The Anxiety Podcast

Summary: In this episode I talk to Dr Terry Wahls about her struggle with multiple sclerosis.  After trying the traditional approaches to treat MS she took control of her own destiny.  Through her research she realized that diet was the answer and began to implement radical changes which ultimately saved her life.   Terry L. Wahls, M.D., is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City and the director of the Therapeutic Lifestyle Clinic at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, where she treats veterans with autoimmune, neurological, and medical problems using diet and lifestyle interventions. In addition, she is a clinical researcher, studying the use of diet and lifestyle interventions in autoimmune and other chronic disease states; her current clinical trial featuring the Wahls Paleo Diet received the support of the National Mutliple Sclerosis Society. Diagnosed in 2000 with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Wahls became a proponent of integrative and