Thoughts about MS

Someone who volunteers at FCCO clinics, and there is one Sunday in Philomath, has MS. It got me to thinking, after the last clinic, about MS. She talks about the fire in the brain that occurs during a flare up, that the thought in treatment is preventing damage. MS sufferers are heat and exercise intolerant.

So, I begin to wonder, is MS an endocrine system issue, a failure of internal temperature regulation glands and hormones? In other words, has the thermostat failed?

Is it a cooling system malfunction? A coolant leak? Failure of the radiator, so to speak, or fan? Blood circulation in the brain must be one primary cooling system. Does not enough blood get in and out of the brain? Or does the blood not cool properly in the lungs during exchange? Are the walls of arteries in the brains of MS patients maybe too thin, dissipating the heat of the blood into the brain? I know, probably these are illiterate questions that would make any scientist roll his or her eyes.

Do MS patients sweat properly and lose heat in that manner? Is it a skin issue?

Or, is it an insulation issue of the brain, too much, too little.

If a heavy current load is placed on wires that are too thin to carry the load, excess heat is produced. Or, if too much of a load is put onto one circuit, for any reason, without a circuit breaker, excess heat results.

I think, if I remember high school biology at my ripe age, brain neurons make connections by jumping synapses. If they don't connect, does that just keep firing, creating heat as it does, in attempts to connect? Does the connector wander out of alignment or distance, to enable a correct firing, creating short circuits that fry the lipid neural insulators? If so, why?

As you can see, I really have no clue what I'm talking about. What melts the insulation on wiring? Either overheating of the wire itself, from overload, or sources of heat or chemical reaction exterior to the insulator. As for exterior damagers, acids, parasites, molds, anything that feeds on whatever nerve insulators are made of. Yes, I'm roaming back and forth from the physical world into the brain tissue world, at will, without any real knowledge of either.

I remember the old adage, if you're cold, put on a hat.

Maybe MS patients develop thicker skulls, or lay down more bone, or higher density bone in the skull, so heat cannot pass out through the head. If you're cold, put a hat on. If you're hot, take the hat off.

I'm sure all these mechanical malfunctions as possible causes have been thoroughly researched. I believe scientists now think MS is possibly a virus or genetic.

Here is something vastly intriguing: the long time diehard researcher, into ALS, a deadly form of MS, got ALS. Coincidence? Fate? Or is this disease somehow "catching" in some manner.

That is Twilight Zoney in a way, that he got ALS, after spending decades doing research on the disease and treating patients. Makes ya prickle.

But, what if.....

What if, he really knew all along, somewhere, in his brain, one of them, that he would get the disease and as a form of bodily self-defense, his brain, one of them, drove him into ALS research?

I say "one of his brains" for this reason. I heard or read somewhere that we really have two brains. Where is the other one? In our digestive tract. That's right, our intestines have a brain. What does it do? I don't think anyone knows for sure yet. Maybe it runs our internal world. Maybe it really runs the whole show and our skull brains are there to direct our external interactions and movement through the external world. And maybe that internal control panel knows a lot more than our external control panels do about ourselves and our ultimate fates and out of a desire to survive, does some decision making on its own.

Puts a whole new meaning to the term "gut feeling".

What if that future researchers gut already knew, before he became a researcher on ALS, that he would ultimately get ALS, how would it have known? Well, that might be the ultimate clue in solving MS and ALS.

Another eery coincidence occurred when a young man living in a U of O dorm room got MS. The next guy who moved into the same room, also got it. How strange is that? Almost makes one wonder if isn't some menningicochal like disease, in a way. A mold. Something in the environment some are more prone to catching by inhalation, or other means, than others.

There are clusters of MS too, which is always bizarre. The mid valley of Oregon is one of these clusters.

Is there something we are exposed to, a toxin, that is stored in the neurotransmitter insulators? I've heard toxins hide out in body fat. Even estrogen is stored in body fat I heard. What if toxins do? What if there is a toxin stored in fat that hates heat or reacts under heat to irritate and destroy protective tissue surrounding neural transmitters. What if some people's body's also contain said toxin but don't react in the same manner? What if skinny people concentrate toxins in fat but they don't have that much fat so toxins that concentrate in body fat don't have many options in storage areas so skinny folks are more prone to toxin storage in thing like neurotransmitter insulation tissue?

So I guess, if considering toxin etc, causation, knowing the history of MS, when it is first recorded and where, would be very important.

Again, my illiterateness in science is glaring.

So I also wonder about this, does MS create a problem only in sending information to the rest of the body/spinal cord, or does MS destroy nerves in the spinal cord, too, below the skull? So, if a person's brain tissue was totally destroyed by MS, no ability for the brain to communicate with the muscles, organs etc, can the body's muscles and organs still be stimulated to function lower down than the head?

I don't know much about this, as you can see.