Terry Wahls M.D. - The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wahls, Terry L., author. | Adamson, Eve, author.

Title: The Wahls protocol cooking for life : the revolutionary modern Paleo plan to treat all chronic autoimmune conditions. / Terry Wahls with Eve Adamson.

Description: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016054066 (print) | LCCN 2017004112 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399184772 (paperback) | ISBN 9780399184789 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Wahls, Terry L.Health. | High-protein dietRecipes. | Reducing dietsRecipes. | Prehistoric peoplesNutrition. | Cooking (Natural foods) | Autoimmune diseasesDiet therapy. | BISAC: COOKING / Health & Healing / General. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Musculoskeletal. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Nervous System (incl. Brain). | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC RM237.65 .W34 2017 (print) | LCC RM237.65 (ebook) | DDC 641.5/637dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054066

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The recipes contained in this book have been created for the ingredients and techniques indicated. The publisher is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require supervision. Nor is the publisher responsible for any adverse reactions you may have to the recipes contained in the book, whether you follow them as written or modify them to suit your personal dietary needs or tastes.

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The terms Wahls Protocol program, Wahls diet, Wahls Paleo diet, and Wahls Paleo Plus diet are the trademarks of Dr. Terry Wahls LLC. Whenever the terms Wahls Protocol, Wahls Diet, Wahls Paleo, and Wahls Paleo Plus are used in this book, they are referring to the Wahls Protocol program, the Wahls diet, the Wahls Paleo diet, and the Wahls Paleo Plus diet.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I WAS A YOUNG DOCTOR AND PASSIONATE ATHLETE when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000. I declined rapidly, and within four years, my back and stomach muscles were so weak and my mobility had become so impaired that I needed a tilt/recline wheelchair. This was how I did my rounds at the hospital, tilt-reclined and barely able to move, with clouded thinking and intermittent severe face pain that felt like a cattle prod on my cheekbone. I lost the joy of interacting with my family and friends. I spent much of my time on the sidelines of the active life I had once embraced, fighting to join in and be my old self but failing miserably. I saw a life of increasing disability, becoming bedridden, dying young. I became increasingly isolated, depressed, and lost.

But being a stubborn and curious (mostly stubborn) person with medical knowledge, I finally decided that this could not be the end for me. I would not go down this way. I fought my disease by learning everything I could about the most cutting-edge nutritional studies that could in any way impact the brain, nerves, and muscles. I experimented on myself with supplements, then with nutritionally dense whole foods, then with electrical stimulation. I gave myself a crash course in functional medicine. I read, tested, experimented, and ate obsessively. I was determined to fight.

And I began to get better. Slowly, then more quickly, I began to regain mobility and function. First I sat upright. Then I got out of the wheelchair. Then I began to walk with a cane, then without a cane. Then I began to ride my bicycle. I took back my freedom from the crippling effects of multiple sclerosis, and it changed everything about the way I practice medicine. I was a transformed woman and a transformed doctor. Because I knew so many others with similar disabling conditions (including a lot of my own patients), I knew I couldnt keep this information to myself.

The first thing I did was begin to organize and conduct clinical trials to prove that the protocol I had developed for myself would work for others who had multiple sclerosis or similar issues, from other autoimmune diseases to traumatic brain injuries. I also wrote The Wahls Protocol so those who didnt want to wait for the results of the clinical trials could get started changing their bodies, brains, and lives right away.

WAHLS WARRIORS SPEAK

I havent been able to put your book down! Ive taken it with me from England to Latvia over Christmas. Your story is amazing!

Wahls Warrior JAMES

Thats the short version. You can read more about my story in The Wahls Protocol. That is also where I laid out a complete and detailed three-tier program for anyone who wants to heal their brain and their body, who struggles with autoimmunity, or who is living with a chronic disease or injury, especially of a neurological or psychological nature. In that book, I presented not only my own story and the protocol that changed my body, brain, and life but hundreds of studies that underlie the rationale behind my program, including much cutting-edge research, the conclusions from which have not yet made their way into the doctors office or into the standard of care for hospitals.