteria can be identified
22. Stool transplantation
23. The intestine and MS: what scientific research says
24. Vitamin D - sense and nonsense
25. Action plan and recipes to follow
26. Summary of the most important recommendations.
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