I recommend to make urin, stool, hair, DNA and blood tests and take supplements based on lab results. This is still not a guaranty to stop progression, but at least you know that you need it. Just to buy stuff into the blue may be a complete waste of money and time.

Henry

Another study didn’t see any diff in IGF-1 concentrations compared to healthy same-agers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02896.x

This tells us that the normal aging is related to ALS (nothing new) and if you aged less your chance to survive is higher too. So anti-aging is a good thing 😉

IGF-1 is related to muscle growth, so this isnt very surprising. More interesting is how to naturally boost IGF-1 concentrations.

Hi Dagmar,

I’m a nutritionist and I know more about ALS than most neurologists. The nutritionist in the clinic, if there is one at all, knows very little about ALS. The advice they are permitted to give is very limited too. Unless there is highly specialized clinic where they develop individual holistic treatment approaches, I would not… Read more

Unfortunately it is really hard to say if some food or supplement has positive impact on someones ALS progression. Most studies are mono-therapy studies and produce no results over 6 or 12 months. PALS would have to keep a symptom diary to be able to notice any major effect. ALS is a heterogeneous syndrome with many different causes,… Read more