Actress Ludmila Dayer, 39, revealed during a live that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Known for her role as Joana in “Malhação” (Globo) between 2000 and 2001, she talked about the initial shock and how she is taking care of herself, keeping herself without symptoms of sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which she also have.
“My world fell apart! Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease, and I thought I’m at the height of my work, with my projects, starting to direct now. What will happen to my life? We go through all the difficulties, but when it is healthy, we are vulnerable,” said the actress, who now lives in the United States.
Although the diagnosis took place in late 2021, Ludmila says the symptoms started much earlier. It was mid-2019 when she started to feel “weird” and her body “didn’t work right”. “I thought it was stress, but in February 2020 I got Covid, I was in Asia, and I almost died. After that I never got completely well.”
“I started having very strange symptoms. Memory loss, loss of reflex, one problem after another. Hair loss, my skin, I lost collagen all of a sudden, I passed out, I started to lose my vision. I was living hell” , said the actress, who went to the doctors, but they did not have an answer. “I thought it was all in my head.”
It was only at the end of 2021 that Ludmila went to a doctor in Los Angeles, who detected the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in her body and later diagnosed sclerosis. Very common, EBV usually infects people at a young age and usually lies dormant, but a recent study pointed out that it can act as a trigger in people genetically susceptible to multiple sclerosis.
Ludmila says that she began to study her illness and, on medical advice, decided to change her diet, which was considered a possible help since there is no cure. Looking for non-inflammatory foods, she says she cut out gluten, eggs and red meat from her menu and the symptoms are gone.
“In the first week I could see that the connections started to improve, the memory loss. Before, I would walk from one room to another in the house and forget what I had to do. But six months after this diet I have no symptoms, not even EBV nor from sclerosis. It is as if I had gained a new life, I was born again and because of food”.
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