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Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Summit 2.0

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Beth Schultz, and I am a health warrior. I was diagnosed with MS 18 years ago. Prior to getting  choked up, though. It was hard. 18 years ago, I was a single mom, and a five year old child. I was a bartender that was on my feet, running around a lot of stuff to remember. Out of the blue. I lost partial eyesight and one eye. I thought I had a migraine. I went to urgent care about five days after, because a migraine had never lasted that long for me, and my eyesight still hadn't returned in one eye. After they gave me medication for MS, a shot or for a migraine, a shot, and it didn't do anything. they sent me right up to ophthalmology and they said,  you have a MS of optic neuritis. I didn't know what it was, but I thought I was in a wheelchair and I thought that's crazy. I'm walking just fine. I just can't see well, what I have MS.  I had an MRI the next day. I got to meet with the neurologist the next day, and I only had that one lesion, so they can't diagnose see with MS. and he said hopefully this is an isolated incident.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nothing ever will happen again. If it does call us back in two months, my eyesight will return. I was sure I would be fine. Three days later, I lost partial eyesight in the other eye. The next MRI showed two lesions in both eye nerves and one on my brain.  I was diagnosed with MS. I followed the standard of care. I tried Abinex, which is an injectable, and that was horrible. It has been nine months since I couldn't get out of bed two days a week or two days a week.  As a single mom and a bartender, you can't spend two days in bed a week. I finally got off at about nine months later because my symptoms were not slowing down either. I was still having a new flare every two months at that time and I had lost feeling in the left side of my body. The brain fog got very bad, fatigue, and eyesight just kept going. One eye to the other. I probably had at least 20 cases of optic neuritis. I tried Copaxone, which is another injectable. I didn't have any horrible side effects on that, so I stayed on that for a few years. But still, my symptoms didn't seem like they </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">were slowing down or stopping. At one time, a doctor told me that I should try the low fat diet, that it might slow my progression a little bit. I followed the diet for about five days, and it just didn't seem worth it to me because it might help a little bit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was no explanation of how it would help, why it would help. so I didn’t do that.  Then one day I was scrolling through Facebook, and this is about nine years into my journey, and me and my mom were going through Facebook and a TedTalk pops up. Doctor gets a wheelchair. Within a month. I pressed play and I got up and we just stopped and I said, that's it. I'm going to do it and it's going to work.  I did.  At that time I was  getting into alternative medicine.  I did have a belief that your body could heal. I was, my practitioner put me on a vegan diet and I was feeling a little bit better. I had been a vegan in the past and I don't do well as a vegan. When I saw your TedTalk and I saw nine cups of vegetables and some healthy meat that spoke to me at the time, I hadn't had meat in about nine months, and I had this steak in Brussel sprouts the very next day.  I started reading up on your protocol.  I have never eaten gluten in my life since that day. That was ten years ago, and I have been in remission for nine years. The last time I had an eye exam, the ophthalmologist said that he couldn't tell that I had ever had a case of optic neuritis, and was shocked at how healthy my nerves were. I give it all my best to get my life back.</span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">You lost a little bit of weight and you lost your weight too, didn't you?</span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz </b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I did, I lost 100 pounds when I first started the protocol.</span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">You never were hungry? </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz </b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">No, not at all. No. Nine cups of vegetables. There's a lot of food.  </span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then you transformed. your profession.  you have since become a health coach. Why did you do that? </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz </b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I just didn't want anybody to ever feel as bad as I felt for so long. Knowing that there is so much hope and there's so much that we can do and so much that we can control about our health. I just had to share that with the world. </span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Beth, you're certainly a big part of our clinical practice and our coaching programs. Let's  talk through what role a health coach has for our patients in either my programs or in my clinical practice. What do you do with these folks?  </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz </b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">For me, it's all about them and all about them as an individual. Everybody is different. Everybody  works differently, needs different motivations. My first step is  getting to know them, getting to know their goals, how they work, how they function. I want to meet them where they are at.</span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">You're helping clarify their goals, their next actionable steps. and, sometimes helping them,  make their goals a little bit smaller so the next actionable step they're going to be successful with and then, how of or what? What frequency are you doing this? </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz </b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">It depends on the person and their time and what they have. Sometimes for some of our programs, we meet every week. another program we meet every other week for the first three months, and then we do once a month after that. Frequency with a health coach is better,  at least once a month, at minimum, and preferably once every two weeks.</span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone who's listening, we know that sports teams use coaches, business, folks and entrepreneurs use coaches. It makes sense to me that more integrative, functional medicine physicians are using health coaches to help people set goals, to have someone to check in with each, at the agreed upon frequency, to let them know how I'm doing, that agreed upon. Next step and the progress that I'm making then to help me identify my useful next goal. Another thing that we do is that we train other health professionals, chiropractors, physical therapists, occupation therapists, physicians, social workers, people with a health related license or certificate, so they can use the Wahls protocol in their clinical practice to support patients in their health and wellness journey. That's what I'd like to have you do is talk a little bit about our certification program and your role, with them. </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">I am the coordinator for the certification program. If you already have a, like you said, a license or a certificate in a health related field, I personally went to the Nutritional Therapy Association program. I consider I am your health coach and you apply to be in the program. You need to send me your credentials, fill out an application, and we review them. If you have everything you need, you get started. Right now we have 17 modules. They are incredible. They talk all about diet, lifestyle, all, behavioral coaching.  Your book tells everybody how to do everything. Your diet is laid out very well, but it's how you do it is a very hard part. Our mindset is so important. As a health coach, I feel like that's what I do.  I help people get there.  If you do not have a license or certificate in a health related field, if you are thinking of being a health coach, reach out to me and I can help you find some programs that would be right for you. There's a lot of  great health coaching programs that people can do in less than a year's time. </span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Correct? and the people, once they apply for the program, they enroll, then, these are online modules. That works out,  well. Now, for all the public folks who are listening to this, I would think you're like, man, I would like to see aWahls trained person who's either a physical therapist, a talk therapist, physician, chiropractor. We have them all over the world. Why do they find them on our website? </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the very front of the website, you will see a place to click on the Wahls Protocol health practitioner directory. You can search by state, country, city, or virtual. That is, the virtual option is a very important thing. If there's nobody in your area, look for a virtual person and they can work on zoom, or any other video platform that they use.  then you can also go into advanced search and you can search by specialty and conditions that people have. It's a  great directory. </span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We had a number of people who have been, professions, accountants, lawyers, engineers who lost their professions because of their MS or other neuroimmune problem and then discover my work, and work with their practitioner, with their physician and get their health back.  Now they're ready to work again, but they don't feel like being an engineer. They don't feel like being a lawyer because that doesn't speak to them anymore. But what speaks to them? And we've had folks go back and take science and go be a dietitian or,  bless them. They go back and want to go be a physician assistant or be a chiropractor, or now go be a, social worker or people decide that, they want to do what Beth did is perhaps a, go to where the nutrition certificate programs or be a health coach, and then come back, reach out and get certified. Beth, for anyone who's listening here, what is the one message you would like to give them? Thinking about where you were at, how low life got for you and how rich your life is now, what message do you have for everyone who's listening? </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Believe that you can get better. Believe that life can get better. I  believe what we think matters a lot and know there's so much you can do. You. You are in control of your health. There's so much you can do for yourself. </span>

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<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you. Beth, this has been wonderful. and again, thank you for being part of the MS and Neuroimmune Summit. </span>

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<h6><b>Beth Schultz</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you, Dr. Wahls.</span>

<h6><b>Terry Wahls, MD</b></h6>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome, Beth. I'm so glad that you agreed to be a part of this little short talk that we're going to do. What I'd like to have you start with is explaining briefly your story. </span>

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<p>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"><i>The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine</i></a>,<a href="http://terrywahls.com/about-the-wahls-protocol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <i>The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles </i>(paperback),</a> and the cookbook <a href="http://terrywahls.com/wahls-protocol-cooking-for-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i>The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions</i></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>.</p>
<p>See Terry Wahls at the DrTalks <a href="https://drtalks.com/multiple-sclerosis-summit/">Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Summit</a>.</p>


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