Dairy-free protein shake...

I have (thankfully mild so far) MS and follow a fish and plant-based diet with no diary as I'm convinced there's evidence it helps.

I have (thankfully mild so far) MS and follow a fish and plant-based diet with no diary as I'm convinced there's evidence it helps.

I'm sorry to hear that. I try to avoid giving medical related advice on topics like this. Even with research it always makes me sketchy. Neuro problems is one of my weaknesses(not in knowledge but in care for neuro patients)
Even as I look through pubmed there is no dietary interventions that has been proven to help people. All results are overall inconclusive

Good luck to you...
My nursing adviser has MS

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, will look them all up.

DatMurse, with respect, as you say, you're no expert which is why you shouldn't be declaring there's no evidence! (After 7 years living with MS, you kinda become an expert. I know the studies on MS and diet while my neuro really hasn't a clue what I'm talking about). For anyone who had MS and is interested here is my bible http://www.overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org). Fascinating how MS is higher in Western countries (McDonald's type cultures) and virtually unheard in places like Japan, Malaysia and sub-Sahara Africa. (And yes more researches need to be done, but research funding comes fom Big Pharma and there's no profit to be made in diet!)

Swank's study which tracked over 150 MS patients over a 35 year period showed that the daily fat intake in countries correlated with how common MS was. (And yes more researches need to be done, but research funding comes from Big Pharma and there's no profit to be made in diet!)

Adolescence may be an important etiological period in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), and studies suggest that adequate vitamin D nutrition is protective. Here, the authors examined whether dietary intake of vitamin D during adolescence decreases the risk of MS in adulthood. In 1986 in the Nurses' Health Study and in 1998 in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII), women completed a food frequency questionnaire regarding their dietary intake during adolescence. From this, daily intake of vitamin D was calculated. Adolescent diet was available for 379 incident MS cases confirmed over the combined 44 years of follow-up in both cohorts, and for 67 prevalent cases in the NHSII who had MS at baseline (1989). Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate relative risk estimates and 95% confidence intervals. Total vitamin D intake during adolescence was not associated with MS risk. Intake of ≥ 400 IU/day of vitamin D from multivitamins was associated with a non-statistically significant reduced risk (RR compared to no intake = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.50-1.07, P = 0.11), whereas intake of whole milk, an important source of dietary vitamin D, was associated with an increased risk. The possibility of opposite effects of vitamin D and milk intake on MS risk should be considered in future studies.

Saying there is 'nothing set' is misleading. The cause of MS is very, very complex (distance from equator, vitamin d/sunlight, demographics, genetics, virus exposure, diet, theories emerging recently about CCSVI etc etc). So no I'm not saying diet alone is a cause or cure. But it is acknowledged as paying a role for sure, there's plenty of studies to back that up and my MS nurses all agree the people that fair best are those taking steps to follow a low saturated fat diet.

And I have not just read this off a website. I bought Professor Jelinek's book Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (he's a leading academic and emergency physician with MS himself who has remained relapse free for 13 years) and I have studied it over the past 7 years and I am impressed by his very, very thorough research of THE CLINICAL TRIALS.

Please don't comment on highly complex stuff you don't understand!

What clinical trials are you talking about? You were talking about Swank's inconclusive studies and using that as a reason.
There are no set dietary interventions with people with MS.

Link your clinical studies you studied, I would love to see them.

They are there is Professor Swank and Jelinek's books. Please stop saying there are no set dietary interventions. I am only getting into this with you because I'd hate to see anyone with MS reading this and being misinformed by your posts. Just out of interest, where did you get your PHD in neurology?!