Today’s guest a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she teaches internal medicine residents, sees patients in a traumatic brain injury clinic, and conducts clinical trials. She has been on the Ted-X stage and has over 3.1 million views on YouTube for her talk on Minding Your Mitochondria.

She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. But thanks to the power of The Wahls Protocol, which is based on functional medicine and the Wahls Paleo™ diet, Dr. Wahls restored her health and now pedals her bike five miles to work each day.

She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and Minding My Mitochondria: How I Overcame Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and Got Out of My Wheelchair and teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of intensive nutrition. I am of course, talking about none other than Dr. Terry Wahls!

 

 

(1:55) – Dr. Wahls talks about her background in high performance sports before medical school. In 1978 she was 3rd in the country in women’s welterweight Taekwondo and competed nationally in free-sparing Taekwondo without protective gear. Was skiing, biking, climbing, you name it.

 

(2:57) – In the year 2000 Dr. Wahls started having leg weakness. Had MRI of brain and spinal cord. Found lesions in her brain and abnormal spinal fluid. Found out she had relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Started taking disease modifying drugs which made her start to go downhill.

 

(4:07) – Found out about Dr. Loren Cordain and his paleo type principles. Dr. Wahls decided after 20 years of being a vegetarian, to go back to eating meat. Not following the principles completely and still taking drugs, Dr. Wahls started declining even more with many symptoms.

 

(5:20) – Dr. Wahls started implementing vitamin supplement cocktails for her mitochondria. Found that the vitamins were actually working after being able to get out of bed.

 

(8:08) – Finds out about 212 papers about electro-muscle stimulation that allowed her to work out her muscles and ramp up her nervous system.

 

(8:55) – Dr. Wahls Learn about functional medicine’s neuroprotective course.

 

(9:33)- Dr. Wahls describes the beginning of her miraculous recovery and amazing strength gains, finally being able to ride her bike and walk.

 

(12:25) – Dr. Wahls talks about how people couldn’t believe she was recovering from Multiple Sclerosis and how her colleagues began to get upset because they found out she was getting better with nutrition and not with drugs.

 

(14:00)- Dr. Wahls begins to do trials with nutrition, vitamins, muscle stimulation in humans with those having neurodegenerative diseases and those with decreased of quality of life.

 

(16:02) – The Wahls Protocol works with many other conditions or even for healthy people to live a better life and a longer life.

 

(17:50) – Dr. Wahls speaks about the Wahls Protocol, lifestyle modifications and the levels that go into it.

 

(21:30) – Dr. Wahls talks about electro-muscle stimulation and what it is used for in both the clinical setting and public domain for many types of conditions.

 

(24:00) – We talk about vibration platforms and other therapies for nervous system stimulation.

 

(26:20) – We talk organ meats, and how to cook liver so that they taste better without a mouth full of blood.

 

(29:20) – We talk about why EVERYONE should be eating organ meats and the amazing benefits of organ meats.

 

(30:50) – We talk about genetic testing platforms like 23andme, Strati-gene and DNAfit. We also talk about genetic variations like single nucleotide polymorphisms and what they mean for our health.

 

(33:30) – Dr. Wahls talks about the foods she grows in her our garden.

 

(34:20) – Why Dr. Wahls went down-hill on a vegetarian diet and why switching her diet played a big role in getting healthy and how she teaches vegetarians to optimize their diet on food stamps.

 

(36:20) – Dr. Wahls talks about how it might not be needed to have food allergy testing by using nutrition, connection, modalities, education, inspiration and stress relief. She talks about how she was able to work with patients at her own clinic treating them with her own protocols and having phenomenal results and getting many big-name philanthropy groups on board.

 

(40:30) – Dr. Wahls talks about working with many big-time research groups and multiple sclerosis foundation. All being done without medications and following the Wahl’s Protocol.

 

(42:10) – Dr. Wahls talks about why meat products get such a bad name in today’s age. We talk about how conventional meats are the meats that are being labeled as bad. We talk about how the meats are being tainted by the foods that animals are eating and what it is doing to our gut microbiome. Dr. Wahls talks about our ancestral approach to nutrition and modern farming practices.

 

(45:52) – I ask Dr. Wahls about why sulfur rich veggies are extremely important for our health. We also talk about how deeply pigmented vegetables and colors affect our health. Different benefits for different colors.

 

(47:25) – Difference between steaming vegetables and eating vegetables raw. Dr. Wahls talks about the different types of poop and how that determines if you should steam your veggies or eat them raw. We stress the important of healthy poop and bowel movements.

 

(50:10) – What kind of exercises, balance drills and stretches Dr. Wahls do to help her Multiple Sclerosis. She talks about using her non-dominant side to establish better cross-patterned connections between body and brain.

 

(53:15) – Dr. Wahls talks about her latest research and her seminar that she puts on for the public to bring more awareness health living.

(54:05) – The other bio-hacks, modalities that Dr. Wahls uses in her everyday life to make herself better each day.

 

(55:25) – What would Dr. Wahls Eat For Her Last Meal?

“Liver and onions, parsley onion salad, black berries and blueberries on the side.”

 

(55:50) – Where would Dr. Wahls Travel In Her Last Week Of Life?

“Go back to Nepal and go mountain climbing with her family.”

 

(56:55) – What piece of advice would Dr. Wahls Give To Someone To Live A Better Life?

“Know your purpose and have clarity on your mission through your unique strengths and share that message with your tribe each day to create a better world.”

 

 

Resources from the episode:

 

Dr. Terry Wahls and The Wahls Protocol

https://terrywahls.com/diet for a FREE print out summary of The Wahls Protocol

https://amzn.to/2DXCfl2 to purchase your copy of The Wahls Protocol

https://amzn.to/2FKIcFI to purchase The Wahls Protocol Cooking For Life Recipe Book

https://terrywahls.com/wahls-protocol-seminar-retreat/ for Dr. Wahls Protocol Seminars

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