Beauty & the Babble

Five Steps Towards Improving Quality of Life With an Autoimmune Disease with Terry Wahls

Melissa Bolona Episode 27

Dr. Terry Wahls shares her powerful story about her battle with multiple sclerosis and her miraculous recovery. As a doctor herself, now helping hundreds of other patients with their own autoimmune or mobility struggles, Dr. Wahls shares her recommendations to set patients on their own path towards recovery. Discussing a redesigned paleo diet, vitamin and mineral supplements, exercise regimen, meditation/mindfulness practices and electrical current stimulation exercises, Melissa and Dr. Wahls talk about how these healthy changes can help reduce fatigue and brain fog, improve motor function, and ultimately improve quality of life.Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and conducts clinical trials in the setting of Multiple Sclerosis. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, and the cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. Learn more about the current study Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis at www.terrywahls.com/msstudy. Pick up a one-page handout for the WahlsTM Diet.