MS ‘Miracle’ Emails: Why I’m Over Them

We all get them: emails promoting the next book, the next diet, the new drug, or the next underdog story of the person who “won his battle” with multiple sclerosis (MS). I suspect that because I’ve been writing about life with multiple sclerosis for as long as I have, I get a few more of these than you do, but we all get them. And if we get them, we know that they’ll eventually make their way into social media, and we’ll soon be hearing about the latest thing from well-meaning friends and family. In the past month, I’ve received several of these emails, and I’m really over them. The ‘Water, Exercise, Diet, and Meditation’ Cure When I pushed back at a particularly offensive marketing email about a new memoir claiming of the author, “He has cured himself of MS, and written a book…” I received the quote, “In 1999, he was incapacitated with a severe case of MS, and he set out to cure himself. His MRIs taken in 2013 show no trace of the disease.” Having written books myself, I know that sometimes the press people from a publisher can exaggerate a bit, so I watched the author’s inspirational video on his website thinking that perhaps this was just some marketer’s hype. But no: The author himself said he cured his MS with a regimen of water, exercise, diet, and meditation. Not just outside hype. The ‘Surefire’ Diagnostic Test (You Can’t Afford) I’ve recently been made aware that a new diagnostic test for multiple sclerosis may also be marketed...
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