Part I: MS - Understanding the disease: 1 What is MS? - A first overview -- 2 Do I really have MS? -- 3. An excursion into our immune system -- 4 Why MRI? -- 5. The most important facts about the nerve fluid -- Part II: MS - Understanding the therapy: 6. How MS is treated -- 7. What to do in an acute MS episode -- 8. I am fine - why therapy? -- 9. MS therapy yesterday and today -- 10. How the progression of the disease can be influenced - the MS drugs in detail -- 11. The therapy goal has a name: NEDA -- 12. MS and vaccinations -- 13. MS and the desire to have children -- Part III: MS - and what you can do yourself: 14. Own initiative helps -- 15. Forest fire MS -- 16. "Western Diet" and "Blue Zones -- 17. Nutrition works -- 18. The intestine and its inhabitants -- 19. Microbiota and microbiome -- 20. How the microbiome develops -- 21. How bacteria can be identified -- 22. Stool transplantation -- 23. The intestine and MS: what scientific research says -- 24. Vitamin D - sense and nonsense -- 25. Action plan and recipes to follow -- 26. Summary of the most important recommendations. .