From Wheelchair to Bike: Dr. Terry Wahls' Incredible Health Transformation | Dr. Steven Gundry

I'm excited to welcome back Dr. Terry Wahls - a renowned professor at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, a bestselling author, and a true medical marvel. She's not just a colleague but a dear friend.
Dr. Wahls' story is extraordinary. After grappling with Multiple Sclerosis for over two decades, she catalyzed a dramatic recovery by transforming her diet and lifestyle.
Her journey isn't just a personal triumph; it's a beacon of hope, proving that a fulfilling life is achievable despite chronic illnesses.
We dive into some of her groundbreaking research, including an innovative study to revolutionize our understanding and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. And the best part? You'll learn how you can be a part of this groundbreaking work!
In this episode you’ll learn:
0:00 - How Dr. Terry Wahls went from being immobile to riding a bike within a few short months (and what it could mean for YOU)
10:22 - The surprising truth about the most renowned diet for managing MS (and how it stacks up against the Wahls Diet for enhancing quality of life)
15:50 - The top scientifically-proven diets to help combat fatigue and elevate overall well-being (and how to determine which is best for you)
17:20 - The #1 driver behind countless diseases (and how you can counteract it with this simple trick)
21:00 - 100% of my autoimmune disease patients react to THESE popular foods - and what happens when they cut them out or good
25:56 - The critical time frames you need to know about that can effectively mitigate the progression of the disease
27:05 - How YOU or a loved one can participate in the upcoming largest and longest dietary study in MS research
30:20 -The RIGHT way to do an elimination diet - and why it supports a strong immune system
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Want to learn more about participating in Dr. Wahls' studies? Go to www.terrywahls.com/studies
Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.
She conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. Learn more about Dr. Wahls’ clinical trials here. She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. She hosts a Wahls Protocol Seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol easily and successfully. Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD) and on Twitter at @TerryWahls.
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[@marianelasalazar6509]

Thanks for sharing with her. She is such a wonderful person and her story is inspiring. ❤

[@jorgecueva1679]

Thanks Dr. Terry Wahls and Dr. Gundry, I follow you no matter what, your advice is just too valuable. Since I follow Dr. Gundry, I have a wonderfull health. Keep doing the good work. Next in my agenda is Gut Check :D

[@breesechick]

This is great news! Congratulations Dr.. Terry 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'm happy you are feeling better.

[@cooltoolsrogerify]

This was a blessing of a podcast and a gut check at the same time!

[@Thaythichgiachanh262]

Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨ ​

[@Meawmeawwoof]

Such amazing eye opening interview.😮

[@1984FarmDreams]

Thank you Dr Terry ! She is a hero to me! ❤️

[@jiewang7985]

Love both of your work.❤

[@annabelcyates]

What an inspiring story. Amazing! Thank you for all the crucial information shared. Any tips to counter brain shrinkage? This is after 20 yrs of prescription psychiatric drugs, ie anti-psychotics, now mercifully in the rear view mirror, since October 1, after tapering for 8 months, & defying shrink's gloomy reaction to my intentions. Having followed the Dr Gundry podcast since lockdown, I'm now a devotee, (and after my gut analysis results out soon from Chuckling Goat in Wales/Cambridge (UK),am hoping all is well there), but my memory for fact assimilation and recollection is not as it used to be. Are there such things as brain food, not yet mentioned in yr respective diets?!

[@justkidding9751]

Where does he get his glasses!

[@jpl0202]

I never liked BIG pharma’s constant push to sell more drugs for more profits. I love that these 2 doctors have the b@lls to reject conventional drug protocols pushed by AMA and BIG Pharma. Thank you for standing up for food as medicine and not drugs as medicine.

[@Maria-ru2fk]

Súper Podcast!!!!!!!

[@erickapavon6317]

😊❤ thank you so much doctor for sharing this information and you ladies are wonderful and amazed person congratulations and I hope God always guides you And I have a question I will be 5 years be totally blind and I've been wondering if there's something I can do for my optic nerves, I would like to hear from you thank so much😊❤

[@nancygatto6571]

What about all these gurud saying plants are killing us tho. She healed on them.

[@kj444]

I tried for carnivore diet for 5-6 months just waiting for a sign of improvement. never came

[@grifter_alert]

Woah, amazing interview and transformation… 🙋‍♀️🔀🤷🏻‍♀️ listen up girls and boys, noble prize 🏅winner in the making !!

[@SF-ow5ru]

Great testimony thank you for sharing. So basicly it is the un-glorified version if the keto diet (as in no sweetners, almond flour etc.) Really glad it worked for you.

[@annburge291]

It's a very specific keto diet. The fats are more mono-saturated (which surprises me because saturated fats are essential for nerve growth), the vegetables are mainly cruciferous, and aliums, and a greater variety of mushrooms. Wahls eats breakfast and dinner rather than a reduced eating window.

[@nancygatto6571]

@@annburge291she also makes berry smoothies. And has supplemental to replace the eggs shes not eating. Choline

[@kathleen9456]

Diet changes are Sooooooo much easier if you live alone or are not responsible for cooking food (that you can’t eat) for your entire family. I fall into the second category and it is very difficult. No one in my family wants or needs to eat as restrictive as I do and I wouldn’t want to impose that on them, so it is a huge struggle every freakin day!

[@annburge291]

@@kathleen9456 my approach is that my family definitely eats what I eat (low lectin by peeling and seeding nightshades, long soaking and pressure cooking of pulses, boiled meat rather than frying, olive oil, lots of vegetables) but the rest of the family adds to their plates what they like such as rice, noodles, bread

[@alexeidragunov4534]

Thank god these doctors exist now we can make prevenive medicine wasy more efficient , as a Physioterapist myself i listend to all Dr Gundrys Podcasts and i can see this is the future, specially for the common people who dont have 10000$ to make on useless clininics and investigations and pills.

[@DT-wh4qr]

Interesting that sugar was not mentioned in the food categories for autoimmune diseases remission

[@helenjackson9232]

My Friend has MS unfortunately she believes the doctor who told her there's no hope. She won't even try but ima stay on her.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Did you show her this video?

[@vevahall7161]

How do I make that drink Dr Gundry drinking

[@shannonbelitz3741]

My mom had Primary Progressive MS was dxed when I was 3 months old. In 2006 unfortunately my mom passed away

[@nasrinmotlagh9068]

❤❤❤

[@kasiakilar8242]

Is there similar study in Europe?

[@MistressOnyaCox]

😅 diagnosed with fibromyalgia at age 38, spent the next decade using Cain/walker to get around. With diet change MY LIFE CHANGED. I lost 20lbs No long need assistance to get around ❤ THANX DR.G🤩

[@mariejones7136]

My boyfriend has Parkinson's and his a 1 c is up .hes very thin and is afraid to eat good fats..what the heck can he eat??

[@frantisek_heca]

I don't understand what source of protein is allowed at all in an ideal situation? If legumes, dairy, eggs, meat is not recommended at all? What is left? Or do they mean, that eating "salads/vegatable" with olive oil is enough for our bodies?

[@marysherrodd6838]

Do you work with Parkinson’s patients at all or have any suggestions for that?

[@sardot4960]

Look into high dose thiamine

[@steveh4595]

But the heart of the matter was MOST LIKELY her glial plasmalogen levels. The change in diet probably increased her levels. Goodenowe is the fountainhead (aka seminal researcher).

[@paloozaparty]

Can y'all contact Christina Applegate and Selma Blaire???

[@nancygatto6571]

I taged selema years ago her page. No resonse

[@Maria-ru2fk]

What diet is better for leaky gut with foggy brain as consequence, diet paleo or keto? So low fat or high saturated fat?

[@elijahconnorcole5497]

No doctor but listening to Gundry I fixed leaky gut with fermented foods and cutting out foods I was allergic to.

[@Maria-ru2fk]

@@elijahconnorcole5497 give me som examples of fermented food please, I am crazy with apparently autoinmune condition, horrible!!

[@Maria-ru2fk]

@@elijahconnorcole5497 I am drinking apple vinager

[@appaloosajack]

thanks......lactobaccilus

[@onthebuses]

Scotland Sharing 🍷📡🍷

[@luisenriqueramos6420]

Doc para quie habla no para el publico de habla hispana yo compre su libro la paradoja vegetal y no entiendo la actitud de este canal en ingles.

[@NancyHeier]

Well they're both from the USA so their audience speaks English for the most part. Try and find a translator. 🤷‍♀️

[@breesechick]

Can you not use the closed captions option in the corner to have it written in Spanish? I use Google translate, maybe there is an app for it for videos if you can't find one on here?

[@dgeorgaras4444]

You can only change your own diet.

[@lawrenceblue8207]

What about leg function, arthritis. Age 68

[@parisconstantinou8299]

three possible options..check them out,SCENAR,SPECTRO CHROME,THE ZONE DIET,oh and FUCOIDZ(FUCOIDAN)believe it or not it regenerates damaged cartilage"!ps oh and the one before combined holistically with some good quality bone broth supplement (maybe dr axe ancient nutrition or natures pathway/am not affiliated)combined with a supplement called BIOSIL!so the collagen from the bone broth can be assimilated by your body and be tranformed into cartilage(in your knees!)ps by the way am one of my countrys historical leading experts in the field of Natural medicine ,so it would be a good choice to follow my leads!have a nice day!good luck!

[@mariejones7136]

What does she eat

[@LisaMurphy]

If she had said she made that recovery on the vegan diet or the carnivore diet, I'd have clicked off the video. Ominvore, featuring whole foods, is the key.

[@NancyHeier]

I've had MS for 38 years most of it was being a clean vegetarian and I kept getting worse and worse until I decided to switch to carnivore 15 years ago. Never on any DMT's. Using excersise, brain games, food, Anti-inflammatory spices, herbs and other anti-inflammatory properties only. No more wheelchair for me. 😊

[@nancygatto6571]

@@NancyHeiershe was a vegietarian also. And got ms. It was definitely adding in meat and liver that helps.

[@mariejones7136]

I was a vegan forever and got non Hodgkin's cancer ..So I was like shocked because most say eat vegan for health. right after that I switched to eating grass fed grass finished meat and fish and eggs etc ..low carb keto to be in ketosis...herbs too.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Why woud you click off the video?

[@ZenPepperClub]

She he wife kids im confusef

[@gilessteve]

We live in confusing times.

[@kathleen9456]

Maybe just focus on the content and stop judging

[@breesechick]

@@kathleen9456 If any is judging it's you b They asked a question as both specimens produce eggs and not sperm. They are confused about how they have children. One of my friends is gay but has children from an ex-marriage for example. They might have adopted. Calm your tities, Karen. It's 2024 people can ask questions this ain't the 40's where everything is taboo.👩‍💼💃

[@kt9l]

It's unfortunate she never tried infrared and earthing.

[@ZenPepperClub]

Oh shut up.....

[@kt9l]

​@@ZenPepperClub No. If you have nothing helpful to add, don't participate in comments. You're not adult enough. It's too soon.

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

Tell us more

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

if people want to use taste as an excuse ask them why they don't eat poisonous foods and tell them the only difference between poisonous foods and unhealthy foods is the time it takes to affect you negatively

[@twitter.comelomhycy]

dr Terry Wahls or dr Steven Gundry for health minister 2024

[@robertporter6527]

Now that might be the most significant change that this country is in Need of. Make it So . What’s the worst that can happened? WE All GET Heather??? 👍 And big Pharma gets mad ? 🥵 Let them get mad, we all need to get heather. Thank you both for this valuable information. 🙏,