How the Wahls Protocol Treats All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions
March 19, 2020
Table of Contents
Join me in a conversation with Dr. Terry Wahls, as she explains how the Wahs Protocol treats all chronic autoimmune conditions.
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- How Dr. Terry Wahls changed her own life after being diagnosed with progressive MS
- Why anyone can implement the Wahls Protocol
- Why brain cells and functions once lost are NOT lost forever
- What autoimmunity is
- How the Wahls Protocol addresses the environment in order to redeem health
- How to approach dietary changes with the Wahls Protocol
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Show Notes
- How Dr. Terry Wahls created a diet and lifestyle protocol to benefit her brain, mitochondria and brain cells after being diagnosed with MS, and subsequently change the dogma around MS research (02:55)
- What is autoimmunity and what types of diagnosis outside of MS are tied to autoimmunity (11:50)
- How the Wahls Protocol addresses the environment in order to redeem health (17:00)
- How to approach dietary changes (20:20)
- Dr. Terry Wahls explains how to keep costs low and still eat organic and well (26:20)
- Why anyone can implement the Wahls Protocol (35:20)
- What has changed in the last 5 years since Terry Wahls started talking about this approach (36:18)
- The new and revised edition of “The Wahls Protocol” book (38:30)
Resources and Links
Dr. Terry Wahls “The Wahls Protocol”
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More about Dr. Terry Wahls
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. She is also a patient with 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: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles and you can learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team via this email: MSDietStudy@healthcare.uiowa.edu. You can also pick up a copy of her research papers here and a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet here.
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Tara Hunkin (01:53):
I want to welcome everybody back to the my child will thrive podcast. Today I have with me Dr. Terry Whals. Dr. 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 to research clinical care and patient advocacy. And she is the author of the Wahls Protocol, a radical new way to treat all chronic autoimmune conditions using paleo principles. So, I'm really excited to have you here today. Thanks so much for joining me.
Terry Wahls (02:37):
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
Tara Hunkin (02:39):
So when we're going to dive right into this, because if this is a really important conversation and it's often overlooked in our community because people don't even consider how autoimmunity plays a role. But before we get started with that, why don't you tell everybody who aren't familiar with her work what, where, what your story is and how you came about to come up with the Wahls protocol.