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Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Summit 2.0

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Follow me on social media. On X and Facebook @terrywahls, and Instagram, @drterrywahls. so you get to see what I'm doing. They're fun and informative. You just need to have access to the internet to enjoy them.  Then think about my books. This is my first book, published in 2010. and it was the protocol I used for my recovery. It's available in large print. It's in Europe. It's also on Kindle here in the United States. We gave you the first chapter as a gift. Then my second book in 2014 was the Wahls Protocol. It's a comprehensive, functional medicine approach. For treating autoimmune and neurologic conditions, it's diet and exercise supplements. It's much more than just a diet. There are a lot of very inspiring recovery stories. We have many people who get the book and read it with their friends and family and are very successful in transforming their lives. We have multiple translations. I'll show that to you in just a moment. If it's not in your language, please have a publisher in your language who publishes health and wellness books. 

Reach out to us at customer service at terrywahls.com, and we can get them in contact with our publisher. Then my third book is Wahls Protocol: Cooking for Life. It's a template for recipes. It covers all three levels and also explains how to use the Wahls-elimination diet as well. Get, the Wahls type, Wahls paleo, Wahls paleo plus. It's a ketogenic diet. and how to utilize the elimination diet. We talk about holidays. How to get your family on board and how to have a template. as you think about adopting the Wahls Protocol. This is very affordable. I'm conscious of my time and conscious of using everyday, accessible ingredients for you. Again, we have the introduction and sample recipes as a gift. Be sure and download that to get you started. Then I revised and updated the Wahls Protocol. if you have the original hardback. I encourage you to get the revised, expanded version with 30% new material. I've updated the research. We have a bigger discussion. dietary approaches. Get multiple translations. and we have the introduction. The first chapter, Gift, is from the revised edition. It's been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Czech. We have the English version. French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Again, if your language is not, in this case, reach out to us at customer service at terrywahls.com with an interested publisher. Cooking for Life has also been translated into Spanish and Turkish. We have an online course, the Autoimmune Intervention Mastery Course. There are five modules. The first module is about the inner gain. That is the importance of how to grow your internal motivation and set you up for success. Number two is your nutritional intervention plan. This is all about the food and what we can do to improve our nutrition. Number three is your physical intervention plan; what can we do to improve our movement? Number four is the supplemental intervention plan. This is about supplements, but also the additional non-food, non-physical types of interventions that are very supportive. Multiple lessons are short and bite-sized. In each module, there are bonus lessons that you can take or pass. We also about committing to a life of connection and happiness. This is about how to connect with your support. This is a proven pathway to improved health and healing. Now, there are several online courses, but let me talk to you about taking this course, it can help you have a renewed sense of hope and a greater understanding of the environmental factors that contributed to your health decline. Help you identify which factors are most relevant to contributing to your illness so you can know where to focus your efforts, be better equipped with more skills and resources to adopt and sustain diet and lifestyle choices that matter to you and your family and have a better understanding of which supplements are helpful. What are some of the other supplemental interventions beyond diet and exercise that can also be helpful?

There are a few courses that have had peer-reviewed scientific research about how effective they are, I conducted clinical research, and we did this evaluation of a web-based course on quality of life and fatigue. The course that we used is the autoimmune intervention mastery course that I just described. That was the commercially available online course. the URLs terrywahls.com/aim. There was a conflict of interest management plan in place with the university. Again, the same five modules and multiple lessons are commercially available. People went through the course again. They get that it's web-based. There was no support from the research team. We had 100 people in. We followed them for 24 weeks. It's something called weight-loss control. You were randomized to either immediate access or delayed access. At 12 weeks, the control group then begins the aim program. We compared the intervention group to the control group. We saw a significant improvement in quality of life in physical health.  That's clinically significant about a 5.43 difference. The p-value is 0.003 and so it's also statistically significant. There's a significant reduction in fatigue. The modified fatigue impact scale was reduced to 5.06. The clinically significant reduction is four. The fatigue severity scale score was reduced to 0.68. The clinically significant difference is 0.45.

Statistically significant improvement in quality of life production fatigue. Those are both clinically significant for both quality of life and property reduction. Going through the Aim course improved my quality of life and fatigue. There is no intervention from the state team other than getting people access to the course. If we have a variety of courses that we announce through our newsletter or webinar talking about the course, yes, we have more than just the Aim course. We also have a training program for health professionals. We teach the Wahls behavior change model and all. the latest research on the diet and lifestyle environmental factors that are important for managing an autoimmune condition. If you have a health-related certificate or health-related license, you can become a certified practitioner, be a Wahls Protocol health professional certificate. We have a discount code for a reduced application fee. Go to terrywahls.com/certification.   That discount code is VIP. Everyone's journey is unique. I encourage you to be sure that you've downloaded the free gifts that are part of the summit. Select the tools that are right for you. Get the free tools. Think about it, and begin and remember that there are trained clinicians available around the world, and you can search at terrywahls.com/healthprofessionaldirectory.com/. if you just go to my website, terrywahls.com. Look across the top, and you'll see a link that says, Search for a trained practitioner. To give you a little bit of perspective. This is me, on our family farm, as we were planting a hardwood forest. That's the first year of our trees coming up. 20 years later, things have evolved. We never planted the jack in the pulpits, but they came because we changed the ecosystem. The forest is now quite tall, and trees are flourishing. The understory is changing and evolving as the trees grow up. What we have here is a comparison of the corn that is chemically dependent. roundup dependent. You can see all forest in the background there. Do not underestimate the power of your daily choices. It's just so powerful. Please begin making changes at a pace that you can manage. Get the tools that are right for you. and certainly encourage you to pick up the newest, revised copy of the Wahls Protocol. If you haven't already picked up Cooking For Life, consider signing up for the course; we've had wonderful success with that.

<h6>Terry Wahls, MD</h6>
Welcome to another day of the MS and Neuroimmune Summit. Again, I'm Dr. Terry Wahls, your host. I want to talk to you about the tools, support, adapting, and sustaining the Wahls Protocol. Now, I want to acknowledge that changing dietary patterns is hard for many of us. We know that the standard American diet and the standard Western diet increase the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. I think we could also add autoimmunity, neurologic problems, and mental health problems. We know from the World Health Organization that only 25% of patients begin a diet or exercise change that's been recommended by their physician. Only 10%— of that, 25%—will sustain the diet change longer than a year. Only 10% will sustain an exercise program for longer than a year. It's hard because our brains are wired for pleasure. We value the immediate rather than the future. Fear of loss is more important to us than the current benefit. Our habits are automatic. We crave salt, sugar, fat, sex, pleasure, comfort, and inactivity. Food addiction is real. Big Food has created very tasty and addicting products. Withdrawal symptoms often occur, and so the question is, how do we sustain improving our diet, exercise, and other lifestyle patterns that are just an integral part of the Wahls protocol? In the traditional behavior change models that are taught to us in medical school, there's a pre-contemplation, a contemplation of I'm getting ready. I'm thinking about change. I'm preparing for change.

Then I take action. The next is. Can I sustain it? Maintenance programs and relapse is common.  I've created the Wahls behavior change model. We've published research on this. There are 15 steps. It's at this level that we have inspiration. We help people grow their internal motivation. We address facilitators and barriers. We have had extraordinary success in our clinical trials, in our clinical practice, and in our various programs utilizing the Wahls behavior change model to help people be more successful in making the changes that they want to make. Again, drugs don't create health. They can't get at the root cause of why cellular dysfunction is happening. Although there are drugs, they are very effective in reducing relapses in slowing the progression of various autoimmune diseases. They slow progression. But they can't restore or address the root causes of cellular health. To do that, we have to do the environmental factors, which again are drugs and supplements do not provide what our DNA expects. We have to address the environment. A big part of that is diet and lifestyle. Remember, less than 25% of patients will adopt diet and exercise recommendations, and less than 10% can continue that after 12 months. We need more support. Most health professionals that you're seeing have zero training in behavior change again; that model is pre-contemplation. Contemplation preparing for action. Action-sustaining action. They need the Wahls behavior change model. A lot more support is needed for the health professionals and the patients. I've created more tools to support you. If you're a practitioner, we have more tools to support you. We have a bunch of free resources patients need to access the internet. There are books that people can access in the library. We have some online courses, and I'll tell you about that. If that is not sufficient, then see a trained clinician to help personalize your program. First, sign up and read my newsletters. terrywahls.com/email.  You can see the weekly research updates and inspirational articles that I have.

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Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a board-certified internal medicine physician.  She also conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of diet and lifestyle in the setting of multiple sclerosis.  In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions to research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. In addition, Dr. Wahls has 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 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Wahls-Protocol-Progressive-Principles/dp/1583335218/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine</a>,<a href="http://terrywahls.com/about-the-wahls-protocol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback),</a> and the cookbook <a href="http://terrywahls.com/wahls-protocol-cooking-for-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions</a>.  Learn more about the current study Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis <a href="https://terrywahls.com/msstudy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>  Pick up a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet at <a href="https://terrywahls.com/diet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://terrywahls.com/diet/</a> Follow her on Instagram @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/drterrywahls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drterrywahls</a>, and on Facebook/Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/terrywahls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@TerryWahls</a>.
See Terry Wahls at the DrTalks <a href="https://drtalks.com/multiple-sclerosis-summit/">Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Summit</a>.

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