Episode 421: Optimizing Your Brain Health with Nurse Practitioner Erin Wilkinson
RealTalk MS22 Syys 2025

Episode 421: Optimizing Your Brain Health with Nurse Practitioner Erin Wilkinson

Happy birthday to us! RealTalk MS is 8 years old today! It's hard for me to believe that the podcast I launched in 2017, with the goal of one day reaching 300 listeners, today reaches thousands of people living with MS, their care partners, MS researchers, and clinicians in more than 100 countries.

So, let me start this week's show notes with a profound thank you to each of you for being an important part of the RealTalk MS listener community. Your ongoing engagement is a constant reminder that our podcast is a two-way conversation. And I'm looking forward to continuing the conversation until we can talk about MS in the past tense.

MS can affect memory, attention, and processing speed. But proactive strategies can help preserve your cognitive function and quality of life.

Erin Wilkinson, a nurse practitioner in the Multiple Sclerosis Department of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, is joining me to help us better understand the relationship between MS and brain health and to share strategies for preserving and even improving brain health.

You'll also meet Jan Bonville, a consultant, speaker, writer, and advocate for inclusive travel and patient empowerment. Jan has lived with MS for twenty years, and our conversation focused on resilience, empowerment, and self-advocacy. As you will hear, these are things that Jan lives every day.

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

This Week: Happy birthday to us and greetings from ECTRIMS! :22

MS advocate Jan Bonville discusses resilience, empowerment, and self-advocacy 4:40

Nurse Practitioner Erin Wilkinson shares strategies for optimizing your brain health 23:03

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RealTalk MS Episode 421
Guests: Jan Bonville and NP Erin Wilkinson

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