As is always the case you have to treat patents with a dose of skepticism because there is no peer-review of the information, so you can claim loads of things. It is really only lawyers that assess the merits and patents and is on legal aspects like novelty and invention and not whether the data is good quality. However the presence of thyroid peroxidase antibody is known to be a risk factor for the development of thyroid disease, and MSers are no different. Food for thought if you ever get the option to try it.
Pharma do loads of work that never sees the light of day in the academic literature, but this surfaces in the patent database