Our blog archives include many articles that point to the influence of diet on our health not only today, but what that could look like in the future. And now we’re seeing more evidence that the state of our gut and its microbiome could play a big role in the prognosis of autoimmune neurological disease including multiple sclerosis (MS).

We often write about – and emphasize in our own practice’s recommendations - the importance of maintaining a healthy diet and the impact on disease progression. Now, new studies point to how specific foods as well as nutritional approaches can make a difference in patient outcomes.

In a recent study, researchers reported on their investigation that focused on “the relative contribution of relapses to disability worsening over the course of the disease, how early progression begins, and the extent to which multiple sclerosis therapies delay disability accumulation.” Disability accumulation refers to the degree of disability that occurs and builds up over the course of the disease.