On Friday May 25th an article appeared in the New York Times titled Drug For Adults is Popular as Children’s Remedy. It addresses the widespread prescription by pediatricians and GI specialists of Miralax, a colorless odorless liquid laxative for long term treatment of constipation in children, despite the fact that it has never been approved… [Continue reading]
GAPS Diet in Massachusetts
Grain Free Sunshine Cookies
These buttery cookies are simply delicious. It’s hard to behave sensibly with them, they are so good. They are full of nuts and seeds and just lightly sweet. They come from a cookbook called Grain Free Gourmet by Jodi Bager and Jenny Lass. The author wrote that one of her friends tasted them and said… [Continue reading]
FODMAPs + GAPS = ?
Necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case, it was the urgent distress of my patient and her family, which drove me to seek a supplementary approach to the GAPS treatment protocol. Keiko is an adorable, very bright, not yet 7 year old girl in treatment with me for constipation and encopresis. The… [Continue reading]
Iodine Art and Hijiki
In the GAPS healing protocol, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride recommends that we get obtain our nourishment from whole foods sources, and in general is very mistrustful of supplementation with isolated vitamins and minerals. Supplements that she does regularly prescribe are fish oil, cod liver oil and iodine, when needed. Iodine is a non metallic mineral that… [Continue reading]
GAPS Wonder Baths
We live in a very contaminated world, and it contributes to the degradation of our health. For this reason, detoxification is a very important feature of the GAPS healing protocol. One simple way to detoxify is through regular bathing. The hotter the water, and the longer you stay in the bath, the more detoxifying it… [Continue reading]
