The Wahls Protocol, Terry Wahls, MD
The Wahls Protocol, Terry Wahls, MD
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The Wahls Protocol
How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine

Author: Terry Wahls, MD, Eve Adamson

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2014

Synopsis

Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls focused on treating her patients' ailments with drugs or surgical procedures—until she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000. Within three years, her back and stomach muscles had weakened to the point where she needed a tilt-recline wheelchair. Conventional medical treatments were failing her, and she feared that she would be bedridden for the rest of her life.

Dr. Wahls began studying the latest research on autoimmune disease and brain biology, and decided to get her vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids from the food she ate rather than pills and supplements. Dr. Wahl's adopted the nutrient-rich paleo diet, gradually refining and integrating it into a regimen of neuromuscular stimulation. First, she walked slowly, then steadily, and then she biked eighteen miles in a single day. In November 2011, Dr. Wahls shared her remarkable recovery in a TEDx talk that immediately went viral. Now, in The Wahls Protocol, she shares the details of the protocol that allowed her to reverse many of her symptoms, get back to her life, and embark on a new mission: to share the Wahls Protocol with others suffering from the ravages of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions.

About Terry Wahls, MD

Dr. Terry Wahls is 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 written numerous articles in medical journals. 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. Terry lives in Iowa with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Connie on August 23, 2014

I have finished reading this book some weeks ago, but neglected to update here. This is a book that will be reread again and again, and referred to frequently. It is a very valuable in addition to my health and nutritional resources bookshelf. I am following the diet – – she has three levels of diet......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on September 25, 2014

As a historian, I'm offended; as the spouse of someone with MS, I'm willing to give it a try. All the surrounding theoretical babble is questionable: from the very notion of "a" paleo diet, to the idea that only functional medicine gets at root causes of disease, to a "paleo" lifestyle incuding elect......more

Goodreads review by Jodi on September 16, 2014

This book is pretty great. The entirety of the first few chapters where Dr Terry Wahls tells her own story of illness and then enormous recovery from illness through her own research and where she explains that the body is a self healing system so long as it is given the raw materials it needs to do......more

Goodreads review by Chani on October 17, 2017

I am very glad that I read the Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life book first. This book is like most other introduction to a food plan books. Person is sick, person changed their diet and got better. As someone with RA I completely agree with this and am looking to include ideas from the Whals Protocol......more

Goodreads review by Jupiter on July 17, 2023

I was diagnosed with MS in the summer of 2015 and this is the first book I read on MS, which my neurologist leant to me after I told her I wanted to approach a holistic way of dealing with my symtoms rather then medication (which I ended up on anyways). This book taught me many lessons about the Pal......more

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