TPS 68: Dr Terry Wahls – Beating Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine

Like many doctors, this weeks guest focused on treating her patients’ conditions with drugs or surgical

procedures. However, this all changed after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000 which

turned out to be the catalyst for a huge shake up.

We know that many of our listeners at home first discovered Paleo through experiencing a health crisis

and can personally relate to the need for urgency when it comes to examining and improving our health

practices.

Within three years of her diagnosis, Dr Wahls was in a bad way, her back and stomach muscles had

weakened to the point where she needed a wheelchair and conventional medical treatments were

failing her.

Rather than accept her rapidly deteriorating state of health Dr. Wahls began studying the latest research

on autoimmune disease and brain biology, and started to use food as medicine opting to get her

vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids from the food she ate rather than pills and

supplements. Dr. Wahls adopted the nutrient-rich paleo diet, and used this as the base to develop her

own approach to healing chronic auto-immune conditions. She has gone on to be an internet sensation

via her TED talk which went viral, and she is also a successful published author with the recent release

of her book The Wahls Protocol- how to beat progressive MS using Paleo Principles and Functional

Medicine.

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