It is a sad reality of contemporary American psychiatry that many clinicians do not have the time or appropriate training to talk and listen to patients. Instead they are quick to assign the diagnosis du jour, which is often stunningly incorrect, and implement the corresponding treatment, with disastrous medical and psychological consequences. Every Tuesday I… [Continue reading]
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The Best Breakfast Ever: The GAPS Milkshake
A copy of the New Yorker magazine from mid November has been sitting on my bedside table, waiting for me to get around to reading an article about Steve Jobs by Malcolm Gladwell (author of Blink and The Tipping Point) called “The Tweaker”. I have a passion for all things Apple, and mourned the recent death… [Continue reading]
GAPS and Safe Starches
I love rice. All varieties, white and brown, short and long grain, nutty basmati and fragrant jasmine. I adore the smell of it cooking. I love spicy Thai and Indian curries over mounds of rice, and even eating rice with just butter and salt. It’s the ultimate comfort food for me. Others have similar feelings… [Continue reading]
GAPS Voyage with Ganesh Part 2
This post is the second in a series about Ganesh, a 6.5 year old boy with severe autistic disorder. Please read my blog post from last week, which describes the circumstances surrounding the consultation, as well as a summary of Ganesh’s history. This post will discuss aspects of the history which predisposed Ganesh to developing… [Continue reading]
GAPS Voyage with Ganesh
A few weeks ago a woman phoned me who found my contact information on Dr. Campbell-McBride’s website under “Find A GAPS Practitioner”. The urgent call was placed on the very day the information was first published, as she had been anxiously monitoring the site, awaiting the appearance of the list of newly trained GAPS practitioners in… [Continue reading]
