GAPS - A Quirky Journey Podcast #100

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Welcome to episode #100 of the A Quirky Journey podcast!

GUEST INFORMATION:

Dr Natasha is a medical doctor with two postgraduate degrees: Master of Medical Sciences in Neurology and Master of Medical Sciences in Human Nutrition. She is well known for developing the GAPS (Gut And Psychology Syndrome) protocol, which she described in her book Gut And Psychology Syndrome – Natural Treatment for Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Depression and Schizophrenia. Thousands of people around the world follow the highly successful GAPS Nutritional Protocol to help heal themselves and their families. You can learn about GAPS on www.gaps.me

PODCAST DESCRIPTION:

In this podcast Dr Natasha shares her story – how and why she developed the GAPS protocol, the influence of her medical training combined with the age-old traditions of nutritional healing that her Grandmother taught her growing up in Russia, and how these principles helped her autistic son and many, many more of the patients in her clinic and all over the world.

The concept of nutritional healing using foods our bodies are biologically designed to eat has been part of traditional wisdom and cultures for thousands of years, but our society has wandered away from these basic principles and is now paying the price in the rapid rise of chronic illness. Dr Natasha speaks beautifully about the importance of returning to whole food traditions, and gives practical guidance in the ways to do this.

Dr Natasha makes it clear that although basic biology dictates what foods our bodies need to heal and rebuild damaged cells and to rebalance our microbiome, our bodies are all different and there is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to diet. We each need to adjust our diet to what is specifically needed for our own body and the season of life we are in. You can read more about Dr Natasha’s thoughts on the flexibility of healing foods in this article: One Man’s Meat is Another Man’s Poison.

We’ve used GAPS for our own personal healing, and Dr Natasha is a personal hero of ours. We are delighted to bring this eye-opening and information packed podcast with such a world leader in health to you.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES:

"Recent research has discovered that 90% of all cells in the human body, is in our gut flora. So our bodies are just a shell. 10%. A shell, a habitat for lots of microbes that live inside us. And I'm afraid that they're in charge, not us. They're very much in charge. They're reach is not just in the digestive system. They reach to every organ, every cell, every tissue in the body. No matter how far away that organ might be from the digestive system. The brain is far enough."

"What happens when a child or adult has abnormal gut flora... First of all, they can't digest their food well. So they don't nourish their bodies very well, and as a result they have multiple nutritional deficiencies. At the same time, these pathogen microbes that take over the digestive system of the person, damages the integrity of the gut wall, making it porous and leaky, it becomes like a siv. So foods don't get a chance to be digested properly before they absorb. They absorb in a partially broken down form - maldigestion. And then the immune system finds them in the bloodstream and says, 'you're not food. I don't recognise you as food', and attacks them. It attaches various cells and various complexes to them... the undigested bit of food. Wherever they get you in the body they cause symptoms. And these are the symptoms of food allergy and intolerance."

On fungi in the body:

"We have our own mycorrhizal (fungi) in our gut. This mycorrhizal grows long protrusions. It goes right through the biofilm, because every microbe in the gut produces little excretions made out of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, making their own little home. Little walls and windows and doors. furniture and the rest of it. And that home is all mixed up. And what they form is this layer of mixed proteins and carbohydrates and fats, called biofilm. So they live in this biofilm. This biofilm coats the whole length of your digestive system, starting from your lips, all the way to the other end. This whole layer of biofilm is cut right through the mycorrhizol, by these fungal protrusions, fungal groups. And this is the roadwork in that biofilm for the soil inside us. Information is passed through this network. So fungi is absolutely fundamental to our gut flora. They are very important."
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