Multiple Sclerosis
Addressing Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex and often misunderstood neurodegenerative condition that can significantly affect your quality of life. Symptoms often begin subtly — with numbness, tingling, or muscle weakness — but can progress to include difficulty walking, spasticity, tremors, chronic fatigue, and many other symptoms. At its core, MS involves inflammation and damage to your myelin sheath — the protective layer surrounding your nerves — often triggered by a “perfect storm” of factors. These inciting conditions include environmental toxins, metabolic imbalances, heavy metals, toxic chemical exposures, hormonal imbalances, genetic predispositions, chronic infections, poor quality diet, stealth infections, impaired immune function, microbiome imbalance and chronic stress.
Diagnosing MS can be challenging due to its overlapping symptoms with other conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and psychiatric illnesses. Fortunately, a combination of diagnostic clues, including brain MRIs, cerebral spinal fluid analysis, and a comprehensive neurologic exam will almost always uncover your diagnosis.At Michael Rothman MD, we take a functional and metabolic medicine approach to treating your Multiple Sclerosis. By uncovering the root causes — environmental toxins, metabolic imbalances, heavy metals, toxic chemical exposures, hormonal imbalances, genetic predispositions, chronic infections, poor quality diet, stealth infections, and impaired immune function, microbiome imbalance and chronic stress,e personalize your care to address these contributors directly. Our comprehensive methodology integrates advanced diagnostics, natural therapies, and lifestyle changes to help you restore function, reduce inflammation, and reclaim your well-being.
Ready to Take Control of Your Health?
If you are experiencing symptoms of multiple sclerosis and are seeking effective, functional and metabolically directed treatments, contact us online or call (732) 268-7663 for a consultation.
What are the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
- Numbness and Tingling: Loss of feeling or tingling feeling typically felt in your limbs.
- Muscle Weakness: Difficulty lifting or walking due to compromised nerve signaling.
- Muscle Spasticity and Stiffness: Involuntary muscle tightness that disrupts mobility.
- Tremors: Uncontrolled shaking, often affecting your hands or legs.
- Balance and Coordination Issues: Clumsiness and unsteady gait leading to increased risk of falls.
- Chronic Fatigue: Persistent tiredness that doesn’t improve with rest.
- Blurred Vision or Vision Loss: Difficulty seeing, or difficulty seeing clearly.
- Cognitive Changes: Brain fog, memory issues, and/or slowed thinking.
- Pain or Burning Sensations: Neuropathic pain, felt across the body.
- Mood Changes: Frequent changes in your mood, including depression and anxiety.
- Heat Sensitivity: Feeling excessively hot in environments where you would not typically feel hot.
Our Functional and Metabolic Medicine Approach to Multiple Sclerosis
Diagnostic Methods Used:
- Comprehensive evaluation of your dietary habits, environmental exposures, and stress levels to uncover lifestyle-related contributors to inflammation.
- In-clinic metabolic testing to determine your acid-base balance, anabolic/catabolic status, and autonomic nervous system function.
- Stool testing to evaluate gut flora imbalances, detect pathogenic overgrowth, and assess your immune activation.
- Blood tests to analyze your hormone levels, vitamin D metabolism, nutritional deficiencies, and inflammation markers.
- Blood, urine and saliva tests to evaluate your metabolic pathways including your detoxification pathways and your ability to assimilate and process nutrients.
- Environmental exposure assessments to test for mold, heavy metals, and other neurotoxins from water-damaged buildings.
Potential Treatment Options:
- Lifestyle modifications to minimize your exposure to environmental toxins, reduce EMFs, improve your sleep hygiene, and manage your stress.
- Personalized dietary modifications to reduce neuroinflammation, improve your digestion, and stabilize your blood sugar levels.
- Probiotics and nutritional supplementation to support your immune function and replenish your beneficial gut bacteria.
- Bioidentical hormonal replacement therapies to address estrogen dominance, low progesterone imbalances and other hormonal imbalances.
- Optimizing your vitamin D levels to support proper immune function and calcium metabolism.
- Metabolic therapies to support your redox potential, acid-base balance, autonomic nervous balance in order to normalize your homeostatic control systems.
- Antifungal and antimicrobial protocols to treat hidden infections and gut pathogens that may trigger immune responses.
- Environmental detoxification strategies to reduce your body’s load of mold toxins and other harmful agents.
Why Choose Functional and Metabolic Medicine for Multiple Sclerosis?
Multiple Sclerosis presents a wide array of symptoms and challenges, making MS one of the most difficult neurological conditions to manage. Unfortunately, many conventional medical approaches focus almost exclusively on utilizing pharmacologic interventions (drugs )to treat your symptoms (like pain and muscle spasms) or to suppress your immune system. Sadly, these medications do not address the root causes that are driving your nerve damage and disease progression.
At Michael Rothman MD, we take a different path. Our functional and metabolic medicine approach looks beyond the surface to understand how your environment, diet, immune system, and hormones are interacting to create your symptoms. We use detailed diagnostics to uncover hidden infections, mold exposure, food sensitivities, gut dysfunction, and hormonal and metabolic imbalances that may be contributing to your MS.
By tailoring your treatment plan to these root causes, we aim to reduce your inflammation, restore your nerve function, and bring your body back into balance. Choosing a functional and metabolic medicine approach gives you access to a deeper, more individualized level of care — designed to restore and sustain your health from the inside out.
Ready to Take Control of Your Health?
If you are experiencing symptoms of multiple sclerosis and are seeking effective, metabolically directed treatments, contact us online or call (732) 268-7663 for a consultation.
Meet Dr. Michael Rothman: Holistic Health and Metabolic Medicine Expert
Dr. Michael Rothman is a Functional and Metabolic Medicine Specialist with over two decades of holistic practice. Drawing on his personal experience with Crohn’s disease, he is passionate about utilizing metabolically directed functional medicine to address complex health conditions, like multiple sclerosis. Dr. Rothman’s comprehensive method considers dietary habits, genetic predispositions, and environmental factors to identify and treat the metabolic imbalances at the root of health issues.
Certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, he also holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and previously in Emergency Medicine. His unique approach integrates knowledge from nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, and physics, alongside extensive training in environmental illness, medical acupuncture, naturopathy, Reiki, qigong, and oriental martial arts. Patients can expect a thorough, individualized approach aimed at restoring and maintaining lasting well-being.
Frequently Asked Questions
Early warning signs of Multiple Sclerosis can be subtle and often mistaken for other health issues. Common early symptoms include numbness or tingling in your limbs, unexplained fatigue, blurred vision, muscle weakness, or difficulty with coordination and balance. These symptoms may come and go, making early recognition difficult. If you are experiencing a combination of these signs, especially if they are recurrent or unexplained, seeking a comprehensive evaluation to rule out underlying neurological inflammation is essential.
