Season 4, Episode 40: Putting MS And Other Autoimmune Disorders Into Remission with Dr. Terry Wahls

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Are you ready to hear one of the most powerful healing stories out there?

Grab your tissues and get ready to laser-focus on today's episode with world-renowned physician, Dr. Terry Wahls.

Known as the creator of the "Wahls Protocol," Dr. Wahls faced her own mortality after being diagnosed with MS and declining over the years that followed.

Medication wasn't helping, and she found herself dependent on a tilt-recline wheelchair before she decided it was time to take things into her own hands.

That's when she developed her protocol utilizing health and lifestyle changes, which onto the biking track, eventually competing in cycling races.

Listen to her incredible story, and how you can work with research-backed strategies to manage both MS and other autoimmune diseases.

What we cover:

✨Her discovery that a low-fat diet was *not* supporting her body

✨The gift of creating daily lifestyle practices that brought life back to her body

✨How endometriosis and psoriasis can be early signs of developing autoimmunity

✨The role bacteria and infections play in MS

✨How radical transformations of health can happen with dietary changes and basic supplementation in even the most vulnerable populations

✨And so much more!

This is an episode you 100% don't want to miss! And, she's offering a special gift for you, Diet Cheat Sheet, which is a summary of the diet that Dr. Wahls is used in her clinics and clinical trials to restore cellular health. Great for the refrigerator!

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. In addition, Dr. Wahls has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day.

She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The 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. Learn more about the current study Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis at https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/. Pick up a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet at https://terrywahls.com/diet/ Follow her on Instagram @drterrywahls, and on Facebook/Twitter at @TerryWahls.

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