When you have multiple sclerosis (MS), you’re constantly wondering what to do, what not to do, and how you can feel your best with the condition. You stay active, eat right, and get plenty of sleep. So what about alcohol? Should you worry about drinking too much? Should you drink at all? If you’ve been asking yourself these questions, you’re in luck: We asked two top MS doctors for straight talk about alcohol and MS. Here’s what they told us.
How Does Alcohol Impact MS?
Some people who have MS describe how, after developing the disease, they discovered they could no longer handle their alcohol like they did before, says Barbara Giesser, M.D., a neurologist and MS specialist at Pacific Neuroscience Institute at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA.
Korin Miller
December 16, 2020, 1:28 PM
The foods you now eat can have an impact on your cognition down the road. And, according to the results of a new study, eating cheese and drinking red wine may actually give your brain a boost.
The study, which was published in the
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, analyzed data over a 10-year period from 1,787 people between the ages of 46 and 77 in the U.K. Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database and research resource. The researchers specifically looked at participants’ fluid intelligence test (FIT) which provides a snapshot of a person’s ability to think quickly when they started the study and again in two follow-up assessments. Researchers also analyzed their diet and alcohol consumption over time.
Loss of the ability to detect aromas can be a sign you have COVID-19.
You’ve just received some holiday-themed candles, so you strike a match and then settle back to enjoy the lovely scents of cinnamon and pine. But eventually you realize that what you smell is …. nothing.
Is it a manufacturing snafu or could this be an early warning sign of COVID-19?
It was the latter possibility that intrigued Portland, Oregon–based science illustrator Terri Nelson, enough that she began looking at online reviews of scented candles. She found plenty of evidence that something was amiss.
Writing on Twitter in late November, she noted, “There are angry ladies all over Yankee Candle’s site reporting that none of the candles they just got had any smell at all. I wonder if they’re feeling a little hot and nothing has much taste for the last couple days too.”
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Supporting Those Left Behind During the Pandemic Santosh Kesari, M.D.
As I write this, COVID-19 has taken the lives of nearly 300,000 Americans. Each death leaves behind a circle of survivors – family members, friends, co-workers and neighbors – struggling with the loss.
Family members or caregivers, in particular, may suffer the most. They may have cared for their loved one at home for weeks, watching in terror as symptoms intensified, hoping to see the tide turn. Others were left in shock at the speed of the virus, which took their loved one in a matter of days. They may feel intense grief or guilt that they could not be with their loved one in the hospital to provide comfort or say goodbye.