Freebooters coach and former Junior A team player, Paul Smith, was unfortunately diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) earlier this year.

For 50% of sufferers, life expectancy from diagnosis is less than 3 years.

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A brief update from Paul regarding his ongoing fight against MND and how this has progressed over the past few months. Paul discusses his challenges as some of his symptoms progress, some new techniques and therapies that he is trying, his next trip to the US for treatment, some fundraising events that will be taking place before the end of the year and his plans to conduct research around MND in conjunction with the Atlantic Technological University....

Listen to an update from Paul on recent fundraising events, his trip to the US to receive treatment in his fight against MND and his plans to conduct future research in conjunction with the Atlantic Technological University to help support other MND sufferers....

Despite a cold and frosty start, we managed to kick off at 6am on Saturday 2nd April in the warmth of the school sports hall. I started with the support of Ant A and his son Joseph, and together we started off a good pace of approx. 7.5 mph. Tim Y joined us around 8am and after 3h 15 mins we had completed 1232 lengths of the sports hall which equated to 23 miles....

Some of the web addresses that were mentioned in the above video include: www.thehealthworksclinic.com - this is a link to Kevin Eakins the Functional Doctor I am working with who is assisting me with my diet, supplementation protocol and different approaches to fasting www.healingals.org - this is the site that has been created by individuals in the US who have experienced ALS (MND) and created a community to share success stories of individuals that have managed to stop or reverse their symptoms www.bodyscience.life...