My mom was just diagnosed about 1.5 months ago after the symptoms first started last summer, so far she has drop foot and slight numbness in the right foot (where it first started) as well as muscle tightness in her left leg.
So I can at least hopefully say she so far has a slower progression of the usual ALS, however, after the diagnosis, she hasn't been taking riluzole after talking to a family friend who was diagnosed at age 38 and is now almost 60 who ONLY just started to lose function of his hands (started at foot just like my mom). After some personal research and advice from the family friend, we have decided that if there is no real cure, we have nothing to lose in terms of trying everything we can naturally to slow the progression and my mom has begun to take Tumeric supplements as well as acupuncture and Chinese holistic medicine as well as increased protein diet as well as a lot of stretching every day.
It's been about 2 weeks since we started and my mom's right foot (where it started) has improved just a little bit. she actually previously had to use a foot drop brace or else her foot would drag as she walked which made unassisted walking almost impossible, however, she is now able to slowly make her way across the room.
Although I'm not going to say that this is sign of reversal, I think if we employ enough new lifestyle habits it can possibly slow this down or improve her baseline health and fitness enough to slow this down and improve her quality of life.
Does anyone have any thoughts or their own tips for this type of approach to combating ALS?
So I can at least hopefully say she so far has a slower progression of the usual ALS, however, after the diagnosis, she hasn't been taking riluzole after talking to a family friend who was diagnosed at age 38 and is now almost 60 who ONLY just started to lose function of his hands (started at foot just like my mom). After some personal research and advice from the family friend, we have decided that if there is no real cure, we have nothing to lose in terms of trying everything we can naturally to slow the progression and my mom has begun to take Tumeric supplements as well as acupuncture and Chinese holistic medicine as well as increased protein diet as well as a lot of stretching every day.
It's been about 2 weeks since we started and my mom's right foot (where it started) has improved just a little bit. she actually previously had to use a foot drop brace or else her foot would drag as she walked which made unassisted walking almost impossible, however, she is now able to slowly make her way across the room.
Although I'm not going to say that this is sign of reversal, I think if we employ enough new lifestyle habits it can possibly slow this down or improve her baseline health and fitness enough to slow this down and improve her quality of life.
Does anyone have any thoughts or their own tips for this type of approach to combating ALS?