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Dr. Wahls, I know that you're still engaging
in continued clinical trials
and we're gonna go ahead and have information
on our website about your continued trials.
I think it's so important.
And I just also would like to add
that in medicine, we always talk about potential benefit
verses potential risk.
And one of the things I think is so important
if you embark on a journey, as the two of you have,
the potential benefit is what we see before us,
which is, you both have your health back.
The potential risk was pretty low.
Right.
And I think it's important in a medical establishment
where certain things are not necessarily well understood,
if the worst case scenario is you try to incorporate
more of these really nutritious foods into your life,
if that's the wor-
And the worst thing that happens is
maybe your symptoms improve some but not entirely,
maybe, you know, maybe not everyone
has the exact same results that the two of you had,
but it worries me when a healthcare system is set up
and there are doctors out there who would be
opposed to this.
I do wanna add, Dr. Wahls,
you're still working with your neurologist, right?
Correct, correct.
And I think that's important.
No one here is saying ignore,
ignore your neurologist.
This is part of your process.
And, you know, at first, in 2014,
the neurology community was very negative
about my approach.
Now, in 2020, more neurologists are saying,
"Yes, whatever you're taking,
"you need to also have high quality diet,
"a stress reduction program, an exercise program."
It sounds like they're reading my book
that this is not an either/or,
you do the Wahls Protocol and you can't do drugs.
You can take drugs and do the Wahls Protocol
or you may decide that you wanna start on drugs first
and then decide.
Or you may wanna start on the Protocol first
and if suddenly you realize,
"Oh, my God, my pain is gone, my energy is better."
At Iowa, for the patient
who wants to do just diet and lifestyle,
they're okay with be all in, do diet and lifestyle.
We'll follow you closely and we'll wait on the drugs.
And if you continue to do well,
we can just do diet and lifestyle.
It depends on the individual.
Dr. Wahls, I mean, you came up with this Protocol
and you are literally giving people their lives back.
How does that feel?
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How does it feel?
So, you know, in 2007,
I thought I had a terrible future ahead of me.
But now, my gift is to the world.
If I can come back from the precipice of a terrible life,
bed ridden, demented, in actual pain to a rich, full life,
there's hope for them, too.
Whatever their serious autoimmune condition is,
there is absolutely hope
that you may do much better using diet and lifestyle.
Wow.
I love what we see trending with diet and lifestyle.
I mean, it started first with heart health,
that you have to start eating right and exercising.
Now we're seeing the trickle down effect
that we realize that literally every system,
potentially, most medical problems,
are going to benefit from-
And the medical establishment
is finally starting to listen.
Start watchin' The Doctors and listen up.
Well, and look, we're all in this together.
I do wanna mention that an updated version
of the Wahls Protocol will be available
wherever books are sold in March.
I wanna thank Dr. Wahls, Lisa so much for being here,
sharing your stories with us.
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