NEW RESEARCH COULD STOP MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IN ITS TRACKS

In our summer conferences for the past few years, Dr. Alban Gaultier has been telling us that the gut is the key – to eat our yogurt.  When a person has multiple sclerosis (MS), their immune system causes inflammation that affects parts of the central nervous system, including the brain. We can’t currently cure MS, just slow it down — but a specific type of cell originating from the gut could change that.  In a  paper recently published in the journal Cell, a team from the University of Toronto and the University of California San Francisco describes a discovery of cells that migrate to the brain from the intestines.  Find out more.