My girl friend is a Navy vet so she gets her medical care from the VA. She was diagnosed with MS long ago.
More recently she’s been diagnosed with RA, Sjogrens and the latest, adrenal fatigue. All are autoimmune diseases.
With her medical background; DVM, PhD & MSFNP, she’s often more up to speed than her medical providers. It’s a conversation of equals. That’s helped move treatment along.
The VA does research. One report from the Portland VA was a study that found Alpha Lipoic acid helped those with neuropathy. She recently started taking R Lipoic acid for her neuropathy.
The myelin won’t regenerate overnight. She’s already experienced some beneficial changes.
Ongoing research is finding correlations with the gut microbiota and autoimmune disease. She thinks all autoimmune issues have the same source, the gut, and differ in effect due to genetics and environment.
That’s where diet and possibly probiotics and prebiotics may be of benefit.
The knowledgeable VA doctors we’ve talked to are aware of the research into the gut microbiota. It’s being viewed as the next big advance in medical knowledge.
Thank you. That was exactly my suggestion as well.
https://www.creators.com/read/positive-aging/09/18/the-plant-paradox
I can’t say it is easy, but like this author, we have experienced changes in our lives that are making it worthwhile.
We bought some inulin and Jerusalem artichoke capsules on Amazon.
Once we realized how great it felt we divested ourselves of high lectin foods like peanuts, peanut butter, corn, squash, tomatoes, and bought an instant pot to pressure cook what we could not give up - white potatoes, some beans, salsa.
We’re buying eggs from a local person instead of the store.
Still eating meat, cheese, and white rice. We have always used almond milk so that was already part of our lives. Eating as much fruit as we like currently. My husband still eats oatmeal but we switched to organic.
Amazon has lectin blockers as well for occasions when you eat them and want to keep your gut lining.
I am so impressed to hear of another doc talking about the gut. My intro to all of this came from a doc I was seeing.
Good luck.