[Nomentatus]

If you know anything about the history of science generally, you know that most genuinely new research results are ignored for decades before being embraced. Simple ego suffices, greed isn't the usual reason for this. I agree that more openness would be good, but as seen here the amount of flak that can result is daunting. MS research over the last century is a particularly gasp-inducing litany of tunnel vision and refusal to try (or acknowledge) more than one narrow research approach at a time.

[sooyoo]

Being in empirical research myself, I'm well aware of the obstacles that new insights in science sometimes have to face.

It's rare though that the breakthrough comes via an obscure secret clinic in Mexico though which is only spread via "I'll email you".

[Nomentatus]

But it is not at all rare that such fly-by-night clinics grab someone's obscure result at third hand, rather randomly. They're a crap source of information, but not a disconfirmation.

Where there's an ick factor, or a safety factor, as with infecting oneself with worms to reduce allergies, the effect is perfectly real. The Mexican clinics are either are either ahead of their time or unsafe; ya just don't know which.

[sooyoo]

Yes, and it's closer to a 1:99 ratio than 50:50, making it pretty irresponsible to promote any if them here.

[Nomentatus]

I have a medical condition (highly comorbid with MS) for which I've tried, probably 1,000 or more approaches over decades. About ten of them worked (better together.) Three or four were key. Would recommend.

Some of the things that worked best would have sounded too ridiculous for any Mexican clinic to try to sell to anybody. In my position, I think you would have been glad for any new (and safe-ish) ideas to try out, too. I just wasn't interested in paying the fly-by-night clinics, I don't advise that. Openness (not of the wallet but the mind) worked very well for me. Just really, really slowly.

So I'm more of the "don't sit still" and "bring out the ideas," sort. 1/99 odds sounds damn good next to what I went through. So I don't mind people posting ideas here, it's an adult forum. Ish.

[alfor]

Did you try infrared light therapy? Did wonder for me, cost almost nothing, cured my eczema (quick visible result!)

[mush_room]

I understand it might not be relevant for MS, but could you share what worked?