Reversing Multiple Sclerosis And Autoimmune Disease With Functional Medicine with Dr. Terry Wahls

Reversing Multiple Sclerosis And Autoimmune Disease With Functional
Medicine | This episode is brought to you by HigherDOSE,
BiOptimizers, and MitoPure The most profound cases of healing I see
are in people who refuse to give up. Even if they’ve found some
things that improve their condition, they continue searching for
new ways to feel better and better. This is how we break down walls
in medicine. It’s how people who are told they’ll never walk again
end up biking to work every day. I’m honored to have one of those
incredible people on today’s podcast to talk about her journey as a
patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Dr. Terry
Wahls never stopped searching for answers and has changed the
prognosis of MS and autoimmune diseases for herself and so many
others in the process. Throughout this episode, we dive into Dr.
Wahls latest tweaks and updates to the healing protocol that’s been
so successful for her and countless others. Dr. Terry Wahls is a
clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. Her
secondary progressive multiple sclerosis confined her to a
tilt-recline wheelchair for four years, but she restored her health
using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for
mitochondrial health 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, and the cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for
Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic
Autoimmune Conditions. This episode is brought to you by
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our interview:  The development of The Wahls Behavior Change
Model and importance of attending to mental, spiritual, and
emotional aspects of overall health (7:00) Dr. Wahls’ use of
hormesis (mild to moderate stress to the body followed by
sufficient recovery and repair) to enhance her health (8:14) 
The role that stress played in Dr. Wahls’ life prior to her MS
diagnosis, and how she now incorporates stress management in her
daily routine (13:16) The Wahls Protocol diet (20:07) Unique
challenges and successes of clinically studying The Wahls
Protocol (31:37) Patient stories of remarkable health
improvements and disease management (40:24) Dr. Wahls’ current
study of Clinically Isolated Syndrome and Relapsing-Remitting
Multiple Sclerosis: Dietary and lifestyle changes without drugs
versus standard of care (44:55)   Why the NIH resists funding
diet and lifestyle research, and the idea of creating health vs
treating disease (50:37) Multiple Sclerosis and the gut microbiome
(54:27) Getting to the root cause of autoimmune disease (59:01)
Learn more about Dr. Terry Wahls and her work at
https://terrywahls.com and on Facebook @TerryWahls, on Instagram
@drterrywahls, and on Twitter @terrywahls. Get Dr. Wahl’s new book,
The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic
Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles at 
https://www.amazon.com/Wahls-Protocol-Autoimmune-Conditions-Principles/dp/1583335544