Why Don't We Have a Cure for Multiple Sclerosis?

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1. Because Big Pharma doesn't want us too? Just a fact. My wife had HSCT I'm Mexico because of such a big success rate. My wife's bladder and bowl system is working tons better. Ask me this and don't say the FDA has not approved it. Why isn't HSCT preformed here in the US and Canada. Look what happened to Dr Burt.

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2. We do have a cure for MS. In fact, they have the cure to many, if not most, of the diseases affecting our population. You should be ashamed of yourself. The Ukraines, from what I can tell, were the first to come up with the cure. They came up with the cure in 1987. Let that sink in. They use fetal cells. I'm beyond stupefied and horror; now, I'm just sad. Again, you should feel so ashamed.

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3. Thanks for your comments, Brett.

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4. I had a lot of stressful situations until I entered until panic due to extreme sexual harassment at work, and immediately after that my father got very ill and died. In addition the waters where I lived were contaminated and the apartment complex warned us to not drink the water but it was too late. I live now in Puerto Rico because the sun and medical insurance is better. I’m following the Wahls books and feeling little better

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5. you can't "find" a cure for something like this. You have to engineer it. It is not laying around in a weed or mushroom to be discovered. It has to be manufactured based on the mechanism of the disease. There are multiple potential cures being researched right now, at least three different strategies that show promise.

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6. Infection and or dysfunction of cells in the CNS. Probably multiple causes. Leaky brain probably multiple causes; leaky gut, shift work, gen, vitamin deficiency etc. These 2 are probably needed to get WBC activated and migrated in the CNS. So there are probably a lot of pathways that can lead to MS. Could still be that we only have to find one switch to turn off this process in all, but this is probably wishful thinking of a PPMS patient. When you treat some forms of MS early with IRT, HSCT you might be able to use the C word after 10 years.

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7. Dear Brett,
   What are your thoughts on ATA-188 and IMU-838 ?
   I really liked your video about “managing MS”.
   Thanks

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8. Thanks Brett – breaking MS down into sub-types is a good start, they might not all be the same disease. MS(multiple scarring) is a symptom/end result not so much a disease. Given the complexity of the problem I think it's best we focus on DMTs to halt disease progression in people to buy more time, and then moving deeper into the source(s) causing the scarring.

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9. E.B. VIRUS? + MERCURY?

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10. Thank you for the overview. As you mentioned, to have a cure, we need to know the causative factor(s). From everything I've read, it appears EBV is the most obvious candidate based on epidemiological studies. What's interesting is what causes other cofactors to predispose one to a diagnosis of MS- vitamin D, growing up in northern latitudes, certain hereditary factors, etc. How do we tie all of these findings together for a complete picture? Until we know, we can only treat the symptoms. Also, a cure would entail not just stopping the progression but completely reversing established disabilities .

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11. There might not be a cure for MS but bringing balance back into the body can be helpful. I've been living with MS for 20 years now (as of this past September) and I've experienced first-hand how taking a holistic approach to heath makes this condition more manageable.
    During my first 7 years I didn't change anything about my diet and lifestyle and I was just getting worse and worse until I made some serious changes.

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