Minding your mitochondria | Dr. Terry Wahls | TEDxIowaCity
Note from TED: This talk, which features health advice based on a personal narrative, has been flagged as potentially outside TED's curatorial guidelines. Viewer discretion advised. The guideline...
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Translator: Armando Vázquez Reviewer: Rhonda JacobsSo, I love doing Taekwondo and was once a national champion.But a lot has changed since then.I went off to medical school, became a physician.I had a son, and then a daughter.And I developed a chronic disease for which there is no cure.In 2000, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis,I turned to the best MS center I could find, the Cleveland Clinic.I saw the very best doctors, received the best care possible,taking the latest, newest drugs.Still by 2003, my disease had transitioned to secondary progressive MS.I took the recommended chemotherapy.I got the tilt-recline wheelchair.I had one with a motor, I could drive around.I took Tysabri,and then CellCept,but continued to become more severely disabled.My dise...
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Translator: Armando Vázquez Reviewer: Rhonda JacobsSo, I love doing Taekwondo and was once a national champion.But a lot has changed since then.I went off to medical school, became a physician.I had a son, and then a daughter.And I developed a chronic disease for which there is no cure.In 2000, when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis,I turned to the best MS center I could find, the Cleveland Clinic.I saw the very best doctors, received the best care possible,taking the latest, newest drugs.Still by 2003, my disease had transitioned to secondary progressive MS.I took the recommended chemotherapy.I got the tilt-recline wheelchair.I had one with a motor, I could drive around.I took Tysabri,and then CellCept,but continued to become more severely disabled.My dise...
