Terry Wahls MD

Terry L. Wahls, M.D. is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. In addition she is a clinical researcher, studying the use of diet and lifestyle interventions in autoimmune and other chronic disease states. Diagnosed in 2000 with Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Wahls became a proponent of integrative and functional medicine, which helped her create an intensive nutrition, lifestyle, and neuromuscular electrical stimulation protocol that would treat the severe disability caused by her MS. She has made it her mission to spread the word about The Wahls Protocol and her own inspirational story of recovery through her TEDx talk, which has received more than two millions hits. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and the paperback, The Wahls Protocol A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions. You can learn more about her work from her website: www.terrywahls.com. She is conducting clinical trials testing the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS. She is also committed to teaching the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes to restore health and vitality to our citizens and hosts a Wahls Protocol® Seminar each August. Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD) Follow her on twitter at @TerryWahls. Follow her on Instagram at drterrywahls. Learn more at her website www.terrywahls.com about The Wahls Foundation, and Wahls Protocol® Seminars. Dr. Terry Wahls lives in Iowa City, Iowa with her wife. Her son, Zach Wahls, is the author of the bestselling Gotham book My Two Moms.