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… [Continue reading]
GAPS
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
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]
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]
One Size Does Not Fit All
I recently listened to an interview with the preventative cardiologist William Davis, MD on Jimmy Moore’s podcast “Living La Vida Low Carb“, (Dr. Davis begins at 41:20 of the podcast). He just published a book called Wheat Belly. His book describes the remarkable health benefits that he witnessed when his patients simply removed wheat from their… [Continue reading]
