Multiple Sclerosis and Diet

Healthy eating is important for everyone, but it is particularly important if you have a chronic illness, such as multiple sclerosis. Good nutrition, especially adequate calories and protein, helps maintain your body's store of protein, provide energy, heal wounds, and fight infection.

Mindfulness Meditation vs. Multiple Sclerosis

Learning a mind-body technique called “mindfulness meditation” seems to help people with multiple sclerosis cope with the depression, fatigue, and anxiety associated with the disease.

Multiple Sclerosis and Stress Management

The prolonged stress of living with a chronic illness, like Multiple Sclerosis, can lead to frustration, anger, hopelessness, and depression. People with Multiple Sclerosis are especially at risk of becoming depressed. And, for good reason since people with MS face many stressors.

To better cope with the disease, it is important to learn how to manage stress. The first step is to recognize when you are stressed and then you can take steps to reduce your stress.

The Speech and Swallowing Problems of Multiple Sclerosis

People with multiple sclerosis, or MS, often have swallowing difficulties. In many cases, they are associated with speech problems as well.

What Causes the Speech and Swallowing Problems of Multiple Sclerosis?

Like other symptoms of multiple sclerosis, if you're experiencing swallowing or speech difficulties, it's because you have an area of damaged nerves that normally aid in performing these tasks.

Multiple Sclerosis and Depression

Depression is very common in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). In fact, symptoms of depression severe enough to require medical intervention affect up to half of all people with MS at some point during their illness.