How to beat chronic disease: Wheelchair bound to riding bikes each day. How this MD restored her health in spite of her multiple sclerosis diagnosis and how her experience can be applied to your family.

Terry Wahls, MD is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. She is also a patient with progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls 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 multiple books including The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, She now conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems.