Part One -GAPS Nutritional Protocol- How Healing the Gut Removes the Basis for All Chronic Diseases

A growing amount of research highlights the relationship between damaged gut microbiome and chronic illnesses – mental and physical. Healing the gut is becoming a priority in treating any chronic disease. The GAPS Nutritional Protocol has been designed for this purpose and has been used all over the world for twenty years. It has yielded successful results and is very distinct from other dietary interventions. Not only it focuses on healing the gut wall and repopulating the gut flora with beneficial microbes, but also provides the body with fundamental building blocks to heal and restore its anatomical structure.

Through this article, we aim to remind our readers of the importance of gut health in a large array of disorders, describe the GAPS Nutritional Protocol, and encourage research on dietary interventions such as this one.

Shocking Health Impacts of Stress Linked to Cancer, Chronic Disease, Addiction

Stress in the body is handled by the body’s main stress glands, the adrenal glands. The adrenals are small triangular shaped glands that sit on top of the kidneys. They respond to stress. When the brain sends stress signals to the adrenals, whether perceived, imagined, or real, they work. Too chronic, too repetitive, too extreme is showing to be too much.

“Too high adrenaline or cortisol levels lead to immune system suppression and promote inflammation,” says  * Dr.’s Paul Anderson and Mark Stengler, Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO is one of the world’s leading integrative naturopathic specialists on cancer.

In her book The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, Dr. Nasha says, “When we ask our patients if they had to guess what caused their cancer, most of them can point to an emotional or stressful event.”

Chronic Inflammation and Anaemia

One of the first lines of defence against pathogens is to withhold nutrients from microbes starving them.  Both good and bad bacteria need iron to exist in the body. Iron and a few other nutrients are vital to the growth of bacteria.

What is sequestration?

Sequestration is a situation where your body is locking up iron and other minerals from pathogens. Your body when it senses an infection, inflammation and a fever and will quickly lock up that iron to prevent the pathogens from growing. This prevents pathogens from obtaining food. Pathogens have counter-strategies that allow them to break open cells to acquire the iron they need. Both good and bad bacteria are trying to survive but your body if it’s healthy will be able to do its job and prevent the micro from growing.

Chronic inflammation and infection

Those who have too much iron are very susceptible to infections. The bacteria and other microbes have a lot of nutrients to help them grow and reproduce.

Other pathogens – like Lyme disease – are able to survive off of manganese instead of iron. When you have a chronic inflammation situation, you can become very deficient in iron, which can make you feel Anaemic and weak.

Remedies for chronic inflammation and Anaemia

What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Imagine feeling like you’re wading through molasses, every step an effort, each thought a burden. That’s life with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) for many.

Sure, we all get tired – work can be draining, and stress takes its toll. But CFS? It’s the heavyweight champ of weariness, refusing to budge with even the longest snooze fest.

There are strategies out there to pack a punch against CFS symptoms.

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