Diet for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(Lou Gehrig's Disease ~ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
David A. Steenblock M.S., D.O.
[6/07]

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The damage that is going on in ALS ranges from the complex to the unknown. Scientific studies abound and a devout researcher would be both enlightened by them while simultaneously confounded. In the meantime, where does that leave someone who was diagnosed with ALS, and all they know is that they are scared and getting worse, and nobody seems to fully understand? They don't have time to weather the scientific debates. Truly, even someone with ALS would tell you that until they were diagnosed, they had absolutely no idea how their entire world view would change. They would tell you that going to bed at night, once a pleasant experience, is now terrifying – all symptoms are amplified and while the rest of the world sleeps, they are left alone to deal with the indescribable pain and fear. Thoughts that once meditated on family and friends, career and vacation plans, now disintegrate into hopelessness. But there is hope.

More than 30,000 people in the U.S. have ALS. Approximately 500,000 Americans suffer from Parkinson's. There are about 400,000 U.S. citizens with Multiple Sclerosis [MS], with 200 new diagnoses each week! Likely these statistics are low, as many people have not yet been diagnosed, or have been incorrectly diagnosed. In addition, a very frightening factor has emerged ~ more than ever, youngsters are being diagnosed with neurological diseases like Parkinson's! No doubt about it, neurological diseases are on the rise and will continue to rise until man focuses on the underlying factors that cause a seemingly normal human body to suddenly go horribly awry. In fact, the rate of MS has doubled in the past 10 years. The rate of autism (another neurological disorder) has increased by ten times that of 30 years ago! To discern what is going wrong, man has to look to a wisdom higher than himself – a wisdom that created dogs to consume meat and cows to consume grass without any debate over blood types, genetics, or ethnicity.

Homeostasis means physiological balance and equilibrium. Some of this balance and equilibrium we all have quite a bit of control over, by making “right” choices with diet and lifestyle. Other aspects of balance and equilibrium occur deep within the 57 or so trillion cells that make up your body and respond to being given the proper tools to repair and equilibrate, while also responding nicely to not being poisoned. Homeostasis requires eliminating toxins and pathogens. When you do, your body has some uncanny and powerful mechanisms given at birth to right the wrongs caused by whatever happens to you after (and even before) birth.