Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

Oh hey, it's a cough drop in your purse that you don't want to unwrap, but you desperately want to unwrap Allie Ward with an episode that's close to my heart and there's a chance that you or someone you love may have been affected by it and the verdict is it's not fun and a lot of people don't really get what it is. This one's on multiple sclerosis. So if you like to understand how your body routes messages to itself. This is also a great one to get a grasp on that.

So this topic is close to my family as my mom, your fancy Nancy, who originated the categories insomnia buster that we talked about in the Somnology episodes on sleep. Y'all love her. You love that. So my mom was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis over 20 years ago. And our family has had to go from like, what is this?

to how can I seek out the world's foremost expert on this and ask all of our questions on behalf of people with MS? So that's what we did here. So this expert did their undergrad at Oberlin College, got an MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and then hopped over to the University of Michigan for their resident and internship programs. before another two-year fellowship and they are a board-certified neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis and founded the Boster Center for MS. They've been involved with a ton of clinical trials, they've had so many papers published and also does awesome outreach to the public and people with MS via their YouTube channel, which has nearly 100,000 subscribers.

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