And why would you need things like amino acid supplements, zinc supplements, etc which are possibly loaded with toxic fillers and binding agents and other 'packaging' and other unknown problems when you have egg yolks which contain plenty of this?
I don't know exactly why, but my condition improves if I take them.
I think my zinc absorption isn't that good.
I think amino acids (cysteine) boost my glutatione, which is needed to handle the toxic load.
Berries have the most surface area and weakest skins of the fruits - they're pesticide/herbicide laden, even under the skins, rarely ripe, and 'cleaning' the surface of them has never been shown to be effective at removing the pesticides (it can just push them through the skin), not to mention what was absorbed before then. It doesn't make any sense to me why someone would eat berries. Just because it's called a fruit doesn't make it healthy, take into consideration the outer shell and the fact you aren't eating them from a wild jungle.
Maybe no wild jungle, but my garden is offering me much berries right now.
Otherwise they are organic.
Berries are much better in my opinion than other fruit.
Many contain anti-fungal properties and they have little amount of sucrose.
Why would you need all those oils? Just eat avocadoes and raw fish, and you'll get much more balanced. People with gaps can't handle tons of fats (oils) according to Natasha, they just feed the problem. Same with a lot of honey, same with uncooked vegetables (and we don't want to cook).
Natasha advocates fats as primary energy source.
I eat fats for energy.
I don't eat a lot of honey or fruits, so I need fats for energy.
My interpretation of all those supplements she is talking about is to get the severely impaired GAPS patient off of the damaging foods, off of most foods besides fruit juice or something and supplements, because even if supplements are sub-par it will give the body a break to get back in order. Then they can introduce normal healthy foods, drop the supplements, and get to a normal state. Nowhere do I see that taking these supplements is supposed to be an end-game and you'll suddenly notice perfectly formed stools with 1-2 bowel movements a day.
Again, this is what the book is saying:
-Continue with all the supplements until the end of the GAPS Introduction Diet. When your patient is on the Full GAPS Diet, slowly reduce the dose of the full blend of amino acids to 1-2gram per day, and gradually reduce zinc supplements to 10-15 mg per day. Continue with the three amino acids and the supporting nutrients for another 3-4 months at the same doses.
- As your patients recover you will be able to slowly remove most supplements, apart from cod liver oil and probiotics, which should be taken for a few years.
I have said multiple times that I don't consider supplements as the end-game.
Did you read this part of your own quote?
I have seen many patients who put a lot of effort into implementing the diet, but did not achieve the best results until they removed most of their supplements.
I wrote this down, so yeah I read this. But she says some need, some don't need. In my case, my condition imrpoves, and I achieve the best results when I supplement.
How in the world do you know this? Do you have some god-like powers all of the sudden that can tell you?
Example: fillers and other ingredients in the supplements you take can very well be harmful to your gut, even if it's not harmful to healthy peoples..
I avoid all the ingredients in supplements natasha see as problematic for gaps patients.
So is that all you eat? I mean just listing the healthy foods you eat isn't going to do much good. What's the full list of foods (especially the 'bad' ones, even if you don't eat them everyday, do you cheat)? Are you cooking any of your food, and at what temperatures? Are your meals small, are you chewing until all food is a liquid or paste and coated with saliva? These are the most important aspects of health, supplements should be low in the totem pole..
I've eaten really bad things in Ireland for 2 weeks.
But after that I've been quite strict.
I'm slow cooking my veggies/meat.
Things I eat I think ocassionaly which are not good for me:
- raw chocolate with coconut sugar.
- too much fruit, little bit addicted to peaches.
- Raw cheese
- olives
- Dried raw meat products (like parma ham)
- Beer/wine
- ... probably more things
I find it very hard to believe that if you maintain 30+s CP, eat 100% wai diet (no table sugar), chew your food extremely well (use a timer), even the liquid food like egg yolks need to be chewed/swished until coated with saliva, and get off of every single supplement that you would not have normal stools and bowel movements (assuming you exercise at least 30 minutes per day) in three weeks.
Well I would say try this out for 3 weeks, and see what happens.
I find it hard to believe that people make progress in candida or other gut problems while eating 2 kgs of fruit daily.
When I eat so much fruit I get a really white tongue and soft stools. Last week my tongue was completely clear of coating every morning (normally it was only white in the morning).
My stools have been quite OK for the last months. Even in Ireland.
But that doesn't mean my gut flora is completely restored. That means it finally gets the chance to really restore in my opinion.
Personally, I have some of the worst health of people my age because I am so sedentary, and eat junk food and cooked food constantly. Even so, there are times when I go for as little as 3 days on 100% wai and notice stool normalization. Unless you are a senior citizen, gut normalization should never take years.
... That is maybe your hope or whatever. What I mean with gut flora normalization is having no symptoms of the toxic load created by the gut flora, symptoms like:
autism,ADD, inflammation issues associated to the gut, allergies, digestive problems etc. etc.
I highly doubt that you read the gaps book if you make statements like this.
Even very little childs need many months to restore it.
I really hope that doing buteyko will accelerate this progress.
Btw, does your activity at the forum mean you were able to increase your CP
?