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Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis
Hosted by Overcoming MS · EN
Welcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast from the Overcoming MS charity. In each episode, your host Geoff Allix explores a different aspect of the Overcoming MS Program in greater depth by talking with experts and people with MS about health lifestyle changes. New episodes are published on Wednesdays and feature interviews with scientists, neurologists, fitness specialists, diet experts, stress reduction professionals. The podcast also features inspirational, real-life stories from people with multiple sclerosis following the Overcoming MS program, about the challenges and victories of managing symptoms through lifestyle modification.
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The latest research in exercise for MS with Dr Robert Motl | S6E18
Sep 4, 202400:38:21Summary readyWelcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast that empowers you to take control of your health and wellbeing. Today we’re thrilled to welcome Dr Robert Motl as our guest! Dr Motl is a professor of kinesiology, nutrition and rehabilitation sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He’s a top researcher in the field of exercise and physical activity for people living with MS and, in this fascinating episode, he talks to Overcoming MS facilitator Veronique Gauthier-Simmons about how much exercise is recommended for people with MS, the differences between lifestyle physical activity and structured exercise, and he explains how exercise works within the brain to slow MS progression. We learnt so much from Dr Motl, and hope it helps you kick start a new phase in your relationship with physical activity. Let us know what you think! Watch this episode on YouTube here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways. Topics and Timestamps: 02:09 Overview of Dr Motl’s research lab and team 03:21 Dr Motl’s interest in multiple sclerosis 05:57 Key findings over the years of the benefits of exercise for people with MS 09:32 Lifestyle physical activity vs. structured exercise for people with MS 15:03 How much exercise is recommended for people with MS? 17:39 Exercise as a disease modifying behavior 20:28 What part of the disease progression does exercise help? 22:12 Exercise’s effects on the brain 25:50 Who benefits the most from exercise? 28:42 Social prescribing of exercise for people with MS 31:16 Exercise’s effects on mood for people with MS 34:54 How to participate in future studies 36:16 The benefits of a holistic approach to MS management Want to learn more about living a full and happy life with multiple sclerosis? Sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips. More info and links: Learn more about Veronique Gauthier-Simmons Learn more about Dr Motl’s Exercise Neurology Reseach Laboratory New to Overcoming MS? Visit our introductory page Connect with others following Overcoming MS on the Live Well Hub Visit the Overcoming MS website Follow us on social media: Facebook Instagram YouTube Pinterest Don’t miss out: Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. Listen to our archive of Living Well with MS episodes here. If you like Living Well with MS, please leave a 5-star review. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. If you enjoy this podcast and want to support the ongoing work of Overcoming MS, you can leave a donation here.
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Webinar Highlights: Resilience following Overcoming MS with Dr Rachael Hunter | S6E17
Aug 21, 202400:20:03Summary readyWelcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast that empowers you to take control of your health and wellbeing. Today we’re sharing the highlights from our webinar on ‘Resilience following Overcoming MS’ with the fantastic Dr Rachael Hunter. Rachael is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical and health psychology at Swansea University. She's an OMSer herself and wrote the chapter on resilience in the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Handbook. She gave us so much interesting information and many helpful tips - we hope you find this really useful in bringing resilience into your own life. Let us know what you think! Watch this episode on YouTube here and keep reading for the key episode takeaways. Topics and Timestamps: 00:59 Dr Hunter’s professional background and an overview of the Overcoming MS Program 04:30 What happens to the body physiologically during a stress response 06:55 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the fundamentals of wellness 09:37 Managing emotional wellbeing and scheduling “worry time” 14:30 Managing anxiety through self-compassion and mindfulness 17:24 The benefits of positive relationships with others Want to learn more about living a full and happy life with multiple sclerosis? Sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips. More info and links: Dr Rachael Hunter was featured on S4E67: ‘Building Resilience with Dr Rachael Hunter’ Follow Dr Hunter on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter New to Overcoming MS? Visit our introductory page Connect with others following Overcoming MS on the Live Well Hub Visit the Overcoming MS website Follow us on social media: Facebook Instagram YouTube Pinterest Don’t miss out: Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. Listen to our archive of Living Well with MS episodes here. If you like Living Well with MS, please leave a 5-star review. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. If you enjoy this podcast and want to support the ongoing work of Overcoming MS, you can leave a donation here.
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The Art and Science of Fasting with Steve Hendricks | S5E7
Mar 1, 2023Tap to summarizeWelcome to Season 5 of Living Well with MS, the Overcoming MS podcast where we explore all topics relating to living well with multiple sclerosis (MS). In this episode we are pleased to welcome Steve Hendricks, the author of The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting as our guest! Keep reading for the key episode takeaways and Steve's bio. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. And if you’re new to Overcoming MS, visit our introductory page to find out more about how we support people with MS. Content Warning: This episode mentions a study involving data on attempted suicide. If you are having thoughts of self-harm, please reach out to someone. Find a list of hotlines here. Overcoming MS has a mental health hub with resources for managing anxiety, uncertainty and stress. Bio: Steve’s career: Steve Hendricks is a freelance reporter and the author of the new book The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting. He’s also the author of two previous books, one of which, The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country, made several best-of-the-year lists. He has a website with information about his books and an extensive list of FAQs about fasting. Steve's personal life:He lives in Boulder, Colorado (USA), with his wife – a professor of family law – and his dog, a border collie cross. Key Takeaways: A longer daily fasting period helps our body make repairs and reduce leaky gut syndrome 13:38 “The longer we give our bodies each night to do all this work, the better it does them. If we narrow our fasting window too much, our body will not be able to make these repairs. Chronobiologists biologists, who study the timing of our bodies, think that it's highly likely that our long eating windows and narrow fasting windows each night are one of the contributors, in addition to our cr@ppy diet, to leaky gut syndrome.” Clinical observations have shown fasting can improve many conditions, including MS! 24:36 “We have more than a century of clinical observations from fasting doctors, across multiple generations [and] multiple countries, (mostly in the US, Germany, Russia) who report very credibly many cases of reversals of cardiovascular disease through prolonged fasting. I'm talking fasting for a week, two weeks, sometimes up to 30-40 days, depending upon the condition. Cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, skin diseases like psoriasis and eczema and acne, asthma, allergies. It's a very long list. Fasting doctors routinely report that prolonged fasting is good for autoimmune diseases.” Research into the benefits of fasting for people with MS is very promising 50:00 “Valter Longo found that fast mimicking diet cycles not only prevented the demyelination and damage to the axons in mice – which are the parts of the nerve that conduct impulses – but also began to remyelinate some of the stripped off myelination on those same parts of the nerves. In consequence, the mice did better on motor tests, they did better on mental tests. And here's the sleeper headline: 20% of these mice appear to have been cured. All their symptoms were gone. So, a pretty moderate amount of fasting cures MS in mice.” To hear our latest tips and news about living a full and healthy life with MS, make sure you sign up to our newsletter Related Links: Visit Steve Hendricks’ website SteveHendricks.org Buy ‘The Oldest Cure in the World’ from Bookshop.org or Hive.co.uk Read Steve’s article ‘Starving Your Way to Vigor’ in Harper’s Magazine on fasting here: https://harpers.org/archive/2012/03/starving-your-way-to-vigor/ Find out more about Michael Mosely’s 5:2 diet: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/ Read the Buchinger Wilhelmi fasting clinic interview with Francois Wilhelmi de Toledo here: https://www.buchinger-wilhelmi.com/en/interview-winterson-and-francoise-wilhelmi-de-toledo/ Listen to Valter Longo on Living Well with MS here: https://overcomingms.org/resource/podcast/s2-episode-15 Don’t miss out: Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favourite podcast listening app. If you like Living Well with MS, please leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. Support us: If you enjoy this podcast and want to support the ongoing work of Overcoming MS, you can leave a donation here.
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