Lifestyle Changes

As you know, adjusting to multiple sclerosis is a challenge. Making adjustments to your lifestyle may feel like more change—and more work. But the strategies in this section are designed to help make you healthier and may help minimize exacerbations and symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

Physical activity and healthy eating can help with the following1:

• Increase your endurance
• Maximize range of motion
• Increase joint flexibility
• Maintain heart health
• Decrease fatigue
• Decrease symptoms of depression
• Keep regularity of bowel and bladder functions

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