Does MS Cause Brain Impairment?

Then we also know in multiple sclerosis and other neurologic conditions, there's a blood brain barrier that has some impairment. So the brain has a barrier between the bloodstream and the brain, and things do get through. Oxygen gets through, and red blood cells get through. So it's hard for bacteria to get in their brain, for example, because if they did, we'd get meningitis, and that's pretty lethal. So blood brain barriers is important. All the Ms. Patients have a leaky gut and a leaky brain, more or less. And this is not proven yet, but there may be a link between these bacteria that are opening up these pathway in the gut, allowing other bacteria to get through the gut and into the brain. Because we're see traces of DNA from bacteria in the plaques of brains, the lesions of brains with Ms.