What is Multiple Sclerosis?

Currently, 400,000 Americans are living with MS, as well as 2.1 million people worldwide.
Women are three times more likely than men to be diagnosed with the disease.
The human body has nerve fibers in the central nervous system that are covered with a fatty layer, known as the myelin sheath. In patients effected by MS, the myelin sheath is damaged, exposing and resulting in damage to the nerve fiber within. Because of these damages, nerve impulses traveling to or from the brain or spinal cord are interrupted and distorted; resulting in symptoms ranging from numbness to paralysis.