Re: Glutamate & GAPS diet questions

[Guest guest]

The GAPS diet is in line with Sally Fallon but I'm still on the intro phase,

basically. I do eat a few things occasionally that are Sally Fallon recipes and

some things that are further down the line on GAPS. The Sally recipes include

sour dough bread and pancakes with eggs. I ate an avocado this week that is a

step up on GAPS and I made some grain-free muffins that are GAPS legal.

I typically eat bone broth and organ meat broths, soups and stews. I make the

broth and reduce it to make a gravy for stew and I like to pour it over the sour

dough bread. I also make milk kefir that I put in the broth when it cools and I

add raw egg yolk. I cook root vegetabes in the broth (for my metabolic type),

add some of the meat from the soup bone and have a more dense soup or stew for

lunch and dinner. I eat fermented vegetables or kefir with every meal and I

take digestive enzymes (HCL with pepsin or Pancreatin 8X~pancreatic enzymes).

The fermented foods allow the probiotics to get into the small intestines so

they can fight the bad microbes that might be there. It sounds complicated but

it isn't. I feel like I'm doing well and I have had more compliments on my

appearance lately. I told you about the dark circles under my eyes getting

better. My hair loss has improved and new hair is coming in. It's also less

dry than it was. So is my skin. My nails have been good for a long time but

they're shinier now. Still no moons except for my thumbs.

I don't have to urinate as often and constipation is infrequent. I see all of

these things as improvements. I credit GAPS for helping my digestive system

which in turn is helping me improve!

(I made the muffins with nut butter, vinegar, raw honey and baking soda. I was

amazed at how good they were! I make pancakes with coconut flour, eggs and

butter.)

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> , I'm also wondering what you are eating these days as part of the GAPS

diet. If I remember correctly, prior to that you had a diet along the lines of

Weston Price and Sally Fallon. I really would like to feel like I'm making some

progress with healing my gut, I think what I've been doing for many months now

is not doing the trick.

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> Thanks for any help!

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> Crysal

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for all the info on this! I'm definitely considering making some changes

to promote my gut's healing, but I have a question. Are you supposed to eat

things that you know you personally react to? I mean, I developed the egg

sensitivity last year, so I'd be really wary of adding those back in yet. I

just had my blood drawn for ELISA a few days ago, so I should know in a couple

weeks what else I'm reacting to. But, YUM, sourdough bread and pancakes sound

good right now. lol

Crystal

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> The GAPS diet is in line with Sally Fallon but I'm still on the intro phase,

basically. I do eat a few things occasionally that are Sally Fallon recipes and

some things that are further down the line on GAPS. The Sally recipes include

sour dough bread and pancakes with eggs. I ate an avocado this week that is a

step up on GAPS and I made some grain-free muffins that are GAPS legal.

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[Guest guest]

P.S. I'm glad to hear of the improvements you're seeing! Sounds like your body

is taking to the diet well.

Crystal

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> The GAPS diet is in line with Sally Fallon but I'm still on the intro phase,

basically. I do eat a few things occasionally that are Sally Fallon recipes and

some things that are further down the line on GAPS. The Sally recipes include

sour dough bread and pancakes with eggs.

[Guest guest]

With GAPS you only eat the yolks but if they bother you, don't eat them until

you can. Healing your gut is supposed to make you less sensitive to foods. The

pancakes on this diet have no grain and the ones that I made had coconut four.

Sour dough has not caused me to have the bad reaction that I had with white

flour. Not everyone has the same experience but most people do, so I've read.

Bon Apetite!

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> Thanks for all the info on this! I'm definitely considering making some

changes to promote my gut's healing, but I have a question. Are you supposed to

eat things that you know you personally react to?

> Crystal

[Guest guest]

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> With GAPS you only eat the yolks but if they bother you, don't eat them until

you can. Healing your gut is supposed to make you less sensitive to foods.

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Right! That's exactly why I'm looking at taking this on. I mean, if it was

only BBD foods gone forever, I could live with it. But, since I'm developing

new sensitivities, I need to take some action on my gut before I have nothing

left to eat! I just figured it wouldn't be a good idea to eat something I'm

sensitive to prior to getting the gut healed. You know, putting the cart before

the horse. Or the egg before the chicken. lol

At any rate, the ELISA will separate out the yolks and egg whites for me since I

never got around to testing it myself. I would bet it's the whites.

Crystal