Bonus Immune Boosting Episode with Dr. Terry Wahls - a podcast by Debbie Potts

Today I had 30-minutes of Dr. Wahls time to get an update on ways we can improve our resiliency and self defense system.

You can learn more from Dr. Wahls website and social media blog posts including this one we review in this episode here  

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of therapeutic lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis related symptoms.

In addition, she is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.          

The new information scientists are learning and publishing each day is constantly changing how integrative/functional/conventional medical practitioners administer patient care. Information is vital for you—but it has never been harder for the public to access it.

Here are the key points about cytokine storm in the C OVID -19 pandemic that I want you to know. When our immune cells are working to kill the virus, the virus activates the NLRP3 inflammasome. If NFKappaB has been excessively activated, the immune cells will then initiate excessive release of inflammation producing cytokines. This leads to a cytokine storm and a massive of fluid into the lungs.

This is why people with CV may develop worsening shortness of breath, chest pain, air hunger and steadily declining oxygen. This is when people present to the emergency room with difficulty breathing, needing oxygen and sometimes ventilator support.

What can we do to reduce the risk of NLRP3 inflammasomes activation and excessive NFKappaB?

The literature I am reading is circling around this question. I actually discuss this in the revised Wahls Protocol® on page 189 and again starting on page 343. Diet and lifestyle choices are key. Targeted supplements may be additionally helpful. There are of conventional experimental drugs that are being tried in our intensive care units all around the world.

Even so, once you are on the ventilator, only 17% have survived. There has never been a more critical time for self-care with excellent nutrition, sleep, stress reduction and good sleep. If you have not picked the revised and expanded, The Wahls Protocol A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles—now is the time. 

Second, If you are attending the Wahls Protocol® Seminar, I am adding a weekly Wahls Protocol® Seminar Family Support call on Sunday afternoons. This first call this Sunday will be devoted to CV19 through what I am learning each day from a conventional, integrative and functional medicine approach and answering attendee questions.

Each week I will go through COVID 19 related updates, and how I am addressing prevention, risk reduction and will share the current thinking from the functional/integrative medicine COVID 19 working group I am part of. As I learn new information I have been revising my thinking and recommendations for diet, lifestyle and supplement choices for managing autoimmune and other chronic health problems.

To join the Wahls Protocol® Seminar Family and to be a part of this weekly update, visit terrywahls.com/seminar to sign up.

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Debbie Potts Health Coach, Author, Speaker & Podcaster

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