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Multiple Sclerosis
Could Estriol Be the Elixir for multiple sclerosis?
April 11th, 2007
It has long been common knowledge that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience a sharp drop in the disease’s symptoms during the course of their pregnancy. Some years back, Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, director of UCLA’s Multiple Sclerosis Program, and her colleagues discovered the cause. They found that a female sex hormone called estriol, which is produced during pregnancy, was responsible for the suppression. Four years ago, Voskuhl followed that discovery with a pilot study in which 10 non-pregnant women with MS were given estriol, yielding what she described as “pretty remarkable” results — an 80 percent drop in inflammatory lesions in the brain, a hallmark...
Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2007-04-11)
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