What Causes Multiple Sclerosis?
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What causes multiple sclerosis? I hate to say it but this is going to be a very short post because the answer isn’t a very good one.
So, what causes ms? It’s not actually known, yet, What causes multiple sclerosis. Much research has been done, and is continuing to be done, in an attempt to answer this question.
What is known is that most researchers are convinced that multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. White blood cells in the body are intended to fight infection or disease. In people with multiple sclerosis, those same cells, that are supposed to protect the body from disease, actually attack the body’s own cells. This causes irritation and inflammation in the central nervous system and this damages the protective coating of the nerves and may eventually damage the nerve as well.
There are numerous different possible causes of multiple sclerosis being researched. These include Vitamin D deficiency, viral infections, climate, genetic factors and others. Unfortunately, none of these have been confirmed yet. There has also been no cure discovered for multiple sclerosis either.
Researchers are actively working to solve the riddle of what causes ms and, hopefully, in the near future they will be able to answer that question.
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