A Cure for MS!?

[Anonymous]

Immune systems are quite picky when there's an underlying problem.  I really hope there's a cure for this and not just false hope.

It's all trial.  The depressing part is when they find something that works, it takes like 20 years after everything is said and done to get it to market.

Why does it take so long RW?

They start with a small pilot trial - like the one you see above.  Then they have to compile and review all the data which takes a while.  Then they have to get approved for a bigger trial.  Then they have to find researchers to carry it out.  They need to then find people to do it, do the trial which usually takes years itself.  It's also usually done in more than one location across the country.  They do the trial, then they have to compile all the data and there is TONS of it.  Every time you so much as stub your toe, you have to report it to the trials group.  So after that's all compiled (years later) it gets reviewed.  Then they apply to be able to do it or use a drug on the general populace which means an agency like Health Canada has to review the study findings.  Then it's either approved or not.

That's a lot of steps.

[keeper]

I have heard,Read,investigated,researched cures like this for over 15 years. You would think by now they would have a working cure, so sad

[RW]

That's true Keeper.  There have been a lot of "cures" out there that haven't panned out.



I think it's very difficult when you don't know the cause to find the cure.

[Frood]

That's true Keeper.  There have been a lot of "cures" out there that haven't panned out.



I think it's very difficult when you don't know the cause to find the cure.

Something in the modern diet or environment (possibly a combination of both). Celiacs disease, Crohn's disease and a number of other possible afflictions such as Alzheimer's and even perhaps ADD and many of the mental illnesses may be interrelated. Gluten on its own might not be too damaging but consumed in environments with other biological or metallurgical dietary variants, who knows still.



I always find it interesting to hear about the family members who didn't or don't have MS and what illnesses they've suffered from or eventually expired from. There seems to be a correlation in many cases.

[RW]

They should be doing more studies into family illnesses and MS.  I'm thinking they should be looking into fertilizers as well.



The strange thing is that no one else in my family has had MS.

[Frood]

They should be doing more studies into family illnesses and MS.  I'm thinking they should be looking into fertilizers as well.



The strange thing is that no one else in my family has had MS.

It's definitely environmental.



Why do certain locations in the world have greater incidences of it than others?

[RW]

Yes but what is in that environment?  There are also higher instances in specific areas like the prairies.  Agricultural link?

[Frood]

Yes but what is in that environment?  There are also higher instances in specific areas like the prairies.  Agricultural link?

Or geological, including the water table? I've seen a number of rankings where agriculture wouldn't have conceivably played a part in it although a lot of them do tend to point that way.

[RW]

They just don't know.  Climate plays a roll I'm betting as well.

[keeper]

I was told from day one from the best doctors/specialists that MS was hereditary and that it skips generations..

[RW]

No one in my family has it but me so there goes that theory.

[Renee]

They just don't know.  Climate plays a roll I'm betting as well.

As in exposure to sunlight and vitamin D?



Some studies indicate that moving to an area where the prevalence of the disease is less and experiences longer hours of sunlight, before you reach early puberty, reduces your chances of contracting the disease. But I don't think there is a conclusive link it,......as you say,.......they just don't know.  ac_unsure