GAPS diet

Since training to become a GAPS practitioner, I have become increasingly fascinated with the role the microflora in our gut plays in maintaining health and creating disease states. An average adult carries 2 kg of bacteria in the gut. There are 10 times more microbial cells in the body than human cells. This means that we are…

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…

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…

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…

I love cookbooks and have a large collection. These days it’s convenient to find plenty of excellent recipes on-line, but I still enjoy cookbooks. Even though I have many, there are a few that I return to again and again. One of my favorites authors is Claudia Roden, who was born and raised in Egypt…