How This Doctor Reversed Her Multiple Sclerosis With Food And Lifestyle

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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How This Doctor Reversed Her Multiple Sclerosis With Food And Lifestyle | This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens

In 2000, Dr. Terry Wahls was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. By 2003, she had to start using a wheelchair because of the progression of this disease. Conventional medical treatments were failing her, and she feared that she would be bedridden for the rest of her life.

Dr. Wahls began studying the latest research on autoimmune disease and brain biology and decided to get her vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids from the food she ate rather than pills and supplements. To do this, she adopted the nutrient-rich Paleo diet, gradually refining and integrating it into a regimen of neuromuscular stimulation. She went from almost being bedridden to completing an 18-mile bicycle tour.

Dr. Hyman sat down with Dr. Wahls to discuss the types of plant foods, proteins, and fats that Dr. Wahls incorporates into her daily diet as well as the supplements she recommends. They also explore the lifestyle changes that she made including meditation, stress reduction, movement, and much more.

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. She 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.

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. Athletic Greens is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners a full year supply of their Vitamin D3/K2 Liquid Formula free with your first purchase, plus 5 free travel packs. Just go to athleticgreens.com/hyman to take advantage of this great offer.

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Terry Wahls, “Terry Wahls on How She Reversed Multiple Sclerosis Using the Power of Functional Medicine” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrTerryWahls

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	I restructured my diet and within a month my fatigue was markedly reduced.
0:09.5	My mental clarity was clearly improving.
0:13.2	In three months I get up and I'm walking with the cane.
0:17.3	In nine months I'm on my bike and I pedal around the block for the first time in six years.
0:26.0	And in 12 months I do a 20 mile bike ride with my family.
0:29.2	Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark.
0:30.6	My main goal with diet is to use food as medicine.
0:33.0	But even when we eat super well most of us are missing out on certain essential nutrients.
0:37.6	Our soils have become depleted and our digestive tracks just aren't working so great.
0:41.8	They're compromised by stress and toxins and they just can't absorb nutrients as efficiently
0:46.3	as they should.
0:47.8	And that's why I always used and I recommend to my patients a multivitamin mineral as nutritional
0:53.3	insurance.
0:54.9	It covers the basics for all our day to day body functions, all the things that we need
1:00.2	that our food might be missing.
1:02.6	But there are so many products out there I wouldn't go near because they contain artificial
1:06.2	fillers or inactive ingredients and you have to be pretty picky.
1:10.2	The one I trust and take myself is athletic greens.
1:13.5	They use high quality, highly absorbable forms of vitamins and nutrients from real whole foods.
1:18.9	Athletic greens comes in a powder that tastes great and mixes easily with water or smoothies
1:23.8	and specifically supports my gut health, immunity, energy and recovery.
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