Dr. Terry Wahls
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa; Clinician-Researcher
Multiple sclerosis • autoimmune disease • functional medicine • therapeutic nutrition
About the expert
Focus: Multiple sclerosis, nutrition, and mitochondrial health
Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and a board-certified internal medicine physician. She developed the Wahls Protocol after reversing her own progressive multiple sclerosis through intensive dietary and lifestyle intervention. She has conducted peer-reviewed clinical research on therapeutic diet in MS, including randomized controlled studies showing improvements in fatigue, motor function, and brain volume. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol (2014) and The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life (2017).
Why this matters
Physician and clinical researcher who recovered dramatically from advanced MS and now studies nutrient-dense diet and multimodal lifestyle programs for MS and other conditions. Strongest on the role of diet and lifestyle as supportive care and on her own fatigue and quality-of-life research; goes beyond the evidence when presenting diet as able to reverse progressive MS or inherited genetic disease, and when questioning the role of standard medication. Promotes her own books, diet, and programs.