kwms
11-28-2007, 04:12 AM
I just returned from a conference a few weeks ago where Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride spoke. She was one of several dozen speakers on all kinds of topic related to nutrition and health. She is a neurologist and her son was diagnosed with severe autism. She went back to school and got her PhD in nutrition and now runs a nutrition clinic in the UK. She completely healed her son's autism through diet. He is 12 now and in a regular mainstream school and doing fine, playing sports, has friends, etc.
Her talk was called the "Gut And Psychology Syndrome" or GAPS for short. She mentioned ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, learning, behavioral and social problems in children being on the rise significantly and in adults - substance abuse, depression, OCD, manic deppressive, schizophrenia. She has seen all of these patients and she finds many symptoms that overlap: allergies, asthma, eczema, malnutrition, bed wetting, thrush, chronic cystitis, etc. The number one problem for all of these people is DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS.
"All diseases begin in the gut" - Hypocrates
Because 84% of our immunity is located in the gut wall, this is where she focused her attention. If you took the lining of the gut and rolled it out flat, it would take up the area of a tennis court. It is that large. In fact 90% of the cells in the body are part of the digestive system. The gut flora are the bacteria that live inside your gut. Their roles are to protect from invaders, maintain the health and integrity of the gut, provide appropriate digestion and absorption, vitamin production, detoxification, and immune system modulation. With all the polluted air and water we encounter, our last defense is the gut flora.
GAPS patients have what's called Gut Dysbiosis or "leaky gut" They have reduced or absent populations of normal flora, candida species overgrowth, clostridia species, sulphate reducing bacteria, viruses (measles, herpes, CMV, etc.)
In a typical scenario this is what her GAPS patients present: Mother has gut dysbiosis (what the child swallows in the birth canal becomes the baby's gut flora, so if the mother has an imbalance it is very likely the child will too - but this is good news, because it means the condition is reversible, not genetic!), the baby doesn't develop normal gut flora, his/her immune system is compromised, many ear infections (the cause for 80% of doctor visits) with frequent antibiotics treatments, chest infections, also with frequent antibiotic treatments (antibiotics kill both the bad bacteria and the good, healthy bacteria in the gut, upsetting the normal balance), vaccinations - she doesn't feel these are a direct cause but seem to become a "last straw" in these cases where the gut flora is on the tipping point, the usual weaning diet (grains as baby's first food), gut dysbiosis, toxicity, brain disfunction
An interesting side note: Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a well-respected GastroInterologist examined autistic children in the UK and he took a biopsy of the lymph nodes near the beginning of the digestive tract and found the measles virus (from the vaccine). When he published his findings he was attacked by the pharmaceutical companies, was stripped of his medical license and cannot practice medicine anymore. Since that time no GI doctor in the UK will examine an autistic child.
Key Treatments for re-establishment of normal gut flora:
* diet (based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet)
* an effective probiotic - NOT prophylactic (prophylactic probiotics are to maintain a healthy gut flora in a healthy person - someone attempting to heal their gut flora needs a theraputic level probiotic which is much more aggressive and contains many more organisms)
* address the nutritional deficiencies
* detoxification
She also advocates for supplementation with cod liver oil for Vitamin A. (Green Pastures is an excellent brand) and Essential Fatty Acids (omega-3, omega-6, omega-9). Instead of multi-vitamins, minerals and amino acids, she recommends fixing the diet instead because the absorption rate of most supplements is 9%. Detoxification with juicing, baths w/ epsom salt and avoiding toxins as much as possible is recommended.
Your gut lining is always renewing itself, but it will take about 2 years to completely renew the entire gut wall.
During this 2 year period these foods should be avoided:
*all grains
* starchy vegetables (winter squash are ok to eat)
* sugar, other commercial sweeteners
* milk (and milk sugar lactose)
* starchy beans including soy (white navy beans are ok to eat)
* all processed foods
* all food additives
Recommended foods for this 2 year period are:
* all meat - fresh or frozen (pasture fed is best)
* all fish - fresh or frozen (wild caught, not farm-raised)
* organ meats (liver, kidneys, etc)
* good quality eggs from pastured chickens
* non-starch vegetables
* all ripe fruits including dried fruits - important here to get local fruits because our produce travels an average of 1500 miles to the stores and so it is picked very unripe and then ripened during its journey, meaning the consumer doesn't get the full benefit of the nutrition from the fruit at the peak of ripeness. If you can, find a local grower and buy directly from him, picking the choicest fruit. She said, you don't want the apple on the tree, you want the one on the ground. It is ripe if it fell to the ground. And if it has a worm in it, even better! (meaning the worm selected that apple as a nutritious one, so it would be nutritious for you to, just cut off the part where the worm is)
* nuts and seeds
* fermented dairy
* cold extracted honey
* natural fats - all animal fats, butter & ghee, coconut & palm oil, cold-pressed virgin olive oil
* AVOID ALL margarines, butter replacements, vegetable oils and cooking oils!
For breads, pies, cakes, muffins, pancakes, waffles, etc:
* use nut flours or seed flours (coconut and almond flour are good examples)
* eggs
* butter, ghee, coconut oil, goose fat, duck fat
* use carrots, winter squash, marrow or zucchini
* for sweetness use dried fruits: dates, figs, apricots, raisins
* really ripe bananas - black looking that are being thrown out at the store
* celtic sea salt, sun-dried tomato, tomato puree, spices
* cheese and fermented cream
Meats and fish stocks - THIS SHE SAYS IS A MUST! (provides lots of minerals)
* homemade meat and fish stock
* soups and stews made w/ the stock
* meat jelly made at home
* bone marrow
* joints & cartilage
* natural gelatine
AVOID commercial boullion cubes or granules!
After the 2 year period you can slowly add dairy back in small steps. Introduce each item with very small bits and check for a reaction before moving on. If there is a reaction, stop, the person is not ready, continue to heal and try later. Adding dairy back should take around 18 mos to complete.
Step 1 - introduce organic unsalted ghee
Step 2 - introduce organic unsalted butter
Step 3 - introduce kefir, yogurt and fermented cream
Step 4 - introduce homemade cheese
Step 5 - introduce mature traditional cheese
Step 6 - introduce double cream and clotted cream
AVOID ALL PASTEURIZED MILK AND MILK SUBSTITUTES!
RAW MILK IS ESSENTIAL! Check www.realmilk.com for sources.
Fermented Foods
* saurkraut - traditionally lacto-fermented
* fermented vegetables w/ kefir starter
* fermented fish w/ kefir starter or whey
* fermented dairy
* homemade vinegar
Low fiber diet for diarrhea
* no raw foods, no fruit, no nuts, no seeds
* feed homemade meat stock
* feed meat and fish well cooked in water
* soups and stews w/ vegetables & meats
* well cooked vegetables
* eggs
* homemade kefir, yogurt, cheese
* fermented vegetables
Natural chelation
* freshly pressed vegetables & fruit juices
* probiotics
* fermented foods
* sea greens
* humic acids: fulvic acid, humet, etc.
* spirulina & algae
* NDF (nano-collodial Detox Factor)
The above is all from my hand-written notes at her talk. I am expecting to get an MP3 of the whole seminar. If you'd like a copy, post a reply and I will check this board when it comes in.
For a copy of Dr. Campbell-McBride's book or the probiotic she's formulated, you can check this distributor's website: www.guthealth.info
Also there are some videos featuring Dr. Campbell-McBride and Donna Gates (of the Body Ecology Diet) on YouTube. She covers most of what is listed above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpe4kcvaesw "The cure for autism and mental illness - part 1"
Katy
"All diseases begin in the gut" - Hypocrates
Her talk was called the "Gut And Psychology Syndrome" or GAPS for short. She mentioned ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, learning, behavioral and social problems in children being on the rise significantly and in adults - substance abuse, depression, OCD, manic deppressive, schizophrenia. She has seen all of these patients and she finds many symptoms that overlap: allergies, asthma, eczema, malnutrition, bed wetting, thrush, chronic cystitis, etc. The number one problem for all of these people is DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS.
"All diseases begin in the gut" - Hypocrates
Because 84% of our immunity is located in the gut wall, this is where she focused her attention. If you took the lining of the gut and rolled it out flat, it would take up the area of a tennis court. It is that large. In fact 90% of the cells in the body are part of the digestive system. The gut flora are the bacteria that live inside your gut. Their roles are to protect from invaders, maintain the health and integrity of the gut, provide appropriate digestion and absorption, vitamin production, detoxification, and immune system modulation. With all the polluted air and water we encounter, our last defense is the gut flora.
GAPS patients have what's called Gut Dysbiosis or "leaky gut" They have reduced or absent populations of normal flora, candida species overgrowth, clostridia species, sulphate reducing bacteria, viruses (measles, herpes, CMV, etc.)
In a typical scenario this is what her GAPS patients present: Mother has gut dysbiosis (what the child swallows in the birth canal becomes the baby's gut flora, so if the mother has an imbalance it is very likely the child will too - but this is good news, because it means the condition is reversible, not genetic!), the baby doesn't develop normal gut flora, his/her immune system is compromised, many ear infections (the cause for 80% of doctor visits) with frequent antibiotics treatments, chest infections, also with frequent antibiotic treatments (antibiotics kill both the bad bacteria and the good, healthy bacteria in the gut, upsetting the normal balance), vaccinations - she doesn't feel these are a direct cause but seem to become a "last straw" in these cases where the gut flora is on the tipping point, the usual weaning diet (grains as baby's first food), gut dysbiosis, toxicity, brain disfunction
An interesting side note: Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a well-respected GastroInterologist examined autistic children in the UK and he took a biopsy of the lymph nodes near the beginning of the digestive tract and found the measles virus (from the vaccine). When he published his findings he was attacked by the pharmaceutical companies, was stripped of his medical license and cannot practice medicine anymore. Since that time no GI doctor in the UK will examine an autistic child.
Key Treatments for re-establishment of normal gut flora:
* diet (based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet)
* an effective probiotic - NOT prophylactic (prophylactic probiotics are to maintain a healthy gut flora in a healthy person - someone attempting to heal their gut flora needs a theraputic level probiotic which is much more aggressive and contains many more organisms)
* address the nutritional deficiencies
* detoxification
She also advocates for supplementation with cod liver oil for Vitamin A. (Green Pastures is an excellent brand) and Essential Fatty Acids (omega-3, omega-6, omega-9). Instead of multi-vitamins, minerals and amino acids, she recommends fixing the diet instead because the absorption rate of most supplements is 9%. Detoxification with juicing, baths w/ epsom salt and avoiding toxins as much as possible is recommended.
Your gut lining is always renewing itself, but it will take about 2 years to completely renew the entire gut wall.
During this 2 year period these foods should be avoided:
*all grains
* starchy vegetables (winter squash are ok to eat)
* sugar, other commercial sweeteners
* milk (and milk sugar lactose)
* starchy beans including soy (white navy beans are ok to eat)
* all processed foods
* all food additives
Recommended foods for this 2 year period are:
* all meat - fresh or frozen (pasture fed is best)
* all fish - fresh or frozen (wild caught, not farm-raised)
* organ meats (liver, kidneys, etc)
* good quality eggs from pastured chickens
* non-starch vegetables
* all ripe fruits including dried fruits - important here to get local fruits because our produce travels an average of 1500 miles to the stores and so it is picked very unripe and then ripened during its journey, meaning the consumer doesn't get the full benefit of the nutrition from the fruit at the peak of ripeness. If you can, find a local grower and buy directly from him, picking the choicest fruit. She said, you don't want the apple on the tree, you want the one on the ground. It is ripe if it fell to the ground. And if it has a worm in it, even better! (meaning the worm selected that apple as a nutritious one, so it would be nutritious for you to, just cut off the part where the worm is)
* nuts and seeds
* fermented dairy
* cold extracted honey
* natural fats - all animal fats, butter & ghee, coconut & palm oil, cold-pressed virgin olive oil
* AVOID ALL margarines, butter replacements, vegetable oils and cooking oils!
For breads, pies, cakes, muffins, pancakes, waffles, etc:
* use nut flours or seed flours (coconut and almond flour are good examples)
* eggs
* butter, ghee, coconut oil, goose fat, duck fat
* use carrots, winter squash, marrow or zucchini
* for sweetness use dried fruits: dates, figs, apricots, raisins
* really ripe bananas - black looking that are being thrown out at the store
* celtic sea salt, sun-dried tomato, tomato puree, spices
* cheese and fermented cream
Meats and fish stocks - THIS SHE SAYS IS A MUST! (provides lots of minerals)
* homemade meat and fish stock
* soups and stews made w/ the stock
* meat jelly made at home
* bone marrow
* joints & cartilage
* natural gelatine
AVOID commercial boullion cubes or granules!
After the 2 year period you can slowly add dairy back in small steps. Introduce each item with very small bits and check for a reaction before moving on. If there is a reaction, stop, the person is not ready, continue to heal and try later. Adding dairy back should take around 18 mos to complete.
Step 1 - introduce organic unsalted ghee
Step 2 - introduce organic unsalted butter
Step 3 - introduce kefir, yogurt and fermented cream
Step 4 - introduce homemade cheese
Step 5 - introduce mature traditional cheese
Step 6 - introduce double cream and clotted cream
AVOID ALL PASTEURIZED MILK AND MILK SUBSTITUTES!
RAW MILK IS ESSENTIAL! Check www.realmilk.com for sources.
Fermented Foods
* saurkraut - traditionally lacto-fermented
* fermented vegetables w/ kefir starter
* fermented fish w/ kefir starter or whey
* fermented dairy
* homemade vinegar
Low fiber diet for diarrhea
* no raw foods, no fruit, no nuts, no seeds
* feed homemade meat stock
* feed meat and fish well cooked in water
* soups and stews w/ vegetables & meats
* well cooked vegetables
* eggs
* homemade kefir, yogurt, cheese
* fermented vegetables
Natural chelation
* freshly pressed vegetables & fruit juices
* probiotics
* fermented foods
* sea greens
* humic acids: fulvic acid, humet, etc.
* spirulina & algae
* NDF (nano-collodial Detox Factor)
The above is all from my hand-written notes at her talk. I am expecting to get an MP3 of the whole seminar. If you'd like a copy, post a reply and I will check this board when it comes in.
For a copy of Dr. Campbell-McBride's book or the probiotic she's formulated, you can check this distributor's website: www.guthealth.info
Also there are some videos featuring Dr. Campbell-McBride and Donna Gates (of the Body Ecology Diet) on YouTube. She covers most of what is listed above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpe4kcvaesw "The cure for autism and mental illness - part 1"
Katy
"All diseases begin in the gut" - Hypocrates