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But he does give me a test session and it hurts. It hurts bad, really, really bad. But when it is over, I feel great. He says it is because of the endorphins and we add E Stim to my physical therapy. I discovered the Institute for Functional Medicine. I take a course on neuroprotection. I have a longer list of supplements that support my mitochondria and then I have an aha. What if I redesign the paleo diet that I have already been following for five years? What if I redesign it based on all the supplements that I'm taking? That is more research and I begin this new way of eating. December 26, 2027. Now, at that time my trigeminal neuralgia has been relentlessly worse. A breeze, a light touch when it is turned on can trigger the pain. Chewing, swallowing can trigger the pain. I'm very afraid that I will soon be permanently on where speaking and swallowing would trigger the intense electrical pain. I am weak. I cannot sit up anymore. I'm in a zero-gravity chair with my knees higher than my nose. I have one where I stuffed the raynesys because I'm too weak to see patients directly. I have another one at home and I'm in that zero-gravity chair for my meals and times with my family. I am beginning to have brain fog and the fatigue is severe. I know I will soon be having to apply for a medical disability and I start this new way of eating this highly structured paleo diet. December 26th and in January, at the end of the month, my physical therapist said, “Terry, you are getting stronger.” He advances my exercises and I realize that my fatigue is less. My mental clarity's improved. 

And then in February, I begin walking first with two walking sticks and then with one. And then I tell my family, “I would like to try riding my bike.” Something I have not done for six years. And Jack says, “Well, maybe in the fall, if things continue to go well. “ But two weeks later, on Mother's Day, I tell my family I really want to try. And Jackie tells my big 16-year-old son, six foot five football player sack, you run alongside on the left. And she tells my 13-year-old daughter, Zeb, you run alongside on the right. We all get in position. Jack gives the signal. I get on my bike and I pedal around the block. You know, that big 16-year-old boy, he is crying. That my 13-year-old, she is crying, Jackie's crying and I cried. And tears come to my eyes every time I tell that story because it was at that moment that, the understanding of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, I knew it was incomplete. That, who knew how much recovery might be possible. And I began biking a little bit more each day. I did my physical therapy and then in October, Jackie said, “Let us sign you up for the courage ride. Its 18.5 miles, however far you go, will be a triumph.” And once again, when I cross that finish line, my kids are crying, Jackie's crying, I am crying. And it changes how I think about disease and how it will change the way I practice medicine and the focus of my research. I am Terry Wahls. I am a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. 

I do clinical research, testing my protocol and others with progressive M.S.  secondary progressive, primary progressive, relapsing, remitting. We have been able to show that, yes, other people can implement these complicated regimens and that they can experience reduced fatigue, reduced anxiety, reduced depression, improved quality of life, improved walking function, hand function. They too can get their lives back. So if I can come back from such profound disability there absolutely is hope for you that you can come back, that you can get your life back. And that is why I'm hosting this summit. So you can learn from other clinicians, and other scientists that there are interventions under your control that can stop the damage and set the stage for repair and that you can begin the process of restoring your mental clarity, restoring your energy, reducing your pain, improving your quality of life. I have written several books that will help you in your journey. The first book, Minding My Mitochondria, told my story and discussed the experiments that I was just beginning to conduct. My very first study. The next book that I wrote, came out are, The Wahls Protocol which describes the Wahls diet and the various levels from level 1 to 3 elimination diet that you can take your current diet and steadily improve at the pace that you and your family can achieve. We also talk about the supplements that are used, the detox pathways, the electrical stimulation of muscles, and the functional exercises that are used for my recovery and behavior change. How we can improve our self-care routine so that we can make forward progress and the supplements that are used. 

And my rationale, this is much more than just a diet. This is a comprehensive roadmap that I used for my own recovery, and I've used for thousands of others. And then we also, because food is such a big part of your healing journey because the food you eat will become the body, the nerves, the spinal cord, the brain, the cranial nerves that you have tomorrow. We need proper nutrition to maintain and repair ourselves to help make that easier. We wrote a cookbook, The Wahls Protocol: Cooking for Life. That is a marvelous resource to help you learn how to prepare meals that it is not complicated cooking. It is food that you can make even if you are fatigued, even if you have only your local grocery store in rural small-town America. We have had thousands of individuals, hundreds of thousands of individuals whose lives I have touched through my books, who have used my books to deepen their understanding of what is possible, that there is so much that they can do. And in the gifts for you, we have copies of the first chapter for Minding My Mitochondria, for the Wahls Protocol, and from the cookbook we will have some recipes from the cookbook as well. Now, once again, I am so thrilled that you were here. The Summit, Multiple Sclerosis, and Neuroimmune. You will hear from other clinicians and scientists who have used these concepts to help their patients stop the damage, begin their recovery and begin getting their lives back. I'm so glad you're here. Welcome, the Summit will change your life.

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<h6>Terry Wahls, MD</h6>
Welcome to The Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Summit. I'm Dr. Terry Wahls, I am your host. And I am so glad that you are here so I can empower you with the knowledge and skill sets that there is so much that you can do to help stop the damage and begin restoring function and getting your life back. Now, 20 years ago, out walking with my wife a half mile from home, my left leg grows weak, and dragging it, I hobble home. I see the neurologist, he says, “Terry, this could be bad. Or really, really bad.” At night, as I lay in bed next to Jackie. I think about the twenty years of worsening latent phase pains that I have already endured. And I pray secretly for a fatal diagnosis because I do not want to become disabled, a burden to my family. For three weeks we go test to test to test. Finally, I hear the words multiple sclerosis. I see the very best M.S. center in the country. I take the newest drugs. Three years later, I hear tilt, recline, wheelchair. My 10-year-old daughter hugs me as tears stream down my face when those electrical face turns on yet again. But am I really doing all that I can? I am a physician. Night after night I go to PubMed to read the basic science and I develop the theory that mitochondria are the driver of disability and I create a supplement cocktail to support my mitochondria. The speed of my decline slows and I am so grateful, but I am still declining. I discover a study using electrical stimulation muscles. I ask my physical therapist, “Can I try that?” He calls it E Stim. He says it is for athletes and that it is painful. And he knows I have so much pain from the M.S.

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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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