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In today’s episode, Dr. Terry Wahls joins me on The Habit Hub where we cover:
- Her autoimmune story, including critical discoveries that became turning points in her disease progression, including:
- Shifting focus her to mitochondrial health
- Experimenting with tools for movement
- Finding functional medicine
- Her journey through different dietary approaches–AIP to Paleo to what became The Wahls Protocol Diet
- How her multiple sclerosis (MS) affected her ability to work and move and the exact moment she realized that the current understanding of secondary MS was incomplete
- The event that transformed the way she thought about disease and health
- Dr. Wahls’ very clear mission including her “big hairy audacious goal”
- How she turned her personal protocol into the basis of clinical trials to help reach to others who can benefit
- The lifestyle interventions that not only help with fatigue and brain fog and symptoms of today, but also the long term benefits for our bodies of tomorrow
- The symptoms proven to improve in just four weeks on The Wahls Protocol
- What “self-efficacy” is and how it lowers inflammation and improves the function of our immune cells
- Two habits for health that you can start TODAY that are (1) free and (2) take less than 1 minute each
- “Habit Rapid-fire,” where Dr. Wahls shares the current state of her personal habits, including:
- Her thoughts about habits
- A habit that came natural
- A habit that was hard to break
- A habit that took effort to make, but is now on autopilot
- A habit she is currently working on
- The single habit for health that has had the biggest impact on Dr. Wahls’ health and happiness
- How Dr. Wahls feels about health coaches and getting support on your health journey
- Her predictions for the future of medicine
Links to learn more:
One page summary of The Wahls Protocol Diet
Weekly research updates
Learn More about the Wahls Protocol
The Wahls Protocol Cookbook
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This podcast explores health and wellness through the lens of autoimmune disease—such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and others—diving into how challenges like fatigue, brain fog, flares, and other symptoms related to the nervous system, inflammation, and mitochondria can be supported by healthy habits in food, movement, sleep, and rest, while fostering consistency, effective self-care, and a resilient mindset. If you’ve read the bestseller Atomic Habits by James Clear and still don’t have the healthy habits you want, this show is for you. Grounded in approaches like functional medicine, holistic health, the AIP diet, and the Wahls Protocol, the podcast offers guidance from a health and wellness coach to help those na...
