Minding My Mitochondria 2nd Ed
How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my wheelchair.
By Terry L. Wahls, M.D.
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Food as Medicine Part 1: Dr. Wahls teaches her physician colleagues and the public about the
critical link between the foods we eat or do not eat and the health we
have or do not have. Using clear and easily understood terms and
metaphors, Dr. Wahls shows us how to eat to maximize the health of one's
mitochondria which are the power house for our cells. By eating the
correct building blocks, we can improve the health of our brains and our
bodies. Unless we learn to eat to ensure our cells have all the
vitamins, minerals and essential fats to do the work of living, we as a
society and as individuals will never enjoy health. Here you will learn
the introductory concepts. In the second lectures you will learn about
the links between starvation (for the key vitamins, minerals and
essential fats necessary to do the work of living) and addiction to
foods with calories and no vitamins, minerals and other key building
blocks (fast food). Food as Medicine Part 2: The Foods to Eat; The Actions to Take for a BETTER BRAIN and Autoimmunity and the Role of Food Allergies. Dr. Wahls summarizes her use of intensive nutrition in her recovery from severe disability due to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Dr. Wahls reviews the data on how poor our nutrition is. She then teaches us how to eat and actions to take to ensure our mitochondria and brain cells have all the building blocks on hand for the mitochondria to generate the power we need to live and for our brain cells to do the work of being a brain. In the second lecture she summarizes the information on the epidemic of autoimmune disease in America. She then discusses how the foods we eat can either contribute to increasingly severe or a reduction in autoimmune symptoms. She then outlines a program of eating to reduce the fires of inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Food as Medicine Part 3: The Poisons in Our Food and Food For Thought. Using clear and easily understood terms and metaphors, in the first lecture Dr. Wahls teaches the links between the foods we eat and the health we have or do not have. She reviews the data on how few vitamins, minerals and essential fats are in the average American diet and how deficiencies on those key nutrients are behind the worsening health of America. She also teaches one how to eat to ensure having all the building blocks on hand for the mitochondria to generate the power we need to live and for our brain cells to do the work of being a brain. In the second lecture she summarizes the epidemic of chronic disease and cancers affecting westernized society and the associations between toxins and mental health problems, autoimmune problems and cancers. She then reviews the strategies one can use to reduce one's exposure to toxins and improve the elimination of toxins from the body. Intensive Directed Nutrition and Neuromuscular Electrical StimulationDr. Terry Wahls has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and spent nearly four years dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair. An accomplished internal medicine physician, Dr. Wahls attacked her illness, reading the medical literature night after night. She learned that the majority of Americans are eating so poorly that their brains are missing key vitamins, minerals and essential fats needed by the mitochondria, the power plants for the brain cells. She designed a program of intensive, directed nutrition focused on supporting mitochondria and brain health overall. The results have been spectacular. Within a year of beginning her intensive program, Dr. Wahls was able to commute to her workplace by bike. Dr. Wahls presents her interventions the scientific rationale and the preliminary data she has in others and the proposed research to investigate whether her interventions can help other with neurodegenerative and psychological diseases. One lecture was given to internal medicine and basic scientists. The other lecture was given to mental health professionals, including physicians, psychologists, social workers and nurses. |
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