Gut and Physiology Syndrome (GAPS)

Are you regular? Really? Be honest. Once or twice a day? Nice and formed? If not, have a listen to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. She asks you to consider healing and sealing your gut lining to restore digestive and overall health (including clearing up food intolerances). It's more than Gut and Psychology, it's broader—encompassing the entire physiology. In this audio recording Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. Campbell-McBride. She outlines the GAPS nutritional protocol for restoring the gut lining. It's 2+ hours but worth the listen. She's one brilliant woman.

Comments

[Sara]

This is a very interesting podcast with very unique views on vegetarian diets. I was intrigued by her views on animal protein and the human inability to process a plant based diet. I also have never heard plant based foods called detoxifying only and not nutritional to our body, and animal protein seen as the only nutritional food to our body. I immediately thought of the China Study which supports the idea that animal protein leads to cancer and other diseases. I am not familiar with this diet, but is this based on any research?

[Lexie]

Hi Sara ... I would hope that both sides of the argument have "done their research." I recently asked our nutritionist for her take on it all. Paleolithic eating is "in" and I asked her if she thought that would change in time. She thinks that in 10 years it will be back to vegetarianism. And then the pendulum will likely swing again. She believes in moderation. And that is where I am settling, too. That said, I do know from personal experience with my son that when the gut is damaged and leaking that foods that are gentle and healing are best. I think that is where the GAPS diet comes in. Broths, removal of fiber (in early phases) that can irritate the lining of the GI tract, removal of sugar, etc. Our son benefited most from cooked meat and vegetables. I remember raw carrots, seeds, beans etc zipping right through him undigested. So from a standpoint of healing and sealing the gut ... I think the gaps protocol is definitely worth consideration. Once one is healed I would hope that one could return to a healthful diet full of fresh, clean, unadulterated food, including some grains, a little sweetener on occasion, etc. I am all about moderation. As for research, yes, I would think Dr Campbell-McBride has some research behind her work. She is a neurologist after all : ) But you could pick up some of her publications. xoLexie

[Tyler]

Absolutely! This diet is based on science, and common sense. Consider the year 1900 in America. Heart disease wasn't heard of yet, the most commom fatal disease was pnemonia, and Americans ate loads of butter, drank whole milk only, and ate much meat of course, fatty meats. This was all from pure, grassfed, unadulterate cows and other animals though, all who ate their natural diets. When animals consume their natural diet, they rarely get sick, if at all. Likewise, when humans consume animals that ate their natural diet, the human will rarely get sick, if at all. Anyway, Then the makers of Crisco came along and in order to make mass profits, deemed animals fat deadly, and fattening, which couldn't be further from the truth! Search for and read article by Dr Mercola, and from the Weston Price Foundation. As for T. Colin Campbell's "The Chiny Study," it is largely fraudulant. Now, dont get me wrong. Vegetables are soo important. I juice them almost every day. They keep me feeling and lookin good. But so does saturated fat, meat, fermented milk products and eggs. In the China Study, rats were given large amounts of aflatoxin to induce cancer, and it was then that T. Colin Campbell could "turn cancer on or off", depending on how much animal protein was fed to them. Well wait a minute, THEY WERE FIRST GIVEN LARGE DOSES OF AFLATOXIN TO INDUCE THE CANCER! So theres no telljn what's gonna happen with that stuff in their system. For some reason though, this goes right over most peoples heads. And the vegans, well they want it to be true so they won't say anything even if
they see it. Consume both. Animal foods and plants, but both in their truly natural, organic state as much as possible.

[Lexie]

Thanks Tyler! xoLexie