They believed so strongly in their nutritional principles that, from the day their now-18-year-old son Blake was born, he's been following his parents' clean eating program. What she found was that "our version of the diet was easier to follow - and tasted better." They included what she calls "more anti-inflammatory foods like fruit and vegetables and more 'superfoods' that were ultra-rich in antioxidants and phytonutrients." So she and Andy did more research and founds ways to update the diet. The Larsons married in 2000 and, while Ivy had success managing her MS via the Swank Diet, she bemoaned its restrictiveness and bland food preparation. Swank - the Larsons began what Ivy calls "our anti-inflammatory journey."
Sheremata espoused the efficacy of an anti-inflammatory diet in managing MS.Īfter meeting in person with Sheremata, Andy was convinced.Īrmed with a book Sheremata gave them - "The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book" by Dr. What's more, back then the medical community was less receptive to the idea of managing MS via nutrition.Īndy, who was completing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania (where med school students received just 20 hours of nutrition training), spent a day in the school's medical library researching Sheremata's dozens of peer-reviewed articles in medical journals.
When Ivy, 43, and Andy, 46, first decided to become self-taught nutrition experts, there was precious little information online. Their approach stresses consuming foods in their “most natural and nutrient-rich state” and Ivy has become a nationally recognized expert in nutrition and fitness - especially as it relates to MS.Īnd the Larsons have just co-authored their fifth book - the "Clean Cuisine Cookbook," whose goal Ivy says is to "demystify clean eating while offering a road map to lifelong health." So for the past 20 years, the North Palm Beach couple - who were first friends at The Benjamin School (11th-grader Andy was eighth-grader Ivy's math tutor) - have been following a nutrition, fitness and lifestyle program they've dubbed Clean Cuisine. The goal of the dietary revamping was simple: reduce internal inflammation and thereby limit the disease's progression and period flare-ups. William Sheremata of the University of Miami, told me my options were to take 'disease-modifying' medication, enter a drug trial - or completely overhaul my diet and do everything possible to limit stress," explains Ivy. Andy Larson, have taken a natural, nutrition-based approach to keeping Ivy's disease at bay.
Since her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 1998 at age 22, she and then-future husband, bariatric surgeon Dr. Not that you'd know it from outward appearances. Ivy Larson's body has been attacking itself for more than two decades.
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