GAPS diet

Every once in awhile, I make a dish that everyone thinks is so delicious, that they eagerly ask me for the recipe. This particular very simple roast chicken invariably gets that response. It’s because it is really so yummy.  I often make it for my dinner guests, and their intense desire to acquire the recipe…

Today I am going to write about a topic that fascinates me, faecal transplant. It first attracted my attention when I heard an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air with Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, a professor at Washington University in St Louis, who is engaged in a project to catalogue the human biome, the microbial communities that…

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…

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…