Ask Aaron – Your Opportunity to speak to a Neurologist about Living Well with MS

Welcome to the "Living Well with MS" webinar series, where we bring a panel of experts to bring to life the Overcoming MS Handbook – Roadmap to Good Health.

In this webinar, we are delighted to welcome back award-winning, highly published, board-certified Neurologist Dr Aaron Boster for an extended session where the community ask him their questions about MS

Topics and Timestamps:

03:42 Managing Primary Progressive MS

06:42 Updates on MS research and BTK Inhibitors

15:00 Subcutaneous Ocrelizumab

19:27 Remyelination drugs

23:28 Simvastatin and Secondary Progressive MS

26:39 Taking part in clinical trials

28:02 Fatigue management and lifestyle recommendations

40:49 Supporting loved ones with MS

45:35 Gadolinium use in MRIs

49:02 B cell depletion therapies and MS progression

52:28 Functional mushrooms and vitamin supplementation

01:02:22 Speaking to friends about the Overcoming MS Program

01:06:37 Possibility of reducing lesions through a healthy lifestyle Program

01:08:51 Driving and managing stress

01:11:36 Sugar

01:12:47 Muscle wastage, physical activity and MS

01:16:20 Neurofilament light chain test

01:19:50 Vision problems with MS

01:21:03 Helping your concentration and focus

01:26:26 Headaches and MS

01:27:30 Medication and ageing

01:29:15 Assistive devices for foot drop

01:30:02 One thing Dr Boster is hopeful for in the future

Speaker bios:

Dr Aaron Boster
Dr Aaron Boster is award-winning, widely published, and board-certified neurologist specialising in multiple sclerosis (MS) and related CNS inflammatory disorders. 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 experience informed Dr Boster’s drive to do things differently. Dr Boster has been intimately involved in the care of people impacted by MS; he has been a principal investigator in numerous clinical trials, trained multiple MS doctors and nurse practitioners, and has been published extensively in medical journals. He lectures to both patients and providers worldwide with a mission to educate, energise and empower people impacted by MS.

Regina Beach
Regina “Gina” Beach is the producer of the Living Well with MS podcast as well as one of the Ambassadors for the Overcoming MS Circle in Wales. She was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting MS with incomplete remission in 2021 and has been following the Overcoming MS Program ever since. Gina teaches virtual accessible yoga and meditation and runs retreats in the UK and abroad.

Ingrid Adelsberger
Ingrid Adelsberger is an Overcoming MS Trainee Facilitator, a volunteer Ambassador for the Overcoming MS Global Circle support group and the editor of the Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook. Her first career in New York was event planning, but her experiences with MS and especially Overcoming MS, focused on the power of lifestyle change, made her want to change careers. She started a course in health coaching in 2016 which led her to complete a master’s degree in health coaching in 2019. Ingrid wanted to apply her  newly acquired skills as a health coach, which she did by working independently as well as for a health services company. Ingrid currently resides in Vienna with her husband and daughter.
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Overcoming MS is a positive lifestyle program that aims to help people live long, healthy lives without the usual problems associated with multiple sclerosis.

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Welcome to the "Living Well with MS" webinar series, where we bring a panel of experts to bring to life the Overcoming MS Handbook – Roadmap to Good Health. In this webinar, we are delighted to welcome back award-winning, highly published, board-certified Neurologist Dr Aaron Boster for an extended session where the community ask him…