Success Stories of Reversed MS- Dr. Terry Wahls, MD
“Drugs are not the answer. Let food, good, wholesome food, be thy medicine.” Dr. Terry Wahls, MD Dr. Terry Wahls, a highly respected medical doctor, researcher and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine is a true inspiration for everyone. She was diagnosed with RR-MS in 2000, and her condition progressed quickly (in 2003) to SP-MS. From a very active woman who used to run marathons and climb mountains, Dr Wahls was confined to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. She started to use a nutritional/lifestyle plan, which later became “The Wahls Protocol.” Within one year, she was able to walk again without a cane and even complete an 18-mile bicycle tour! Let’s look at Dr. Wahls’s success story because she describes beautifully the changes she made in her mindset, as well as the treatments she adopted. This is the summary of the first chapter from her latest book “The Wahls Protocol – A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions using Paleo Principles.” At the beginning, she was simply a patient, following the recommendations of her neurologist and taking the medications (Copaxone, Mitoxantrone, Tysabri, CellCept). “Taking my life back” chapter from her book reveals some details: “Getting into that wheelchair triggered something. I realized that conventional medicine was not likely to stop what was happening to m… I decided to...
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