Podcast Episode #2. Dr. Terry Wahls. Topics. Introducing our guest, Dr. Terry Wahls . Wahls research ! Subscribe to Diane. Sanfilippo. com. Preorder Dr. Terry Wahls' book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. The episodes are also available in i. Tunes, Spotify & Stitcher. Show sponsors: You’re listening to the Balanced Bites podcast episode 2. Diane Sanfilippo: Welcome to the Balanced Bites podcast. I’m Diane; a certified nutrition consultant, and the New York Times bestselling author of Practical Paleo and The 2. Day Sugar Detox. I live in San Francisco with my husband and fur kids; and I’m beyond excited about my guest today.
No one knows that better than Dr. Terry Wahls, the assistant. I’m the co- creator of the Balanced Bites Master Class, alongside my partner in crime, Liz Wolfe, and together we’ve been bringing you this award- winning podcast for more than 5 years. We’re here to share our take on modern paleo living, answer your questions, and chat with leading health and wellness experts. Enjoy this week’s episode, and submit your questions at http: //balancedbites. Remember our disclaimer: The materials and content within this podcast are intended as general information only, and are not to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Before we get started, let’s hear from one of our sponsors. Liz Wolfe: This episode of the Balanced Bites podcast is sponsored by our friends at Primally Pure Skincare. Primally Pure makes 1. The MS Diet - The body reacts negatively towards certain food particles. This is a list of foods to avoid (as well as alternatives) and foods to enjoy!They use ingredients like tallow from grass- fed cows; organic and fair trade coconut oil, and organic oils, herbs, and extracts to formulate effective products that also smell amazing and look beautiful sitting on your bathroom counter. At www. primallypure. You’ll also find Diane’s favorite Primally Pure product, dry shampoo, and Liz’s favorite, the Everything Spray with magnesium. As a special bonus for you, Primally Pure is offering a free lip balm with your first purchase of one item or more. Simply add a lip balm to your cart along with any one item, and use the code “balancedbites”, one word no caps, during checkout to receive one of their lip balms for free with your order. Head to www. primallypure. Introducing our guest, Dr. Terry Wahls ! It’s me, Diane, here with a very special guest today; Dr. Terry Wahls. Welcome to the show! Dr. Terry Wahls: Hey, thank you so much for having me. Diane Sanfilippo: I’m so excited! So I’m going to give a little quick intro here. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. She’s also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt recline wheelchair for four years. Wahls restored her health using diet and lifestyle, a program that she designed specifically for her brain, and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine; and her new cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat all Chronic Autoimmune Conditions; which releases April 4th. You can learn more about her work from her website, www. W- A- H- L- S, that is. She conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. She also teaches public and medical community about the healing power of the paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. She hosts The Wahls Protocol seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the protocol with ease and success. Dr. Wahls has actually been on our show twice already, so if you haven’t listened to those episode, I highly recommend that you go back and listen to those. Those are episodes 1. So now, officially, welcome to the show; after all of that. Dr. Terry Wahls: Hey, thanks for having me. I’ve always loved chatting with you. Diane Sanfilippo: It’s always so much fun. We ran into each other just a couple of weeks ago at the NTA conference, which was really fun. And somebody made a comment on Instagram about me roping you into coming on the show. I said, “No, Dr. Wahls is a fan of my work too, you know!” . Terry Wahls: . I remember the very first time we met was at Paleo. Fx many years ago; and you came up to me and thanked me for mentioning you in my book; and I was beside myself because I was such a fan . Here I was fangirling and you were thanking me; and I just think this community is just so interesting and fun that we have folks who are “fans” of us, instead of fans of, I don’t know, television and movie celebrities; they’re fans of nutrition experts and nerds and all of that. I just think that’s such a cool community to be a part of. Dr. Terry Wahls: It really is a wonderful community. I think with a lot of deep respect for all the work that we do. Because it really takes a community to create this epidemic of health that we’re all so longing to create. Quick update from Diane . One update I just want to give our listeners before we jump into our topic today, and just our conversation with you; folks have been asking; this is unrelated to Dr. Wahls, but folks have been asking about the 2. Day Sugar Detox coaches program and wondering when it’s opening. It’s opening in May this year, so that’s pretty soon. If you want to be informed about that, you can go to the Facebook group, which is 2. Day Sugar Detox coaches interest group; or go to www. Balanced. Bites. com/courses, and there’s an email list you can sign up, make sure you find out when we have that open. Updates from Dr. Wahls, before we talk about everything that’s been going on with you; what are some quick updates? Because you’ve got a brand new cookbook coming out, and there are some preorder goodies, and I don’t want anyone to miss out on hearing about the exciting news about that before we get into our Q& A session here, so can you tell folks about that? Dr. Terry Wahls: Well, you know I’m so committed to helping people get their epidemic of health going, and I’m so excited about getting people fired up about this radical thing known as cooking at home; we created some incentives, some very nice PDF tools to help people implement cooking at home. And we made some very, very fun videos as well that people have exclusive content to that as well. And I think you’ll have those links for those in your show notes, if I remember correctly. Diane Sanfilippo: Awesome. Cool; you guys can look out for that. I know everyone has been highly anticipating what was coming next from you, so you can keep your eyes out for that cookbook coming up. Listener comments for Dr. We have a comment from Primal Enlightenment, she said, “She is one of my inspirations; love her.” Jshell. AH! She’s such an inspiration!” . They are just fangirling over you, Dr. Wahls. Another one, “She’s incredible! So thankful for all of her hard work.” “A You. Tube video of hers inspired my journey.” “Wow, a walking miracle. Pure brilliance.” And one that says “Oh my goodness, you two are the most instrumental people in all of my transition to paleo years ago; you’re both so genuine and generous. My heart skipped a beat when I saw this picture!” So, I’m really excited. And they’re just very grateful for all of your work; and likewise, myself as well. Grateful for you doing this work. And one thing I just want to make a note about is, when we have medical professions who take the leap to speak to the public, it’s something that I think needs to be recognized more and more. Because a lot of folks who would have the expertise and understanding the science and how it works; or the capacity for it, either don’t make that leap whether it’s just, you know, they only want to be working in their practice with their patients, or I honestly think there’s a way of translating what you may research and discover in a way that everyday people can understand that’s a special kind of gift that not everybody who can read and understand science has. Someone like Robb Wolf, who is a research biochemist; for him to be able to speak to the public; and for you to be able to speak to the public about this stuff, I think that’s a gift and I’m grateful that you share that with the world, so thank you from all of our listeners. Dr. Terry Wahls: You know, early on when I made this decision to start talking to the public, I didn’t have my research out yet, so I was just telling my story. And oh, I got a lot of pushback from the medical community, that I was creating false hope; that it was immoral that I was doing this. I got called in several times, warned to not do this. So I kept at it, and tried to be very, very careful about telling my story and not making claims. There’s a way of doing this; but it is a lot of work, and most physicians have to deal with pushback in the beginning. So I understand why many physicians are like; no, it’s too much work to take this on. Diane Sanfilippo: I think that’s pretty common of, I would say the general population of anything that has this extra layer or level of responsibility and challenge and, you know, society telling you that you shouldn’t do XYZ; whatever it is. Different people experience that in different ways, and I think in the medical community, there is probably just a really heightened level of that, because other doctors may be afraid of being called out for having been wrong about something, or not telling a patient about this option. Dr. Terry Wahls: Oh yeah. Diane Sanfilippo: Or what have you. I just think it’s the ultimate responsibility to take to share information that could help other people. Dr. Terry Wahls: Well, you know my response was that it felt immoral to not share my story. That to me the only choice I had was that I had to tell my story; that if I could recover using this pretty simple diet and lifestyle thing. Simple, but hard; other people might be able to have a lot of improvements, as well, with whatever their illness. Because I couldn’t sit up; that’s how ill I was.
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