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Following A Therapeutic Diet
& Lifestyle Protocol

Dr. Terry Wahls was dependent on a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years until she reclaimed her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically to restore her cellular health — she now pedals her bike to work each day.

She wrote The Wahls Protocol®—A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles to help guide readers to reclaiming their own health.

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Reclaim Your Health By
Following A Therapeutic Diet
& Lifestyle Protocol

Dr. Terry Wahls was dependent on a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years until she reclaimed her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically to restore her cellular health — she now pedals her bike to work each day.

She wrote The Wahls Protocol®—A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles to help guide readers to reclaiming their own health.

On Sale Now: The revised and expanded edition has 30% new content!

A Virtual Seminar Geared To Health Professionals—Open to The General Public

Improving Neurodegenerative/
Neuroimmune Patient Outcomes

October 16, 2021, via ZOOM

A Virtual Seminar Geared To Health Professionals—Open to The General Public

Improving Neurodegenerative/
Neuroimmune Patient Outcomes

October 16, 2021, via ZOOM

Reclaim Your Health By
Following A Therapeutic Diet
& Lifestyle Protocol

Dr. Terry Wahls was dependent on a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years until she reclaimed her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically to restore her cellular health—she now pedals her bike to work each day.

She wrote The Wahls Protocol®—A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles to help guide readers to reclaiming their own health.

On Sale Now: The revised and expanded edition has 30% new content!

Dr. Terry Wahls’ Research-Backed Strategies to Managing Multiple Sclerosis and Other Autoimmune Diseases

The Wahls Protocol® comes out of Dr. Wahls’ own quest to treat the debilitating symptoms she experiences as a sufferer of progressive MS. Informed by science, she began using Paleo principles as guidelines for her unique, nutrient-rich plan. This book shares Dr. Wahls’ astonishing personal story of recovery and details the program, with up-to-date research she’s now conducting at the University of Iowa.  Learn more about Dr. Wahls, click here.

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Cell Membrane Medicine

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Wahls Warrior Staycation

I am featuring a guest post from Wahls Health Practitioner, Alene Brennan: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”  – Anaïs [...]

Defying All Odds

The team at Defying All Odds film are very excited to be at the end stages of completing this project and can’t wait to see it out on the big screen! To give the film the best chance of [...]

Why I am doing E Stim

E Stim was a large part of my recovery. To get stronger and optimize my daily workouts, I am working with the team at Neufit using their Neubie device. Follow me over the next few months to see [...]

Clean Living Choices

Wahls Warrior™ Kerry Maclaurin and her family faced health challenges that weren’t tackled with diet alone. It wasn’t until they examined their living environment and the personal [...]

I did all that I could

I did not see any of this coming. Not my recovery, not the change in my clinical practice, not the resistance from dietitians and medical colleagues. Nor did I anticipate becoming a banned [...]

Upcoming Events

Dr. Wahls will be rounding out the summer with the highly anticipated Wahls Protocol Seminar. This includes the Health Professional Workshop where attendees have the opportunity to take the exam [...]

The Bloating Cure

In the late 1950s, Professor David Strachan, a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was tasked with figuring out why rates of hay fever and eczema were skyrocketing in [...]

Sexy Summit 2015

I want to ask you… how connected do you feel to your partner, your family and your friends?  Are you exhausted?  Weighed down?  Do you have so many things on your to do list you don’t know [...]

Getting Started

How do I get started with the Wahls Protocol? Many people newly diagnosed or new to hearing about Dr. Wahls find her testimony to be very compelling and they want to jump right in and start the [...]

Thrive Market

Thrive Market offers something for anyone and everyone who want to eat healthier and live well.Thrive has a really nice, curated mix of products to choose from that are the best-in-class of [...]

Ancestral Food Summit

From Joe Salama, publisher of The Paleo Miracle book series, coauthor and publisher of The Tao of Paleo, and Board Member of The Paleo Foundation: So I went to a paleo conference a few years [...]

Healing of Heather

She was placed on a permanent disability pension. Confined to a wheelchair or dependent on a cane for mobility, she found her former athletic life revolved around hospital treatments and painful [...]

Announcing the first ever In Person Wahls Protocol Seminar – Sept. 20th and 21st

 Sign Up Here I am releasing the first ever Wahls Protocol In Person 2 Day Seminar. Wahls Protocol – In Person Seminar Save the Date On September 20 and 21st at the Prairiewood Spirituality [...]

Wahls Warrior Patty B:

Wahls Warrior Patty: I am totally grateful for Terry L. Wahls and Leanne Ely for this group. I have not been even close to keeping pace with all of the great recipes but I have stuck to the [...]

30 day QuickStart Registration for August 1st Program Start

30 Day QuickStart Level 1 Leanne Ely of SavingDinner.com and I hosted a free webinar in which we answered questions about how to get your QuickStart off and running and stay on the diet for a [...]

Wahls Warrior Sandee

Wahls Warrior Sandee: I joined 30 day Quick Start and began my journey 3 weeks ago. WOW….I am astounded at the increase in my energy level (haven’t felt this energized in 10 years) [...]

Wahls Warrior Mike

Wahls Warrior Mike: After reading the book and going at it on our own for a month, we were running out of gas. This 30 Day Quick Start program came just in time. With all the great recipes, the [...]

Wahls Warrior Carolyn

Wahls Warrior Carolyn: I can do this! After all these years of starving my self, my body and my spirit, Dr. Wahls is showing me a new way of nourishing myself! The recipes, detailed shopping [...]

Wahls Warrior Carol

Wahls Warrior Carol: I’ve been hesitant to post to this thread because I have at least one confounding variable at play right now (i.e., I also have biotin illness and the necessary mold [...]

Wahls Warrior Lynda

Wahls Warrior Lynda: I am very thankful I found Dr. Terry L. Wahls and Leanne Ely and the group. I had already started following The Wahls Protocol with the book. Being able to have further [...]

Wahls Warrior Lisa

Wahls warrior Lisa: It’s a whole new world for me eating healthy, cooking great meals. Feeling empowered! Love my new lifestyle! Thank you Dr. Terry L. Wahls and Leanne Ely never thought I [...]

Wahls Warrior Mike

Wahls Warrior Mike: The combination of reading The Wahls Protocol, getting delicious meal recipes that meet the dietary requirements and please the whole family, plus being able to interact with [...]

Wahls Warrior Michelle

Wahls Warrior Michelle:   Even though I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, I have figured out over the last twenty years that I have dairy and gluten problems. But just eliminating [...]

Wahls Warrior Karen

Wahls Warrior Karen:   I came into this group newly diagnosed with MS, scared but intrigued after downloading the book. I have been able to share my fears and hopes and learn a new skill [...]

Wahls Warrior Kristi

Wahls Warrior Kristi:   This journey has been amazing! I found Dr. Wahls’ TED Talk a couple months ago. Her book made everything finally make sense. I have never been diagnosed with MS [...]

Wahls Warrior Julie

Wahls Warrior Julie:   After just 3 weeks into the 30-Day QuickStart I have less fatigue, increased focus, a more positive mood and solid hope. I’m enjoying food again, not hungry [...]

Wahls Warrior Gail

Wahls Warrior Gail: I feel energized every time I eat this food. Before I would always feel drugged after I sat down to a meal, like I needed to take a nap, not anymore. I love feeling good! It [...]

Wahls Warrior Sheryl

Wahls Warrior Sheryl: I have tried many different avenues of healing in my 30+ years with Fibromyalgia. None has made more sense to me than Dr. Wahls’ Protocol. I have finally found a [...]

Detox Summit Aug 4-11

Sign up for the online Detox Summit starting August 4th. There are many experts on the topic, myself included. Register now to get access.  

Is Carrageenan Safe?

One recommendation I give in The Wahls Protocol is to avoid potential food allergens, such as gluten and casein (the protein in dairy products). These allergens can cause immune responses and [...]

A Great Big World – Day 23 – A Day In the Life: Food for Thought

Chad Vaccarino from ‘A Great Big World’ recently published a very intimate video about his personal life: A Great Big World – Day 23 – A Day In the Life: Food for Thought.

Multiple Sclerosis News Today

Clinical Professor Holds Lecture on Using Paleo Diet to Control MS According to Beth Roessner at Desert Sun, some multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are making lifestyle changes to take charge of [...]

Annmarie Skin Care Products

Many of you have asked me what I use on my skin. I like an all-natural look as often as possible, so I make sure that my skin is well taken care of by using organic products. The skin can absorb [...]

Terry Wahls MD Website Tour

Take a tour of the Terry Wahls MD website. To learn more about Dr. Wahls, sign up for her email list, and order The Wahls Protocol today.

World MS Day

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Dr. Wahls on Fox 4 News

Dr. Wahls speaks on Fox 4 News about her experiences with multiple sclerosis and the development of the Wahls Protocol. When conventional medicine failed to slow decline caused by MS, Dr. Wahls [...]

The Whole Journey Interview with Dr. Wahls

Dr. Wahls speaks on The Randy and Christa Show about how she beat multiple sclerosis with food and functional medicine. She also describes her work with patients in a traumatic brain injury [...]

Kansas City Live

On April 28th, I was on Kansas City Live.  You can watch that here: Terry Wahls, M.D. discusses her new book ‘The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS’. To learn more about Dr. [...]

KCTV5

I was on KCTV5 on April 28, 2014. Here is the TV interview. To learn more about Dr. Wahls, sign up for her email list, and order The Wahls Protocol today.

Fox 4 KC news

I was on Fox 4 KC news on April 28, 2014.  Here is the interview: Doctor confined to wheelchair walks again by changing her diet  by Loren Halifax. To learn more about Dr. Wahls, sign up for her [...]

Paleo Drummer’s Book Review

Paleo Drummer wrote a recent book review for The Wahls Protocol.  See the review on his blog page: Book Review: The Wahls Protocol (Hint: It’s for more than just M.S.). To learn more about [...]

Give away – Skype Chat with Dr. Wahls

Here is your chance to chat with Dr. Wahls via Skype for 20 minutes! There were so many entries from our last give away, we are running this again for this Saturday. In order to enter you must [...]

FMG Radio Interview

This is the first of a two-part interview by Dr. Diane Thompson with Dr. Wahls. This part discusses how Dr. Wahls’ multiple sclerosis symptoms developed and progressed. She explains the tests she [...]

Dr. Wahls is at Paleo f(x)!

I am currently speaking at the Paleo f(x) conference this month.  See my Paleo f(x) speaker portfolio. Find out what Paleo f(x) is all about here. Paleo f(x) is a marvelous opportunity for you to [...]

Dr. Wahls’ interview with Examiner

Research is showing that there may be a link between mental health and the consumption of a ketogenic diet, giving hope to those who suffer from depression or bipolar disease. Ketogenic diets [...]

What Dr. Wahls is Reading

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Surviving and Thriving After a Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis

Iowa Public Radio interviews Dr. Wahls about how she is surviving and thriving after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Dr. Wahls explains how she first noticed her symptoms in medical school, [...]

Facebook Chat 3/29/2014

I will be available via Facebook Chat on March 29th 2014 at 11AM CST. Bring your questions and let’s have a chat together! If you haven’t already, join my Facebook following at [...]

Book Review – Paleoista

Nell Stephenson wrote a recent book review for The Wahls Protocol.  See the review from March 28th: A Very Highly Recommended Read: The Wahls Protocol. To learn more about Dr. Wahls, sign up for [...]

TED Talk Selling Out to its Sponsors

Why is TED censoring natural health content? One of my first opportunities to share my story was through a TEDx talk I gave in Iowa City, which has gotten over 1.5 million views and counting. In [...]

Zu-Kay Live Foods Giveaway

I am running another giveaway: Zu-Kay Live Foods: Beet, Super Green, Super Root, Green Ginger Brew, and Tropical.  The winner will get all 5 of these awesome drinks. If you order more than 1 [...]

Inspire Me Today

Eat Right, Feel Right, Be Right I had the privilege of sharing my story on Inspire Me Today. Inspire Me Today features the inspiration of a new Luminary every day. You can start your day with the [...]

Dr. Sara Gottfried

If you tried to access Dr. Gottfried’s offer before, you most likely received an error or notification that it was sold out.  Dr. Gottfried has created a free gift package that includes the [...]

Reddit Ask Me Anything

I’m currently on Reddit.  This is a great chance to Ask Me Anything! ~Dr. Wahls   To learn more about me, sign up for my email list, and order The Wahls Protocol today.

Protein

A new study in Cell Metabolism about the benefits of a low-protein diet has some media outlets reporting that a high protein diet is as harmful as smoking. I have been asked by several people [...]

The Wahls Protocol has arrived

Today is the day!!  The Wahls Protocol has finally hit the shelves. Our team is celebrating today! Watch The Wahls Protocol trailer here and see why we are so excited about The Wahls Protocol. [...]

GMOs: Where They Might Be Hiding

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About The Wahls Protocol

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Facebook Chat 3/12/2014

I will be available via Facebook Chat on March 12th 2014 at 7PM ET. Bring your questions and let’s have a chat together! If you haven’t already, join my Facebook following at [...]

Give away – Small Group Skype Chat with Dr. Wahls

There is your chance to chat with Dr. Wahls in a small group setting! There were so many entries from our last give away, we are running this again for this Saturday. If you order more than 1 [...]

Facebook Chat 3/6/2014

I will be available via Facebook Chat on March 6th 2014 at 7PM ET. Bring your questions and let’s have a chat together! If you haven’t already, join my Facebook following at [...]

Give away – Small Group Skype Chat with Dr. Wahls

There is your chance to chat with Dr. Wahls in a small group setting! We will be selecting 3 winners who will spend 30 minutes with Dr. Wahls via Skype on March 8th between 8am-10am CT.  The [...]

Research Update-Full Edition

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine has published our paper, A Multimodal Intervention for Patients with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Feasibility and Effect on [...]

The Benefits of Garlic

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Abstract – A Multimodal Intervention for Patients with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Feasibility and Effect on Fatigue

Below is the abstract of the recent published article: A Multimodal Intervention for Patients with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: Feasibility and Effect on Fatigue published on PubMed. [...]

Earthing

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The Wahls Protocol is 80% new material, providing more specific, step-by-step guidance on how to transition from your current diet to the Wahls™ Diet. During decades of clinical practice and [...]

Interview with Christian Moran

Dr. Wahls is interviewed by Christian Moran for his film series, Everything Will Be Alright. http://www.christianmoran.com/watch-the-films/web-series/everything-will-be-alright/ Episode #2 [...]

Webinar with Leanne Ely

On February 18, Dr. Terry Wahls and Leanne Ely of SavingDinner.com hosted a webinar to discuss The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine. Over [...]

Reminder: Wahls Webinar February 18 2014 8PM EST

More than 8,000 people will be attending the webinar!   For those of you who have signed up, thank you for taking the time to do so.  We are very excited to be with you! If you have Gmail and [...]

Wahls Webinar Giveaway

We are giving away a $50 gift certificate to Kombucha Kamp this week! Download the free recipe guide ebook from Kombucha Kamp. To enter the Wahls Webinar Giveaway, you must: Sign up for the new [...]

Wahls Webinar February 18 2014 8PM EST

Leanne Ely of SavingDinner.com and I, Dr. Wahls, will do another free webinar (we’ve done several) this coming Tuesday. This time, we’ll be talking to us about my new book, The Wahls Protocol, [...]

Response to Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan, the celebrated food writer whose opinions are widely respected and whose pithy comments are widely quoted (he’s particularly known for saying “Eat food, not too much, mostly [...]

One Way to Adopt the Wahls™ Diet

One way to adopt the Wahls™ Diet is to use a phased approach. Below is the first phase: Phase 1 = Eating 9 cups of non-starchy vegetables and berries each day (greens, sulfur, color). If you [...]

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