@RKL's take on 'The Wahls Protocol'

There is something quietly remarkable about a clinician becoming their own most demanding patient.

Terry Wahls' story is not a straightforward endorsement — and that is precisely what makes it worth sitting with. She built 'The Wahls Protocol' from cellular biology, personal necessity, and hard-won clinical curiosity.

The evidence remains early, the research still unfolding.

And yet the questions she asks — what does my body need to work well? what do I have influence over? — are ones worth carrying into any significant health conversation.

What stays with me is the orientation, not the prescription. The idea that understanding your own biology — imperfectly, provisionally, with good guidance — might shift the quality of how you inhabit your own life.

That is not a clinical claim. It is an invitation to curiosity.

And wherever you are in your health journey, curiosity tends to be a good place to begin.