Multiple
sclerosis is an autoimmune disease (i.e. a disease in which the body attacks
itself) that causes loss of myelin sheets (which make up the white matter) in
the brain and spinal cord and results in muscle weakness, poor eyesight and slow
speech.
A
very common feature of this disease is the prominence of several relapses i.e. reoccurrences
and these are followed by periods of remissions i.e. breaks from experiencing
symptoms of the disease.
Research
is still going on as regards the specific pathogenicity of the disease as we
speak, but this one thing we know: lots of myelin sheets are affected (that’s
why it is called “multiple”).
I
believe it would be easier to pin down a cure for this disease if it was not
also autoimmune.
In
essence, when one progressively harms him/herself e.g. by taking excessive
amounts of alcohol or via drug abuse, the damage done is harder to reverse and
the processes of inflicting such pain harder to forget. Also, if you have a
problem, its far better- and easier I must say, to find solutions when the
problems are still minute. This may be harder once the problems become bigger!
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