Thoughts and experiences looking back on a year of the Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet. Detox, healing crisis, EMFs, fungus, leaky gut and more. The GAPS diet has been called the mother of all diets and has turned my life around.
GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet) has been called the mother of all diets. Grain based diets may be the bane of civilization and cancer the physical result of such a diet.
Delicious nutrient dense lunch made of almond bread, pate, sauerkraut, homemade pickles and a kefir smoothie. Grain-free and GAPS friendly recipes!
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Easy to make, delicious grain-free, refined sugar free, homemade pecan pie.
A few weeks ago, one of our many cousins was in town preparing to go on a journey. One of the places he was going was to the Way of St. James, which was written about by Paulo Coelho in The Pilgrimage
. We decided to have him and a couple other people over for a special brunch to send him on an enlightening journey. This Smorgasbord Bruncheon was so successful and tasty that I plan on repeating it for the rest of the relatives in town as soon as I get me some more of that amazing wild salmon.
For anyone looking for an entertainment idea, this is a good one that people really enjoy. This bruncheon menu is also GAPS and SCD friendly as well as being completely gluten-free and home-made. Fortunately, since most of it can be prepared before hand, it also makes it a pretty stress-free occasion. Although it is nice to make the pancakes last minute.
We began the GAPS diet (or enhanced Specific Carbohydrate Diet) in February, so we have now been on it for more than six months. The difference is remarkable. I have sent in for another hair analysis so I can compare the result with the test I did last November. All of our conditions have not completely disappeared. We have had to do a fair amount of travelling earlier this year and it has been difficult to maintain full control over everything that goes into our mouth on those occasions, but on the whole we have done very well.
The hardest thing about this diet is that it makes it very difficult to socialize. We can’t really go out to eat, go over to peoples houses to eat or even out for a couple drinks. We have started to drink Bloody Mary’s on occasion, as they seem to be relatively harmless. Beer or wine or anything sweetened just does us in. Going out to restaurants is a real pain too as you can never really be sure what is in a dressing or soup or whatnot unless you really know the place you are eating at is dedicated to real food. It was surprisingly easy in LA to go out to eat, and I think the gluten-free fad has really taken off all of a sudden, so I think it will get easier as well, perhaps grain-free will catch on by default!
A big thanks to everyone for their kind words of support over the past week or so since we found out that my mother has cancer in her pancreas. :-( Sorry I haven’t been communicating this last week, we got the news and then had to get our taxes done, which was a bit pain in the neck. We are also taking a trip to LA this month, so I am trying to get my garden and everything else in place before we go. I have been thinking about cancer as a result so these ramblings are what have been fermenting in my mind of late.
When food, the body, the heart, and the mind become perfectly united with nature, a natural diet becomes possible. The body as it is, following its own instinct, eating if something tastes good, abstaining if it does not, is free. -Masanobu Fukuoka
Yesterday, at the laundromat, I managed to read a few more of Masanobu Fukuoka’s essays in what has been dubbed ‘the little green book,’ The One-Straw Revolution
. I got into the section on what he calls ‘natural diet.’ He lays out in a clear and beautiful way a description of the importance of the relationship of nature and mankind and how this relationship is developed through eating and farming/foraging. I got so excited by it that I have pulled out my favorite excerpts here. I feel that this SCD/ GAPS diet we are on is helping me to regain the sensitivity of a natural person who is in tune with their instincts, that Masanobu Fukuoka speaks of. Please take a minute to read the sections I pulled out, very profound, it shows the importance of food for creating a natural and peaceful culture for our world.
Modern people have lost their clear instinct and consequently have become unable to gather the seven herbs of spring. Their diet becomes disordered, the gap between likes and dislikes widens, and their instinct becomes more and more bewildered.
Many people have been asking me how the GAPS Diet has been working out for us, and I am finally getting a chance to post about it. We started this diet because we have had serious re-occurring health problems ever since living in a moldy apartment in New Zealand. Our problems seemed to just get worse instead of better. I seemed to have developed leaky gut syndrome and was getting intolerant of more and more foods. We had been on no-carb diets, and various other health regimes which worked for a while but were unsustainable for long periods.
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