Part I: MS - Understanding the disease: 1 What is MS? - A first overview -- 2 Do I really have MS? -- 3. An excursion into our immune system -- 4 Why MRI? -- 5. The most important facts about the nerve fluid -- Part II: MS - Understanding the therapy: 6. How MS is treated -- 7. What to do in an acute MS episode -- 8. I am fine - why therapy? -- 9. MS therapy yesterday and today -- 10. How the progression of the disease can be influenced - the MS drugs in detail -- 11. The therapy goal has a name: NEDA -- 12. MS and vaccinations -- 13. MS and the desire to have children -- Part III: MS - and what you can do yourself: 14. Own initiative helps -- 15. Forest fire MS -- 16. "Western Diet" and "Blue Zones -- 17. Nutrition works -- 18. The intestine and its inhabitants -- 19. Microbiota and microbiome -- 20. How the microbiome develops -- 21. How bacteria can be identified -- 22. Stool transplantation -- 23. The intestine and MS: what scientific research says -- 24. Vitamin D - sense and nonsense -- 25. Action plan and recipes to follow -- 26. Summary of the most important recommendations. .

The book provides competent assistance to all those affected by Multiple Sclerosis to better understand the disease and educates them about current diagnostic methods and treatment approaches. With independent information, the guidebook provides the key to a self-determined life with the disease. Complex medical facts such as the malfunctioning immune system or MRI findings are explained in understandable words and accompanying drawings. This companion also raises awareness beyond conventional medicine to take into account important influencing environmental factors. The author provides answers to the many questions that are asked again and again in the doctors' practices and cannot always be answered to this extent and with this clarity due to time restrictions. For this reason, it is a highly helpful tool to both MS practitioner and patient.