Reversing Multiple Sclerosis Using Functional Medicine | Dr. Terry Wahls
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- My guest in this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is Dr. Terry Wahls, who has one of the most incredible stories of using food to recover from an illness I’ve ever heard. Dr. Wahls is the assistant chief of staff at Iowa City VA Health Care and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Wahls is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions. She also hosts the Wahls Protocol Seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success. You can learn more about her work from her website, www.terrywahls.com.
Tune into this brand new episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy for more!
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Dr. Hyman is a 10 time #1 New York Times bestselling author, family physician and international leader in the field of Functional Medicine. His podcast, The Doctor's Farmacy, is a place for deep conversations about the critical issues of our time in the space of health, wellness, food and politics. New episodes are released every Wednesday here on TH-cam, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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I’m 35 and have been diagnosed with MS for 12 years. I just started a clean diet and I realized the other day that I feel hopeful for something for the first time in my life. Only people that have an autoimmune condition understand the struggle and how hopeless it feels. I’m so glad that you have both healed yourselves!
I'm 46 and was just diagnosed with MS. :( It's awful and it's hijacked my life.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis last year. Found two lesions on my brainstem and two on my spine. My neurologist was concerned and had me start rituxan. Did some research and found Dr. Wahl. I immediately started on a Paleo diet. A year later I had lost 65lbs and the lesions on my brainstem and spine are gone I only have two in other areas. There is something to this I think.
Stephen McCrary did you stop taking the rituxan?
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@@robr39 What you've written is not quite true. If you go to his website and click on "Shop" you will find many things he is selling. It looks to me like he is making a business out of selling books and videos.
God bless you Stephen!!!👏👏
Wonderful to hear that most of your lesions are gone! I don't hear of this type of 🧠 recovery often in the testimonials that are out there.
I admire the financial independence of people, But you can live better if you work a little more. After watching this I think there are people out there, on the extreme, who plan to die early just to be able to retire early. To each their own but to me, retirement isn't just about not having to work, it's about having the freedom to do whatever you might reasonably want, such as travel, buying things, enjoying life, etc. I don't think I could retire with less than $3m in income-generating investments, maybe $2m at the very minimum. I plan to work until I'm at least 45
Nobody knows anything, you need to create your own process, manage risk and stick to the plan, through thick or thin while also continuously learning from mistakes and improving
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SHE'S DOING GOD'S WORK, FOR DAMN SURE. Love Dr. Wahls.
She’s helping so many people, and I’m honored to know her.
And we're all well-aware of your exceptional contribution to better medicine. Kudos to Dr. Hyman.
This is the best video I have watched all year. It was worth every minute of the 45! Please share with anyone you know with MS or other autoimmune disease.
Wow, thank you!
MS Warrior no meds ! 5 years strong!
What do you do or take?
Dr. Wahls' personal story of recovery is the most powerful interview that has been shared here so far to date. Awesome and inspirational. Thank you for sharing your story, Dr. Wahls.
Thank you for saying!
What is truly inspirational is what can be done what diseases can be healed or made asymptomatic through diet and nutrition.
Dummy’s, She had chemo. That’s what helped her. She sells her diet to make money off of desperation. All the MS societies are a POS as well.
What an excellent interview. I have given up on Drs as they don't know how to help me. Going to research and give these protocols a try.
Give her book a read--it’s amazing!
You will gladly surprise!!
Truly amazing testimony. My husband has symptoms of stage 2 - 3 Parkinson. His appointment with neurologist is in 4 days. I've been eating keto way so we already have much of necessary ingredients for Dr. Wahl's recipes. I'm taking away his crap food. I started an organic food delivery service. Our grocery bill went down a couple hundred $ a month and we don't deal with food spoilage anymore.
I order quite a few ingredients from Amazon every month but easy to keep the food budget much lower.
give your husband benfotimine for parkinsons and lots of coconut oil for the brain
I have an autoimmune disease myself. I developed it when I was 26 years old and now I am almost 78. I am convinced after walking my own path and seeing videos like this that the institution of medicine does not want you to get well. I feel doctors are not trained in nutrition on purpose. The drug corporations don’t make money when you’re well, only when you’re sick. I have even argued with doctors over the years trying to convince them that vitamins are necessary. I find myself almost in arguments with them because they poo poo them and just want to put you on drugs. While I am grateful for drugs, and I think they are necessary in a lot of cases, but they totally refuse to work with people as far as nutrition goes, in my experience. For example, I believe that vitamin D is very important and I also think that they have lowered what they call the necessary limit so I do my own thing anymore with nutrition. And listening to this doctor makes it even more convincing obviously. So I think we need to take some of our healthcare into our own hands. Listen to your body, know your body and work with someone who will work with you on a more nutritional path as this lady indicates.
Wow❤❤ 78
How did you help yourself? What do you take and what’s your diet?
I don't have MS but I'm in Graves remission and have chronic systemic inflammation with some of the symptoms of other auto immune disorders including alopecia, arthritis, vision problems etc and I'm desperate for a definitive lifestyle change to finally rid myself of these issues. I believe the Walls protocol could be helpful for anyone with chronic inflammation and auto-immunity.
Sending love to you
Another incredible episode. The best solution for supporting health starts with going back to basics, good food, cooking, mindfulness, community. These messages nurture my soul. Thanks Dr Hyman for introducing us to the people making a difference.
Thank you for watching!
This is probably my favorite podcast. Love when you bring women onto the show, Dr. Hyman. Going to order her book ASAP
Newly diagnosed with M.S. I will be 55yrs old next Saturday. I have Secondary Sjogrens, R.A
and Fibromyalgia also. I reversed Hashimoto"s disease, I weighed 176.5 lbs a yr ago. Now, I weigh 122 lbs
She inspired us in soooooo many ways. Patients can relate well to the Doctors and physicians having the disease themselves .
I wish this interview never ended. Wowowowow. Just amazing. Thank you both.
I could have spoken to her all day about this!
Excellent! This video should be watched by every human being. Thank you for this inspirational and transformational interview!
I agree--feel free to share it!
Agree!
I, was DX. with MS in 1986. I, take Supplements and eat Healthy and I, am doing great. I, do not use and MS Drugs.
Thank you for sharing this! ❤
27 neurologists that "help" people disliked this video
LOL!!!
@@anime-nn9klwell you can “lol” and joke all you want to but the only science back, rigorously tested treatment for ms are the disease modifying therapies currently available and functional medicine (not dr walls as she frequently partners with neuro groups) consistently presents folks with a binary choice as opposed to a compliment. This is a complete disservice and wrong, hence so many “dislikes” from medical professionals
Oh my goodness God bless her I’m so happy she’s not in the wheelchair anymore my heart goes out to her bless her heart she has been through so much she is an inspiration to help us all🥰🙏💕🌅🦋
Mark another outstanding interview. Surely supports your writings and what you give us from your recent book
Amazing! Love to hear testimonies like this. Congrats to her! :)
Amazing I find it's so hard for people to get their minds around this. It worked for me. My Hashimoto markers are gone.
Hi Teresa, your comment gave me hope for this Hashimoto´s issue. I prefer to think about him as an intruder trying to live in my Thyroid. Well, I am new in Hashi´s town. I do not know much about him, but I am learning how to beat him (I know it is related to stress and I need to do yoga but it is also food so I am on that way now).
@@virnatoja3968 taking all grains out of your diet. Replace with healthy fats and a green shake from kale,spinach,2 tsp nutritional yeast,half a lemon half an eco, 1 task chia seeds, half a thumb of fresh turmeric and 1 table spoon of cold pressed coconut oil. All organic .this is a power house hope you feel better soon. Also bone broth
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You are a warrior.
Thank you for your comment.
All the best, God bless you.
I toyed with the paleo diet. I removed most sources of gluten and cut carbs drastically. My thyroid numbers improved dramatically. Imagine if I went full out.
Good interview Dr. Hyman. She's even helping vegetarians and vegans. I'm so happy for her that she reversed her M.S. and is helping others to recover.
When the focus is on creating health rather than on disease or conditions, hope abounds!
Thank you for sharing this information. When you hear "autoimmune disease" for the first time is shocking, but there is hope that this may change if we detox our liver and start giving our body the food that it needs.
This is great hope for those people who are suffering from this disease really inspired me a lot and thank you for sharing with us
So inspirational -- I'm seeing so many folks in the media sharing they've been diagnosed with MS -- I sincerely hope they find Dr. Wahls sooner rather than later.
This woman is an inspiration for us all!
So glad to hear her bring up fasting. Awesome podcast.
Dr. Hyman, I love learning from you. Going for my MS in Functional & Integrative Nutrition in MN. Basically going to heal people with food & plant medicine as a CNS & at a health and wellness shop.
Fantastic. Thank you so much Dr. Hyman.
I love you Dr. And God bless you for your work, and helping humanity with truth and integrity.
Mark, please,stop interrupting your guests and let them develop completely their ideas.Thanks anyway for the great show and guests
Thanks for the video. Dr. Hyman is helping so many people by writing his books and doing such informative interviews! Thanks again Dr. Hyman.
Thanks for listening!
Who wonderful and encouraging testimony. Thank you so much!
Thank YOU!
Great and inspiring interview! This reinforces that diet, exercise, and other lifestyle choices have a tremendous impact on our health.
I’m grateful I came across Dr. Wahls 🙏🏼❤️
Amazing that this video was done three years ago. Dr. Wahl… you look like you’ve been aging backwards! Nice that you’ve been healing your body.
Loved your Amazing work!
I’ve followed her and her protocol for well over a decade. The one ((BIG)) point to ask Terry regarding her protocol that prohibits eggs: she’s not saying all eggs are the same… correct? BIG difference between factory / industrial raised chickens/ eggs VS. farm raised chicken on pasture. This is my biggest criticism of her: as eggs has saved my health on three continents. Someone ask her to specify, please!!!
This series is amazing! Thank you!
Thanks for saying!
Great podcast. Will help me in my practice as a board certified health and wellness coach. Incredibly inspiring story.
That was so great. I suffer from ms, goin downhill slowly but steadily. I have hope again, I ordered that book already
Doctors making a comeback!
Hope!
Amazing interview!
Thank you Dr. Hyman for filling my life with hope. Hope that I can have a quality life by natural means.
My two FAVORITE people, together! Thank you both for sharing with us.
lovely interview
This is incredible - a must watch video.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this, I'm a Wahls Warrior too. Have had great success on the Wahls Protocol.
Thank you for sharing yours success!
Dr. Wahl thank you for sharing. Wonderful testimony.
I have been on disability for almost two decades for FM and CFS. I have been medicated, over medicated for years. Almost three years ago I began looking for a way to fix my body. Functional Medicine came to my attention. I am very poor and cannot afford it. Medicaid is sick care not health care. In the middle of tapering medications I had two small strokes and was diagnosed with microvascular ischemic disease. The Wahls protocol sound like a good path for me.
For what I heard, she makes it possible to eat using little money.
It's cheap.
Can't wait to get book and start
Thanks for sharing. I'm on a journey, 1 year into OMAD LCHF and my psoriasis still isn't going away. Time to follow her protocol. Thanks.
I lost 30 pounds on this, but need to heal other things. I have dry eye since birth and it sucks so much. I hate having to use eye drops every morning. It hurts with out them.
Thanks Dr Hyman for this super AMAZING interview with Dr Terry WAHLS.... we need to bring her out to tour Australian High Schools to educate the coming generations on food choices and health. School canteen food is dreadful. It's processed, sugar loaded, refined carb dominant junk that offers no nutritional or health support. The biggest hurdles are establishment education, people understanding, community acceptance, and the money the canteens earn from feeding students junk food, convenience and fast "food".
Wish I had the ability to make this change in our australian schools happen but I think it will take a strong lobby group of smart and well connected people to do it.
Once again thank you, and I too am going to look for Dr Terry's book as a reference for my own healthy ageing.
I’m glad you liked it so much! Have a good time with Dr. Wahls’ book--it’s amazing!
I have your book; haven't read much. This video spurred me on. Thank you
Amazing conversation. I have MS and love Dr Wahls. Thank you so much.
Great info! Dr. Gary Null has been promoting this protocol for years.
I have raised a child since he was 14. He is now 27 and was just recently diagnosed with MS. I immediately bought the Wahls Protocol, but I have yet to deliver it. I am diabetic, so I'm using it for myself. I have taught him to cook though, so I know he is eating well. I agree with Drs. Hyman and Wahls that teaching children to cook is essential. I have taught my granddaughters, 7 and 14, to cook since they were four.
Sweetie good luck to you but ms is not diabetes. Check in with your doctors.
For diabetes, see how to recover from it completely using Jason Fung's protocols, he is on TH-cam.
♥️♥️♥️THANK YOU BOTH♥️♥️♥️
Awesome video. Been listening from day one up in Canada
👍🏻
She said..Clearly Neurology has it wrong..powerful stuff..🧠💪🏾🙏🏾
I'm starting to think that severe depression is an autoimmune disease.... seriously.
Me too.
When i feel down/ overwhelmed,
Make a smoothie full of good nutrition and feel better.
I agree. I have Hashimoto's and at times the most dark cloud over my head. I remind myself it is a physical symptom so I don't give in to the scary thoughts
Yes, I totally agree. My poor suffering teenage daughter does not.
For me, depression is linked to vitamin c. I found that out when I learned that the first symptom of vit c deficiency is depression and realized that when I'm depressed, I crave fruit. So I increased my vitamin c intake and the depression disappeared. My sweet spot is about 3,000 mg/day.
Not one person who answered you nor yourself actually should be discussing the profound nature and serious consequences of clinical depression unless you and they can do it in a more educated and less flippant manner.
So inspiring!! Wow
Dr. Hyman, I love your work. Please could you do an interview with someone doing research on Lou Gehrig’s disease. My brother in law was just diagnosed and we are desperate to help him!
One of Dr. Wahls' points in the book is that ALL disease starts on a cellular level, with the mitochondria. Then the disease manifests different ways in different people, depending on genetics and other circumstances. So although she is addressing MS and autoimmune diseases specifically, the diet should be helpful for any disease.
My Mother was a Regional director for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society during the 60s & 70s. I wish she was alive to watch this presentation and see the astounding results presented here. She worked with researchers and the hope back then was that Laetrile might be an effective treatment.
Is that also known as "vitamin b17?"
Terry Wahls you are a remarkable woman.
Thank you for your work. Im in the process of being diagnosed with a demyelinating disease, possibly MS and I'm in a lot of pain. My friend just bought me your cookbook and this will probably be the route i have to go. I'm on anxiety meds, muscle relaxers and sleep meds. I don't want to be on any of it.
I love her story 👍🏻✌🏻
It’s remarkable how all our chronic diseases can be helped using the same nutrient and cooking principles. Standard of care medicine has really dropped the ball but I can’t really blame anyone for it. It’s the system that has distorted medicine.
As a retired allopathic physician, I have always believed diet could be healing or one could dig his/her grave with a fork! Born 3 months prematurely with subsequent cerebral palsy, I developed Hashimoto's thyroiditis at 40. Now at 72, though still ambulatory, and exercising daily, my energy reserves are diminished. I've been gf since 2015. Hopefully my cook/husband will be interested.
God's work in the flesh! Bravo, Dr. Terry 👍
Thank you for the excellent interview, I have PPMS. Does the protocol work for my case?
Its nice to hear that mushrooms and garlic are a very healthy food. I started taking a fermented mushroom supplement and a fermented garlic supplement a few months ago.
Allen Miller Why not just cook mushrooms and garlic in butter with some salt. It’s delicious.
I also eat marinated mushrooms that I make at home. The problem is that getting all the various mushrooms in the fermented form costs an arm and a leg. That's why I add some fermented mushrooms to my diet as well. I get all those medicinal mushrooms as well. I also eat garlic, plus I also take a small supplement of fermented black garlic. One of the advantages of taking the fermented form of garlic and mushrooms is that it does not add to calorie count...not that I count my calories since I'm on a high fat diet. I just don't like seeing that I consumed 3000 calories on my Cronometer account. (They have not figured out a way to show that high fat calories don't count as full calories compared to carb calories.)
Just don't over do the garlic and onions. Aurvedic medicine says they are powerful and can over work the body if taken too often.
I really heard this: it won’t work unless I let go of the lectins:
NO LEGUMES
NO SOY
Also:
NO GRAINS
NO EGGS
NO DAIRY
NO GLUTEN
NO SUGAR
What also stood out is,if I have any hope to succeed,before I begin,I must clarify my PURPOSE in doing this:
WHY am I doing this?
For whom am I doing this?
If I am passionately motivated, this will give me the discipline to make it past the temptations and carry me through the difficulties of detoxing and withdrawal I experience as I’m letting go of foods I’m chemically and emotionally addicted to.
Passionate purpose and deep meaning will also give me the willingness to exercise and meditate daily.
Thank you, thank you,THANK YOU,Dr Wahls!!! Bless you.😇
No thank’s not an accurate representation of the protocol
Got diagnosed with ms four years ago. Immediately started following this protocol and between the diet and the same treatment (Tysabri), one of them nearly killed me at the age of 48. Which was to blame? I will NEVER know. I may have a histamine allergy (still meeting with docs). The fermented foods appeared to take me down very quick. Just goes to show there’s just not one protocol for everyone. :(
My family also genetically cannot eat high fiber foods. The more veggies I added, the worse i got.
Beautiful
This is such a helpful video. More veggies! I am going to give the Wahls protocol a try (vegan/almost raw style). I have had such great results so far with supplements provided by my functional medicine practitioner--my thyroid antibodies continue to come down year over year (Hashi's) but am still a bit resistant to veggies. I have been following Dr. Hyman since Ultrametabolism and every time I implement what I'm supposed to I achieve health improvements! Ready to really get those antibodies down once and for all. Peace to you and gratitude for all you both do!
I’m glad it was helpful!
what supplements were/are you taking or the major contributing ones if i may ask?
Brilliant
Yah is using Doctors to help people🥰🌹🌷
Excellent information
Thanks!
I love to eat 7to8 cups of kale, dark green leafy...I actually feel like nirvana when I have that Rainbow salad, with lemon garlic olive oil basil dressing, organic vegan.
Dear Dr Hyman
Can you also activate the subtitles in Spanish so I can share with my family and friends in Perú? Thanks🙏
You can translate the main point for them.
Creo puedes ir a Google translate.
yesssss..thank you or pushing sunlight! I hate how the government lies about the sun , pushing sunblock, sunglasses. I love the sun, and my vitamin d filled mushrooms too...
try fasting 4 auto disease
Basically you are saying that you have to fight the medical establishment to convince them that nutritious food is important for health outcomes.
Her son won Iowa's senate seat
Son? ...and did she just say her wife?😬
Wonderboy they have two kids
Wonderboy ??
@Wonderboy she is a LGBT .
Hallelujah! Praise God!
The one thing I would ask here is what's the most efficient way to stay within the this protocol and increase protein intake?
I needed this just found out I have lesions and ms so tired and memory loss I agree with the diet I did for my mom with cancer veggies in blender
Not the same protocol
Love functional and progressive medicine but isn't it time you guys moved on from plastic water bottles.....so easily
replaced by stainless steel or glass ...jus saying
It's glass.
Haha
More importantly, does she have any new lesions? Not trying to go against the grain, but you can have new lesions (which are also counted as a relapse) without any symptoms.
It'd be amazing if the diet can prevent new lesions/plaques.
Unless I missed it, any comment on use of Calcium amino-ethyl phosphate supplement?
She gives the best reasons for eating healthy fats; that the vegan diet is not a healthy diet. I get tired of listening to vegans saying how consuming healthy fats leads to heart disease.
bacon fat. I loved that! Want to start using ghee
I want to start eating bacon again and then use the fat to cook my eggs, then consume everything including the fat. Nitrate free bacon is very expensive.
love it
How's the Wahls' protocol different from the Bredesen protocol?
Hi there, what about aplastic anemia or MDS? Can dr Whals Protocol help?
Even though the leafy greens are healthy , they're also very high in oxalates. I would like to know what is the best way to prepare these foods. It sucks that you have to worry about healthy foods containing lectins, oxalates etc.
Thanks for this episode Dr. Hyman. I see Dr. wahls' name on the back of many of my favorite nutrition books but this is the first I'm hearing her incredible story
If interested, you should read more about her. She has so much wisdom to share with all of us!