Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis
Health & Fitness:Fitness
Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, we are pleased to welcome Mike Kennedy as our guest. Mike was diagnosed with MS over 10 years ago and is an advocate for living a healthy life and following the Overcoming MS Program. He will be discussing with Geoff the lessons he has learnt along the way, including when he deviated from the Overcoming MS diet.
Keep reading for the key episode takeaways.
Questions and Timestamps:00:33 Could you introduce yourself?
02:32 Can you tell us about your MS and Overcoming MS journey?
11:21 Unhealthy vegan food
18:25 Experience with first neurologist
21:42 Cryotherapy or cold exposure
25:26 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
29:50 Homeopathy
33:15 The placebo effect
38:31 Family prevention
43:44 Tea and plant-based milks
45:38 Matt Embry’s influence
49:28 What advice would you give to someone newly diagnosed?
Selected Key Takeaways:Change your life for life
15:01 “If I was told right now, ‘Mike, you no longer have MS, you will not [get] it again', I would not go back to eating cheese. I would not go back to eating dairy. I would not go back to eating big fat burgers. Honestly, I think that it's all habitual because these are the habits that I built around my life.”
Cryotherapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy helped Mike’s inflammation.
23:13 “At the 10-year mark, my symptoms at that time were a little more pronounced. I tried hyperbaric oxygen [therapy] for an hour and then cryotherapy. I can only say it was the most incredible relief or feeling I've [ever] experienced. [When] I got out of the cryotherapy tank, I felt like I could run a marathon, and I have never run a marathon. All the inflammation in my legs [was] gone; it was just like fresh blood came into my legs and it was the most incredible feeling. I recommend anyone with problems with inflammation or MS to try cryotherapy.”
There can be a silver lining to an MS diagnosis
53:40 “Believe me, it's not all bad news. There's so much you can do to make this situation much better for yourself. In fact, in so many ways, I'm a lot healthier now than I would have been had I not had MS. I know that sounds pretty strange, but it's true. I got healthier; my weight’s a lot healthier. I'm not saying I wouldn't wish I didn't have it, but it certainly gives me a lot of positives as well as negatives, without doubt.”
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