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CASE HISTORY – GAPS DIET

gaps diet Title Described in detail in Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s book Gut and Psychology Syndrome, the GAPS diet is most commonly used in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, leaky gut syndrome, autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety and autoimmune disease.

Inspired by the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) developed by Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas in the 1920s to heal digestive disorders, the GAPS diet has taken the natural health world by storm.

The “GAPS Diet” is an advanced meal plan that is designed to:

Repair the gut wall (leaky gut)
Rebalance probiotics in the micro-biome
Stop toxic overload from bad bacteria strains that dominate the gut environment
Prevent toxins from entering the bloodstream, which causes an array of autoimmune disorders
Suggests easy to digest foods your your gut and body can rest and heal itself
GAPS Diet Benefits

Taking it at face value, the GAPS Diet offers a complete array of health benefits by simply taking a common sense approach to eating.

Take me, for instance. When I went on a grain-free eating plan years ago I didn’t even know that I was following the “GAPS Diet”. I knew from studying what our ancestors ate and what science has already shown us that I needed to reduce my grain intake, consume lots of probiotic rich foods and start drinking bone broth.

Like me, the health benefits most people start to experience from the GAPS Diet all start with healthy, regular digestion. Those who have followed the GAPS diet in individual cases studies have found the following GAPS diet benefits:

Boost Immunity
Reduce Food Sensitivity
Improve Neurological Function
Heal Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Reverse Type II Diabetes
Improve Lactose Digestion
Kill Candida
Support Detoxification
Reduce Anxiety and Depression
Improve Autism
In addition, research has linked eating fermented foods, as the GAPS Diet recommends, to killing several different types of cancerous tumors in animal studies. The Journal of Dairy Science, for example, published a study that evaluated the immune cells in mice and discovered that regular kefir consumption helped stop breast cancer growth.

If we scientifically evaluate how each individual component of the GAPS Diet cures disease like this, we not only see the wide array of diseases it can reverse, the synergistic effects of all of these components coming together seem limitless!

GAPS Diet Foods to Avoid

To follow the GAPS diet, you will want to avoid:

Processed foods
All Grains
Processed sugar
Starchy carbs and potatoes
Artificial chemicals and preservatives
Conventional meat and dairy
In Dr. Campbell-McBride’s words, “Try to buy foods in the form that nature made them, and as fresh as possible.”

GAPS Diet Legal Foods

In a nutshell, Dr. Campbell-McBride recommends the following foods as part of the introduction GAPS diet:

Bone Broth
Steamed (non-starchy) vegetables
Organic wild meats
Fish (wild caught)
Egg yolks
Fruit and Avocados
Healthy Fats: coconut oil, ghee and olive oil
Sprouted nut butter
Probiotic rich foods
Sea Salt