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Minding My Mitochondria 2nd Edition: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my wheelchair. Paperback – April 1, 2010
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- Print length236 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 1, 2010
- Dimensions7.99 x 0.5 x 10 inches
- ISBN-100982175086
- ISBN-13978-0982175088
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- Publisher : TZ Press; 2nd edition (April 1, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 236 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0982175086
- ISBN-13 : 978-0982175088
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.99 x 0.5 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #829,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #107 in Multiple Sclerosis (Books)
- #2,739 in Healing
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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.
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In the talk she advocates the consumption of 9 cups of vegetables every day. This basic rule formed an important part of her surprising recovery from progressive MS (progressive MS is the kind you're not supposed to recover from).She went from being wheel-chair bound to doing long-distance bike rides.
Important caveats: The nine cups of vegetables were only a PART of Wahls' improvement in health. She also followed a regime that included muscular electrical stimulation, a still very experimental form of treatment for MS. She also takes significant supplements of algae and uses clay treatments and epsom salt baths, all for detoxification.
And perhaps most importantly, Wahls repeatedly says in this book that she's not trying to prescribe her regime as a definite, one-size-fits-all, miracle cure for MS or anything else. She's a medical doctor, so she repeatedly explains why it will be a long time before any of the results she got can be clinically reproduced. She also emphasizes repeatedly that context will vary from patient to patient, and each reader of the book needs to consider their own particular problems and resources. And she warns that they simply may not get the same results.
Ok, that said, I still think this book is a worthwhile read. I don't have MS myself, but I have family members with chronic health problems. One of my family members saw the TED talk, and was impressed enough to get interested. Eager to be of help, I immediately ordered and read the book.
As a book, this one's got limitations. It's self-published and it could really benefit from a professional editor. It's clear *enough* for a public lecture, or a set of seminar hand-outs, but its clarity as a book could be much improved. It would be nice if Wahls considered bringing out a third edition with a major for-profit press that could provide some of those services for her.
However, the information it contains is riveting. Starting with a basic biology lesson on the mitochondria, the part of each human cell responsible for the creation of energy, the removal of toxins, and "equipment replacement" (ie, deciding when cells live and when they die), the book goes on to detail how both nutrients and toxins affect this functioning. One of Wahls' basic premises is that vegetables -- especially dark greens and colorful vegetables -- provide micronutrients to the mitochondria in a way that is more efficient and simply higher volume than any number of vitamin supplements could ever be. Plus, she raises the point that there are plenty of micronutrients that we need, that science knows nothing about, and those are also available through food and not through supplements. Her secondary recommendation follows from these two ideas: She recommends that we consume only wild-caught fish, grass-fed meats, because grain-fed animals haven't had the proper nutrition either, and so provide little nutrition to those who consume them. She also recommends the regular consumption of (ick!) organ meats.
In sum, her basic recommendation: that we get rid of the refined sugars, refined grain products, and mass-manufactured foots in our diets and replace them with a nonstop variety of vegetables plus some grazing meat, wild-caught fish, and organ meats. Her book provides reasonably convincing scientific reasons for why this will create *some* improvements in almost everyone's life. I think the most enjoyable part of the book, in fact, was learning all of the various factors that contribute to brain function and energy levels in humans.
At the end of the book, I was convinced enough to commit to making major changes in my own diet (my god -- the kale! the kale!). About half the book is vegetable-intensive recipes to get you started on this road. (there are also food blogs aplenty, too, to help you out in this regard. Just start googling "sauteed kale" and you'll see what I mean).
But just as importantly, after reading this book I was intellectually stimulated enough to seek out some of the other books on nutrition that she recommends. Wahls is a smart woman who has a real knowledge of and passion for thinking about how food and toxins affect the human body, and that comes through quite clearly, even in this poorly edited book.
My friend and I were immediately rewarded with better sleep, loss of anxiety, no brain fog, and weight loss. Without trying or ever feeling hungry pounds just left on their own. I started at 140 and loss 15 pounds. We wished we had taken our measurements when we started because we lost inches, lots of inches. We continue to explore the road to our wellness with hood habits and to increase our knowledge of the nutrition to be found in different foods.
So many of the tiny losses of wellbeing that I had, like slowness in waking up the stairs, small but constant aches and pains, brain fog and lack of energy, things I thought were because of my age have all become replaced by increased wellness. They are, for the most part, gone. Before I was fearing growing old now I am embracing it. What comes will come but I do not have to be a brain dead zombie. I am back to thinking 60 is the new 40, maybe even 30. ok, 30 is pushing it. :)
With my own success I offered the wisdom of the diet to another friend of mine who has had MS for 20 years. She is in a wheel chair with low mobility and poor use of her hands. Her thinking abilities are also affected. Moving towards the Wahls Diet has rewarded her greatly. Her hands have stopped the nerve tingly business, her depression has lifted, her legs are cooperating more and are often less stiff and solid. When you have been sick for a long time and sliding down into more sickness Hope can be an emotionally expensive stance but we have grown some Hope within her. Also a sense of personal empowerment. Her choices are affecting her health in positive ways. Being in a wheel chair losing weight was not easy until she gladly and with ease gave up wheat. She has lost ten pounds in two months. We will continue in our efforts for wellness and are very excited to have the useful and result offering information in Dr. Wahls book and talk.
Another result of this diet has been for me what I might describe as spiritual. Eating the proper nutritious foods I feel so well met by the plants that offer their nutrition and the planet that grows them. Everyday I celebrate and give thanks for the miracle, the perfection of nature and how perfectly me and my bodies needs fit into it. I have joyfully replaced the false promises on brightly colored boxes from the store with bunches of greens from local gardens. I am fed by my time in my small garden. There is a poetry of appreciation available to me now by my new habits and hobbies. Yes, joy. I sometimes wonder what on earth was I thinking before. I had always been told to eat my greens. I just never knew what it meant or what I was missing. Thank you Dr. Wahls.
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Let me say that again, get this book read it and take notes. You will understand a lot more about your condition.










