Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast.

I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com and I'm so excited about my guest today.

First did you know that information can travel through your brain at over 260 miles per hour

and that your brain is the fattest organ in your body with about 60 percent fat.

Today's guest is a specialist who knows quite a bit about the brain and the body.

Dr. Terry Walsh is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and a staff

physician at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Hospital where she teaches medical students

and resident physicians, sees patients with traumatic brain injury and therapeutic lifestyle

clinics with complex chronic health problems that often include multiple autoimmune disorders

and conducts clinical trials.

Dr. Terry Walsh, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, thank you.

I'm always glad to chat with you, Katie.

Awesome.

And I did not include your story in the bio because I want you to tell it yourself to our listeners

but it's so incredible.

And I've talked with you in person and was just absolutely blown away not only by how

vibrant and healthy you are right now but of hearing your story and how you got here.

So can you walk us through your journey?

You know, and I'm actually profoundly grateful that things turned out this way because I

ended up learning so much along the way.

In 2000, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the basis of a history 13 years earlier of

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