THE WAHLS PROTOCOL

A clear, prescriptive guide by doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis about how to beat autoimmune conditions using functional medicine, intense nutrition, and exercise.

Like many physicians, Dr. Terry Wahls was always focused on quickly diagnosing her patients and then using drugs and surgical procedures to treat them. That is, until she became a patient herself. In 2000, when she found it increasingly difficult to walk her rounds and enjoy her weekly bike rides with her partner and two children, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Her decline was immediate; within two years her back and stomach muscles had weakened so much that she needed a tilt-recline wheelchair. Conventional medical treatments were failing her, and she was convinced that she was going to be bedridden for the rest of her life. Determined not to be overcome by her disease, she took matters into her own hands and started creating her own treatment plan to get her health—and her life—back.

After studying the latest research on autoimmune disease and brain biology, Dr. Wahls decided that she should get the critical vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids that our brain cells need to function optimally, not just from the pills and supplements, but from the food she ate. Because the Paleo diet has the most nutrients per calorie of any diet, that became the cornerstone of the Wahls Protocol. The diet Dr. Wahls developed over several months, combined with neuromuscular muscular stimulation, literally gave her back her life as she knew and loved it. First she walked slowly, then steadily, and then she biked eighteen miles in a single day.

Dr. Wahls shared her remarkable story and her incredible treatment plan in a TEDx talk in November 2011 that immediately went viral: It received 500,000 views in the first three months it was posted and now has over 1.3 million views and counting. Now, in THE WAHLS PROTOCOL, Dr. Wahls outlines the treatment plan that allowed her to reverse many of her symptoms of MS and return to full capacity so that anyone who suffers from autoimmune conditions can regain their health, too. She is currently running clinical trials of her treatment plan on other patients suffering from MS to great success.

THE WAHLS PROTOCOL is split into three different levels so readers can choose the modified Wahls Diet if they’re new to the regime, the Wahls Paleo Diet if they’re ready to amp up their health, or the more advanced Wahls Paleo Plus Diet if they need more aggressive treatment. The newest addition to the “whole food” revolution, THE WAHLS PROTOCOL is a deeply moving, results-driven testimonial to the healing power of food. Terry Wahls, M.D., is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and is a clinical researcher who has published more that 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific abstracts. She has made it her mission to spread the word about THE WAHLS PROTOCOL and her own inspirational story of recovery through her TEDx talk, her website, The Wahls Foundation, and her Food as Medicine classes.