“For the first time, we’ve been able to identify that food has some sort of remote control over central nervous system inflammation,” said Francisco Quintana, an investigator in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at BWH and corresponding author on the study. “What we eat influences the ability of bacteria in our gut to produce small molecules, some of which are capable of traveling all the way to the brain. This opens up an area that’s largely been unknown until now: how the gut controls brain inflammation.”

Thanks Dr. Roy Swank, Dr. Terry Wahls, Dr. Ashton Embry, Dr. David Perlmutter, Dr. George Jelinek and all the MS Diet pioneers, who have gone up against an intransigent MS research community, and encouraged people with MS to eat better, less inflammatory diets, for better health.

Of course this Harvard research circles back to how the disease modifying drugs affect the microbiome in MS, but we have all learned from you---what we eat matters. Joan

Using pre-clinical models for multiple sclerosis and samples from MS patients, a Harvard-affiliated team found evidence that changes in diet and gut flora may influence astrocytes in the brain, and, consequently, neurodegeneration, pointing to potential therapeutic targets.