You cannot exercise or meditate your way out of a terrible diet! The food you eat also shapes your microbiome, which will shape your immune system. A terrible diet means you will be more likely to lack key building blocks for making your cells, tissues, and organs.

Start by bringing a healthy diet into your home so you and your whole family can do the biochemistry of life properly. From there you can start to implement other lifestyle changes – exercise modalities, sleep protocols, even vagal toning exercises – to improve your overall health.

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat multiple sclerosis and other progressive health problems. She is also a patient with secondary progressive MS, 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.

In this episode we cover:
00:00:00 -- Importance of Diet
00:00:18 -- Fast Food Consumption
00:00:42 – White Flour and Added Sugars
00:01:00 -- Microbiome and Immune System
00:01:19 -- Essential Nutrients
00:02:00 -- Importance of Fats
00:02:32 -- Role of Mitochondria and ATP
00:03:11 -- Dietary Recommendations
00:03:38 -- Diet and Multiple Sclerosis
00:04:30 -- The Wahls’ Diet
00:05:21 -- Protein
00:05:46 -- Removing Gluten, Casein, and Eggs
00:08:46 -- Physical Activity
00:11:00 -- Stress-Reducing Practices
00:13:25 -- Good Sleep
00:14:59 -- Toxin Exposure
00:16:14 -- The Impact of Loneliness
00:17:26 -- Positive Self-Talk and Affirmations
00:21:03 -- Personal MotivationCONNECT WITH US
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