Multiple Sclerosis

Hello.

My name is Asia Wightman

and today I will be doing my teach back video on multiple cirrhosis,

abbreviated as TMS

in men and women.

This is for my health promotion across the life span course.

And if you are here I want to quickly

thank you so much for watching my video.

I truly hope you enjoy

the learning objectives that I have for my viewers are the following.

I would like for you all to be able to define what multiple sclerosis is

to be able to identify the prevalence of M. S. In men and women.

To summarize and describe the similarities of a mess in men and and women.

And lastly to be able to summarize and describe the differences of M. S.

In men and in the morning

what is AMS in the effects of it?

I know the first thing you ask yourself is what is AMS. When I introduced my topic.

No worries. I am here to save the day

and I know you're wondering if I am psychic or something.

But the truth is

if I thought the same thing when I was introduced to this topic

to quickly define what M. S. Is.

It is a neurodegenerative disease or a chronic auto immune disease

of the central nervous system. Also known as our cns.

A part of our sinus

is what is known as our brain in our spinal cord.

So M. S. Attacks what is known as our protective sheath

or Meilin sheets.

And this sheep covers our nerve fibers

and for my current or future scientists we should know

that our nerves are what transmits communication throughout the body.

With that being said.

If you contract and mess, it will cause issues between the brain,

communicating with the rest of our body.

Unfortunately,

this leads me to talk about the effects of it,

the effects of M. S. Our vision, memory balance, and mobility issues.

I know you're wondering why did she choose in this to hone in on for her project?

No worries. I am here to explain myself.

So the long answer is that I was introduced to in this when I was in human anatomy one

I instantly became so intrigued by the facts of it.

And I'm sure you're asking why what makes M. S.

Any different from any other auto immune disease?

And the simple answer is that it's

as a mystery the answers to the wise the house. The wares are not really answered in

And logic

is answered with

uncertainty.

It really fascinates me to know that we are still to this day trying to find answers.

And the scientist in me really wants to help in that process.

So for the past two years I have been keeping up with the research on M. S.

And I hope to be able to one day contribute to those answers.

The short answer for why I chose in this is that I'm simply a curious

cat and I love to research and a deeper into the Wise in the House.

I hope that I answer your question

and I hope that y'all are ready to learn somewhere about this mysterious disease,

multiple sclerosis and men.

M. S. Does not discriminate.

It can be contracted by any race, any sex, any religion.

It does not matter.

But fortunate for men,

it typically targets more women than it does men,

which I will talk more about right now.

Yeah.

Again,

I highlight the fact that AMS is very prevalent in

women and according to an article on National MS Society,

2 to 3, as many women as men develop M.

S. Which is a very big difference.

It is also said that the race of caucasian um has a higher risk of getting Emmis

more than any other race.

And again, there is no certain answer to why that is

the universal symptoms of AMS.

According to the Mayo clinic, symptoms include the following

Numbness or weakness in one or more limbs,

electric shock sensations that occur with certain nick movements,

trimmers, lack of coordination or unsteady gait,

vision impairments which I briefly talked about in the previous slide,

partial or complete loss of vision can occur

prolonged double vision can occur

and blurry vision.

And some additional symptoms can include start speech fatigue,

dizziness,

tingling or pain in parts of your body

problems with sexual bible

in bladder functions.

And these symptoms include all, but not limited to the symptoms.

I just named quickly.

We should all know

that

the symptoms very personal person.

It is a very

big risk that somebody could have M. S. And not even know it.

And it's also a very big possibility for somebody to

have it and have all of these symptoms plus some

just like any other disease.

It varies depending on who you are,

the prevalence and contributing factors of AMS.

So while I stated the M. S.

Is not a discriminative disease, it can be contracted by anyone.

Six

certain infections,

genetics,

vitamin deficiencies, environment and even birth control can contribute

to contracting a mess.

Again it says can contribute to immense because it is a mystery to the wise.

But from the research that our scientists have conducted they

have seen that these factors that are just named off

are seem to be

contributing factors to M. S.

To quickly double back to birth control being contributing factor.

I personally feel like that could be a very

big reason to why women are more prevalent.

M. S.

Is more prevalent in women than it is in men

because birth control is a very very prime contraceptive for

used specifically for women.

I wanted to add a fun fact throughout my research I

saw that Canada has one of the highest rates of M.

S. In the entire world.

They have over 90,000 Canadians living with MS.

4377 people are diagnosed with missed each year

In 75% diagnosed as women which is more than half, which is tremendous.

The y

again I want to highlight the fact that the Y. Is unknown is a mystery. It's a mystery.

But the why to why I wanted to get the word out about M. S.

Is simply it's not really known too many people.

I don't hear many people talking about M. S.

Unless a family member contracted it or they heard news of someone passing from it.

But other than that it's not really communicated what M. S. Is.

So I feel like it's very important to communicate to my

peers on what AMS is and getting the word out about.

You know,

it's mysterious you know ways and also simply just come

into the bottom of what this disease is coming from.

It's not genetically

or inherently passed down. At least

that's not one of the biggest factors of it and

simply we don't know what contributes to it.

So I I do hope that you did learn a lot throughout this presentation

and I hope that you learned that you know it's

something bigger than finding out all the answers to diseases.

Unfortunately you may not know all the answers which is why the

new generation is here and which is why we are able to

research and dig deeper into the root cause of a lot of these diseases.

Yes.

While unfortunately we are at the end of the presentation,

I truly truly hope that you learned all the objectives that I wanted you to learn and

to spread the word, spread the word about

M. S.

And bring some attention to it. It's important.

I just simply want to thank you so much for coming to my video and watching it.

I really appreciate you.

I look forward to receiving some feedback on it as well.

Goodbye.

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