them for and modern snakes are still shaping our lives in the way in which sclerosis um there's HIV treatments that they're looking at for treating uh that come from be Venom I mean all of these
And this is a good thing, but itís also been an awakening because now so many people with a chronic condition, whether it be diabetes or, or a type of cancer or things like multiple sclerosis, they go on these patientís like me and other communities, uh, together, they find people with the same condition, and now these virtual peers become the people who they trust the most.
And by that, I'm talking about cancer, diabetes, heart disease, chronic migraines, chronic back pain, chronic fatigue, Crohn's disease, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis-- the list goes on. And it actually gets worse, because one in four Americans will have two or more chronic health conditions.
Jason: it was frustrating. Multiple sclerosis was taking over my life. I'm gonna do to do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen.
variable the youngest parent in this book is 71 and has dementia from multiple sclerosis and the well the oldest person in the book is 102 living with his daughter and then there's a 95 year old who's considering whether she wants to move into assisted living or
different medicine. Each disease doesn't get a different set of genes. It's the same set of genes, the same molecules that treat cure multiple sclerosis as the same one that cures blindness in mice. So, let that sink in. The same drug that we're using in the eye will be used to treat other diseases in the body,
They were not physical. I got multiple sclerosis.
I've mentioned something called the True Health Initiative. of multiple sclerosis, brain growth, BDNF, a protein in your brain.
So the AbleGamers charity was founded because my best friend from middle school who married my best friend in the military was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And we played Everquest.
And I handed the phone to Stephanie. And multiple sclerosis that night had decided that her mousing hand wasn't going to work. So she couldn't feel it, and she wasn't going to game.
As a person who runs AbleGamers, I get people all the time coming to me going like, I want to create a game for people with multiple sclerosis, or people with muscular dystrophy, or people with stage thee kidney disease. Someone really came to me and said, I want to create a game for people with stage three kidney disease.
We know that fiscal discipline is important or we're not gonna have investors. We know that immigration is important to our country because it keeps us from the tragic demographics of Russia and the sclerotic demographics of Europe. And I don't understand don't believe this is my country when I hear people say we ought to deny citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants who were born here. I don't recognize that kind of country. Let's all agree that we need free trade so that exports can grow and let's all agree that
He would use props. So a woman with multiple sclerosis, he might give her a full glass of water to show the tremor of her hand, and he would talk through what he was witnessing.
So that's where we are right now. There was kind of a sclerotic health care system that suddenly got really pushed to innovate because of the crisis that hit. And because everybody, when they had to move online, we just became much more comfortable.
It's heliotropic. So now, you know why after 60 years, some nuns are alive, and some are dead. It's a study of multiple sclerosis patients.
I happen to be one of those people. I have primary progressive multiple sclerosis. I was diagnosed in 2005 and I saw over the course of 7 years I've gone from walking just fine to using a cane to a walker to a wheelchair to a scooter where I am today.
one um have you guys heard about ccsvi it's a recent uh claim made by a physician a surgeon who says that he found the true cause of multiple sclerosis Ms and that the cause is not what doctors have thought for the last 30 or 40 years inflammation it's actually due to blockage of the veins that that drain the brain it turns out
fair characterization at all Ms is complicated there are there are kinds of Ms that cannot be treated but the the core lineup of drugs for multiple sclerosis are disease modifying they're not symptom modifying they actually change the course of the disease if you have relapsing remitting Ms they reduce the number of relapses that you have and they improve your long-term neurological
Close your eyes. Settle. How many people in the United States had multiple sclerosis?
And he's my personal hero, because he has not only recovered from multiple sclerosis, but he's also developed a program that is seeing many other people recover from multiple sclerosis as well. This is an illness that traditional medicine has no cure for.
death also and so this plaque build up is called AOS sclerosis cuts off blood flow to the heart and then you might
Before that, she had multiple sclerosis.
There is some really interesting research coming out about the gut microbiome and multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
published that this same drug Everolimus works in patients who have a condition called tuberous sclerosis.
He was just walking weird across the street, walking, crossing the street at an angle. Jason: We have a diagnosis, you have multiple sclerosis. Female 1: At least we can postpone him being in a wheelchair and the doctor just looked at us point blank and said 'No, he will be in a wheelchair soon'.
that that potential bias aside um this Dr Zamboni an Italian vascular surgeon made this claim you know his initial study showed 100% correlation with Venus blockage and multiple sclerosis now it's 4 years later there have been about 20 good replications of that uh of that claim
Your life took an unexpected turn in 2020 with the diagnosis of ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
should work better in optic nerves. In fact, we've now done it in mice in my lab for the brain. Uh we're doing hearing. We've done skin. Uh we did multiple sclerosis. Uh we're now doing motor neuron disease and seeing great effects. So, it's important to know I'm not an eye specialist. I didn't choose the eye cuz
She might have dabbed some white in the corner, extending the sclera.
His story is perhaps the most compelling of them all. And he's my personal hero, because he has not only recovered from multiple sclerosis, but he's also developed a program that is seeing many other people recover from multiple sclerosis as well.
So number one, miniature robots built from atomic particles that could unclog sclerotic arteries.
there could be cancer. There could, uh, be multiple sclerosis, or there there could be many futures. What I'm
CMT is what it's called. Stephanie, who I talked to you about earlier, has multiple sclerosis. My mother recently died of a stroke.
So yay, slides work. And we will fight tooth and nail not to have it, the reason being is if you show me 10 people with multiple sclerosis,
to some extent. One of our problems now, as a kind of sclerosis, in Washington, but it's a sclerosis that is derived from