When you have multiple sclerosis (MS), it’s important to follow a healthy diet. After all, your diet plays a significant role in your cardiovascular and overall health, both of which can have an impact on your MS symptoms and your daily functioning.
How Diet May Impact Inflammation in MS
Scientists are looking into the connection between diet and MS, and how different foods may affect inflammatory processes in the body.
“Inflammation definitely plays a role [in MS], probably both in the development of the disease and in the subsequent clinical course,” says Dr. Piccio, adding that there’s currently no clear understanding of how diet affects this process. “Probably in the next few years, we’ll have some answers.”
In the meantime, she recommends following a diet that’s rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes and low in sugar, salt, saturated fat, and processed foods. “We know for sure,” says Piccio, that such a diet “will affect the cardiovascular system, and so indirectly, this will benefit MS.”
Most of the foods that are widely touted for their anti-inflammatory effects earn Piccio’s stamp of approval. “Definitely, those would be good recommendations that I would give to any patient to promote general health,” she says.
These eight anti-inflammatory foods are easy to add to your diet and may be helpful for people with MS.
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