Oh, that is the question that is heavy on my mind right now.
The GAPS diet is a gut healing and sealing diet with far reaching benefits for many chronic disorders. Designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract while ridding the body of the unwanted yeast and bacterias that make so many of us ill.
Sounds great, right? The thing is this diet looks
tough. I've been following a few
online journeys through the
GAPS Intro and the Full GAPS diet (less restrictive than Intro) and I'm starting -just starting- to think that maybe we could do this.
Our son (9) has a host of chronic conditions that the GAPS diet could really help. Asthma, autism, allergies and ezcema. He has had these ailments since infancy. Each day that I wait and ponder whether or not we should do this I think to myself that it is another day that he could be feeling some relief, you know?
So hard for a mama.
My first step will be to get the book from the library and arm myself with some more knowledge. I'm also seeing more and more
resources out there for doing the GAPS diet successfully; especially with kids. This makes it seem much less scary!
Do you have any experience with GAPS?