Re: GAPS diet

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Here is a link to the GAPS diet:

http://gapsdiet.com/The_Diet.html

and this is the intro diet - whether doing it exactly or moving more quickly to

the full diet:

http://gapsdiet.com/INTRODUCTION_DIET.html

I can't speak to the releasing toxins effect, but just wanted to share that it

is not low calorie, and does include veggies and fruit. Dr. McBride is part of

the Weston A. Price tradition re nutrition:

http://www.westonaprice.org/

I know many of their recs (real butter, raw milk, whole milk yogurt, only grass

fed beef) will strike people as completely wrong, but if you read about it - it

makes a lot of sense. The cookbook Nourishing Traditions is full of information

about foods from all over the world and the history of how what we call food esp

in the U.S. got to be so corrupted/comprised (yup, lobbyists....).

Our son was really sick a few years ago so we had to learn/change a lot of

things. Again, no idea about the diet re bf.

Peggy Hinkle, IBCLC

so busy taking care of same son after extensive knee surgery there's no

brainpower left to explore PP ;-)

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> I follow a bunch of blogs and have been reading a lot of posts lately about

the GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome). Several bloggers have suggested

that GAPS is acceptable to do while breastfeeding, although there seems to be

some consensus that a nursing mother should skip the intro phase of the diet.

None of these bloggers have any credentials that would equip them to declare the

diet safe while breastfeeding and one recent blog post generated several

comments from mothers who stated their milk dried up when on the intro portion

of the diet. If the diet does what it says it does (promote gut healing) then

I'm intrigued. Does anyone have any patients using this diet or have other

information or opinions?

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> Carroll, MA, IBCLC, LLLL

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> (reading and posting way more than normal because I'm under the weather and

don't feel like doing much else)

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