# 366 - An astonishing MS story - Dr Terry Wahls

Dr Terry Wahls is an author and a clinical Professor of medicine at the University of Iowa, in addition to being proof positive that food can be your medicine. She was diagnosed with MS and spent 4 years relying on a wheelchair for her mobility, so debilitating were her symptoms. She was faced with making one of 2 choices, to either give up on life or continue going. Thankfully she chose the latter and she dived into researching how nutrition could positively impact her condition and went on to develop her Wahls protocol, a diet based protocol that would see her go from being wheelchair bound to being able to ride her bike to work again. Twenty years after her MS diagnosis, she continues in her mission to help others with her diet and lifestyle philosophy. In this episode Dr Wahls tells us about the onset of her MS symptoms and how it impacted her and her family, as well as her professional life. We learn about what motivated Dr Wahls in the darkest moments when her condition held little hope. We hear about what steps she took in relation to her nutrition when she made the decision not to fall victim to the medically accepted limitations of her diagnosis. Dr Wahls, tells us about the main driver of MS, the mitochondria or the power house of our cells, and how this knowledge helped her establish a dietary protocol that helped her rediscover her hitherto waning energy levels. We hear about how diet can lessen the negative effects of systemic inflammation especially as far as autoimmune diseases are concerned. We discover that the dramatic improvement in Dr Wahls condition is not an anomaly, but as a study she has carried out in other MS patients shows, changes in diet and nutrition intake can improve the health of other chronic disease sufferers too. And expect to learn what foods Dr Wahls suggests we eat and what foods we should consider elminating from our diets. To say that Dr Wahls condition as an MS patient has improved over the last 2 decades since she was initially diagnosed, is an understatement. In times past her cases would have been labelled miraculous. The truth very much grounded in science and reality, Dr Wahls rejected the traditional route of submitting completely to pharmaceutical drugs instead choosing to allow her food provide the nutrients she needed to restore her health. Its important to state, Dr Wahls still has MS but her experimentation with her nutrition allowed her to initially drastically reverse her decline, and return to practise medicine but also to drastically slow down the progress of this debilitating disease. Her determination and her story are extraordinary. I hope you enjoy this conversation and find as much inspiration as I did, Dr Wahls Website : https://terrywahls.com/ Dr Wahls Ted Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc