The Best Bet Diet
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The Best Bet Diet is a proposal from the Direct-MS charity to improve the outcome of multiple sclerosis. Currently a clinical trial is being performed to test its efectivity [1].
The basis is:
- Eat fruits and vegetables for carbohydrates and micro-nutrients
- Eat fish and skinless breast of chicken and turkey, for protein
- Eat extra virgin olive oil for fats
- Avoid all dairy, grains (except rice), legumes
- Avoid all allergenic foods, which are identified by skin and ELISA tests
- Avoid all red meat and margarine
They also propose the following supplements:
1. Grape seed extract 2 capsules/day 2. VitaminD3 2000 IU/day in summer and 4000 IU/day in winter 3. Calcium 1200 mg/day 4. Vitamin A 5000 IU/day 5. 10 grams salmon oil 6. Vitamin B-complex 50 mg/day 7. 500 mcg of B-12 8. 1 g of vitamin C 9. 400 IU of vitamin E 10. up to 750 mg of magnesium (a good Ca/Mg ratio is 2:1) 11. 25 mg of zinc 12. 1 mg of copper 13. 200 mcg of selenium 14. Manganese 20 mg/day 15. up to 5 g of evening primrose oil or borage oil 16. 4 capsules of acidophilus 17. 4 capsules of enzymes 18. 500 - 1000 mg of Lecithin 19. Ginkgo biloba 120 mg/day 20. Co-enzyme Q10 60 mg/day
