Using Diet & Lifestyle to Overcome Autoimmunity

Dr. Terry Wahls shares how diet, lifestyle, and the Wahls Protocol may help reduce neuroinflammation and support recovery from autoimmune conditions.

Dr. Terry Wahls shares her personal journey from relying on a wheelchair for years due to multiple sclerosis to regaining mobility through targeted diet and lifestyle changes. In this conversation with Dr. Darin Ingels, she explains the Wahls Protocol, the role of mitochondrial health, the gut microbiome, and how nutrition, sleep, and stress management can influence neuroinflammation and recovery in autoimmune and chronic illness.

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a board-certified internal medicine physician. She also conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of diet and lifestyle in the setting of multiple sclerosis. In 2018, she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions to research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. In addition, Dr. Wahls has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions. Learn more about the current study, Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis, here.