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Andy McKenna is Stoked on MS | Episode 14

Andy McKenna is Stoked on MS | Episode 14

FromLiving Well with Multiple Sclerosis


Andy McKenna is Stoked on MS | Episode 14

FromLiving Well with Multiple Sclerosis

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Bio:   Since the 1980s, Andy McKenna has been a dedicated mountain biker, spending his life poring over maps, dreaming and exploring the mountains of Scotland and beyond. Turning his passion for two-wheeled adventure into a multi-award-winning mountain bike guiding and tour business in 2008, Andy is an experienced mountain bike guide and reluctant administrator who along with his wife Aneela balance their busy working lives by making sure they both takes their 'medicine’ regularly, meaning together getting out of the office, into the hills on their bikes as often as possible.   Andy has been living with MS without use of MS medication since 2007 and is the driving force behind ‘Stoked on MS’ (irony intentional) and through this hopes to shine a light of hope on the reality of leading a healthy, productive and active existence by adopting the Overcoming MS way of life.   Questions:   Can you tell us a little about yourself: where are you from? What do you do? How did you find your passion for cycling? Tell us a little about your journey to becoming an avid mountain biker. What is Go-Where?  How did your MS diagnosis change your relationship with your cycling passion? What did you do about it? What limitations has your MS introduced to your active lifestyle, and how have you dealt with or overcome them? What is Stoked on MS? How did you discover OMS and what has your experience been with its approach to MS management? What compelled you to dedicate some of your fundraising efforts to OMS (which, by the way, resulted in over GBP 70K in collective contributions to date)? If you had one piece of wisdom or inspiration to impart to someone newly diagnosed with MS, what would it be?   Links:   Stoked on MS Andy’s Cycling Tours Company Andy’s GoFundMe Page Andy’s Facebook Group (membership request required) Andy’s Instagram Andy’s YouTube Channel (cool mountain biking videos) Swank MS Foundation   Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. We will be taking a few weeks off to celebrate the holidays, and we certainly hope you will too, though you can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favorite podcast listening app. We will kick off season 2 of this podcast on January 15, 2020 with a very special episode on intermittent fasting featuring world-renowned expert in the subject, Dr. Valter Longo. Till then, have a wonderful holiday season and Happy 2020!  
Released:
Dec 20, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast from the Overcoming MS charity. In each episode, your host Geoff Allix explores a different aspect of the Overcoming MS Program in greater depth by talking with experts and people with MS about health lifestyle changes. New episodes are published on Wednesdays and feature interviews with scientists, neurologists, fitness specialists, diet experts, stress reduction professionals. The podcast also features inspirational, real-life stories from people with multiple sclerosis following the Overcoming MS program, about the challenges and victories of managing symptoms through lifestyle modification.