3 Superfoods That Support Mitochondrial Health with Dr. Terry Wahls

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by WHOOP and Inside Tracker. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Terry Wahls to discuss the top foods and lifestyle factors that support and damage our mitochondria. Dr. Wahls shares how she healed herself from secondary progressive multiple sclerosis using the principles of Functional Medicine. Dr. Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine certified practitioner and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. She has conducted several clinical trials, coauthored 24 scientific publications, and is pioneering a way to make her protocol more accessible by making it available online to the public. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Wahls talk about the damage processed foods cause for people’s health and the environment. They discuss Dr. Wahls’ story, and how The Wahls Protocol inspired clinical research that has helped thousands of people reclaim their health. In this episode, we dive into: - The top three superfoods that Dr. Wahls uses regularly and includes in her Wahls Protocol to supercharge mitochondrial health (2:14) - The top three foods that are damaging our mitochondrial health (19:10) - The role sugar plays in our mitochondrial health (26:10) - Lifestyle factors that help and hurt our mitochondria (27:46) - How and what toxins poison our mitochondria (31:36) - Dr. Wahls’ illness and how she discovered the role her mitochondria played (50:47) - The biggest changes Dr. Wahls made to her diet on her healing journey (1:08:26) - Remarkable stories of patients following the Wahls Protocol (1:23:21) - Who might not benefit from eating plant fiber (1:40:10) Also mentioned in this episode: The Wahls Protocol Bristol Stool Chart For more on Dr. Wahls, follow her on Instagram @drterrywahls and through her website, terrywahls.com. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. To get yours, go to https://www.join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's conversation is an important breakdown of the importance of mitochondria and most importantly
0:06.1	Three things three superfoods that support our mitochondrial health and
0:11.9	Three foods that actually destroy and damage our mitochondria
0:18.2	Welcome to the Drupalot podcast each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds in wellness
0:25.4	Medicine mindset this week's guests on the podcast is Dr. Terry Wells and she's here to help us understand the power of mitochondria
0:33.2	And the daily actions that we do that both harm and help them
0:38.0	Dr. Terry Wells is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa
0:42.3	Where she conducts clinical trials on all things autoimmune and multiple sclerosis in?
0:49.0	2018 she was awarded with the Institute of Functional Medicines
0:51.8	Linus Pauling Award for her contributions to research clinical care and patient advocacy
0:57.5	Dr. Wells has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis which confined her to a tilt recline wheelchair for four years
1:05.8	But something magical happened following something that she now calls the walls protocol
1:10.7	Dr. Wells restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program that she designed specifically for her brain and now
1:17.2	She pedals her bike to work every single day at one point in time Dr. Terry Wells was banned from speaking at the multiple sclerosis
1:25.6	Foundation because her ideas were considered too controversial a few years later
1:30.7	She was awarded a million dollars by that same organization that banned her to further her research in this space
1:37.5	Dr. Wells is the author of the walls protocol a radical new way to treat all chronic autoimmune conditions using paleo
1:44.5	Principles and the cookbook the walls protocol cooking for life even if you don't have an autoimmune condition
1:51.1	The principles that Terry teaches through the walls protocol are something that we can all implement and that can drastically make our life better
1:58.7	Stay tuned for a fascinating conversation about mitochondrial health with Dr. Terry Wells
2:05.9	Dr. Terry Wells a pleasure to have you here. We're gonna jump right in talking all things mitochondria
2:11.3	Tell us some of the top three superfoods that are out there that you use regularly as part of your program and that you consume regularly
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