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Going through the GAPS Diet you will become an expert on how your body responds to food in its own individual way. This is a unique and very valuable knowledge, which can serve you well for the rest of your life. That is why it is a very good idea to keep a diary through the GAPS Introduction Diet and further, where you record the whole process of food introduction and your individual symptoms and reactions. However, one must use the principles in the book carefully. Initially my autistic son made huge gains with this diet and even his behavior changed significantly. However, because of heavy antibiotic use as a baby, it turns out that my son is in a small subgroup of people that have problems with oxalates. As a result, doing this type of diet over a long period of time in the way I did made the oxalate problems much worse, and thus his autistic symptoms in some ways got worse in time, and I am still working to improve them. Although I am confident that I can heal the oxalate problem, it's going to take some time. Rimland B. New hope for safe and effective treatments for autism.Autism Research Review International 8:3, 1994. Kawashima H, Takayuki M, Kashiwagi Y et al. Detection and sequencing of measles virus from peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with inflammatory bowel disease and autism. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2000;45:723-729.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride set up The Cambridge Nutrition Clinic in 1998. As a parent of a child diagnosed with learning difficulties, she was acutely aware of the difficulties facing other parents like her, and she has devoted much of her time to helping these families. She realised that nutrition played a critical role in helping children and adults to overcome their disabilities, and has pioneered the use of probiotics in this field. There is no clear way presented to test if someone has a the bacterial imballance. Instead it seems everyone with one of the mental issues is just put on a one size fits all diet that is supposed to solve their problems. According to a review study, recent clinical studies have suggested that microbes in the gut can significantly affect brain function. However, studies to date have not observed that taking essential fatty acid supplements has an effect on people with autism. Similarly, studies on the effects of digestive enzymes on autism have had mixed results ( 12, 13, 14).
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However, not everybody has to start from the Introduction Diet. This diet is very demanding and can be difficult to follow. Depending on your life style and circumstances you may want to start from the Full GAPS Diet and do the Introduction Diet later. If you are a good cook, your kitchen is set up well and you have found a supply of all the necessary ingredients, you may be ready to do the Introduction Diet from the beginning. Stage 5: Introduce cooked apple purée, raw vegetables starting with lettuce and peeled cucumber, fruit juice, and small amounts of raw fruit, but no citrus. Eliminating artificial sweeteners: According to some animal studies, artificial sweeteners can create imbalances in gut bacteria and increase the risk of metabolic problems. While on this phase of the diet, you should avoid all other foods, particularly refined carbs, preservatives, and artificial colorings. Summary:
The concept of GAPS establishes a connection between the state of the person's digestive system and the health of the rest of the body. The GAPS theory is that a leaky gut allows chemicals and bacteria from your food and environment to enter your blood when they wouldn’t normally do so.Interestingly, studies have noted that up to 70% of people with autism also have poor digestive health, which can result in symptoms including constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, acid reflux, and vomiting ( 21). The author has had great success in treating both children and adults by improving their diet and gut flora. Her own child is/was autistic, which motivated her to search for the cause of this serious problem. Many of us can be glad that it was her lot to be the mother of an autistic child, since it resulted in her finding out the cause of this disease and many other diseases, and to illuminate us on how to heal them. Even once you’re off the diet, you’re advised to continue avoiding all highly processed and refined high-sugar foods, retaining the whole-foods principles of the protocol. Summary:
The introduction phase is the most intense part of the diet because it eliminates the most foods. It’s called the “gut healing phase” and can last from three weeks to one year, depending on your symptoms. Nutritional deficiencies from damaging effect on digestion and absorption of most vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Deficiencies in B and A vitamins are particularly common. Tabolin VA, Belmer SV, Gasilina TV, Muhina UG, Korneva TI. Rational therapy of intestinal disbacteriosis in children. - M.:Medicina, 1998, 22p (Russian).The diet’s founder claims that people with GAPS conditions also have low stomach acid production. To remedy this, she suggests followers of the diet take a supplement of betaine HCl with added pepsin before each meal.
The More-Plant GAPS Diet is not vegetarian. We need to continue eating meats, fish, eggs and fermented dairy products. But on this diet one can reduce their amount and increase the amounts of plants in your meals, and some meals can even be vegetarian. Adjust the proportions of plant to animal foods in every meal according to your body’s needs. IN CONCLUSION There are people who need to eat more plants to feel well. And even people, who thrive on mostly animal foods, have periods when their bodies ask for more plant matter. The chapter One Man’s Meat is Another Man’s Poison in the second GAPS book (Gut And Physiology The diet also suggests you take small amounts of a cold-pressed nut and seed oil blend that has a 2:1 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. Digestive enzymesIt has been recorded that in the Middle Ages British sailing ships always had barrels of ‘sour cabbage’ on board to prevent ‘bleeding gums’ (scurvy). In those times people didn’t know about vitamin C, but they knew how to prevent its deficiency during long sailing trips. Fermented vegetables and fruit can be some of the best vitamin C ‘supplements’ in the world. Not only does this vitamin get released from the tough vegetable structure during fermentation, but so do many other nutrients. Horrobin DF, Glen AM, Vaddadi K. 1994. The membrane hypothesis of schizophrenia. Schiz Res 18, 195-207.
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