And I realized that, yeah, I don't know what my future is, but neither does the physicians.
No one knows, because the conventional understanding of progressive MS is wrong.
The conventional understanding is clearly wrong, that the functional medicine point of view is probably superior.
Imagine receiving a diagnosis that basically said you have a condition that will see you progressively losing function in your body, in your muscles, over a period of, we don't know, weeks, months, years, and you will never get it back.
Well, this was the diagnosis that this week's guest, Doctor Terry Walls, got.
When she was told that she had miss and a form of MS that was progressive, she was told that as she lost function, this would never come back.
She started down the road of all of the traditional medical treatments because that was her training.
She was, in fact, a physician and a professor and a researcher.
But she started to get exposed to the world of functional medicine, which looks at nutrition and how it affects our body, our brain and our muscles and our nerves.
And especially what she began to research was the mitochondria, the power plants of the cell.
And through her own approach to supplementation and then natural foods, she began to see a return of function that she was told was not possible.
She shared what she was doing and the entire protocol that she developed, which we now know as the walls protocol.
First in a TED talk that kind of exploded a number of years back, then in a book entitled the Walls Protocol, and more recently in a cookbook, which actually shares her recipes.
And I wanted to sit down with her and really talk about her journey, her awakening to a different approach to disease conditions and to treatment, and also about the idea, some of the bigger questions that go on around this, the idea of hope, the idea of false hope, and how she navigated sort of the cultural implications of what she was doing, the political and career implications of really paving her own way.
It's a deep, wide ranging conversation, and for any who are sort of living with things in their lives where there have been pronouncements made about, this is the state of things, there is no other way, I think it's an eye opening conversation.
So, really excited to share this with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project, Iowa.
Fifth generation, raised on a farm.
Raised on a farm.