Understanding When to Adjust or Stop MS Medications: What You Should Know
May 12, 2025
Rethinking Long-Term Treatment for MS Over the past few decades, medications that modify the course of multiple sclerosis (called DMTs or disease-modifying therapies) have transformed how we treat this condition. These medications are especially helpful when started early as they reduce relapses and can slow down disability. But here’s the question many people eventually ask: “Do I have to stay on these medications forever?” This is exactly what a team of MS experts from around the world...
MS Journey
April 11, 2025
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was 26 years old, though I knew something was wrong for months. I couldn’t stay awake. I was confused. I had memory loss, numb feet, blurry vision, and sometimes saw double. But because I was overweight, almost every doctor I saw told me to lose weight, as if that would solve everything. They weren’t entirely wrong—I did need to lose weight—but weight loss wasn’t going to stop the flare that was happening in my spine. I was 25 when the symptoms...
Your gut microbiome, your health.
April 11, 2025
The human gut microbiome comprises approximately 100 trillion microbes representing the most complicated interaction between microbiota and the human body. Collectively, these microbes inhabiting your gut are termed symbionts, which means “fellow travelers” or species different from us that live within us (1). Amongst these symbionts are mutualists, commensals, and pathogens, that is, microbes that are helpful and some that are harmful (1). Due to intense selection pressure by the host (...
