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[Lilja]

Dr Terry Wahls on TEDx about Minding Your Mitochondria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

Lilia

PS: Why does TEDx put a warning on the video. She is only describing hear own experience.

[JFR]

Here is what Terry Wahls says about the warning:


TED Talk Selling Out to its Sponsors

Why is TED censoring natural health content?

One of my first opportunities to share my story was through a TEDx talk I gave in Iowa City, which has gotten over 1.5 million views and counting. In the talk, I explain how eating for optimal health helped me overcome the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and how it can help others.

TED is a nonprofit that brings speakers in front of an audience to spread ideas and stories in 18 minutes. In turn, TEDx is an opportunity for individuals and organizations in a community to create a local dialogue about science, technology, entertainment, and other topics.

But now, TED has chosen to add a warning label to my talk. During my talk, a message is posted at the bottom: “Note from TED: This talk, which features health advice based on personal narrative, has been flagged as potentially outside TED’s curatorial guidelines. Viewer discretion advised.”

Having read the literature and now begun my own clinical trials, I am one of the few researchers who tests the impact of structured Paleo diets in the form of the Wahls™ diet plan on patients with secondary progressive MS. In another year, we will complete our current clinical trial, Wahls Paleo Diet and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, and know even more about the nutrient density of these diets as well as their effect on disease progression, blood vessel health, and cellular health.

Yet despite my research and the many thousands of other scientific studies available on www.pubmed.gov that show that increased consumption of vegetables and berries and decreased consumption of processed foods are both associated with lower rates of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, autoimmune disease, and mental health problems, TED warns that “viewer discretion is advised” for my talk.

My key message is about eating 9 cups of vegetables and berries each day, along with a personal narrative of how I developed my nutrient-dense diet based on thorough research. My personal health narrative is not the first shared on TED either. TED endorsed personal stories about illness and recovery when it hosted Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk, My Stroke of Insight. Yet her story has no warning label. What could explain this hypocrisy?

Perhaps TED’s sponsors are influencing its curatorial decisions. Monsanto is a major TED funder, as are several major pharmaceutical companies. Monsanto, an agricultural, chemical, and biotech company, is also one of the biggest proponents of food alteration via genetic modification. The genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they create are being connected to various health issues and environmental damage, which makes sense–changing the DNA of our food is likely to change how our bodies react to and process that food.

These companies don’t want you to consume a healthful, nutrient-dense diet that feeds your mitochondria and is free of GMOs, such as the Wahls™ Diet. They don’t want you to heal your body at the cellular level, so that pharmaceutical drugs are no longer needed to attempt to keep the symptoms of illness and disease in check. That would be bad news for their bottom line, and I can only imagine this is why my logical, researched talk now comes with a warning label from TED.

[Erica P-G]

That was awesome to watch...thanks for sharing :-)

[Lilja]

My question was a rhetorical one.

TEDx is now in the pockets of Big Pharma. Well, that doesn't surprise me.

I admire Walsh' persistence and her will to get well. Wanting to share her the story, is a wonderful gesture from her.

And the conclusion is that you can eat your way to a better life.

Lilia

[Deb]

Very interesting, Jean. Thanks. Deb

[Gabes-Apg]

Jari,
Further into the book, it is good in that it a combo of reference book and a work book.

It talks about and has journal exercises for the mental and emotional aspects of change etc.

Doesn't matter what autoimmune issue you have, the way to wellness is about reducing inflammation and cell health.

" Life is a series of self-correcting chemical reactions. Therefore once you have optimised your cell chemistry, your body will often begin to heal itself in remarkable ways, even when scientists don't understand the exact nature of what was wrong in the first place. "

[jlbattin]

Thanks, Gabes, maybe I'll ask for it for Christmas or just order it myself. I can read it over Christmas vacation!

[Gabes-Apg]

There are a lot of pages about the eating plan, that would need to be tweaked to suit MC sensitivities.
Bone broth is a foundation of the eating plan. It has recipes.

Basically, it is collection of key things we discuss here...
Layperson explainations of things, ie why thyroid issues happen
(Good book to leave on the table for family members to browse!! )

You might be able to get a 2nd hand one cheaper on Amazon.

[Gabes-Apg]

Jari
I have come across some podcasts (free) that have been very informative and along similar lines to what we are looking regarding enhancing our health

Not Just Paleo - Evan Brand
when you register to his website, you get access to some free e-books
I am onto my second podcast - and have found them informative, supportive etc

the other one that i have been selectively listening to is "bulletproof radio" - guest speakers talking about how to live in current world and protect ourselves from all the various toxins/stresses etc...and actual health topics gut health, thyroid etc etc and some weeks it is mental / emotional aspects of health.
Some of the suggested solutions may not always be MC friendly, but the explanations are good and many of them discuss why we have become 'super sensitive' to so many triggers etc

[jlbattin]

Thanks, Gabes. I will check those out.

I just got my Wahl's Protocol book and plan to begin reading it this afternoon.