Episode 402: The Importance of Asserting Your Personal Style When You're Living with MS with Jeri Zink Denz
RealTalk MS12 Touko 2025

Episode 402: The Importance of Asserting Your Personal Style When You're Living with MS with Jeri Zink Denz

If you're living with MS, you might experience days when it feels like you're losing your sense of who you are, as your sense of self gets redefined by your symptoms. Reasserting your personal style can be a powerful way to rediscover joy in who you are while reclaiming your identity.

Jeri Zink Denz lives with MS and works in the luxury fashion industry. She's always been passionate about fashion and personal style, and Jeri joins me to discuss how you can find and define your personal style, despite the challenges that MS may present.

We'll also explain the hidden outcome of the massive agency layoffs and drastic cuts in federal funding for healthcare research, and this is the outcome that can affect research for decades to come.

We're sharing the results of a study that may have identified a biomarker for rapid MS progression.

We'll tell you about the game-changing artificial intelligence project that received a $750,000 investment from the International Progressive MS Alliance.

And you'll find out how and where you can register for the upcoming Hispanic/Latinx MS Experience Summit.

We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??!

This Week: Reasserting your personal style can be a powerful way to rediscover joy in who you are in spite of the challenges that MS may present. :22

Layoffs + funding cuts = brain drain 1:08

Have researchers found a biomarker for rapid MS progression? 4:51

The International Progressive MS Alliance has invested $750,000 in what could be a game-changing AI project 9:09

The National MS Society's Hispanic/Latinx MS Experience Summit is just 8 days away 10:59

Jeri Zink Denz discusses why it's especially important (and even therapeutic!) to assert your personal style when you're living with MS 12:22

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STUDY: Broad Rim Lesions are a New Pathological and Imaging Biomarker for Rapid Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis
https://nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03625-7

International Progressive MS Alliance
https://progressivemsalliance.org

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