274: How to Reverse Multiple Sclerosis and Prevent Autoimmune Diseases | Terry Wahls, MD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Dr. Terry Wahls oversees clinical trials at the University of Iowa. She also has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which for four years kept her in a tilt-recline wheelchair. Dr. Wahls used a food and lifestyle plan she created specifically for her brain to regain her health, and she is now able to ride her bike to work every day. She shares how she did all this in her book The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles. Full show notes: https://maxlugavere.com/podcast/274

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0:00.0	What a family it's episode 274 of The Genius Life.
0:17.0	What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of The Show. I'm your host Max Lugovier,
0:21.0	a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times best-selling author.
0:24.2	I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices including what we eat and how we live,
0:28.6	affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, and our health span and risk for disease.
0:34.4	This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.
0:39.2	Guys, I'm so excited for today's episode of The Show in which I welcome Dr. Terry Walls.
0:47.1	Dr. Walls is a physician who also happens to have secondary progressive multiple sclerosis,
0:53.5	which for four years kept her in a tilt recline wheelchair. Dr. Walls
0:58.4	used a food and lifestyle plan that she developed specifically for her brain to regain her health
1:04.5	and she's now able to ride her bike to work every single day. She first shared how she did this
1:09.8	in her wildly popular TEDx talk, which went online about 11 years ago, which I saw I believe almost
1:17.8	as soon as it went up. It was incredibly inspiring to me back then and it still is and to date it has
1:22.8	almost four million views. She also wrote about her protocol in her incredible book The Walls
1:29.4	Protocol, a radical new way to treat all chronic autoimmune conditions using paleoprincibles.
1:35.2	She has been a major advocate for the intersection between diet and brain health and autoimmunity,
1:42.0	growing it from a niche interest among few in clinical medicine to now overseeing millions of
1:48.0	dollars worth of clinical trials at the University of Iowa. So she is a badass and I'm super excited
1:55.6	for you to listen to our conversation. Among many things, we're going to talk about the role that
1:59.4	are mitochondria play in progressive diseases like MS and the specific nutrients that Dr. Walls
2:05.8	has identified that can help support healthy mitochondria. We're going to talk about why Dr.
2:10.0	Walls abandoned her vegetarian diet and how she went on to develop the Walls Protocol, which
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