Fresno Natural Health Doctor Comments:
At the Boydston Institute in Fresno, I see autoimmune patients everyday. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that causes the body's immune system to eat away at the protective sheath that covers the nerves. This interferes with the communication between your brain and the rest of your body.
Ultimately multiple sclerosis leads to deterioration of the nerves themselves, a process that is not reversible. The clinical battle in multiple sclerosis is to modulate and calm down the immune system. Minimizing the immune attacks will preserve function and quality of life.
Glatamir acetate is a common drug used to attempt to minimize the immune attacks in multiple sclerosis. The mechanism of action is unknown, and it carries with it side effects, including serious cardiovascular, digestive (including Liver), hemic and lymphatic, musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and metabolic and nutritional disorders.
What about natural options? Is there anything that can reduce the attacks in multiple sclerosis?
We know there is a gene susceptibility that "turns on" the autoimmune process at some point in life for multiple sclerosis sufferers. There are a multitude of triggers that can turn on multiple sclerosis, although the trigger is not always apparent. Once the autoimmune process is "on", there is no turning it off. It's like turning on a light switch, and breaking the switch in the process.The light is now on forever.
Although we can't turn "off" an autoimmune disease like multiple sclerosis, we can turn down the dimmer switch...sometimes to the point where the light (autoimmune process) is no longer perceptible.
The problem with most drug treatments available, like Glatamir, is that it completely ignores the individual immune response. In text books, which human beings do not conform to, multiple sclerosis is listed as a TH1 autoimmune disease. This means that the immune system is unbalanced on one side.
These text books are written by people who do not see patients, and do not look at immune panels. I can tell you this...no two multiple sclerosis patients have an identical immune reaction. That is why we are so specific and thorough in our immune testing at the Boydston Institute. We measure and dissect the immune response. Then we employ natural strategies to create a specific reaction.
You can't just throw random herbs and botanicals at a multiple sclerosis patient. This can flare the immune response...making it worse. There is a plethora of peer reviewed literature about herbs and botanicals shown to have specific immune responses. It is a matter of knowing exactly what, how much, and when to use them.
Most natural medicine doctors lack the skill and training in immunology and immune testing to pick apart the immune response and employ an effective natural strategy.
With multiple sclerosis, and any autoimmune disease, the goal is to calm and modulate the immune attack. This is impossible unless we first measure the specifics of the immune attack.
Effectiveness of our natural therapy is monitored through followup testing. We can tell what is changing and how much. This approach can be highly effective, and it doesn't carry with it, dangerous side effects.
If you suffer with multiple sclerosis or another autoimmune condition, then our all natural immune program could be the answer for you. If you would like to find out if your are a candidate for our autoimmune program at the Boydston Institute in Fresno, CA, call us at 559-297-9218. If you have a question then Contact Us.
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