and short-term memory problems. He said I might be one of those lucky ones. It was not reassuring news. In my panic after diagnosis I remembered a TV show about a Western Australian medical professor who had MS and thought he could stop it progressing. I found and consumed his book. George Jelinek made a convincing case which was all the more persuasive for the lack of competing treatments. There are (very expensive) drugs out there to slow the downward spiral of MS, but nothing to stop it. His regimen of ultra-healthy diet, Vitamin D, exercise and meditation is disruptive and challenging, but the only game in town. But does it all work? Consider that the worst that can happen from this therapy is that, MS aside, you become fit and healthy. This is no snake-oil or faith cure. No-one makes a cent, aside from your local fishmonger and greengrocer as you upgrade to a first class diet. I have met Professor Jelinek on several occasions. He is fit and well, a decade into his illness. You get the feeling he has found the true meaning of medicine as he spreads the word of his treatment amongst MS sufferers. He has reason to be passionately uncompromising: his mother took her own life after suffering years of MS disability. Four years on from my own diagnosis, I am not symptom-free. I suffer from the most common symptom, fatigue, but I still work and I am in far better shape than I