Sunday, October 3, 2010
Healing the Gut
Food Based Probiotics
Nourishing Foods
Foods to Buy Organic
Sorting Through Food Sensitivities
Phenols
Sals
Fructose/fructans
Oxalates
Histamines
Amines
Nourishing Foods
Foods to Buy Organic
Sorting Through Food Sensitivities
Phenols
Sals
Fructose/fructans
Oxalates
Histamines
Amines
Introduction
This GAPS Family Cookbook is based on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Diet written by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. In her book, Dr. NCM explains how our guts are the foundation of our health. Healing our guts can heal a myriad of diseases and conditions. How can this be true?
It is more common than we think...chronic infections of yeast, bacteria, parasites, and viruses in the gut are often bad enough to wreak havoc on the body and yet not show up on a regular stool test in the Dr's office. These organisms displace the friendly organisms that normally live in our GI tracts, helping us to digest our food, fight invaders, and even manufacture some of our nutrients for us. When these "good" organisms die in numbers, the "bad" ones are given free reign to populate our guts.
These pathenogenic organism release toxins and cause inflammation. They destroy the villi, the tiny finger-like projections in our small intestines where all of our nutrient absorption takes place. The villi become shortened and lose their function. Digestive enzymes, located at the tips of the villi, are destroyed. We lose the ability to digest milk sugar and complex carbohydrates. Because we can no longer digest these foods, they are allowed to sit in our GI tracts longer than they should, feeding the pathenogenic organisms that have taken up residence there.
Inflammation in the gut weakens the integrity of the intestinal wall so that there are "holes" in it that allow partially digested food through into the bloodstream. Remember that with compromised digestion, the food particles aren't completely broken down. So larger, partially undigested food particles get into the body where the immune system identifies them as foreign bodies. The immune system attacks and this is food allergy.
Moreover, the body secretes cortisol to deal with inflammation. Cortisol is the body's best defense against inflammation. High cortisol is associated with greater liklihood of food allergies. Stress in any form (physical, emotional, etc) must be removed as much as possible.
The Gut and Psychology Sydrome (GAPS) Diet book is a great book that explains this. Dr. Campbell McBride also outlines a diet that heals the gut lining and allows it to regrow. People either us the diet alone to heal or in conjection with other treatments.
It is more common than we think...chronic infections of yeast, bacteria, parasites, and viruses in the gut are often bad enough to wreak havoc on the body and yet not show up on a regular stool test in the Dr's office. These organisms displace the friendly organisms that normally live in our GI tracts, helping us to digest our food, fight invaders, and even manufacture some of our nutrients for us. When these "good" organisms die in numbers, the "bad" ones are given free reign to populate our guts.
These pathenogenic organism release toxins and cause inflammation. They destroy the villi, the tiny finger-like projections in our small intestines where all of our nutrient absorption takes place. The villi become shortened and lose their function. Digestive enzymes, located at the tips of the villi, are destroyed. We lose the ability to digest milk sugar and complex carbohydrates. Because we can no longer digest these foods, they are allowed to sit in our GI tracts longer than they should, feeding the pathenogenic organisms that have taken up residence there.
Inflammation in the gut weakens the integrity of the intestinal wall so that there are "holes" in it that allow partially digested food through into the bloodstream. Remember that with compromised digestion, the food particles aren't completely broken down. So larger, partially undigested food particles get into the body where the immune system identifies them as foreign bodies. The immune system attacks and this is food allergy.
Moreover, the body secretes cortisol to deal with inflammation. Cortisol is the body's best defense against inflammation. High cortisol is associated with greater liklihood of food allergies. Stress in any form (physical, emotional, etc) must be removed as much as possible.
The Gut and Psychology Sydrome (GAPS) Diet book is a great book that explains this. Dr. Campbell McBride also outlines a diet that heals the gut lining and allows it to regrow. People either us the diet alone to heal or in conjection with other treatments.
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