Lynn Bishop is a non-smoker who developed a cough and runny nose that left her feeling miserable and prompted a visit to the doctor. Her illness was treated as bronchitis but when the medicines didn’t help, further investigation led to a devastating diagnosis. Lynn learned she had an interstitial lung disease called Systemic Scleroderma and was told that she had 2 to 5 years to live.
The cardinal feature of scleroderma is the thickening of the skin, but it can also affect the organs, especially the lungs, as it does in Lynn’s case.
Lynn’s battle took a turn for the better when she became the patient of Dr. Kristin Highland, a leading expert in developing therapeutics in lung disease and the Director of the Rheumatic Lung Disease Program at the Cleveland Clinic.

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In health and medicine, we must always be willing to look deeper. We can’t give up on looking for healing solutions just because we’ve always been told a disease is progressive and incurable.

That’s one of the many reasons I’m so inspired by today’s guest on The Dhru Purohit Podcast. Dr. Terry Wahls received a diagnosis of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and, instead of accepting a rapid decline in her function and quality of life, dove headfirst into looking for answers with long-lasting results. Dr. Wahls didn’t buy into the limits defined by her diagnosis and has completely changed the future of MS research and treatment options in the process.

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. In 2018, she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy.

Dr. Wahls was confined to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. She 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: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life.

In this episode, we dive into:
– Dr. Wahls’ story of being diagnosed with MS and how her transformation happened (1:30)
– How conventional medicine looks at health and disease vs. Functional Medicine (10:01)
– How to uncover the root cause of an autoimmune condition (16:48)
– The role toxin exposure plays when it comes to autoimmune conditions (28:17)
– Signs that an autoimmune condition is brewing (32:54)
– The first thing to think about when addressing an autoimmune condition (35:01)
– How eating 9+ cups of vegetables a day had a huge role in turning around Dr. Wahls’ health (45:26)
– The healing benefits of organ meats (53:39)
– Practical ways to increase vegetable consumption (1:03:27)
– What role anti-nutrients might play when it comes to autoimmune conditions (1:05:56)
– What Dr. Wahls’ diet looks like on a daily basis (1:10:04)
– The power of movement when it comes to healing an autoimmune condition (1:16:59)
– Figuring out your why as you begin your healing journey (1:26:57)

Also mentioned in this episode:
– The Autoimmune Intervention Mastery Course – https://terrywahls.com/aim/

– Radical Health Upgrade Program – https://terrywahls.com/radicalhealthupgrade/

– Conquer Your Autoimmune Condition – Free Five Day Challenge – https://terrywahls.com/5daychallenge/

– Health professional certification (online course for health professionals) –
https://terrywahls.com/certification/

– Defying All Odds Documentary – https://defyingalloddsmovie.vhx.tv/checkout/defying-all-odds-72-mins/purchase?code=wahlsrecoveryjourneyaug2021

– Episode #98 – A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions with Dr. Terry Wahls – https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/03/19/bb-ep98/

– US Wellness Meats – Organs and Organ Sausages – https://grasslandbeef.com/organs-organ-sausages

– MS Clinical Trials – https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/

– Impact of the Swank and Wahls elimination dietary interventions on fatigue and quality of life in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: The WAVES randomized parallel-arm clinical trial – https://doi.org/10.1177/20552173211035399

– NMSS Announcement of Trail – https://www.nationalmssociety.org/About-the-Society/News/Two-Diets-Reduced-Fatigue-and-Improved-Quality-of

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Huntington’s disease, or HD, is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder in which brain cells are damaged and die over time, leading to progressive loss of mental and physical abilities.
The diseases is caused by an abnormal version of a protein named huntingtin, or HTT. A normal version of HTT has a stretch of 10-35 repeats of CAG nucleotide triplets, which encode for a stretch of the amino acid glutamine. In people with HD, the HTT gene has more than 35 CAG repeats, sometime more than 120 (juvenile onset). 26-35 = intermediate. The abnormally long stretch of polyglutamine changes the structure of the normal HTT protein, causing fragmentation and aggregations, which are toxic to nerve cells. The effect is specific in the basal ganglia of the brain, most notably in the striatum, which controls movement by inhibiting unwanted movements. This explains the most prominent symptoms of the diseases – uncontrollable movement, known as Huntington’s chorea – dance-like movements of the face and arms; and motor speech disorders, dysphasia aspiration – most common cause of death in HD patients.
A person has 2 copies of the HTT gene but one abnormal copy is enough to cause the disease. Children of an affected parent has a 50% chance of inheriting the abnormal copy of the gene, and hence the disease. This pattern of inheritance is known as autosomal dominant.
The onset and progression of the disease depends on the number of CAG repeats, or the size of expansion – the higher the number of repeats, the earlier the age of onset and the faster it progresses.
The high degree of repetition also increases the likelihood of inaccurate reading during DNA replication. The “confused” DNA polymerase may add more repeats as it loses track of repeat number. As the expanded HTT gene is transmitted to the next generation, the number of repeats often increases. This means a phenotypically-normal parent with 30-35 repeats may give his child a 40-repeats HTT gene who would develop the disease. As the size of polyglutamine increases from generation to generation, the onset of symptoms is getting earlier with each generation. This phenomenon is called anticipation.
An average person with a 40-50 CAG repeats in the HTT gene usually develop symptoms in their 40s. People with more than 60 repeats could show signs of the disease in their childhood (juvenile form). The first signs are subtle mental and cognitive disturbances that may go unnoticed. As the disease progress, chorea becomes most prominent, followed by motor speech disorders, rigidity, swallowing difficulty and dysphasia, personality changes, memory loss and other cognitive and psychiatric impairments.
Diagnosis is confirmed with genetic testing, genetics counseling is available for people with family history of HD.
Life expectancy in HD is generally around 10 to 20 years following the onset of visible symptoms. Most life-threatening complications result from muscle coordination with pulmonary aspiration, which also increases the risks of pneumonia, being the most common cause of death in HD patients.
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