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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 92 Multiple Sclerosis: Scarred nerves & skating saints

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Like many autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis so clearly illustrates how detection and description of a disease only gets us so far when it comes to prevention, treatment, and cure. In the over 150 years since the first comprehensive description of multiple sclerosis, a great deal of progress has been made to understand the what and how of this disease, but many mysteries still abound, especially surrounding the why. In this episode, we explore what we do know about how this disease works, including a discussion about two recent headline-making scientific articles implicating a certain virus in disease onset or progression. We then trace its history all the way from an ice skating saint to a sympathetic sister, and we end the episode by taking measure of the global status of this disease. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.

0:04.4

For many, it's their biggest fear.

0:06.4

Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

0:09.0

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons' cases,

0:13.6

in an effort to uncover the truth.

0:15.8

Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.2

Hi, I'm Bridger Weinerger, and I host I said no gifts, on exactly right.

0:24.0

Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation, and I tell them no gifts.

0:28.8

But every time they bring me a gift, and then we have to talk about the gift.

0:32.4

It's infuriating.

0:33.7

You'll love it.

0:35.0

Listen to I said no gifts on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:42.4

My name is Nikki, and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007, when I was 27 years old.

0:50.9

The silver lining to my diagnosis is that I was lucky enough that my GP found it

0:57.1

when she did, because it was by complete peer accident.

1:00.5

Had she not discovered it when she did, I probably wouldn't have shown any symptoms

1:05.6

for about a decade later, and my condition would have been obviously worse than it was at that time.

1:13.1

I was just having horrible headaches, which is not has anything to do with MS.

1:20.0

So she set me for an MRI, and I did the test, and she called me the very same day.

1:26.6

And the fact that she called me the very same day, I was like, oh God, what's happening?

1:32.8

Something really bad is going on, and she's like, you know, best case scenario, you might have

1:40.8

my brains. She goes, worst case scenario, I think you might have multiple sclerosis.

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