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6-Sep-10 02:50

JFH wrote:
This is an ugly syndrome. It is one that I think I've had for nearly 60 years. It is predomidantly caused by stress. That has been my life, being such a sensitive guy. There are tests, but I haven't bothered. I did not realize that this is what is happening to me until 2 years ago. I try to stay on the alternative healing side of the fence, so I just experiment with fixes that I find on my health quest.


Here's a really great excerpt from an article I read just recently at WAPF.

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THE GAPS INTRODUCTION DIET

The GAPS Introduction Diet is structured in stages. Unless there is a dangerous (anaphylactic type) allergy to a particular food, I recommend my patients ignore the results of their food intolerance testing and follow the stages one by one. The GAPS Introduction Diet in its first stages serves the gut lining in three ways:

1. It removes fiber. With a damaged gut wall fiber irritates the gut lining and provides food for the pathogenic microbes in the gut. This means no nuts, no beans, no fruit and no raw vegetables. Only well-cooked vegetables (soups and stews) are allowed with particularly fibrous parts of the vegetable removed. No starch is allowed on the GAPS diet, which means no grains and no starchy vegetables.

live">2. It provides nourishment for the gut lining: amino acids, minerals, gelatin, glucosamines, collagens, fat soluble vitamins, etc. These substances come from homemade meat and fish stocks, gelatinous parts of meats well-cooked in water, organ meats, egg yolks and plenty of natural animal fats on meats.

3. It provides probiotic bacteria in the form of fermented foods. The patients are taught to ferment their own yogurt, kefir, vegetables and other foods at home. These foods are introduced gradually in order to avoid a “die-off” reaction.

In the first two stages of the GAPS Introduction Diet, most severe digestive symptoms, such as diarrhea and abdominal pain disappear quite quickly. At that point the patient can move through the next stages, when other foods are gradually introduced. As the gut wall starts healing, the patients find that they can gradually introduce foods, which they could not tolerate before. When the GAPS Introduction Diet is completed, the patient moves to the Full GAPS Diet. I recommend adhering to the Full Diet for two years on average in order to restore normal gut flora and GI function. Depending on the severity of the condition, different people take varying amounts of time to recover. Children usually recover more quickly than adults. For further informatin on the GAPS Introduction Diet see www.gaps.me
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Taken from this link: http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/digestive-disorders/1955-food-allergies.html

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Reading the entire article, of course, puts this excerpt into better perspective. It's long, but it's well worth reading, IMPE.

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