The Wahls Protocol

My Story
 

• MS History 

  13 December 2019

  Hi Kathy, Here it is. Dr. Wahls is a woman doctor who has MS and was in a wheelchair for several years.

  She created a diet to reinvigorate her brain health and was out of here chair in 4 months and by the end of her first year she had done a 19 mile bike ride.

  Love to you from us.

  
  16 March 2018

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  To: Dr. Terry Wahls

  113 Wright Street

  Iowa City, IA 52246

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  Multiple Sclerosis History and Report From Clifford Alan Miles,

  and the Results of Adopting the Wahl’s Protocol.

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  Clifford Alan Miles

  429 S. 800 W.

  Orem, UT 84058

  801-369-6434

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  D.O.B. 11-16-1959 (58 years old)

  5’7” inches tall

  Currently 144 pounds

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• Medical issues prior to MS diagnosis in November of 2016

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  “Arthritis pain” in hands and feet

  Restless Leg Syndrome

  Regular headaches

  Weight 163 pounds

  Epilepsy

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  I received no treatment for the above issues. All of my epileptic seizures 

  were, in my sleep and they were manageable, taking only a few hours to

  recover. I have recorded 52 seizures since 2008. From my record of seizures

  I have listed the following to give you an idea of what IWASdealing with.

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  #36-38 October 15th 2016. 3:20 am. Worst one to date. I woke up during

  the first one, which caused a terrible, terrible muscle cramps in my left calf.

  From my perspective I had three in a row and both times my left calf knotted

  up. Had to have been three in a row because after each one I was able grab

  my calf to try and get the muscle cramps to stop and then I couldn’t rub it

  during the next because I was all stiffed up.

  During this episode Natalie woke up and tried to hold me and help. She said

  I’ve got you. After it was over she helped rub out my calf, which gave me

  some relief.

  I don’t know how long the event lasted. At 6:30 I went up stairs to take

  some Advil for the muscle cramp pain. I still really hurt. I got a bowl of

  wheat cereal. I got into trouble because I couldn’t swallow it and started to

  choke on it. Fortunately I was able to cough it back out which caused me to

  throw up. It took several minutes before I was able to drink water. I feel that

  drinking the water reset my swallowing. I still have a lump in my throat. My

  left calf it still very sore at 7:25 am.

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  #39 6:48 am. November 1st. Short one with associated muscle cramps in

  calves and bum and right thigh. Natalie got to me, and helped me after it was

  over to rub things out. The alarm may have triggered this one.

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  #40 November 3rd. Morning lying in bed awake and had a small seizure.

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  #41 November 8th. 3:50 am. Normal, 10 seconds long. Cramps in Legs.

  Still feeling it at 10 am.(Learned today that my seizures are likely the

  result of MS.

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  #42 November 11th. 5:20 am. 5 seconds long with a slight let up and then it

  re-intensified. Natalie witnessed this one and then helped rub out the Charlie

  horses in my legs.

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  #43 November 16th. 7:05 am. Mild seizure, muscle cramp in left calf. This

  one occurred while I was hooked up to the EEG here at home.

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  #44 December 2nd. Had two seizures during the night. One was dream

  related where I was having the seizure and could not move any part of my

  body for quite some time. The other occurred and I woke up from it. I am

  having trouble figuring out which one occurred first.

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   Natalie and I went to the doctor on the 30th of December and we

  learned that I have more seizures than I am aware of. The evidence came

  from a 3 day EEG that was preformed in the middle of November. I went on

  Vimpat to try and control them. I took the single course of Vimpat and

• stopped it because I was going on the Wahl’s protocol. I wanted to give the

  Wahl’s protocol a chance for success.

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  I had no seizures while I was on Vimpat.

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  We Started the Wahl’s Protocol on the 3rd of January 2017

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  #45 6th January, I had two small seizures during the night. The first was at

  12:40 am and the second occurred at 1:50. The first left a small muscle

  cramp. I had no residual effects from the second.

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  These are the first seizures that I have had since stopping the single course

  of Vimpat that I was taking.

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  I am on the Wahl’s protocol at level one.

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  #46 7th of January was at 4 am. No after effects. This was very short lasting

  maybe 5 seconds.

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  No Seizures until late September 2017

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  #47: 22 Sept 2017 very short upon waking from a nap. It bent me stiff and

  arched my back. Hurt.

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• #48& 49: 23 October 2017, 6:30 am. I had a normal seizure where I arched

  my back and was stiff for several seconds. Later I had another, which started

  while I was in the fetal position. This one froze me up solid. I was conscious

  and couldn’t move a muscle let alone breathe. I don’t know how long it

  lasted. I felt trapped it lasted long enough that I had time to wonder if it was

  ever going to let me go. This one scared me. I hope to never have another.

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  Back story: I stayed up very late, two and half hours past very tired. I was

  stressed that Natalie had stayed up so late as well. I thought that she was

  doing genealogy indexing. She went to bed at 3:30 and I went to bed at 4:20.

  I was angry with myself for doing it because when I did go to bed I was very

  M-messy. I was twitching like a bug and couldn’t settle down. Later I

  learned that she was making the funeral program for a lady who had died in

  the ward. I determined that I will never do that again.

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  I read your book twice. My wife Natalie adopted the protocol also. I have

  also placed a dozen copies with people I learned had MS or associated

  problems.

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  I have to tell you that growing up I came from a way of thinking that I could

  eat anything I wanted any time I wanted and there would be no

  repercussions.

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  I used to drink Coke to the extent that if I didn’t have a Coke in my hands at

  all times I wasn’t happy. I was drinking so much Coke that my kidneys

  ached. I stopped drinking it several times. The withdrawal headaches were

  terrible. I finally gave up all soda several years ago. This was my first

  lesson that how you ate mattered. I felt better. My weight gain slowed. I

  have never been really overweight.

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• I have had epilepsy since 2008. My epileptic seizures were getting closer

  together so I decided to get things check out.

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  Multiple Sclerosis was diagnosed in November of 2017.

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  Right after my diagnoses some of the normal MS symptoms really started to

  manifest themselves.Balancewas my most pressing problem. My body

  refused to cooperate when walking. I had to use a cane in order to stay on

  my feet, and there were times I could hardly move my feet.

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  I also hadweaknessin my legs, which would lead to collapse and I would

  head for the ground. I got past this by learning to throw my knees together

  which would keep me from falling. 

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  I had paroxysmal symptoms, shooting pains in my butt, spasms which

  affected my hands, twitching which affected by face and hands. I had

  swallowing difficulties. I still slur my speech but it is much less often.

  I occasionally freeze up and can’t move for a few moments. I can’t talk

  either.

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  There was a period when I was having 25+ paroxysmal seizures a day.

  These were different from my epilepsy. My epilepsy always happened in in

  bed. These were different in that they would throw me around and

  sometimes I would strike things. I was fully conscious during them and if

  anyone said anything I could hear it and remember what was said.

  Over time they reduced in number to one a week, 2 a month etc. All of that

  has gone away and I haven’t had one for that last 5 weeks.

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• I am not depressed about it because as you know everyone is either dealing

  with stuff or is going to be dealing with stuff. It’s a normal part of Life and

  MS is now My Stuff.

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  After I started on your protocol Inevercheated. I wanted to be sure that I

  was doing everything by the book so to speak so that I would know for sure

  if it was working. It does!

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  I deliberately cheated Christmas 2017 and the adverse effects for me were

  immediate. I ate sweets. Not a lot but enough to know that I had tripled your

  recommendations of 1 teaspoon per day. My“arthritis”came back in my

  hands and feet as well as myrestless leg syndrome. This is what prompted

  this letter, to let you know a direct cause and effect for me of simply

  increasing sugar. “I also ate a third of a orange roll with cream cheese

  frosting. I have no way of knowing what part this played. I experimented

  enough through Christmas to know that sugar is the root cause for those

  particular problems for me.

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  Adopting the protocol has resulted in leading aPAIN FREE LIFE.

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  I didn’t think it was possible. I was 57 and I attributed all of my pain

  issues to being that old. I was wrong.

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  No more headaches. I am thrilled about this. I used to have them a lot.

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  All of my seizures have decreased dramatically. 4 in 2017

• I have had 3 in 2018, and stabbing pains in theLeftside of my butt. I

  attribute this to deliberate cheating over the holidays. It took a while to

  getrecalibrated. I am fully back on the protocol.

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  I think that you should use the word re-calibrate your systems when you

  describe what you want people to achieve. Especially for men, it is a word

  that describes exactly what is happening by using the Wahl’s Protocol.

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  I lost 23 pounds. It fell off me. I was at 138 at my lightest. My wife wanted

  some of it back on so I hover around 144.

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  I am on a modified level one. I cannot eat 9 cups a day. It’s too much food. I

  shoot for 6 cups. Half of that are my smoothies. I make 10 cup smoothies

  and I add, nutritional yeast, kelp powder as well as vital reds, Maca powder

  and MCT oil at the insistence of my wife. I share them with my wife. Most

  are Kale based. Other times I use Bok-choy, Chinese cabbage and parsley as

  well as mixed greens.

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  I am down to zero additional sugar. Dates are my sweetest food and I

  discovered I can only eat 5 dates a day or my restless legs returns

  immediately.

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  I can’t get past organ meat. I eat sardines and smoked oysters. I eat meat but

  it is in moderate amounts. Most of that is chicken. Not much of it grass fed

  beef. I love bacon!

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  Over time I have gravitated to eating bananas regularly, usually a small one

  in the morning to kill the overnight hunger pains. I recognize this is against

• your recommendation. I have not noticed any direct adverse problems.

  Bananas are happy food.

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  Most of the time I can think clearly. All of my Fuzzy brain went away after I

  started the protocol.

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  I used to have stabbing pains in therightside of my Butt and this went

  away.

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  I used to get colds about three times a year. I have hadZerosince starting

  the Wahl’s Protocol. I have been around a lot of family who have had

  them.

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  I am not free of MS symptoms. I get bit by MS symptoms most often right

  after I eat. They are now less severe and easy to deal with. They include

  slurring of speech and stuttering. Feeling fatigued. I haven’t had any kind of

  seizure for 5 weeks. I am MS free for most of my day.

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  My wife started the Wahl’s Protocol to help me and it helped her. All of her

  joint pain has gone away which was really severe. She has almost no

  headaches now. She used to get bronchitis every year and that has stopped.

  She also hasn’t had any colds while the rest of the family has.

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  I tell people as often as I possibly can about leading aPain free lifeand this

  phrase gets everyone’s attention. I then tell them about your protocol. I have

  many people trying the Wahl’s Protocol for themselves and they are seeing

  results. One is a friend who has Parkinson’s. He told me he cheated over

  Christmas of last year and it really bit him hard and he is now back on the

  protocol feeling better.

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  Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You,

  for writing your book. It could use an improved index.

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  I am happy. I am grateful that I got MS and found your Protocol. I feel good

  almost all the time now.

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  Dr. Wahls you are free to use my information and story in any way you

  want. 

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  Sincerely

  

  Cliff Miles

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  I had an Adverse Copaxone reaction and I include it for information

  purposes only for you. It was after this that I went on your protocol.

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  (This is a letter I sent to the makers of Copaxone)

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  My MS symptoms include poor gait and balance, slurred speech,

  intermittent difficulty swallowing, and general ache in my bum. I have some

  numbness in my feet. I understand that my epilepsy, that I have had since

  2008 is likely a secondary symptom.

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• Friday, December 16, 2016

  Gave myself the injection around 10:00 a.m. Over the course of the day I

  developed flu-like symptoms. Though I was feeling achy, I went to a church

  Christmas party at 6:00 p.m. Within an hour I developed chills and had my

  wife take me home. I immediately took a shower, which helped subside the

  chills. I got into bed and stayed there, using a blow dryer to keep warm. At

  this point we didn’t know whether I actually was getting the flu or if this

  was a reaction to the Copaxone. My wife, Natalie, looked up reactions to

  Copaxone and found similar reactions on an MS website. I was fine the next

  morning and was able to participate in the annual Christmas bird count.

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  Monday, December 19, 2016

  I gave myself the Copaxone shot in the right hip around 10:00 a.m. and felt

  fine at the time of the shot. Later when I wanted to Christmas shop for

  Natalie, I wasn’t feeling up to it. I started to feel sick again and believed that

  this was another reaction to the Copaxone. I nicknamed it the Copaxone flu.

  I started to reread some of the literature and I circled the symptoms that I

  was feeling: minor injection site pain with itching, chills, ache all over and

  back pain, bad headache, blurry vision, and stupor.

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  I went to bed. While in bed I got the chills again and took another hot

  shower, which helped quite a bit. After I got back into bed things really

  cascaded down-hill from there. I took a small drink of water, which proved

  to be a bad idea because I felt like I was going to vomit. I grabbed a small

  wastebasket to use and headed for the bathroom.

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  Once in the bathroom I stayed there waiting. I felt the need to sit on the

  toilet. While there I continued to burp and spit into the garbage can. I got

  really nauseated, and I had an intense hot flash. My head was swimming and

  I thought I might fall to the floor. I also had the thought that I wasn’t going

  to have the opportunity to say goodbye to my wife.

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• Pain continued to increase to the point that I called Natalie at 1:51 p.m. at

  work and told her that she needed to come home to take me to the hospital. I

  then used my phone to call my daughter Vanessa at 1:54 p.m. to tell her that

  her mom was coming home to take me to the hospital. After I hung up from

  talking to Vanessa, the pain got so bad that I was literally writhing on the

  bed. I found myself screaming out loud. The agony was so intense that it

  exceeded the time when I got shot with a .44 magnum at the age of 16. For

  me this was an 11, which is now my new 10. Four minutes later I called

  Vanessa back to tell her to call 911. (She was upstairs with her new baby.)

  After some moments she crawled down stairs to tell me that she couldn’t get

  her phone to work, so I tossed her mine. (Vanessa has spina bifida and uses a

  wheelchair to get around.) She called 911 on my cell phone, and the operator

  kept her on the phone, asking her a number of questions, and telling her to

  stay on the phone until the paramedics got there. It took them 8 minutes

  according to the duration of the phone call record.

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  The paramedic asked me a number of questions, and during this time I told

  him about how the pain exceeded my .44 magnum gunshot wound. (FYI, I

  get all my dental work done without shots or gas.) Sometime during the

  questioning the pain peaked. They asked me if I could walk up the stairs and

  I told them that I thought I could with help. They helped me out of bed and

  the blood pressure cuff fell off; they helped me up the stairs and put me on a

  gurney. The walk up the stairs actually helped my pain a little bit, though

  once on the gurney it continued to bite me.

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  In the ambulance I continued to update them, and I knew that they would not

  give me anything for the pain until after I got to the hospital. My pain

  continued to subside as I was taken to the hospital, however I was still

  miserable as hell. I estimate that 15 minutes passed from the time the

  ambulance arrived and when we drove away. So from the time that the lower

  body pain started and when I left for the hospital 30 minutes elapsed.

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  A second IV was inserted and two bags of fluid were administered. Because

  I had a fever tests were performed to rule out infection—urine, blood

  (twice), nose swabbed, chest X-ray. After about three hours I was released.