Cats give hope for CNS repair

A study that was using irradiated food on pregnant cats found that they lost much of the myelin in their brains and got an MS-like illness.

Taking them off the diet caused them to acquire some amount of remyelination and to regain function - giving hope that repair strategies might be workable in MS in humans.

Now I urge you to ignore the horrendous reporting on this article where the MS doc they spoke with was allowed to dismiss irradiated food as posing no threat to humans and as "species specific" even though he has no idea what caused the demyelination and had no involvement in the study.

Rather than dismiss it, wouldn't you expect an MS doc to say "Hey, that's interesting, let's see what that's all about."? Well, I do.