1 hr 6 min
How diet affects multiple sclerosis: with Sam Josephs and Karen Lee In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast
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- Nutrition
This week we discuss the chronic neurological condition Multiple Sclerosis.
Samantha Joseph BA (Hons), DipBCNH, mBANT, CNHC, is a Nutritional Therapist. Her husband Danny was diagnosed with MS in 2002 which led her to specialise in this area.
She has been a guest lecturer for colleges of Integrative Nutrition covering modules on MS, Parkinson's disease, mental & behavioural health. In 2018 she joined the charity Overcoming MS as a senior facilitator.
Samantha also worked together with the MS Academy (www.neurologyacademy.org) giving nutritional advice for their Healthy Living Services clinics and collaborated on the a paper pending in Frontiers of Neurology, highlighting holistic management of MS,
https://linktr.ee/nutritionista_uk
Karen Lee, previously intensive care nurse and practising registered nutritionist, combines her love of food with her professional background to inspire others to experience the powerful effects of food as medicine.
As ‘The Sensitive Foodie’, Karen has run courses, workshops and cooking classes, and has a blog – The Sensitive Foodie Kitchen. In 2019, Karen published her first book Eat Well Live Well with The Sensitive Foodie and is currently working on her second.
Karen is an Ambassador for Overcoming MS and helped to create The PBHP-UK factsheet on MS. She was co-author on a case study in The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also Events Manager for Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.
Website: https://thesensitivefoodiekitchen.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/thesensitivefoodie
Instagram: https://Instagram.com/the.sensitive.foodie
Historical Swank Evidence:
Swank RL, Dugan BB. Effect of low saturated fat diet in early and late cases of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1990 Jul 7;336(8706):37-9.
Swank, RL. MS: a correlation of its incidence with dietary fat. Am J Med Sci. 1950;220:421-30
Bjørnevik, K. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risk of multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2017. 23(14), 1830–1838
Jelinek GA, et al. Association of fish consumption and Ω 3 supplementation with quality of life, disability and disease activity in an international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis. Int J Neurosci. 2013 Nov;123(11):792-800
Esparza ML, et al. A brief original contribution: Nutrition, Latitude, and Multiple Sclerosis Mortality: An Ecologic Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995. 142(7):733–737
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Ayroza Galvão Ribeiro Gomes AB, et al. Immunoglobulin A Antibodies Against Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein in a Subgroup of Patients With Central Nervous System Demyelination. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Aug 7:e232523
Agranoff BW & Goldberg D. Diet and the geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1974; 2:1061-6
Munger KL, et al. Vitamin D intake and incidence of MS. Neurology. 2004;62:60-5
Richards JB. Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study., 2015. PLoS Medicine. Aug 25;12(8):e1001866
Hadgkiss EJ et al. The association of diet with quality of life, disability, and relapse rate in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Nutritional Neuroscience. 2015;18(3):125-136.
Fitzgerald KC, Tyry T, Salter A, Cofield SS, Cutter G, Fox R, Marrie RA. Diet quality is associated with disability and symptom severity in multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 2018 Jan 2;90(1):e1-e11.
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Evers I, et al. Adherence to dietary guidelines is associated with better physical and mental quality of life: results from a cross-sectional survey among 728 Dutch MS patients. Nutr Neurosci. 2022 Aug;2
This week we discuss the chronic neurological condition Multiple Sclerosis.
Samantha Joseph BA (Hons), DipBCNH, mBANT, CNHC, is a Nutritional Therapist. Her husband Danny was diagnosed with MS in 2002 which led her to specialise in this area.
She has been a guest lecturer for colleges of Integrative Nutrition covering modules on MS, Parkinson's disease, mental & behavioural health. In 2018 she joined the charity Overcoming MS as a senior facilitator.
Samantha also worked together with the MS Academy (www.neurologyacademy.org) giving nutritional advice for their Healthy Living Services clinics and collaborated on the a paper pending in Frontiers of Neurology, highlighting holistic management of MS,
https://linktr.ee/nutritionista_uk
Karen Lee, previously intensive care nurse and practising registered nutritionist, combines her love of food with her professional background to inspire others to experience the powerful effects of food as medicine.
As ‘The Sensitive Foodie’, Karen has run courses, workshops and cooking classes, and has a blog – The Sensitive Foodie Kitchen. In 2019, Karen published her first book Eat Well Live Well with The Sensitive Foodie and is currently working on her second.
Karen is an Ambassador for Overcoming MS and helped to create The PBHP-UK factsheet on MS. She was co-author on a case study in The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also Events Manager for Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.
Website: https://thesensitivefoodiekitchen.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/thesensitivefoodie
Instagram: https://Instagram.com/the.sensitive.foodie
Historical Swank Evidence:
Swank RL, Dugan BB. Effect of low saturated fat diet in early and late cases of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1990 Jul 7;336(8706):37-9.
Swank, RL. MS: a correlation of its incidence with dietary fat. Am J Med Sci. 1950;220:421-30
Bjørnevik, K. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risk of multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2017. 23(14), 1830–1838
Jelinek GA, et al. Association of fish consumption and Ω 3 supplementation with quality of life, disability and disease activity in an international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis. Int J Neurosci. 2013 Nov;123(11):792-800
Esparza ML, et al. A brief original contribution: Nutrition, Latitude, and Multiple Sclerosis Mortality: An Ecologic Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995. 142(7):733–737
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Ayroza Galvão Ribeiro Gomes AB, et al. Immunoglobulin A Antibodies Against Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein in a Subgroup of Patients With Central Nervous System Demyelination. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Aug 7:e232523
Agranoff BW & Goldberg D. Diet and the geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1974; 2:1061-6
Munger KL, et al. Vitamin D intake and incidence of MS. Neurology. 2004;62:60-5
Richards JB. Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study., 2015. PLoS Medicine. Aug 25;12(8):e1001866
Hadgkiss EJ et al. The association of diet with quality of life, disability, and relapse rate in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Nutritional Neuroscience. 2015;18(3):125-136.
Fitzgerald KC, Tyry T, Salter A, Cofield SS, Cutter G, Fox R, Marrie RA. Diet quality is associated with disability and symptom severity in multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 2018 Jan 2;90(1):e1-e11.
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Evers I, et al. Adherence to dietary guidelines is associated with better physical and mental quality of life: results from a cross-sectional survey among 728 Dutch MS patients. Nutr Neurosci. 2022 Aug;2
1 hr 6 min