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The Dr. Hyman Show

Terry Wahls on How She Reversed Multiple Sclerosis Using Functional Medicine

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest in this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is Dr. Terry Wahls, who has one of the most incredible stories of using food to recover from an illness I’ve ever heard. Dr. Wahls is the assistant chief of staff at Iowa City VA Health Care and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa.

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Dr. Mark Heimann and welcome to the doctor's pharmacy, a place for conversations

0:08.6

that matter.

0:09.6

Today, our guest is Dr. Terry Walts, who is an extraordinary physician who cured herself

0:14.3

of multiple sclerosis, which doesn't seem like a sentence you can even say, but here

0:19.0

she is to prove it and I can share with you that she's an extraordinary woman who's

0:23.2

really pioneered a new way of thinking about how we treat chronic disease.

0:26.8

She's a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa.

0:29.6

She's the author of the Walls Protocol, how I beat progressive MS using paleoprincipals

0:35.1

and functional medicine.

0:36.9

And of course, the cookbook that goes along with it, the Walls Protocol, cooking for life,

0:40.5

the revolutionary modern paleoplanned to treat all chronic autoimmune conditions.

0:44.9

That's a big promise.

0:45.9

We're going to get into that.

0:46.9

So, stay tuned.

0:47.9

That conversation is coming up next on the doctor's pharmacy.

0:55.1

Tell us, Terry, how you kind of found your way to help through this approach that you

1:01.5

call the Walls Protocol.

1:02.9

Well, thank you, Mark.

1:04.9

It's such an honor to be here with you and I'm so glad to count you as a very good friend.

1:10.2

So, you know, I'm a academic internal medicine doc.

1:13.2

I was very skeptical about diet and lifestyle and supplements and complementary alternative

1:17.7

medicine.

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