One of the proven effective therapies for motor neuron disease is nutritional therapy, by consuming foods that contain nutrients below your motor neuron disease will improve even recover.
Healthy Fats & High Calories
Believe it or not, obesity and high cholesterol may have benefits. Patients with motor neuron disease have a better prognosis if they have a higher BMI, diabetes mellitis and / or high cholesterol levels. Why and how is unknown, but a calorie-rich diet with lots of healthy fats can help maintain motor function, while diet and calorie restriction have been shown to worsen symptoms and life expectancy.
Focus on healthy fats from calorie-rich foods such as avocados, nuts and seeds, salmon, olive oil, and butter.
Magnesium
Magnesium is needed for nerve communication, so researchers suspect that this trace element can be associated with motor neuron disease. Patients with ALS appear to have lower magnesium concentrations in their bones and ligaments, and in the 1970s it was found that the incidence of ALS was higher in areas with poor magnesium levels in the soil.
However, recent reviews of five large cohort studies with more than 1,000,000 participants showed that magnesium does not protect against the risk of developing ALS, but may have a role in reducing cramping symptoms by encouraging muscle relaxation.
Magnesium can also help reduce spasms by holding calcium into the damaged neurons, and into muscle fibers.
Calcium is usually a "charge" for nerve cells. When there is mitochondrial damage in motor neurons, cells often handle calcium incorrectly by allowing too much into the cell at once, or not enough. This can cause hyper-stimulation - shooting too many signals or giving too strong a signal.
You can imagine how excited motor motor and motor neurons combine to create unexpected and unintentional movements in people with motor neuron disease. By competing with calcium, magnesium can reduce the stimulation of motor neurons and muscle fibers. The more magnesium available, the less chance that calcium causes seizures.
To help eliminate cramps and spasms, 300mg - 600mg of magnesium can be taken in the form of magnesium citrate, magnesium orotate or magnesium amino acids chelate - avoid magnesium oxide because it is not easily absorbed and can cause gastrointestinal problems.
Bathing with epsom salts is a great way to give magnesium right to muscles without relying on digestion and absorption which is often disrupted in motor neuron disease. An epsom salt drug level is between 250g - 500g per bath. Also consider concentrated magnesium oil for magnesium applications that are easy, strong, and topical.
Ubiquinone (CoQ10)
Research has shown an association between the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, and a significant reduction in ALS patients. Although this may be due to the protective effect of high cholesterol, it may be more related to coenzyme Q10 aka ubiquinone.
CoQ10 has two key roles in motor neurons: as an antioxidant to protect mitochondria from oxidative stress, and as an important factor in healthy energy metabolism.
Research shows that patients with motor neuron disease may have increased the need for CoQ10 because ongoing oxidative damage to mitochondria is responsible for the effects of disease degeneration.
L-Serine
Serine is an amino acid found in certain foods, and is also made in the human body from other amino acids called glycine.
These are key nutrients for cell protection, and maintain the integrity of the myelin sheath - a protective layer around motor neurons and other nerve fibers.
Although there is no evidence for the use of L-serine in treating motor neuron disease, studies have shown that an aging population with higher dietary serine intake shows a lower example of motor neuron disease.
Methyl-cobalamin (vitamin B12)
Vitamin B12 has high affinity for motor neurons. Like serine, it gives integrity to myelin cells in nerve cells. Without enough B12, the nerve becomes "frayed", impulses fail to shoot and the message becomes confused, resulting in tingling, cramps and cramps. As well as protecting the myelin sheath, methyl-cobalamin can also specifically protect motor neurons from oxidative stress and cell death and can be used as complementary therapy in ALS.
Vegetarians, vegans and people with bad gastric secretions (like those with motor neuron disease!) Are at high risk of vitamin B12 deficiency and may require a higher supplement level. Methyl-cobalamin is a natural form of B12, and is the most active form available in supplements.
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