The Wahls Protocol, named after Dr. Terry Wahls, is a functional medicine oriented approach to treating multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions. It emphasizes specific nutritional strategies, movements, and stress-reducing practices with targeted supplementation to reverse the course of these chronic diseases.

The inspiration for The Wahls Protocol came from her own life experience when, after several years of waxing and waning symptoms, Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Despite a career in academic medicine at the University of Iowa, and access to the best conventional medical doctors and treatments, by 2006 her condition declined the the point that she was restricted to a wheelchair.  She tried the Paleo diet, and by chance, after she discovered the principles of Functional Medicine, through research and self-experimentation, she perfected what is known today as The Wahls Protocol.  She is now ambulatory and able to ride her bicycle 20 miles.  Dr. Wahls spreads her message of therapeutic lifestyle medicine through her book (The Wahls Protocol), speaking engagements, clinical research, and her position with The Institute for Functional Medicine.

If you want to feel better, increase your energy,  resolve your joint and muscle pain, put your immune disease into remission and believe that food is medicine, then you are in the right place! Dr. Terry Wahls is on a mission “to create an epidemic of health” and I am honored to join her for that mission