Natasha Campbell-McBride MD: Gut and Psychology Syndrome (Lecture 11/12/10, Friday 10-5)
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GAPS DIET ITSELF
GAPS was born from the SCD. Since perhaps my patients were different, I adapted the diet so that we introduce beneficial bacteria using a commercial probiotic supplement, and then lots of fermented foods. It involves detoxification measures as well. GAPS is a lifestyle change.
The basics:
Natasha Campbell-McBride MD: Gut and Psychology Syndrome (Lecture 11/12/10, Friday 10-5)
WHAT ABOUT HEART DISEASE, AND ALL THESE SATURATED FATS ON GAPS?
What about heart disease?? Having spent many hours explaining to hundreds of people, I wrote a book about it, called “Put Your Heart In Your Mouth.” This will give you more details, and is fully referenced. http://www.putyourheartinyourmouth.com/
Natasha Campbell-McBride MD: Gut and Psychology Syndrome (Lecture 11/12/10, Friday 10-5)
THE AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTION
A damaged gut lets toxins and microbes through into the blood stream, which creates general toxicity in the body, and then the immune system reacts, adding autoimmunity to the equation.
Natasha Campbell-McBride MD: Gut and Psychology Syndrome (Lecture 11/12/10, Friday 10-5)
FIRST: AN OVERVIEW OF THE STUFF WE ALREADY (MOSTLY) KNOW
(a four-paragraph overview compiled by Sarabeth, including information from Natasha Campbell-McBride as well as quotes and adaptations from an article by Tom Cowan, M.D http://www.sustainlane.com/reviews/the-gaps-diet-the-mother-of-all-diet… )
“All diseases begin in the gut” –Hippocrates
Dear Family,
“You gotta be extra forgiving, and you gotta be super strong.” --Indigo Girls
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Dear Family,
“I had my impossible assignment: to think of how I think the way I do not think.”
--Huston Smith
“Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.”
--Fulton J. Sheen
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Dear Family,
Last April, I spoke too soon. Just after we'd started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, Ben began eating like he'd never seen food before--after a lifetime of severely picky and self-limiting food choices, he was suddenly eating soups, and meat, and chunky vegetables, for _hours_ per day. It was like some actual other kid had dropped in from outer space to inhabit my own child's seat at the table. I was so ecstatic that I stood in the kitchen, and frantically tried to cook fast enough to keep up with his appetite, and cried.
Dear Family,
“Everything's so _completely_ not perfect!”
--M.V.
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You could call it GAPS: Take Two. The past several weeks have been a super-focused, nearly-non-stop attempt to help Ben's body get to a more sustainable place on our Great Gut Healing Adventure. During the late summer, it was getting clearer and clearer that one cannot heal Gut Dysbiosis on eggs alone. And so Jeff and I, and Ben too, have been working incredibly hard to make healing foods go down into his little stomach.
Chronic Disease And Why I Care So Much About Gut Flora: An Opinion Piece for an Industrial Age, by Sarabeth
(To be clear: I am presenting a _summary_ of my recent health and nutrition research. I am not providing sufficient evidence/data to prove to anyone that my opinions are valid. If you're curious about or skeptical of the basis for my conclusions, please read the books and websites I recommend. Then, let me know what _you_ decide.)
Dear Family,
You are not going to get a GAPS update this week. Here's a little explanatory parable:
On some days, you wake up efficiently and enthusiastically and Ready To Go, launching directly from dreamland onto a mental trampoline. Then you realize it's dark out, and that you kind of have a headache. And then you touch your own face, and suddenly you just KNOW--the lump you can feel is a tumor! Panic sets in before you discover that you aren't even fully awake yet.