Category: Managing MS Naturally
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Easy Mediterranean Cauliflower Rice Bowl – No Measuring!
This colorful Mediterranean cauliflower rice bowl is bright, savory, and full of flavor from fresh lemon, olive oil, oregano, and a sprinkle of sea salt. With no chopping and no measuring, you can have a delicious veggie-packed meal on the table in about 5 minutes—even on days when cooking feels like too much. I’ve made…
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Low Vitamin D in Summer? The Hidden Factors That Matter for MS
Can you really have low vitamin D in summer, when the days are long and the sun is shining? Surprisingly, several things can reduce how much vitamin D your body makes. Living out here in the country, I get to see a lot of sky. There’s nothing blocking the horizon — no buildings, no trees…
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The Best Easy Healthy Stuffed Peppers Recipe (MS-Friendly & Ready in 40 Minutes)
A colorful, nutrient-dense dinner that looks impressive but takes almost no effort — built on the sloppy Joe filling my readers already love. This easy healthy stuffed peppers recipe has been on our dinner rotation for years, long before I ever wrote it down. My husband and I started making stuffed peppers the traditional way…
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Causes of MS Fatigue: 7 Things That May Be Draining Your Energy
By the end of August, I’m always ready for cooler weather. Even without heat intolerance, weeks of summer heat wear a person down. And when you’re managing MS, the causes of MS fatigue can pile up — making simple things suddenly take more out of you than they should. It’s easy to blame all of…
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Homemade Tomato Paste Recipe (The Easiest Way to Preserve Your Garden)
A simple homemade tomato paste recipe made with Roma tomatoes, portioned into freezer bags so every batch matches a store-bought can — no citric acid, no scorched pots, just a low, slow oven doing the work. This is the first year I’ve made my own homemade tomato paste using round, juicier slicing tomatoes rather than…
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How Stress Makes MS Symptoms Worse (and 3 Things That Finally Helped Me Change)
Stress makes MS symptoms worse — I know that firsthand, because I’ve struggled with stress for as long as I can remember, long before MS ever entered the picture. As a young child, I experienced situations at home that left me feeling scared and uncertain. I didn’t understand it at the time, but my body…
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Bacon Avocado Salad with Pumpkin Seeds (A Family Favorite MS-Friendly Salad)
Dark leafy greens, creamy avocado, crispy turkey bacon, red onion, and pumpkin seeds with a simple olive oil and lemon dressing — a salad my mom loves so much she’s made it for her friends. This bacon avocado salad is one of those recipes I created years ago and never forgot. My mom absolutely loves…
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Why Heat Makes MS Symptoms Worse (and 4 Things That Finally Helped)
Heat makes MS symptoms worse for most of us — and for years, it made mine so much worse that I dreaded every Idaho summer. I was lucky in that debilitating fatigue was never really my issue with MS. Instead, heat had its own way of getting me. I remember afternoons out here on the…
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Honey Orange Glaze — The Best 2-Ingredient MS-Friendly Sauce for Everything.
Fresh-squeezed orange juice and raw honey — that’s it. One simple glaze that works on salads, roasted vegetables, salmon, smoothies, and more. This honey orange glaze started as something I threw together because I needed a dressing and didn’t want to make a complicated sauce. Fresh orange juice. Raw honey. Stir. Done. I wasn’t expecting…
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Garden Salad with Honey Orange Dressing (The Best MS-Friendly Summer Salad)
A colorful mix of fresh vegetables, herbs, dried cranberries, and chopped walnuts tossed in a simple honey orange dressing — the salad my husband and I make all summer long. This garden salad with honey orange dressing is the salad my husband and I make all summer long — and I mean that literally. I…
