FUMS: Giving Multiple Sclerosis The Finger
120 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsA podcast providing information, inspiration and motivation for living your best life with Multiple Sclerosis. Learn to speak to this disease as it deserves - tell it FUMS every day!
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FUMS 020 – Natural & Holistic Treatments with Caroline Craven
August 31, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThere are a number of different natural treatments available to improve the quality of life of MS patients Caroline Craven's road to natural and holistic MS treatments is pretty fascinating. In 2001, she lost the ability to see and walk unassisted while traveling across Guatemala. Upon her return to the US, she was only given a probable diagnosis, but then started to progress rapidly. She was then placed in a three-year double blind study at USC for the t-cell vaccine. During which, she did...
FUMS 019 – Adaptive Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation with Mindy Eisenberg
August 17, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBMindy Eisenberg is a former hospital administrator, turned yoga instructor who’s dedicated to increasing the quality of life for those with disabilities. She does this in loving memory of her mother who had progressive MS. Mindy is the author of Adaptive Yoga Moves Any Body and manages the fast growing Yoga Moves MS community. In today’s episode she shares her philosophy of healing and the importance of the mind body relationship to health and healing. At the end the episode Mindy guides u...
FUMS 018 - An Ankle Brace to Revolutionize Ankle Braces
August 03, 2018 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBDr. Fred Ferlic is a man on a mission. He is a recently retired orthopedic surgeon whose career spans 40 years, and 20 of those he spent as the team doctor for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at his Alma Mater, the University of Notre Dame. He has partnered with the inventor of the TayCo Brace to take this revolutionary product to help millions of people around the world. He passionately believes that the TayCo Brace can have such a huge impact and help millions of people who ar...
FUMS 017 - Autoimmune Health Coach Alene Brennan
July 20, 2018 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBAlene Brennan is a certified nutrition coach, natural food chef, yoga instructor, and personal trainer who helps people with autoimmune disease heal through diet and lifestyle. Oh, and she has MS. And migraines. And she learned how to affect her chronic illness positively through diet and lifestyle – and now she helps others do the same through her coaching. She’s really an amazing person with a ton of passion to really help people. It was her tagline that first caught my attention: “less ph...
FUMS 016 - 2 Girls, 2 Bikes, 50 States
July 06, 2018 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBToday I’m talking with Rachael Bubbs and Dayle James, two women who decided to ride their bikes in all 50 states to raise awareness and research funds for MS. They got their National MS Society Bike MS Passports and they’re ready to ride! BTW – they’re carrying a “champions bandana” with them on all of their rides – with MS warrior’s names on it. So – you could go along for the ride – well, your name could anyway! Learn all about it and how you can get your name on that bandana. Listen NOW!...
FUMS 015 - Country Music Singer Julie Roberts and Her MS Journey
June 22, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBHumble, kind, unassuming – those are just a few words I’d use to describe my guest today, country music singer Julie Roberts. I’d also say talented, brave, loving, strong and selfless. Hers is an amazing story – from a small town in South Carolina where she, her sisters and her mother were victims of domestic abuse, to Nashville, Tennessee making gold records, to a stage in Asheville, North Carolina where she lost the feeling in her hands and her sight went blurry while on stage one evening...
FUMS 014 - TV News Anchor Shares Her MS Story
June 08, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBKatie Collett is an Emmy-nominated news anchor on WAVY-TV 10 and Fox 43, the local NBC affiliates in southern Virginia – where I live. She’s also a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, etc. – and she has MS. She’s up at 2:15 am and works from 3:30 am – 1:00 pm! And that’s just her day job. She has a 4-year-old little boy at home too! AND she is a very vocal advocate for MS awareness and a participant in a multitude of fundraising efforts. She’s pretty amazing – but I think she’d deny that....
FUMS 013 - Cog Fog in MS
May 25, 2018 11:09 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn today's episode, I talk to Dr. Victoria Leavitt, a clinical neuropsychologist and the director of the Multiple Sclerosis Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. I had a TON of questions about the dreaded COG FOG (linked to a previous blog post I wrote about it)! Chances are, if you have MS, you've experienced COG FOG. Dr. Leavitt is a brilliant clinician and researcher, which gives her extra authority on this subject based both on her experien...
FUMS 012 - Low Cost High Tech Help For MS'ers
May 11, 2018 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBIn today’s episode, Occupational Therapist Gabe Byars shares all the ways that assistive technology can help us in our everyday life with MS. Learn about integrating various technologies to turn your lights off and on, adjust the heat or air conditioning, see who’s at the door and let them in, raise and lower the blinds – all on voice command! Imagine the energy you’d save. Gabe also shares tips and tricks like using your smart phone’s calendar to free up your mind from having to remember ev...
FUMS 011 - Sex, Constipation, Incontinence - Oh My!
April 30, 2018 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBErin Glace, MSPT, PRPC, BCB-PMD, is the clinical director of the Physical Therapy and Urodynamics departments at Urology of Virginia. She is a graduate of the University of Florida with her bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy and a graduate of Old Dominion University with an advanced master’s degree in Physical Therapy. Her sole focus of treatment is pelvic floor dysfunction. She has a TON of initials behind her name for all of the training she's done and she's respected throughout her sp...
FUMS 010 - Dr. Terry Wahls On Her Diet vs. Dr. Roy Swank's Diet for MS
April 10, 2018 17:13 - 1 hour - 48 MBDr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day! She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Function...
FUMS 009 - MS and Marijuana
March 24, 2018 15:49 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBTeri Heede is an MS warrior, cannabis advocate and activist, mother, grandmother, wounded vet, widow and an inspiration. In this episode, she tells her story of her MS diagnosis, trying ALL the meds available, failing on them all and finding cannabis to immediately relieve her MS pain and spasticity. She’s explaining the legalities, what to look for, the various forms (edible, tincture, lotion, oil, smokeable, raw cannabis in smoothies!) it comes in, what works best, and the legislative ba...
FUMS 008 - Revolutionary MS Diagnostic Blood Test
February 08, 2018 16:27 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBGetting an MS diagnosis has been more about exclusion than a definitive answer. Until now. IQuity, Inc. has cracked the code. They introduced a simple blood test that provides an answer in a week with a better than 90 percent accuracy rate! This. Is. Big. Most of us with an MS diagnosis went through a battery of tests - including a lumbar puncture - to settle on a diagnosis of MS likelihood. And even that could take years to get. Listen as IQuity, Inc. CEO Chase Spurlock and CFO and Chief S...
FUMS 007 - Chiropractic Care & Supplements Reversed Her MS
January 23, 2018 20:44 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBMichelle Nelson woke up one day and was totally blind in her left eye! The doctors at the ER thought she was faking!! She finally received a diagnosis and within 2 years was unable to work, began losing her hair, she was exhausted, blind off and on, and in pain. She found herself declining further and further into disability from MS. A chance meeting at a garage sale changed everything. A chiropractor suggested she make an appointment because she was confident she could help Michelle. She di...
FUMS 006 – Erin Clayton, Raising Money and Awareness of Multiple Sclerosis
June 17, 2015 17:14 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBOn today’s episode, we’ll meet Erin Clayton, a fellow MS’er who views her diagnosis as a blessing in disguise. WHAT?? I know – I’ll ask her about that! She was diagnosed 8 years ago and since, has raised over $200,000 for the National MS Society!! She’s back in school getting her Certified Nonprofit Professional certification and I’m sure we’ll all be hearing a lot more about her in the future. She’s got a lot of energy and a great FUMS attitude!! What more do you need?? Full notes and reso...
FUMS 005 – Organ Donation
June 04, 2015 00:39 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode of the FUMSnow Podcast Show, I interview Susan Stuart, President & CEO of CORE – the Center for Organ Recovery and Education. We talk about the need for organ donation and the easy process for sign up. I had no idea there are 58 organ procurement centers in the U.S. Such an interesting conversation. And we FINALLY get the answer to the question: can MS’ers donate organs??? Full notes and resources: https://fumsnow.com/organ-donation
FUMS 004 – MyHealthTeams dot com Interview
May 12, 2015 17:05 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this episode, I interview Mary Ray, Co-Founder and COO of MyHealthTeams.com - a wonderful resource for many health-challenged communities - and for our purposes - MS in particular - at MyMSTeam.com. We talk about her drive to fill a void in the chronic health community - making technology work for us all. She's a kind, upbeat, energetic woman with personal experience in the MS realm. I like her a lot - and I think you will too. Have a listen! Full notes and resources: https://fumsnow...
FUMS 003 – Squatty Potty Interview
March 14, 2015 00:27 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this episode of the FUMSnow Podcast Show, I interview Bobby and Judy Edwards, co-founders of the very successful Squatty Potty company. You may have seen them on the American television show “Shark Tank,” where Lori Greiner (the “warm-blooded shark”) was lucky enough to have partnered with them. Judy Edward’s interest in toilet posture came when she had 7 children, many of whom had constipation issues. In fact, Judy herself, though she ate a healthy diet and got plenty of good exercise...
FUMS 002 – Kathy Bolen, MS Nurse Interview
March 12, 2015 16:42 - 11 minutes - 7.61 MBIn this episode, I interview Kathy Bolen, an RN who went the extra mile to become a certified MS nurse. Nurses are special people – MS nurses are extra special!! Full notes and resources: https://fumsnow.com/fums-002-kathy-bolen-ms-nurse-interview
FUMS 001 – Dan & Jennifer Digmann Interview
February 12, 2015 17:42 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this episode, I interview Dan & Jennifer Digmann, a wonderful married couple who both have Multiple Sclerosis. They've written a book called, "Despite MS, To Spite MS" and we talk about what their journey has been like: how they met and married, how they deal with their challenges, and how they advocate for all MS'ers. Full notes and resources: https://fumsnow.com/fums-001-dan-jennifer-digmann-interview