Ep 30: Dr. Terry Wahls - Diet and Lifestyle to Restore Health and Treat MS

Listen as Dr. Terry Wahls shares how she changed her diet and lifestyle to restore her health and treat MS.

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: 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.

She conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. She hosts a Wahls Protocol Seminar every summer where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success. 

Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD), on Instagram drterrywahls, and on Facebook/Twitter at @TerryWahls.   

Learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team: MSDietStudy@healthcare.uiowa.edu. 

Links:
Research papers at https://terrywahls.com/researchpapers/ 
One-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet at https://terrywahls.com/diet/