Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health

#89 Dr. Terry Wahls discusses her MS diagnosis and The Wahls Protocol


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HER STORY

Dr Wahls is the clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A., where she teaches internal medicine residents in their primary care clinics. She also does clinical research and has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific abstracts, posters, and papers. In addition to being a doctor, she is also a patient with a chronic, progressive disease. She was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 2000; around the time she began working at the university. By 2003, she had transitioned to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. She underwent chemotherapy to slow the disease and began using a tilt-recline wheelchair because of weakness in her back muscles.

It was clear: Eventually she would become bedridden by the disease and wanted to forestall that fate as long as possible.


FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING

When diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Terry Wahls had two choices for the example she could set for her children. She could model giving up, or she could model that even though life’s not fair, you get up every day and you do the best that you can. She chose the latter. Now, Dr. Wahls has a new mission: to create an epidemic of health and help millions of people reclaim their lives.

She is the author of The Wahls Protocol®: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional MedicineThe Wahls Protocol®: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback),and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol® Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions


AGENDA:

  1. Tell us your story about MS & what you learned through its course.  
  2. Talk to us about the various types of brain cells and the role they play in turning MS on or off.
  3. What does the research say about your program and the various components.
  4. How widely applicable is this type of program? Yes for MS, but what about other autoimmune conditions? Toxic conditions? Alzheimer’s/ Parkinson’s, etc?
  5. How has your program evolved over the years and how does it continue to evolve?
  6. If you are a person listening to this right now with MS or these other conditions, what are the most accessible points of entry to make change, to potentially change the course of your disease?
  7. What are you excited about next in research & complex/ chronic disease development?


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