Multiple Sclerosis - Dairy Link

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Multip. MedicalConspiracies@googlegrole Sclerosis (MS) is a common neurological

disease, affecting

approximately 300,000 Americans. Two-thirds of those diagnosed with MS

are women.

 

Most researchers believe that MS is an auto immune disease. Auto means

" self. " The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to destroy that

antigen-like invader with an antibody. The antibody then turn upon one's

own cells. That is an auto-immune response. In the case of MS, the

body's response is to attack the outer membrane-protecting nerve cells,

or the myelin sheath.

 

Symptoms of MS include tingling or numbness of the limbs, paralyses, and

vision problems. Sometimes MS patients experience slurred speech

accompanied by chronic pain.

 

MS costs approximately $2.5 billion each year in America. MS is found in

milk-drinking populations. It is interesting to note that Eskimos and

Bantus (50 million living in East Africa) rarely get MS. Neither do

those native North and South American Indian or Asian populations that

consume no dairy products.

 

Many physicians have noted a dairy link to MS. Many little clues have

been reinforced by one very large clue, just published. Each clue

provides a piece of the puzzle.

 

Norway has the highest rates of milk and dairy consumption in the world.

Dr. Ashton F. Embry analyzed geogrphical regions, and provides this

dairy clue:

 

http://www.DIRECT-MS.org/

 

He writes:

 

" ...In Norway MS is up to five times more common in the inland farming

areas than in the relatively nearby coastal fishing areas. "

 

John McDougall, M.D., cites the British medical journal Lancet in

pointing out that a diet filled with dairy products has been closely

linked to the development of MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)

 

Dr. Luther Lindner is involved in clinical MS experiments at Texas A & M

University College of Medicine. Lindner, a pathologist, writes on his

website:

 

" It might be prudent to limit the intake of milk and milk products... "

 

A worldwide study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology revealed an

association between eating dairy foods (cow’s milk, butter, and cream)

and an increased prevalence of MS. (Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:304 & shy;12.)

 

The April 1, 2001 issue of the Journal of Immunology will contain a

study linking MS to milk consumption. It has long been established that

early exposure to bovine proteins is a trigger for insulin dependent

diabetes mellitus. Researchers have made that same milk consumption

connection to MS.

 

The July 30, 1992 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine first

reported the diabetes auto immune response milk connection:

 

" Patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to

cow milk proteins that participate in the development of islet

dysfunction... Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active

response in patients with IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of

the auto immune response. "

 

In October of 1996, The Lancet reported:

 

" Antibodies to bovine beta-casein are present in over a third of IDDM

patients and relatively non-existent in healthy individuals. "

 

Two months later (December 14, 1996), The Lancet revealed:

 

" Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized

countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut,

since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot

stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk

proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune response...this

suggests the possible importance of the gut immune system to the

pathogenesis of IDD. "

 

THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS/MILK CONNECTION

 

Michael Dosch, M.D., and his team of researchers have determined that

multiple sclerosis and type I (juvenile) diabetes mellitus are far more

closely linked than previously thought. Dosch attributes exposure to cow

milk protein as a risk factor in the development of both diseases for

people who are genetically susceptible. According to Dosch:

 

" We found that immunologically, type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis

are almost the same - in a test tube you can barely tell the two

diseases apart. We found that the autoimmunity was not specific to the

organ system affected by the disease. Previously it was thought that in

MS autoimmunity would develop in the central nervous system, and in

diabetes it would only be found in the pancreas. We found that both

tissues are targeted in each disease. " (Journal of Immunology, April,

2001)

 

Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director (notmi-)

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com

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> Most researchers believe that MS is an auto immune disease. Auto means

> " self. " The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to destroy that

> antigen-like invader with an antibody.

>

> Many physicians have noted a dairy link to MS. Many little clues have

> been reinforced by one very large clue, just published. Each clue

> provides a piece of the puzzle.

>

> " ...In Norway MS is up to five times more common in the inland farming

> areas than in the relatively nearby coastal fishing areas. "

>

> John McDougall, M.D., cites the British medical journal Lancet in

> pointing out that a diet filled with dairy products has been closely

> linked to the development of MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)

 

A correlation is the not a cause. The NotMilk agenda site article

naturally goes on against dairy, but does not mention that th Bantu

practically live on milk, yet multiple sclerosis is practically

absent from the culture. That piece of the puzzle does not vilify

dairy as much as NotMilk would like it to, so of course they leave it

out.

 

I've learned a calcium link can be involved independently of milk,

and I think the clue would be more appropriately one of interference

with normal cell metabolism.

 

MS is called an autoimmune by some, but all these including MS happen

to be part of the group of mitochondrial disorders. When they're not

inherited, these disorders arise when toxin load interferes with cell

metabolism and especially mitochondrial ATP generation, low amounts

of which cause cell senescence and cell death. Calcium is not

required for that to occur, and indeed, using cold-processed whey

(the vilified dairy?) as a glutathione precursor is one of the

antioxidant stps one uses to reduce or eliminate the progress of the

mitochondrial disorders.

 

Because calcium is not essential to the degenerative process, when it

is present one could look to a cal/mag/potassium imbalance rather

than the presence of dairy itself. What's more, toxin load can also

impair or ruin cell receptor sites, and in that case a program of

glyconutrients may stop the progress of the autoimmune by improving

immune system communucation.

 

I've compiled a " neurodegeneratives sheet " that anyone can have;

regardless of the cause, milk, NotMilk or toxin load straight up, it

will be useful, and it HAS been useful, on disorders besides the

neurodegeneratives, including other fatal " auto-immune " mitochondrial

disorders.

 

Duncan Crow