It's the Biochemistry, Stupid!
Word has finally gotten through
about the possibilty that MS is not an autoimmune disorder,
but a biochemical disorder.
THINK...
The following have been suspect and even blamed as either playing a part
or being a cause of MS:
Aspartame
Lead
Environmental toxins
Measles
Chicken Pox
Mononucleosis
Herpes 6
Polio Vaccine
Now the Hepatitis B vaccine and pneumonia
Let's not forget stress or allergies either. Not to mention MS'
relationship to mood disorders, which have been PROVEN to be caused by a
chemical imbalance. Or how about those hormones and pregnancy?
CONSIDER
Some of us have tried and experienced some
recovery benefit from the proanthenols: grape seed, Pycnogenol, Bilberry,
etc. Others have tried diet and exercise to lessen the blow.
The new treatments, interferons and glatiramer acetate, have been a
big help as well, although we're given the "explanation" that they don't
know how these treatments work.
So, what does this all mean? What do all of these possibilities have
in common? If they're so sure it is a virus, how'd the virus get
into the CNS in the first place?
Could MS possibly be ...
...A BIOCHEMICAL IMBALANCE? ...
...NOT A DISEASE, BUT A SYNDROME?
It's been just too easy to join the
"autoimmune bandwagon" I think that labeling MS as an
autoimmune disease is just a pat answer to something that is
far more complex and requires a helluvalot more knowledge about the brain's anatomy.
This explanation has been knocking at the back of my brain for years. Thank God
researchers are starting to take note.
I think that if there is a way to rebalance the biochemical and/or
molecular construct of the brains of MS patients, deterioration
would stop.
The activity we see of the immune system could very possibly
be a normal immune response to something that is wrong at the molecular
or biochemical levels of the brain. And the normal, but imprecise
response of those T-cells tends to damage healthy cells as well as
imperfect ones.
Consider the movie Lorenzo's oil. The answer the Odone's discovered
related to the balance of fatty acids in the brain. Could there be a
similar relationship among all of the above listed suspects? Would it
point to an imbalance of some sort? What about childhood epilepsy?
Wasn't that also controlled by diet?