Multiple Sclerosis
Our nerves are covered by a thin sheath called myelin. Multiple Sclerosis by definition is a de-myelinating disease of the nervous system, where this myelin is damaged or eroded. It is a progressive degenerative nervous system disorder and may affect the brain, the spinal cord, or the optic nerve. Depending on the place of damage, people generally tend to suffer from difficulty in walking, seeing or slurred speech. They may sometimes lose bowel and bladder control. Their thinking process will also be affected. All in all, this is a debilitating disease to have to experience.
Whichever classic medical textbook you refer to, whether it is Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine or Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, they express a similar concept, perhaps with different terminology. According to these textbooks, it is an autoimmune disease that destroys the body’s own tissue, which in this case happens to be the nervous tissue. Usually the disease is seen to be unstoppable and progressive, even though occasionally there are remissions. Hence the usual thinking goes in the direction of only disease management techniques – steroids, immunosuppressants (like beta interferon drugs), physiotherapy, pain management, etc. It does not go in the direction of a cure. If we focus on what it is, then according to allopathy the demyelinization has already occurred, and the myelin sheath is scarred. None of that scarring is addressed by application of steroids, interferon drugs, and physiotherapy.
Imagine a crowd on a train platform in the morning rush hour, in which a child yells with pain and causes the crowd to stop what they are doing and pay attention to it. Is the problem solved by muffling the yells of the child and pushing the crowd away so that the crowd can continue on its way to work? This is what immunosuppression and steroid usage does, it muffles the immune system’s inflammatory responses.
To really tackle this problem we have to focus on why it has occurred rather than on what it is.
First, we have to understand that physical laws are different, and biological laws are different. If we throw a monkey and a stone of the same weight into the water, the stone sinks, while the monkey swims out. Have you thought of how a black cow eats green grass and produces white milk? Hence we should practice thinking in a different way to find ways to cure it rather than management alone. In this case, the real problem is to discover why did the child yell i.e. why the nerve tissue is being damaged.
When we are looking at what affects our nerves on an everyday basis, we find our mental attitude playing a big role. When there is a positive mental attitude and stable emotions, endorphins are released that dilate the blood vessels, and maintain proper circulation. When the temperament is one of being anxious or nervous, or having excessive negative emotions like anger, hatred and worry, it generates more adrenalin that narrows the blood vessels and restricts blood circulation, which in turn harms the nerve sheaths and wears down the nerves. Creating a positive mental attitude is hence the first step in addressing multiple sclerosis. This connection has also been studied in the literature. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115807/)
The next step is to identify what the nerve tissue needs to recover from the damage. A high concentration of anti-oxidants, including grapeseed extract and others, along with essential fatty acids, with the dose tailor-made to each individual’s requirement goes a long way in helping the nerve tissue recover.
This is our approach at Healion. We should approach all problems with the attitude that they can be solved, because the moment we think – like the textbooks – that “it is not possible”, all searching for real solutions stops. That is what we must overcome.