Aug 12, 2021
What Is the Gut Microbiome? In addition to our own cells, our bodies contain trillions of microorganisms — bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaeal cells — collectively called microbiota. Their combined DNA is called the microbiome. Some may be harmful, but most...
Aug 12, 2021
One of the common themes among the patients that I have talked to is sleep disorders. Many say that the chronic fatigue they experience with MS leads to problems with sleep. They also mention that they have trouble staying awake during the day, but are wide awake at...
Aug 2, 2021
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive immune-mediated disorder that causes a person’s body to mistakenly attack the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, optic nerve). When a person has MS, their central nervous system (CNS) becomes acutely inflamed. This...
Aug 2, 2021
Your brain is the most complex organ in your body. It performs a long list of functions critical for life. This is possible because of electrical impulses that travel through nerve cells called neurons. Each neuron has a tail-like axon that carries those impulses to...
Jul 25, 2021
Whether it’s progressing quickly or slowly, the unpredictability of multiple sclerosis can really lead you to question yourself. Am I fatigued or am I just tired? Did I fall because I’m clumsy or because I experienced foot drop? Is this a new symptom? Oh no, is this...
Jul 25, 2021
Multiple sclerosis(MS) is defined as being an aggressive immune related disorder. What this basically means is that our immune system mistakenly labels a certain section of our body as a threat, which it attacks, similarly to how it would work to attack and eliminate...
