I have written this before, but it bears repeating to help those just starting out on their recovery. The keys to recovery seem to be:
1. The diet is not a rigid set of rules, rather a set of guidelines to work with until you determine the specifics of what foods cause you problems and what foods seem to help you. Each person is unique in the trigger foods that cause symptoms in this highly idopathic disease. In a culture where medicine prescribes one specific medicine to each person with a certain disease with an expectation that all will be cured, this concept of a unique solution, within certain parameters, demands that we look at our bodies in a different light.
2. To find your specific dietary program, it is necessary to listen to you body, get to know its unique reactions and to get to know your MS. Do not be afraid to experiment with different foods so you can expand your diet as much as possible. You may get a flare in symptoms, but if you have already experienced so recovery, you will know these are short lived. From reports, the people who seem to do the best in recovery are the ones who tune into their bodies and are not afraid to test out foods.
3. Recovery is not just a matter of diet; fatigue and stress are also critical components of the disease. It is not a matter of just changing how you eat, it is also important to consider how you live. Does it work for you? Do you have time to rest and relax, reflect on your life? If not, you may need to make some changes there as well. Notice that in each recovery story a spiritual aspect is mentioned in a positive way.
4. Get outside and exercise, but not to the point of over taxing yourself. Vitiamin D is best gotten via sunlight. Use your body, it makes the nerves work, but again there is a balance. If your body is over taxed, it hasn't the energy to repair and restore functioning.
5. Give yourself time to heal. Improvements can be measured in millimeters oftentimes, but they add up to big changes over time.
6. Pay attention to your digestion. Digestive health is crucial to healing as we write about in the book.
7. I don't know how exactly to put this, but I realized how much easier it was for me when I stopped being afraid of the disease. My fear fed my stress which fed the disease and I obsessed about the disease; it was on my mind all the time. That is counter productive. Now in my mind, the ferocious lion of the disease MS, is like a house cat, which follows me around, but I don't have to pay too much attention to it. So, if you can think of other matters, imagine, create, it will take some of the power away from the disease.
I hope this helps, again, we are very gratified by all the healing stories we hear.