Lifestyle choices and their impact on MS with Dr Aaron Boster | S2E3

Living Well with MS is proud to welcome back Dr. Aaron Boster, an Ohio-based neurologist specializing in MS, whom we featured last season on an episode exploring how to make the right medication choices when you have MS. Now we tap his expertise to help us understand the complicated calculus of how the lifestyle choices we make might impact MS and our overall health. We are surrounded by temptations – from that delicious pint of ice cream to the lure of sleeping in instead of hitting the gym – but the lifestyle choices we make come at a price. Whether or not you have MS (but particularly if you do), it’s important to understand the bargain you’re making between living a healthy life and enjoying some of your favorite vices. We hope this episode helps spark your thinking on this crucial topic.

 

Dr. Aaron Boster’s Bio:

 

Dr. Aaron Boster is an award-winning, widely published and Board-certified neurologist who currently serves as the Director of the Neuroscience Infusion Center at OhioHealth. Witnessing his uncle’s diagnosis with MS when he was 12, he and his family came to see a lack of coherence in the way MS was treated at the time. That experienced informed Dr. Boster’s drive to do things differently. At OhioHealth, he spearheads a revolutionary model in MS treatment and patient care drawing on interdisciplinary resources and putting patients and families first. Dr. Boster is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a former Assistant Professor of Neurology at The Ohio State University, where he also formerly headed the Neuroimmunology division. Dr. Boster received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He also manages a popular YouTube channel covering all aspects of MS.

 

Questions in this episode include:

 

• What comprises your “4 for 4” approach?
• The OMS 7 Step Recovery Program includes stress reduction and specifically encourages mindfulness. How does this align with your “4 for 4” approach?
• Another OMS pillar is to encourage a healthy lifestyle for family members because they have an increased risk of possibly getting MS. Do you agree with this thinking?

 

Coming up on our next episode:

 

Did you know exercise can help build neuroplasticity (for us lay people, that’s the brain’s ability to continually change, a sign of brain health)? On the following installment of Living Well with MS, Geoff Allix dives into this mind-expanding topic with Dr. Gretchen Hawley, a physical therapist and MS specialist based in Boston who is also the founder of the MS wellness program, The MSing Link.

 

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