Multiple Sclerosis—Hope For Recovery

Say the word “multiple sclerosis” and the first thing most people think is “incurable disease.” That’s why the title of Ann Boroch’s new book Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox and Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery may at first seem like a misprint—or a slick marketing claim. It’s neither.nn“I have a professional responsibility and personal passion to educate people about the causes of MS and how to reverse it,” says Boroch, a naturopath and certified nutritional consultant, who was once ravaged by the disease herself. “I know from abundant firsthand experience that we can triumph.”nnEven though the illness is widely believed to be incurable, Boroch has been MS free for 12 years and has been restoring her patients to health for the last nine. She is now capturing the attention of established medical experts with her dramatic results.nn“Healing Multiple Sclerosis not only reveals a new paradigm underlying this disease, but provides a powerful user-friendly therapeutic approach,” says David Perlmutter, MD, a top neurologist who specializes in MS and is the author of The Better Brain Book. “This is a vitally important must-read for patients and families alike.”nnMultiple sclerosis is a progressively crippling autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that afflicts about 500,000 people in the U.S., mostly women, and three million people worldwide.nnIn her book, which came out last April in Barnes and Noble and other bookstores across the country, Boroch shares her own pain-filled story and the case histories of others like her.nn“I was eating at a restaurant with my friend Linda when I was slammed with an attack,” Boroch writes of herself. “I couldn’t move, speak or swallow. Panic surged through my mind and body. I gasped for air as my body spasmed uncontrollably. It lasted for only thirty seconds but it felt much longer. nn“After the attack subsided I asked Linda to take me home. She had to help carry me out of to the car because I was still having spasms. Linda called my mother who came to my rescue immediately and stayed with me late into the night, covering me in blankets and trying to calm me. I couldn’t stop shaking, which seemed to be coming from the deepest parts of me, and my thoughts were fragmented. I knew this was serious. Finally, no longer able to fight the fatigue, I fell asleep.nn “The next day my mother took me to a specialist. I had extreme muscle weakness and fatigue and was barely able to walk into his office. Some parts of my body felt numb and I was having trouble speaking. I loathed being in a doctor’s office again, but I was too unstable to think of an alternative. He did a complete neurological examination and sent me off to the hospital to take a number of tests, including an EEG (electroencephalogram, which measures brain waves) and EP’s (evoked potentials, which record the nervous system’s electrical responses to the stimulation of specific sensory pathways such as visual, auditory, and general sensory). nn “For the next several days my body remained incapacitated. My mind was reeling with fear-filled emotions and thoughts. When I entered the doctor’s office to get the results, I was trembling.nn“He sat me and my mother down and opened my chart. ‘Well, the good news is, you don’t have cancer. The bad news is you have multiple sclerosis.’nn“I was speechless. Now that I finally had a diagnosis and knew what was wrong with me, I didn’t know whether I felt relief or terror. nn“The last words I remember him saying were, “MS…incurable, but there are experimental drugs like chemotherapy to work with...”nn “My mother offended by his insensitive manner, helped me hobble out of the office. I was devastated and cried all the way home. I felt my life was over. I was only twenty-four but so physically ravaged that I couldn’t bear to think about my future. How would I ever begin to accept this diagnosis and move on with what was left of my life?nn“I couldn’t.”nnBoroch goes on to discuss the causes of MS and outlines the treatment program she used to heal herself and her patients. And, in a comprehensive how-to section, she explains how those suffering from MS can develop their own personal treatment plan. She also includes a section of mouthwatering recipes that people suffering from MS can use as part of their nutritional makeover. nn“This is a landmark book,” says Ann Louise Gittleman, New York Times best-selling author of The Fat Flush Plan, who wrote the foreword for Boroch. “Healing Multiple Sclerosis provides workable, natural solutions for a practical self-help program that anybody can follow.”n nn