What causes demyelination?
Believe it or not, you probably do. Scientists think the culprit is the MS sufferer’s immune system. Its soldiers—T-cells, killer cells, and hungry macrophages that amoebas—seem to attack the myelin and inflame it; in time, scar tissue forms where once was myelin. Normally and usually your immune system is a best friend, but MS destroys the friendship. Exactly why and how, no one knows for sure. Possibly an wholesome alliance forms between a gene or genes and some environmental pathogen (perhaps a virus) that commands these soldiers to rebel against the central nervous system and attack it.
