Perhaps you've seen Dr. Terry Wahl's viral Ted Talk with over 2 million views!

If you’ve ever had inflammation, an auto-immune disease, sore joints, heart-disease, asthma, high blood pressure, or if you’re just plain human, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’re interview Dr. Terry Wahls, one of the most extraordinary doctors out there. She’s come back from MS, and from a life in traditional medicine, to develop a functional medicine protocol to help us all live healthier, more energetic lives TODAY, and to come back from autoimmune disorders from MS, to Luppus, Lyme Disease, Diabetes, Chronic Fatigue, and the list goes on and on and on.

Today we’ll talk about the heart of disease, why at it’s source, it’s all cellular dysfunction, where it comes from, and most importantly, what in the world we can do about it, beginning TODAY.

That’s most important to me, that and kicking butt energetically. Jessica and I don’t have a show to run, but we want a family too, and we’re both coming back from long-term illness, her more than me. But if we admit it to ourselves, aren’t we all struggling in some way health-wise? We were never meant to be tired, achy, and old before our time, or brain-fogged at any age. And we were never meant to live on pharmaceuticals and a lifetime suppy of supplements.

So I am so excited to talk with Dr. Wahls today.

Show Notes and Topics Include:

Ted Talk – Mind Your Mitochondria
From Wheelchair to Walking
Did you believe you could come back – what possessed you to look for an answer?
History – steady decline even with aggressive treatment
Discovered institute of functional medicine
1. Redesigned life based on
2. Took functional medicine plus supplement approach
Ted Talk – 2 million views in 2011
Getting “younger”
All autoimmune disease is the same at it’s origin
1. Immune cells are at heart of how run biology
  1. Asthma, IBS, krohns, ulcerative cloritis, rheumatoid arthritis, schelarderma, psoriasis, MS, lupus, type 1 diabetes, acne, artherosclerosis, schizophrenia
  2. Most chronic diseases that aren’t affected may be found to be auto-immune in nature

Mold-toxicity syndrome
1. Auto-immune related
2. Chronic swelling in one extremity
  1. Damaged blood vessels, whether veins or lymph ducts leaving that limb
  2. Also autonomic nerves that regulate flow could be damaged
3. If exposed to bold, many of us our immune cells can attack, and clear it from system.
4. Some of us can’t clear them as well, cause damage to organs, rev up inflammation and if have auto-immune process make it more severe

What’s the difference between a diagnosis and a disease?
Difference between conventional and functional medicine approach
1. Example: uses IBS
2. Conventional: use immune suppressing drugs
Different “levels” for functional medicine

Create more health for your cells, and healthier cells make helather organs and healthier body
Basis is wahls diet plans
1. Level 1 – tons of vegetable
  1. e. 9 cups of veggies
  2. 3 cups is one plate – so 3 plates of veggies each meal
2. Organic grass fed meat – though can do it as vegetarian

Meditation
Moving the body every day
How is this diet different than standard paleo diet

What is ketosis
1. Can starve health-promoting bacteria in gut
2. Ketosis 6-12 months will help starve out candida
Make starchy vegetables raw – gut will ferment them into ketones and won’t
Berries and fruits okay

Limit apples, pears bananas

What are good fats vs. bad fats
1. Which to have, and which to stay away from
No gluten
No dairy – casein bad, but ghee may be okay.
The 1 month test

How do you tell if you have a leaky gut?

Algae and Seaweed
Sea salt vs. commercial salt
Don’t need dairy/calcium need vitamin D and K2
Digestive Enzymes
Zeolite, Clays
1. Can make you mineral deficient
Important tests to get
1. Don’t necessarily need tests
Need stress-reduction techniques
1. Importance of meditation for stress-reduction (mindfulness, yoga, breathing, etc.)
Usually can tell w/in 1 month moving in right direction
1. But hard to sustain because is in addiction
2. Remove from the house – get family’s support
Terrywahls.com
Currently recruiting for next trial – people with recurring MS with fatigue
Swank diet vs. Wahls diet

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