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, Gut Flora, Paleo AIP, and Low Carb
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]
Eggs!
I would like to share with my readers a personal experience that reinforced my respect for the power of food sensitivities, and may perhaps result in your own reflections linking specific foods with symptoms that trouble you. Before I discovered GAPS, I had been on a fruitless lengthy search for treatment of constipation that had… [Continue reading]
Dr. Natasha’s Army
Last weekend I attended a GAPS Practitioner Certification workshop outside of New York City with 40 other health care providers. There were naturopaths, osteopaths, nutritionists, occupational therapists, homeopaths, a holistic nurse, a woman in preventative dentistry, chiropracters, acupuncturists, in short, alternative health care practitioners of every stripe. Only four of us were physicians, two neurologists,… [Continue reading]
