#024: Dietary Approaches To Preventing & Managing MS Related Symptoms with Dr. Terry Wahls

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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.

Plus, she is a fellow Iowan! She comes on the show to dive deep into the role of nutrition for healing, managing and preventing MS symptoms. It was a very inspiring interview about what's possible when it comes to healing the body through nutrition. And she even shares a few recipes you can get access to if you visit her site right here!

Show Notes:

7:16 - Terry’s background and experience with conventional medicine vs. functional medicine

16:07 - nutrition specific for MS

18:20 - Terry’s books and protocol for MS

24:12 - preventing progress MS

27:04 - why it’s important to work with a primary care doc especially if you are on medications

31:28 - tips for the microbiome

33:24 - discussing the benefit of greens for the brain

Important Links:

• Secondary progressive MS
• The Wahls Protocol - How I Beat MS (book)
• The Animal Models of MS
• The Institute for Functional Medicine
• Summer Bock episode
• Terry Wahls Website
• One Page summary of the Wahls diet (cheat sheet FREE Giveaway!)
• Mindshare Summit Conference

Quotes:

9:09 - “It was very clear that despite taking the very best drugs, from the very best people, from one of the best MS centers in the world…. I was headed toward bedridden, demented and possibly uncontrolled pain.”

14:03 - “The conventional understanding of progressive MS is incomplete. Who knows how much recovery might be possible.”