Shortly after my sister got diagnosed with MS in about 1989, she found out some interesting things:

1. If you lived in an equatorial country til you were 13, then lived elsewhere, you would not get MS.

2. More women than men get it.

3. The Prairie provinces(midwest) in Canada are loaded with it, especially Saskatchewan. Apparently there is some researcher out there turning over every rock and plant he can, trying to find a common thread.

4. Because my sister has it, my chances of getting it double to one in 2 million.

As Darcia always said, it's a "wacky" disease. It's one disease that varies hugely with the individual. I honestly think that if she had taken better care of herself early on, it would have made a difference. But she had no symptoms for two years, so made no changes to her nutrition or lifestyle. Maybe it wouldn't have helped anyway...who knows!

Have you been back on the Belgian site, Lut? Anything interesting there?

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Catty1