Earlier today when I first woke up, I was unsure whether I should attend the GAPS presentation or the sessions concerning Food Preparations. All my indecisiveness was eliminated when i sat in Dr. Natasha's room and she opened her mouth to begin the presentation. Though I've never considered myself to be a GAPS patient, I've always respected the program and it's results. Today has made me certain that even those who don't display the symptoms need to go on the program, just to verify that coming generations aren't effected by the horrible health of gut flora we are experiencing.
The symptoms of GAPS patients can vary to enormous amounts, because we are all different people. Leaky gut can affect us in many ways including: digestive problems, allergies, immune and autoimmune problems/diseases, asthma, autism, learning disabilities, behavior disorders, psychological problems, substance abuse, arthritis, eating disorders, endocrine disorders, neuropathy, neurological conditions, and so many more that I can't understand enough to list.
Dr. Natasha went into fabulous detail concerning so many fascinating subjects that to explain them all I would have to type up all 16 pages of notes I took during the lecture. Yes, 16 pages. Good thing I learned from last year and brought an entire notebook to take notes in. One thing that stuck with me from the beginning of the talk helps explain how the gut is the body's main detoxification system.
An experiment was done on rats, with one group having healthy gut flora, and another that had 2 month previous been placed on extreme antibiotics that sterilized the gut flora. The rats were then fed food containing organic mercury, and killed to examine the findings. The experiment found that in the rats with sterilized gut flora, 90% of the mercury had been released into the blood stream, whereas in the healthy rats only 1% of the mercury had been released.
Detoxification is only one reason a healthy gut is essential to human health and well-being. The gut flora protects from invaders, helps digestion to take place normally, produce enzymes, neurotrasmitters, and vitamins, as well as in immune system modulation. This is why it is GAPS: Gut & Psychology/Physiology Syndrome. A damaged gut manifests into problems all over the body, from the brain to physical disorders, diseases, and chronic conditions.
I can say for sure that once I get home, I'm putting myself on the GAPS diet, starting from the Intro diet just to verify complete healing of my gut. Though I don't show many of the symptoms, a healthy gut equals a biologically healthy brain, and that can help on the search for happiness! Properly working neurotransmitters = happy feelings!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Greetings from Dallas! Being here is making me want to buy a cowboy hat.
I'm official here, and surrounded by southern accents and all that western goodness. I'm also registered, and have the schedule! Tomorrow I'm still indecisive which sessions to go to, I'm torn between the GAPS 3 part track that i neglected last year, or the Food Preparation track. I'll probably end up skipping around both, there's an entire session on Broth-based soups and stews that sounds fascinating.
If anyone has questions for Dr. Campbell-McBride they would like me too ask, leave it in the comments. The speakers in the Food Preparation track are Tara Rayburn; Traditional Cooking, Jessica Prentice; Broth-Based Soups and Stews, and Sharon Kane; Gluten-Free Sourdough. Questions requests are welcome!
If anyone has questions for Dr. Campbell-McBride they would like me too ask, leave it in the comments. The speakers in the Food Preparation track are Tara Rayburn; Traditional Cooking, Jessica Prentice; Broth-Based Soups and Stews, and Sharon Kane; Gluten-Free Sourdough. Questions requests are welcome!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
It's that time again...
So I never quite finished posting about last year's conference unfortunately, but now it's that time for a new conference! I will be (hopefully) blogging as the conference goes, around a post or two a day.
So stay in touch and I'll blog as I go!
So stay in touch and I'll blog as I go!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Saturday Food
Breakfast: Yogurt with maple syrup, granola, and blueberries.
Lunch: Turkey soup with vegetables and wild rice, Sourdough and spelt bread, baby swiss and mild cheedar cheese cubes, head cheese and liverwurst (yes, i ate it, be proud :)) Lamb ham, dill pickles, and cheesecake with almond and date crust with berry coulis on top.
Dinner/Banquet:
Appetizer: Beef Tataki, baby greens, and organic cultured garlic flowers.
Main Course: Wild Alaskan Salmon with grain mustard sauce over vegetable hash, and sesame and kalamata olive sourdough bread.
Dessert: Warm fruit compote with ice cream and almond maple crumble,
gluten/casein free option: Coconut cream anglais
(it was absolutely amazing, i got to sit next to a women who was gluten intolerent and was kind enough to share her coconut cream anglais with me, i almost died it was so good.)
Lunch: Turkey soup with vegetables and wild rice, Sourdough and spelt bread, baby swiss and mild cheedar cheese cubes, head cheese and liverwurst (yes, i ate it, be proud :)) Lamb ham, dill pickles, and cheesecake with almond and date crust with berry coulis on top.
Dinner/Banquet:
Appetizer: Beef Tataki, baby greens, and organic cultured garlic flowers.
Main Course: Wild Alaskan Salmon with grain mustard sauce over vegetable hash, and sesame and kalamata olive sourdough bread.
Dessert: Warm fruit compote with ice cream and almond maple crumble,
gluten/casein free option: Coconut cream anglais
(it was absolutely amazing, i got to sit next to a women who was gluten intolerent and was kind enough to share her coconut cream anglais with me, i almost died it was so good.)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Saturday session i HOPE to go see
The Liberation Diet, by Kevin Brown (if that gets boring I'm gonna slide over to the politics of food which is where my moms gonna be.)
Then, right before lunch:
The Politics of School Lunches, by Sally Fallon Morell
Me and my mom are currently in an argument over the last session,
She is INSISTING that I go to the Effective Food Activism panel, because it is about the effectiveness of social media, and she wont understand anything they say,
while I am staying fast in my decision to go to "Taming the Carb-Craving Monster" (and if you know my mother, you'll know why i need to go to this. I don't trust her saying that she promises she'll go and take notes if i go to the Panel.)
Then, right before lunch:
The Politics of School Lunches, by Sally Fallon Morell
Me and my mom are currently in an argument over the last session,
She is INSISTING that I go to the Effective Food Activism panel, because it is about the effectiveness of social media, and she wont understand anything they say,
while I am staying fast in my decision to go to "Taming the Carb-Craving Monster" (and if you know my mother, you'll know why i need to go to this. I don't trust her saying that she promises she'll go and take notes if i go to the Panel.)
Friday food
Breakfast: Yogurt sprinkled over with granola, sweetened with hot maple syrup
Lunch: Shrimp escabechi, tortilla with refried beans, pulled pork and organic chicken, salsa, sour cream, lettuce, and cheese. And something that tasted delishious, but i have no idea what it is...
A walk around the vendors booths trying all samples caused me to find some really interesting things i haven't heard or thought of: a seven vegetable kvass, made like beet kvas and tastes just as good. I had some "salmon candy" which was a salmon marinated (I'm not sure if its marinated or soaked) in brine and brown sugar, then cured. SO good. One booth had the most interesting ferments, dill, jalapeno, and apple cinnamon crannberry sour kraut. I was only brave enough to try the apple cinnamon crannberry, and i must say it was amazing! Grated granny smith apples and cinnmon, with just a couple dried crannberries all feremnted with the cabbage.They also had original beet kvass, but also ginger, and garlic (which you cannot have unless you like garlic, a very strong taste that I'm sure people can smell right now, but in the sharp slight tang the kvass has).
A very Thanksgiving-like dinner: Herb Roasted turkey, sourdough spelt stuffing, roasted autumn vegetables, brussels sprouts (blegh, i didn't eat them all), Garlic Rosemary mash potatos, and for dessert warm apple goodies (a sort of apple crisp) with a ginormous scoop of cream whipped with honey.
Me and my mom couldn't finish our entire plates for dinner.
Lunch: Shrimp escabechi, tortilla with refried beans, pulled pork and organic chicken, salsa, sour cream, lettuce, and cheese. And something that tasted delishious, but i have no idea what it is...
A walk around the vendors booths trying all samples caused me to find some really interesting things i haven't heard or thought of: a seven vegetable kvass, made like beet kvas and tastes just as good. I had some "salmon candy" which was a salmon marinated (I'm not sure if its marinated or soaked) in brine and brown sugar, then cured. SO good. One booth had the most interesting ferments, dill, jalapeno, and apple cinnamon crannberry sour kraut. I was only brave enough to try the apple cinnamon crannberry, and i must say it was amazing! Grated granny smith apples and cinnmon, with just a couple dried crannberries all feremnted with the cabbage.They also had original beet kvass, but also ginger, and garlic (which you cannot have unless you like garlic, a very strong taste that I'm sure people can smell right now, but in the sharp slight tang the kvass has).
A very Thanksgiving-like dinner: Herb Roasted turkey, sourdough spelt stuffing, roasted autumn vegetables, brussels sprouts (blegh, i didn't eat them all), Garlic Rosemary mash potatos, and for dessert warm apple goodies (a sort of apple crisp) with a ginormous scoop of cream whipped with honey.
Me and my mom couldn't finish our entire plates for dinner.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Friday sessions
This session really opened my eyes about what we consider normal, and what percent of that is only common because of nutritional deficiency.
This started with an overview of Dr. Price's 10 year study of "primitive" cultures: cultures not affect by western food, and that live without a modern doctor or dentist. The question he asked was, are there people that live like this, without doctors and dentists, that are perfectly healthy and not getting life threatening diseases? because, yes, of course there are people like this, he then asked: What do they eat?
These people he looked at had perfectly perfect teeth. Straight lines of sparkling pearls. No overbites, under bites, side bites, or abnormalities. Now if you go into a school, you can't find 10 people with teeth like that. These peoples skull structure were wide, and broad. Their arches were high and round, not oval, a problem my jaw has. The people grew tall, and lean. The Native Americans could outrun deer. They had perfect eyesight, their babies rarely cried, their children could sit still for more than 10 minutes. These people ate the entire animal, and drink milk, and broth, ate FATS, eggs, and milk products. Vegetables and fruits. Dr. Price found that the balanced diet would be the best, but every person is different. One person could live on dairy products and eggs their whole life and be perfectly healthy, but that wouldn't work for everybody on this planet. Everyones biochemical structure is different, so you have to find your own balance.
People who ate like this, but then were influenced by western food were effected greatly. Their children were born with much narrower facial structure, dental deformities, and were much more susceptible to diseases.
Sally really pressured the fact that though we have these problems, before and during pregnancy, if we feed our pregnant women these natural diets, the babies will come out healthy, with less abnormalities or deficiencies. Also, the three things that we need now, that is found in all these original foods, are vitamins A, D, and K2. A deficiency in any of the three will effect your health in many ways, and really degrade your body's well-being.
Someone remind me of all this information when i'm pregnant. :)
I sat through a small part of Natsha Caampbell McBride's session on her GAPS diet, and sat through the questions people asked her. One lady was pregnant, and had lupus, and wanted to go on the diet to hopefully heal it, but didn't know if she should while pregnant. Dr. McBride shocked us all when she told us that no, she shouldn't go on the diet, but she should be eating at least half a block of butter. A DAY. Along with LIVER, another answer to many peoples problems, and a usual WAP diet.
Also, something that has stuck with me from Dr. McBrides sessions was when she was talking about how no one should be eat white refined sugar. To digest or process 1 sugar molecule, the body must use 56 magnesium molecules. Because many people don't have enough magnesium to digest all their sugar that their eating, the body must leech the magnesium from other places, bones and teeth. Magnesium is essential in many body functions, like relaxing arteries and veins, it plays a role in the transmission of nerve impulses. It promotes a healthy immune system. If we are eating so much sugar, then the level of our magnesium much be ridiculously low.
This started with an overview of Dr. Price's 10 year study of "primitive" cultures: cultures not affect by western food, and that live without a modern doctor or dentist. The question he asked was, are there people that live like this, without doctors and dentists, that are perfectly healthy and not getting life threatening diseases? because, yes, of course there are people like this, he then asked: What do they eat?
These people he looked at had perfectly perfect teeth. Straight lines of sparkling pearls. No overbites, under bites, side bites, or abnormalities. Now if you go into a school, you can't find 10 people with teeth like that. These peoples skull structure were wide, and broad. Their arches were high and round, not oval, a problem my jaw has. The people grew tall, and lean. The Native Americans could outrun deer. They had perfect eyesight, their babies rarely cried, their children could sit still for more than 10 minutes. These people ate the entire animal, and drink milk, and broth, ate FATS, eggs, and milk products. Vegetables and fruits. Dr. Price found that the balanced diet would be the best, but every person is different. One person could live on dairy products and eggs their whole life and be perfectly healthy, but that wouldn't work for everybody on this planet. Everyones biochemical structure is different, so you have to find your own balance.
People who ate like this, but then were influenced by western food were effected greatly. Their children were born with much narrower facial structure, dental deformities, and were much more susceptible to diseases.
Sally really pressured the fact that though we have these problems, before and during pregnancy, if we feed our pregnant women these natural diets, the babies will come out healthy, with less abnormalities or deficiencies. Also, the three things that we need now, that is found in all these original foods, are vitamins A, D, and K2. A deficiency in any of the three will effect your health in many ways, and really degrade your body's well-being.
Someone remind me of all this information when i'm pregnant. :)
I sat through a small part of Natsha Caampbell McBride's session on her GAPS diet, and sat through the questions people asked her. One lady was pregnant, and had lupus, and wanted to go on the diet to hopefully heal it, but didn't know if she should while pregnant. Dr. McBride shocked us all when she told us that no, she shouldn't go on the diet, but she should be eating at least half a block of butter. A DAY. Along with LIVER, another answer to many peoples problems, and a usual WAP diet.
Also, something that has stuck with me from Dr. McBrides sessions was when she was talking about how no one should be eat white refined sugar. To digest or process 1 sugar molecule, the body must use 56 magnesium molecules. Because many people don't have enough magnesium to digest all their sugar that their eating, the body must leech the magnesium from other places, bones and teeth. Magnesium is essential in many body functions, like relaxing arteries and veins, it plays a role in the transmission of nerve impulses. It promotes a healthy immune system. If we are eating so much sugar, then the level of our magnesium much be ridiculously low.
Well its the first day...
Our/my (i'm here with my mom) adventure started a couple months ago. My mom wanted to come to this 11th annual Weston A. Price Foundation Conference, and since we knew about the foundation, and all the yummy food, and looked at all the cool people speaking, I totally agreed. So now we're here, after not preparing barely any food and starving all day yesterday, and having our plans to walk around Philadelphia squashed by the rude American Arlines women, sitting and texting, but not letting us keep our bags with them. Last night we went for a walk, and picked the beautiful fall leaves, and went to the gym for exactly 8 minutes and 57 seconds. Now we're drinking tea and starting to run to get out of our room on time for the first session, Gentle Yoga. Oh, what fun!
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