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... in response to New approach in treating multiple sclerosis
  1. As an MS sufferer I am aware that its mislabelled.
    Charles Rovira Charles Rovira United States says:
    June 5, 2013 at 1:39 PM

    MS is actually an epigenetic disease which affects the immune system causing it to mis-identify a trigger and instead attack the neuronal myelin sheath (occasionally, resulting in relapsing/remitting MS, or permanently, resulting in progressive MS.)

    As such, we have to:
    1) discover, identify and prevent the epigenetic disease,
    2) discover and identify immune system triggers to protect the myelin,
    3) discover treatments to restore the myelin.

    Sadly, so far, we've only managed to make some real progress with #2.

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