Webinar Highlights - Diet In MS: What The Evidence Tells Us | S7E24 Living Well With Multiple Sclerosis podcast

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In this episode of Living Well with MS, Dr Jonathan White is joined by Dr Stephen Simpson-Yap, Senior Research Fellow at the Neuroepidemiology Unit (NEU) in Melbourne, Senior Research Fellow at the Neuroepidemiology Unit (NEU) in Melbourne, focusing on multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions.

Together they unpack the complex relationship between diet and MS: why diet research is so challenging, what the current evidence tells us, how different MS diet programmes compare, and where the science is heading next. Steve explains how epidemiologists study diet, what makes high-quality research so difficult, and why large, long-term studies like HOLISM and the UK MS Register are so important to people with MS.

This episode is a webinar highlights special – originally recorded as a live Overcoming MS webinar and now edited for the podcast to bring you the key insights, questions and takeaways in one place.

You can watch this episode on YouTube. Keep reading for the topics and timestamps.

Topics and timestamps

01:53 How diet might influence MS risk, progression and disability

04:24 Why diet research is so hard

07:31 Inside a diet study – what it really takes to measure what people eat

11:27 Comparing MS diets (Overcoming MS, Whals, Best Bet, and more.)

15:06 How researchers actually study diet in MS

24:54 What we know so far Key findings from existing diet studies,

28:02 The future of diet research for MS and how large data sets could change everything

33:35 What this means for people with MS