"I'm delighted that we're having our first" "Weston A. price foundation conference here today." "And I am very grateful to Philip Ridley and to his team for organizing it." "It's a wonderful organization, I'm honoured and delighted that Sally King here and gave us her wonderful presentation." "Because this a heroic woman, this is one of my heroes, this lady." "She has taken on the corporate America, the corporate food industry, pharmaceutical industry, agricultural industry in America." "And these all not-small guys today gone." "And for organization grew from a very small beginning to a huge organization." " How many people you got now, Sally?" " About twleve thousand members." "About twleve thousand members, worldwide." "And these are all people, who are going to change things on this planet." "Without destructive agriculture, without destructive ways of living, our destructive lifestyles." "We are overtaxing, overconsuming our planet." "We are borrowing from our children and our grandchildren the planetary resources, and consuming them as if there is no tomorrow." "And it's people like you and people like Weston A. price organization and people like that who are going to change things." "Who are going to ensure that human race does survive on this planet, and that our planet survives." "Because what we are doing at the moment, thanks to corporate powers, and the goverments which serve them, we are destroying our mother, our mother planet." "And once you destroyed your mother, where are you going to live?" "Where are we going to exist?" "So let's start from what I am going to talk about today." "Gut And Psychology Syndrome, Gut And Physiology Syndrome." "In short, GAP Syndrome." "As during already introduced," "I have written the book on this condition in 2004," "It's a Gut And Psychology Syndrome." "At the moment I'm working on my second book, called" "Gut and Physiology Syndrome, which will cover all the physical conditions, which are connected with functioning of the digestive system." "As Sally already mentioned, our gut not only holds about 85 percent of our immune system, so it's our major and the most important immune organ in the body, but it also has the second brain, it holds our second brain," "and the two brains talk to each other all the time." "The digestive system is one of the most important organs, the most basic organs in our bodies." "All diseases begin in the guts." "This phrase was coined by Hyppocrates, all those thousands of years ago." "and the more we learn with all our scientific muscle nowadays, the more we realize just how right he was, how correct he was." "All diseases begin in the gut." "And GAP syndrome establishes a connection between the functioning of the digestive system of the person, and the functioning of the brain." "And I say, in my second book I will be talking about the functioning of the digestive system, and it's connection with the functioning of the rest of the organs in the body." "Many-many other chronic digestive generic conditions that our population is suffering from." "When we talk about the digestive system, we have to talk about what lives there, and what's they care of it." "We have to talk about the housekeepers of our second brain, and our major immune system organ, and the organ which feeds us, and protects us, and which toxifies us." "We have to talk about gut flora." "I'm sure people here are enlightened people, you all now what gut flora is, you have heard the word, you've heard about pro-biotics." "The scientists recently in Scandinavia have established the fact, that about 90 percent of all cells are no genetic material in your body, it is your gut flora." "So we are just about 10 percent of our bodies." "We only are a shell that holds this microscopic world inside us." "And we ignore that world with our peril." "Its role in our physiology and psychology that functioning of those 10 percent of us, is so fundamental, that because of we have ignored it for such a long time, our health, they does us in such a bad way at the moment." "So when we talk about the gut, we have to talk about the gut flora, and we have to talk about its many functions." "If you take the digestive system of a human being, and put it flat, it will cover a tennis court." "The digestive system of an adult." "It's a huge surface, for easy harmful for the enviroment you get into your temple, to get into your body." "So nature found a perfect solution for that problem, it covered every square milimetre of that tennis court with a thick bound of bacteria." "Viruses, fungi, protozoa, another micro creatures, which form our gut flora." "And this thick bound of probiotic microbes in your gut, they fulfill so many functions in our bodies, that if somebody wants to decide just sterilize our gut, we will simply die." "We would not survive." "First of all they provide protection from anything that comes with food and drink, ensure digestive system and the rest of the body." "They produce every antibiotics under the sun, every antiviral substance under the sun, every antifungal substance, they do not allow exoworms to hatch, they controll all sorts of parasites that coming with food and drink all the time." "But on top of that, the digestive process, as we break down the food, and digest it, produces a lot of toxic substances as by products." "This bacteria that live in our gut flora have an ability to grab hold of this toxic substances, and if they can not detoxify them, if they can not neutralize them, they take them out of the system." "Because when you eliminate, most of stool that comes out of us is made out of bacteria." "This bacteria constantly multiply, they produce babies all the time, and they die out themselves, because many of them live only a few days." "So most of your stools bacteria, so whatever toxic substances they grab hold of, they would hold until they die, and until they eliminate these toxins out of your system." "And here we can talk about the heavy metals." "Heavy metals are a big issue." "There are boxes written about hevy metals causing autism and dyslexia and ADHD, and schysophrenia, and chronic fatique syndrome, and many-many other chronic degenerative conditions." "The goverments have established the fact that we have polluted our oceans with the mercury and that all fish species and all seafood now contains mercury, so the goverments advised, that's been published on the other side of the pond," "and here, to limit the fish consumption." "However, the research shows that people who do not limit their fish consumption, overall are healthier, than people who do." "And what science has found that it is our gut flora, that is the first and most important barrier in eliminating mercury, and lead, and aluminium, and arsenic, and every other toxic metal, and many carcinogenic substances and all other toxic substances" "that come into our digestive system or all produced in the digestive system." "They chelate them." "From the word chela, the greek word for a crab's claw, they grab hold of it like a claw, and then they will not let go of that mercury molecule or lead molecule until they take them out." "I've got a very interesting paper where the scientists have taken two groups of rats and fed them organic mercury in their drink." "The first group of rats had normal healthy gut flora." "The second group of rats was treated with a powerful group of antibiotics to wipe out their gut flora." "To sterilize their gut in a way." "And then after the rats were fed with the organic mercury, and they were examined, and they were killed, and they issued what examined, what the scientists have found that only about one percent of that organic mercury got in the bloodsteam of rats," "who had normal gut flora." "And more than 90 percent of that organic mercury was in the bodies of the rats who had sterilized gut." "So our first and most important barrier in preventing poisoning with heavy metals, carcinegence, and other toxins that we have pumped into our enviroment, is our own gut flora." "If it is intact, if it is well functioning, if it is healthy, you can eat fish." "As much as you like." "And your body will protect it from mercury and from lead and from many other pollutants, PCBs are now in our oceans, organal phosphates are now in our oceans, not only mercury, or sorts of pollutants that we have pumped into our oceans." "Health and Integrity of the Gut." "Relies almost entirely on the health and integrity of the gut flora." "Our gut is lined by very sophisticated cells, called enterocytes." "And these cells, only live a few days, they get born on the bottom of the crypts, then travel up to villi, and then they get shed off." "And this process of these cells being born healthy and normal, and fulfilling their functions, and then being shed off, is orchestrated by beneficial flora." "When the beneficial flora is not there, this process gets upset, the cells mutate, they turn cancerous." "You can not develop cancer in your digestive system if you've got healthy well functioning gut flora." "It will not allow that." "And on the other side of this coin, every cancer in the digestive system begins from damage to the gut flora." "So colon cancer, which is becoming one of the leading cancers in the country, is due to the maladies of the gut flora." "And can be traced due some course of powerful antibiotics several years prior to developing cancer in a person." "Or some other powerful drug that destroys gut flora or some other influence in there." "So coming back to the gut lining, to the gut wall, which is so essential for us, the cell regeneration process in there is very-very active." "The cells are being shed all the time, and replaced by newly born cells." "And this process is orchestrated by the gut flora, the look after all gut lining." "And when the gut flora is damaged, then the gut lining deteriorates, degenerates, and the person can not digest or adsorb food properly." "And all sorts of undigested food start leaking into the bloodsystem of the person, causing food allergy and intolerance, and all sorts of toxic substances start leaking into the bloodstream as well." "Appropriate digestion and absorption simply cannot happen without well functioning gut flora." "They produce every digestive enzyme under the sun, they produce substances which escalates transport minerals and determinants and other nutrients through the gut lining." "Without them, without the well functioning gut flora you cannot assimilate minerals." "You cannot assimilate zync, you cannot assimilate magnezyum, you cannot assimilate calcyum, you cannot assimilate all those essential minerals that we need, because in other fundational cross, the gut lining, they need to be transported." "They need to be chelated by very special assets which these bacteria produce and then this assets transport them in their organic form into the bloodstream." "And in that form the body recognizes them and uses them." "But if you have an organic mineral sick and have lots of mineral supplements, and there are many mineral supplements on the market now from various sources," "If you've got poorly functioning gut flora, they would be going in and out of you." "They would not be absorving and your body would not be using them appropriately." "Vitamin production is another very-very important function of our gut flora." "Not only it shows that we digest our food properly, break it down properly, and absorp nutrients from it properly," "It also actively synthethizes a whole host of vitamins and another active substances which we cannot get out of food that easily." "The whole B vitamin group is produced by gut flora." "Our gut flora is the source of B vitamins in our body." "B1 and B2 and B6 and B12 and B3 and biotin and many-many other natural substances." "Vitamin K2, our main source of the vitamin K2 in the body, that Sally was talking about, is our own gut flora." "If the gut flora is well functioning, and intact, it will provide you with this vitamins." "Why did nature do this?" "Because most of these vitamins are water-soluble, they don't stay in the body very long." "Even if you have foods rich in these vitamins, or take supplements, they will not stay in the body long, and there will be periods during the day when you are deficient." "And these vitamins are absolutely vital for us to have every second of our existence." "So what did mother nature do?" "It found a perfect solution to this problem, it provided us with our own little factory inside our digestive system." "Which is constantly producing good amounts of these vitamins and other active substances, and releasing into our bloodstream in good amounts all the time, whether you're awake or asleep, whether you're eating or fasting." "Whether you're in a concentration camp and you're being starved, your gut flora will still provide you with plenty B2 and B12 and other vitamins and K2, if it's well functioning and if it's in a good shape." "And it's when we lose the gut flora, that's when people become pale and pasty, they become anaemic, because they're B vitamin deficient." "And I found at my clinic and many-many other practitioners found that, no matter what we do, the person still stays pale and pasty, and still tests aenemic on bloodtests, until we restore the gut flora." "Because it is our gut flora that is the main source of these vitamins." "Detoxification, that they are already touched, they chelate, these bacterie chelate toxic substances and take them out of the system, they chelate all the cancer causing substances." "And Immune system modulation, this is a huge function of our gut flora." "About 84-85 percent of all our immunity is located in the gut wall." "Billions of neutrophils pass through the gut wall every single day." "It is a major, major immune organ and there is a constant conversation going on between the gut flora and this immune system, this 85 percent of your immunity." "Constant talk, constant conversation, and it is the gut flora that is a major balancing agent for our immunity." "And when the gut flora is upset, when it's abnormal, when it's deficient, your immunity simply cannot be healthy." "The first thing that happens in major to people that major arms of immunity, Th1 and Th2 immunity, get out of balance." "And when they're out of balance, the person becomes allergic." "Instead of reacting appropriately to pollen in the air and to your makeup, or to your shampoo, or to your foods, or to other substances in the enviroment, your immune system starts reacting inappropriately." "And you start developing allergic reactions." "I'm sure you've met people, most of you've met people who say I've no been allergic to anything, and suddenly they became allergic to milk." "And then a month later became allergic, I'm allergic to my mascara, and now I'm allergic to my washing powder, and now I'm allergic to my perfume, and now I'm allergic to lanolin, I can't wear wool anymore." "And the list goes on, and these things usually accelerate, and you can trace the beginning of this problem to some good course of antibiotics, or some other event in the person's life, which damaged the gut flora." "And if the gut flora is damaged, the immunity gets out of balance, it can not react to your enviroment appropriately anymore, and starts reacting inappropriately, you become sensitive, you become allergic to various things." "What can damage our gut flora?" "I'm sure all of you can having read this list, all of you can say that you've been exposed to a list of a few items on this list." "Antibiotics is the number one factor in the modern world without doubt." "Because antibiotics kill the good and the bad." "They have saved bilions of lives, antibiotics, without doubt." "And they're wonderful drugs, and drug situation won the recent show." "However, they killed the good and the bad, and the trouble is it's the beneficial bacteria in the gut, the probiotic bacteria, which are the most vulnerable species to broad spectrum antibiotics." "They go first, before the pathogens start dying." "They do recover, but it takes different species of beneficial bacteria different amount of time to recover, some take couple of weeks, other take couple of months, and that's a window of oppurtunity for a pathogen" "to get into that niche, which has been emptied by antibiotics, to establish itself, and once it's established there, it's very difficult to drive it out, to smoke it out of there." "The recovering beneficial bacteria have a fight on their hands." "And two species of microbes, that were studied quite well, which are resistent to broad spectrum antibiotics, two particularly rampant species in our modern world, and in the western world, in particular." "One is yeast of candida species, it's resistent to broad spectrum antibiotics, it is normally controlled by beneficial flora, every time we wipe out the beneficial flora, they have a hayday." "They have a special oppurtunity to establish themselves." "Another group the clostridia bacteria, there's about hundred members of this family, of the clostridia family, they all produce very potent neurotoxins, toxic substances which effect the nervous system, and not just the brain in the cranium," "but the brain in your gut as well they effect." "The most commonly known specie is Clostridium tetani, it lives in every soil, every sample of soil on this planet, that's positive of clostridia tetani spores." "This is a spore forming bacteria, which means they cannot be radicated, they cannot be destroyed, that spores survive freezing, survive boiling, this survive anything pretty much, and they hatch, they can wait for years and years before they hatch." "That's why a healthy human person, in a healthy human gut there is plenty of Clostridia living in there." "Most pathogenic, most dangerous species of Clostridia." "But as long the beneficial bacteria predominate in there, they keep them under controll." "The do not allow them to multiply to much." "And they detoxify, the innaculate the toxins, neutralize the toxins, so these toxins cannot do us any harm." "But when the beneficial bacteria are wiped out, by a course of antibiotics," "Clostridia, which is resistant to broad spectrum antibiotics, has a hayday." "They're not only start establishing themselves, they're not only overgrowing, but their toxins now are not neutralized." "And they can get through the gut lining, these toxins." "And they cause a lot of neurological and psychiathric symptoms once they get into the brain, once they get into the bloodstream." "So these are just two species of pathogenic microbes, which can overgrow, if we damage our gut flora." "After every course of antibiotics that's what happens, that is why vital to take probiotics when you take antibiotics." "And to eat fermented food to know that you replenish your gut flora every time." "And unfortunately, doctors don't know about it." "And they do not tell their patients about it." "And do not recommend it." "They just give out antibiotics to people to take." "Steroids, the contraceptive pill, has a devastating effect on gut flora." "And unfortunately our ladies start take it at very young age, and take it for quite a few years before they're ready to start their family, so there is quite a lot of damage done to their gut flora." "Stress, other drugs, all prescription medication they repeat basis, which you take for long period of time, will have annotaring effect on the gut flora." "It will change the composition of the gut flora, and innitiate all sorts of unpleasant processes in there." "Infections, disease, chronic disease, bottle feeding." "Bottle fed infants develop completely different gut flora to the breast fed infants." "And this gut flora predisposes them first of all to allergies, to atopic conditions such as asthma and eczema in these children, and then to various infections and various other problems." "Glue ear is very-very common amongst bottle fed children, again, because they do not develop normal flora on the mucous membrains." "Old Age." "That is a time when people should take probiotics and should eat fermented foods on the regular basis." "Pollution, radiation, alcohol, overconsumption of alcohol, toxic chemicals and dental work." "Dental work is particularly important." "I'm delighted to see a table with dentists here today, with ecologicaly trained dentists, because pretty much everything the dentist puts into your teeth and puts into your mouth is toxic." "And toxic for your gut flora." "And for weeks afterwards you'll be swallowing these things, and there will be having an effect on your gut flora." "That is an other thing that dentists have to tell their patients, that take probiotics after visiting me for a few weeks." "It's very-very important." "And pay attention to your diet for a few weeks after you've seen the dentist." "So what is a typical scenario I've seen in my clinic?" "We're talking about gut and psychology, gut and physiology syndrome." "Conditions, which begin in the digestive tract, and then spread all over the body." "Before I talk about the health of the child, whether the patient is a child, or whether it's an adult, I would always begin with questions about the health of their mother or their father, or even grandparents." "Why is it important?" "Whenever parents or families mentioned, people immediatly think about genetics." "But there is something far more important, and just as important maybe." "that the parents pass to their child at the time of birth." "It's the gut flora." "And what I found in children with autism, with ADHD, with dyslexia, with dyspraxia and other behaviour and learning disabilities," "I found at 100 percent of amongst have got abnormal gut flora." "And that's what they've passed to their children at birth." "Becuse babies have got sterile digestive system, they've got sterile bodies while they're in the womb, as far as science is concerned." "And that's, the baby goes through the birth canal at the time of birth, the baby swallows first mouth, source of bacteria." "So whatever lives at mom's birth canal, that's what becomes the baby's gut flora." "And where does the flora in vagina come from?" "It comes from the bowel." "So whatever lives in mom's bowel, that's what would live in her vagina, and that's what would live in her birth canal." "And also the father has got his own growing flora, which comes from his bowel, and he shares that flora with the mother on regular basis, so the fathers are not examined tighter." "So whatever lives at mom's birth canal, that's what the baby aquires." "And if the mother has got abnormal gut flora, that's what she would pass to her baby, so the baby starts its life from abnormalities in the gut flora." "Babies are also born with an immature immune system." "Establishment of normal gut flora in the first twenty or so days of life, plays a crucial role in apropriate maturation of the baby's immune system." "And if the baby aquired abnormal gut flora, then the baby's left immune compromised." "So every bark, every virus that goes around, the baby will get, so ear infections are very common amongst these children, they usually go from one ear infection to the next until grommets are inserted." "They're diagnosed with glue ear, and of course every course of ear infection is treated with antibiotics." "And the antibiotics would damage whatever the precious little beneficial bacteria the child has aquired from the mother." "And the repeated course of antibiotics would cause further damage to the child." "Chest infections are the second most common infections amongst these children, and again, it's treated with antibiotics in these children." "So further damage to gut flora and to immune system occurs in these children." "And that usually happens in the first year of life." "First year of life is the time usually when the baby is breast fed." "I know that many babies are bottle fed in our world, but with all the education that is going on, more and more young ladies are now doing their best, to try to breast feed the baby." "And while the mothers breast feeding the baby, despite the fact, that se has got abnormal gut flora herself, she would have antibodies against her own gut flora." "She will have immune protection in there." "It may not be 100 percent efficient, but she will have some protection." "And that protection she will be passing through her breast milk." "So despite the fact that her baby aquired abnormal gut flora from her from the start, while the baby's breast fed, there is some protection, from the breat milk." "But when the breastfeeding stops, that's when the whole situation deteriorates." "That's what I usually see, that whilst the child is brest fed, the development is normal, when the breast feeding stops, several months down the road, autistic features start appearing, or hyperactivity starts appearing," "or other learning or behaviour problem start appearing in the child." "Because the whole situation deteriorates." "Then of course, vaccinations join the bandwagon." "The child is immune compromised." "The child immune system is not ready for vaccinations." "It's not fit enough to be vaccinated." "And that's to put aside all the issues with vaccinations." "Vaccines are full of a lot of harmful substances." "And they're full of a lot of animal proteins, antigenes which the immune system may not be ready for," "However, millions and millions of children all over the world are vaccinated, and they do not develop autism and they do not develop learning disabilities, and I see a growing number of autistic children on my clinic now, who have not been vaccinated at all." "So vaccinations do not cause autism." "They are not the cause of autism and all these learning disabilities." "They're one of those straws, that can break a camel's back in a person who's ready for it." "But what they do, they bring the child closer to autism, closer to the problem if the child has got that problem." "It is one of the facts." "Usual weaning diet which is based on grains and milk usually, and the milk is usually the formula, that's the first thing that children are usually, even if the mother is breast feeding, the formula is usually the first thing" "that is addded into the child regiment, they start topping up this formula, if they feel that breast milk is not enough." "Another first thing that they introduce into the child is solets, will be baby rice, a highly processed product which is very hard to digest, and other commerciallygabona available grain wheast foods, which are very inappropriate for a gut full of abnormal gut flora." "So the child finishes up with a frank gut dysbiosis after all this." "That leads to the damage to the gut wall integrity." "The wall of the gut becomes like a sieve." "It cannot hold the toxic substances, the microbes in there, the undigested food in there, all these things are flooding to the bloodstream, and get distributed all over the body." "So toxins, microbes and undigested foods enter the body, and then, of course, our immune system in it finds partially digested particles of food in the blood, it looks at them and says you're not food, you're foreign, and starts attacking it." "So we start developing T cells, specificly primed against particular proteins in the food, so the child starts developing food intolerances and food allergies." "Toxins come in, the immune system reacts to these, those, and whole alive microbes come in." "People who are familiar with live blood microscopy, microscopy and people who had it done on the blood of these patients, or practicians, there are a quite lot of practicians here that came and spoke to me today, people who do live blood analysis," "they see these things crawling in the blood, swimming in the blood, of all sorts of shapes and sizes." "If the gut is intact, they're not supposed to get into the bloodstream, but they do, and of course, the immune system reacts to those, and a lot of reactions are inappropriate, because the immune system is unbalanced in these patients," "because prone to overreacting and to reacting in an atopic, allergic, and autoimmune kind of way, rather than in an appropriate way to these things." "This is a picture of the absorbative surface of our digestive system." "This long finger-like projections are called villi, and every villi is covered by tiny little cells called enterocytes that I've already mentioned." "These are the cells which complete the digestive process." "They break down particles of food, and then absorb them." "Each enterocyte is joined to its neighbor, with a tight junction." "They are glued together." "These are called specifically tight junctions." "And they're glued together by a very special protein called zonulins." "They're like glue, these proteins, the body produces them." "The only way the nutrients can get through the gut lining into the blood stream, they have to be taken in by the enterocytes inside these cells, examined, digested, broken down and then passed through to the other side into the bloodstream." "But what happens in these patients?" "These tight junctions break apart." "The bacterium with these microbes can break them apart, it produce toxins which dissolve zonulins, so the tight junctions open up in these patients, and all these things that flooding in, that's what leaking gut is about." "As a setting only live a few days, these entherocytes." "They get born on the bottom of the crypt, and they travel up the villi, fulfilling function of digestion, absorbtion of food, and then they get shed off." "So they live about two, three days, and that way all gut has a real opportunity to keep itself always young, always in a good shape, to fulfill its many unctions." "And it's a very good news for us, for people who try to treat digestive abnormalities, because if you put the person on a proper diet, if you put a person at a proper nutrition program," "you have real chance to shed off all the sick cells, with broken tight junctions, and replace them with healthy, newly born, good little cells." "Each of these entherocytes has got hairs on its top, a thick forest of hairs, which are called micro villi, or brushborder, and on each of these hairs there are little enzymes sitting, those little bubbles, sitting on them," "and these are the enzymes, which complete the breaking down of food to make them fit to be taken in by the enterocytes, and then taken into the bloodstream." "On the left you see the healthy little guy." "That's how enterocytes should look in a healthy gut with a healthy, robust gut flora, when it's looked after properly." "On the right we've got a little poorly guy, who is not looked after properly." "That's how enterocytes look in an abnormal gut flora, with gut dysbiosis." "Their hairs are broken off, there is no brushborder, there are no enzymes." "So these cells are unable to break down the food, they are unable to absorb it they're unable to fulfill their functions." "The gut lining deteriorates in these patients." "And I find in majority of people that there are digestive symptoms, sometimes very, very severe, sometimes so severe that these are the first things the parents talk about when they bring their child to me." "Before they even mention the child's autism, or hyperactivity, or dyslexia, or any other problem." "But there is a small group of patients in whom the digestive symptoms are highly detectable." "They say, my stool looks alright, or have no burping, no bloating, no pain particularly, nothing in particular." "Because the digestive system has an ability to compensate." "However, when they put that person on nutrition program, on the GAPS nutrition program, the improvements in behaviour and learning and all the other symptoms which are connected to it, go, very quickly." "Which is a clear indication that the abnormality was in the digestive system." "Despite the fact that the person was not suffering severely and ignored half-severe symptoms." "It's particularly present in my older cases of learning disabilities, such as mildly dyspraxia, mildly dyslexia in these children." "That's why parents find it particularly difficult to put the children on a restrictive diet, because they say, well, he doesnt seem to have any digestive problems, but when they do, the symptoms go away," "the dyslexia starts going away, and the dyspraxia starts going away." "So what happens when the gut wall is damaged?" "Because it's not protected by beneficial flora, and because it's being attacked by pathogenic microbes and its toxins all the time, its integrity degenerates." "The enterocytes degenerate, tight junctions open, foods absorb partially digested leading to food allergies and intolerances, damaged gut lets toxins and microbes through into the blood stream, and general toxicity in the body issues from that," "and of course the immune system reacts autoimmunity to the whole picture." "What happens normally when the flow of food comes from the gut into the bloodstream, when we've eaten, we've digested, and it's all flooding into your bloodstream?" "The first place that all this lot arrives to is the liver." "It's water soluble nutrients and and some fats and toxins first to go into the liver, they go to the bloodstream, and into the liver." "The liver handles them, detoxifies a lot of things, uses a lot of nutrients for building a miriad of active substances, our liver is an amazing organ, and we still haven't studied it properly." "We'd been touched the tip of the iceberg with the liver." "The liver is such a complex and amazing organ." "And then, all the blood is collected from the liver, enter a lower portal vein, goes into your right heart, the right side of your heart, and what does the right heart do?" "It pumps it straight into the lungs." "So our lungs ar enumber two detoxifying organ in the body for everything, that you've eaten." "So your food first detoxifies through liver, and then, through the lungs." "That happens to the water soluble nutrients, what happens to fat solluble nutrients?" "They absorbs as globes of fat, chylomicrons they're called, and they don't go into the bloodstream, they go straight into your lymph." "And the lymph, what does the lymph do, it collects it all into thoracic duct, which goes directly into your right heart, if bypasses the liver." "So the first detoxifying organ for fat soluble toxins and fat soluble nutrients is the lung, as the first detoxifying organ that these substances hit." "Then what happens at the liver, when the person has got GAP syndrome?" "Because that's what we're talking about." "There is a river of toxicity flowing from the gut through the damaged gut wall into the bloodstream of these people." "Toxins, undigested foods, microbes, they're all coming to the liver as a first port of call." "And of course the liver cannot cope with that load." "It's not meant to cope with a load like that." "So fairly quickly when the gut gets damaged, the liver gets blocked up." "Traffic jam's building in the liver, for all sorts of detoxifying pathways." "It cannot handle this substance, then it cannot handle that substance, then it finishes up not being able to handle hundreds of substances, and these substances are basically bypass the liver that all then is finishing up in the bloodstream of the person." "And from the environment we can get heavy metals and fenols, and petro-chemicals, and glue-adhesives, and agricultural chemicals, and personal care and cleaning products, plasticisers and so on." "These substances not only come through the gut, but they absorb through skin very effectively." "Because most of them are fat soluble." "Which means that when you apply them to your skin, if you put your mouisturizing cream or your deodorant under deorant pits, or if you use a hair dye, or your mascara, or your shampoo, or conditioner, anything chemical" "that you put on your skin or on your scalp or on your mouth." "The chemical substances from it are in your blood in seconds." "And the first port of call is the liver usually again." "So the liver not only just had to deal with the river of toxins coming from the gut, it cannot handle those substances as well." "That is wild, a person who used heavy amounts of makeup for all of her life, when her gut flora gets damaged, and her liver gets blocked up, too busy trying to convert stuff coming from the gut, cannot handle mascara anymore." "She sadly become allergic to her mascara, or to her moisturizer, or to her shampoo, or to her hair dye, or to something else that she has used for years and was seemingly alright with it." "That's what happens when liver's blocked up and cannot handle these things." "It cannot, it also cannot handle by-products of body's own metabolism." "A one group of substances that we have studied quite well are neurotransmitters." "These are chemicals that the brain and the rest of our nervous system produce in order to communicate between the cells." "The cells communicate between themselves with neurotransmitters." "Once these neurotransmitters have accomplished their multiple roles, they usually transport it to the liver, where the liver breaks them down, and recycles them." "But if the liver's blocked up, with toxins coming from the gut, it cannot do that, so the body then fills up with partially broken down, partially damaged neurotransmitters, which are circulating around, and when we do test for neurotransmitters" "we'll find that they're all over the place." "That some are to high, others are too low, and some of them are changed molecules, and of course these things then cause problems with nervous system." "They would cause psychiatric problems, they would cause neurological symptoms and psychological symptoms and all sorts of other symptoms." "And all liver functions suffer, when the gut is damaged, the liver cannot function well." "You have to take it as it given, that the liver is blocked up and not working properly, if the person has got abnormal gut flora." "The second port of call of toxins is lungs." "So all these toxins if the liver hasn't cleaned the stuff up, all these will hit the lungs next, so all these undigested foods and microbes." "Normally the lungs handles certain toxins, particularly gases, or substances that can turn into gases in the bloodstream, the lungs would eliminate these gases." "And also the lung has got a so called mucociliary escalator." "It has got little cells with little hairs on the top which are all pointing up." "So when macrophages in the walls of the lungs absorb damaged microbes, or toxins or other substances which should've not been there, then they pass into the lumen of the lungs, and these cells push them up and up and up, until you cough them out," "or breathe them out, or they come out of your body." "Toxic gases escape, but what happens when the toxic load is too much for the lungs, or when the toxins that arrived to the lungs are unusual, lungs are not meant to handle those toxins, it's the liver that's supposed to clean them out first?" "What happens, they damage the bronchi, they damage the bronchial tree." "They would damage a certain part of the bronchi, bronchial tree." "What does the body do in order to repair that part of bronchi?" "It had to close that road up at the beginning and at the end." "Just imagine that bronchis is a motorway system, if there was an accident on the motorway, and the tarmac got damaged, a lorry has broken down, or something happened, you know, to repair that tarmac, we have to close up the motorway, don't we, on both fence." "So the builders can come in with their machinery, with their tarmac and repair that stuff, and then the motorway can be opened." "And that's what the lungs do with bronchospasm." "And what happens when the bronchospasm happens?" "The person starts wheezing, and there is a difficult reach of breathe, and it can be quite scarry, and that situation usually happens in the second year of life of the child." "And of course the parents get frightened, and they run to the doctor immediately, what does the doctor do, he says, ah, asthma!" "And give them drugs which take off the bronchospasm, open up that closed up bronchi, bit of bronchus." "So what you have done to the motorway, you haven't closed it up." "So you've told the builders, to somehow come and repair that tarmac, while all the lorries and cars are going across it with seventy miles per hour." "Can they repair it?" "They cannot." "The builders cannot repair that path of motorway, and the more lorries are driving over it and the more cars are driving over it, the deeper the damage becomes until that part of motorway becomes lethal." "And that's what happens with asthma." "I'll talk about it in a minute." "Asthma used to be a benign condition." "If you look at old textbooks, up until second world war, asthma was considered a very benign condition." "Doctors have never seen death from asthma." "It was considered a very mild and benign condition, the parents were told if the child got the first wheeze, the parents were told give him something hot to drink, keep him warm, let him sit up, it will take ten, twenty," "fifteen minutes for the lung to repair that part of the motorway." "And it will open up." "And the child will be okay." "But what happens nowadays, because of all the drugs that there being prescribed, because some of the children gets the first wheeze, immediatly inhales are given, another drugs are given which opened up part of bronchial tree, so the repair does not occur." "That part of bronchial tree does not get repaired, the damage gets deeper, and deeper and deeper." "And as a result of all these drug use asthma became a fatal condition." "Every six minutes in Britain now a child is delivered into accident emergenceny in the hospitals with a fatal asthma attack." "Every six minutes!" "And this is for the condition that used to be absolutely benign and self limiting." "So now it's a deadly disease." "Fatal food allergies are associated with well controlled asthma as well." "That's an other observation that the scientists have made." "So, we're talking about gut and physiology syndrome here." "Physiology means the body." "All the organs of the body, except the nervous system because that's gut and psychology syndrome." "So, through elimination, simple elimination of toxins, that toxic flow that comes from the gut into the bloodstream, the body gets the following conditions." "As the toxins eliminate through lungs we get asthma and other chronic lung conditions, through skin, we get eczema, psoriasis and other chronic skin conditions." "All these various rashes the children get, which are itchy and come and go, and wouldnt quite clear and wouldnt know what you do with them." "As they eliminate through urine, we get chronic cystitis, bed wetting, and thrush, because urethra and lower parts of bladder have got their own flora." "And they also have got a so called GAG layer, it's a complicated name, but it is a layer of mucus that protects the mucus membranes of those organs, from damage." "But a lot of these toxins we should then absorb from the gut and go to the bloodstream, are eliminated from the body through urine." "And when this very accrete urine comes into the bladder, accumulates into the bladder, it eats away these mucus membranes of this barrier, it damages it in these patients." "And as a result, it burns, and it causes symptoms, and it causes an urge to inject urine as quickly as possible." "And that's the person starts passing this toxic urine therein and thereout, that mucus membrane gets damaged chronicly, the sclerotic processes set in, and the person finishes up with chronic cystitis." "Which doctors usually dont know how to treat, because an acute urinal infection they can treat with antibiotics." "So when they can't give you antibiotics, or they can't give you steroids, then they don't know what to do." "Or do, you're possibly psychosomatic." "And you might be sent to a psychiatrist as a result." "But that's how chronic cystitis develops, and that's how bed wetting develops in children, and there are quite a lot of adults, a growing number of adults now who wet their beds." "They usually ashamed to talk about it to anybody, including doctors, what happens as the person sleeps?" "When if you're in a deep sleep, when your bladder accumulates the toxic accrete urine, it wants to get rid of it, because it's damaging it." "And if you don't wake up, you wet your bed." "That's what happens in chidren." "Bed wetting usually goes away fairly quickly on GAPS nutrition protocoll, when they clean up the gut in the person." "As the toxins eliminate through mucus membranes, whatever mucus membrane they pass, that would cause inflammation, and that would cause symptoms, you'll get sinusitis, a postnasal drip, rhinitis or gingivitis, or vaginitis, or diarrhoea constipation," "all chronic conditions in these people unless the problem is dealt with." "What immunity joins in, as I mentioned, because immune system is everywhere, it can not fault to be involved in the whole situation, so what immunity in these patients is caused by absorption of protein and peptide complexes through the damaged gut wall." "What is autoimmunity?" "Autoimmunity is when the body starts attacking its own tissues." "When your immune system starts attacking its own tissues." "And it starts doing that because of molecular mimicry." "It's a phenomenon which has been studied first with rheumatism and streptococi." "Because what the doctors found about that research conducted at the beginning of the twentieth century, that when a person gets a strep throat, the streptococcus on its membrane has got proteins, which look exactly like collagen proteins in the valves of the heart." "And once immune system developes antibodies against streptococi in the tonsils, it then finds those proteins in the valves in the heart, and it's attacking them as well." "And that's what causes rheumatism." "That's called molecular mimicry, cross reaction." "When the antibodies react to your own tissues." "We're living on a planet, in a world where everything is interconnected." "Our bodies are not separate from the rest of the planet, from the rest of the ecosystem." "The proteins that we have in our organs are very similar to proteins on the bacteria, on the insects, in the leopards, in the lyons, in the rats, in the mice, in the rabbits, there is a huge similarity between these things." "And once your cells learn some about some protein that it is a foreign, that seems an enemy, they will retain that memory for the rest of your life." "And we start it humilating that information now the T-cells, these are the T cells, they called. they're produced in the thymus gland, that's why they're called T cells, they retain that information for the rest of your life." "However the immune system is a very complex organ, again it's a system that we know not that much about, there are a lot of checks on balances and on these T cells, we all have got" "T cells to cause multiple sclerosis to destroy our myelin, and to cause rheumatoid arthritis, and to cause diabetes type one, we all have got those T cells in our systems." "But if your immune system is balanced well, it will not allow them to do that." "And the balancing of the immune system is then by the gut flora." "So when the gut flora is abnormal, and the immune system suddenly gets out of balance, all those T cells which remember thousands of different proteins from the enviroment, and from various bacteria and viruses and foods and toxins, suddenly are not controlled anymore very well," "and suddenly the person develops multiple sclerosis, because these T cells attack the myelin, or develops rheumatoid arthritis, or develops lupus or some other auto immune conditions or diabetes type one." "So it all comes down to the gut, autoimmunity is born in the digestive system." "So immune system produces antibodies which then attacks our its own body's tissues, because the immune system is out of balance, in type one diabetes pancreatic cells are attacked, in celiac disease small intestine is attacked, in MS, autism" "and other neurological problems nervous system is attacked." "There are the same antibodies detected in children with autism, patients with schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, as in autism and as in rheumatoid arthritis." "And as in many other autoimmune conditions." "So there is a storm of autoimmunity going on, because the immune system is not regulating itself." "And always more than one tissues is attacked." "Despite the fact that the person might be given a specific diagnosis, of for example rheumatoid arthritis, you would find symptoms which is similar in other conditions as well, because there are several number of T cells which are activated." "To continue with GUT and physiology syndrome and to summarize." "Autoimmune conditions that belong to this condition, to gut and physiology syndrome are multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes type one, celiac disease, osteoarthritis, lupus and other autoimmune conditions." "Arthritis of any kind." "Autoimmunities are quite a serious situation in the body, but before that develops, what happens?" "A lot of toxins, which absorb from the gut, which are not proteins, acetaldehyde for example, a very toxic substance which is produced by yeasts in the gut." "As it goes into the bloodstream, it likes to attach itself to various proteins in the body, and it seems that is the collagen molecules, the protein collagen which holds us together." "It's actually the most lubricatious protein in our bodies." "Without collagen we'd be a puddle on the floor." "It just holds us together." "And there are many-many fractions of collagen molecules, and it seems, a lot of toxins which abnormal gut flora produces, like to attach themselves to collagen molecules." "And as they attach themselves to these molecules, they change their three dimensional structure." "So the immune system comes along, looks at it and says, you look foreign, you don't look like my collagen, and attacks it." "so that's sort of an autoimmunity but not full autoimmune blown-it-up." "So the person gets a pain in that particular joint, and that's the immune system then cleans up as the body mobilizes inflammation, repair and cleaning up processes." "As the body cleans out those toxins from that particular joint, the joint might take a day or two, and that pain goes away." "But a week later you wake up with a pain in an other joint." "And in couple of days that clears away, and then you wake up with a pain in some other joint, a small joint or a big joint." "This is called migratory arthralgia." "And it's caused by toxins which comes from the gut and attached themselves to varios proteins in the joint of the person." "And there are many many migratory symptoms like that, because collagen is everywhere in the body." "Migratory symptoms like that in a human body, which come and go in these people, and these are the symptoms that usually confuse the doctors, and doctors usually don't want to deal with patients like that." "So, ME, fybromialgic, chronic fatique syndrome also belong to GAP syndrome, the gut and physiology condition syndrome conditions." "Allergies, migraines and other headaches, chronic cystitis, skin problems, psoriasis, eczema, and so on." "So we've talked about gut and physiology syndrome." "We've talked about various organs in th body that can be affected." "Because the gut wall is damaged, because the gut is full of all abnormal flora." "When these toxins reach a very specialized barrier called blood brain barrier, they get into the brain, they get into the nervous system." "That's when we come to gut and psychology syndrome, about which have already got a book out." "Blood brain barrage in you is a very selective barrier." "It's designed to let certain things through, and not let the rest through at all." "And its cell structure is very similar to the gut structure." "It's made out of cells which are similar to enterocythes, and they also have got tight junctions between themselves or a sort of zonulins, those special proteins, glueing them together." "And the toxins which the abnormal gut flora produces, which dissolves zonulins, once they reach the bloodbrain barrier, they can do the same there as well." "They dissolve the zonulins there as well, and they open up the bloodbrain barrier." "So microbes and toxins and various other things and partially digested food flood into the brain and the rest of the nervous system through the damaged bloodbrain barrier, and as a result, we get the impaired brain function, which leads to" "impaired learning, behaviour, social skills and perception." "And it also leads to epileptic seizures." "So here we talk about gut and psychology syndrome, so what kind of conditions we're talking about?" "We're talking about all the conditions I've already mentioned in the children." "Autism, ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and that large a group of children, it's about eighty percent of children, who do not fit into any diagnostic box." "THey've got a bit of autism, a bit of ADHD, a bit od dyslexia, a bit of dyspraxia, and a bit of other symptoms which don't fit to anything." "And these are the children then with whom doctors usually procrastinate, they don't give the diagnosis for a long time, they ask you to come back again, and come back again, to observe, and the valuable" "precious time is ticking on, while the child urgently needs help." "The child can't even get a diagnosis yet." "And when these children grow up, the condition doesn't go away, unless you treat it appropriately." "They become adults, with GAP syndrome, GAPS adults." "Substance abuse is one venue these children usually take." "There are two reasons for that, one is physical reason." "Their brains crave nutrients, they crave certain things and they get the cravings from things which they should not get it from, because children are stucked in a vicious cycle of craving and food dependancies." "They usually crave the foods which damage them." "Crave the foods which feed their abnormal flora." "That's the physical reason for substance abuse, and other one is psychological." "And majority of them have it, because these children grow up, going through schooling, and going through the childhood, and teenage years, with poor social skills, not being able to make friends properly, not being able to fit in," "being told by their peers of school that you're stupid and I don't want to play with you, and seeing that their peers in the classroom are doing better academically then they do, so their self esteem takes quite a battery hrough their childhood." "And when they reach teenage years, they would do anything to fit in." "To be invited, to be wanted, and substance abuse is one of the venues that they take." "And the trouble is that these children are likely to react inappropriate to recreational drugs." "Several years ago British government, as you probably all know, announced cannabis is not that dangerous and classified it as a less dangerous substance, and it became far more available in this country." "And then a year later the psychiatrists started ringing the bells, because they started getting growing numbers of youngsters who developed first psychotic episode, and got diagnosed with schizophrenia, after the first use of cannabis." "You probably all know teenagers who go to parties and smoke canabis at every party, and they're alright." "They don't develop schizophrenia." "But GAPS teenagers are vulnerable." "They are the ones that usually develop psychosis after smoking cannabis for the first time." "They've got vulnerability in their bodies, they are unable to take these substances." "Depression is another GAPS condition with adult." "These are digestive disorders." "Psychiatrist don't want to know this." "Despite the fact that the father of modern psychiatry, Philippe Pinel, in 18 hundreds have conluded at the end of his long and illustrious carrier as a psychiatrist, he concluded that psychiatric disorders are born in the stomach and region of optimum." "That was his conclusion." "And yet, the modern psychiatry doesn't teach it to the students, and modern psychiatrist don't know it." "And don't seem to want to know it because they've got all the arsenal of drugs just to supress the symptoms." "Obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, which is maniac depressive, and the king of the malls, schizophrenia." "They're all digestive disorders, I have a quite a few patients in my clinic, who are treated with GAPS nutrition protocoll, and they do quite well." "They're very very complex, these patients, and the longer the patients who was on antipsychotic medication, the more difficult they are to treat." "If you catch a youngster, who only had the first episode, that's eminently treatable condition, you can kill that person." "And my dream is to set up a center in this country, with this youngsters, who just had the first psychotic episode," "Before they're put on drugs, I'll put'em on GAPS nutrition protocoll." "And locked up in this facility, and fed good diet, and good supplements, so their bodies can be cleaned up." "And they don't have to live with schizophrenia for the rest of their lifes, or bipolar disorder, or obsessive compulsive or depression or anything like that." "Epilepsy in children, that's an other condition which is getting more common." "One percent of population at the age of twenties suffers with epilepsy, fifty percent of children with mental problems have epileptic activity," "And in seventy percent of cases, and that's a modest estimation, no cause is apparent." "And again, our psychiatris are not interested to know what's causing it." "they don't ask that question, they don't look for it, they just controll the symptoms, they put the person on anti epileptic medication, if this one doesn't work, let's try the this one." "If that one doesn't work, let's try this one, there's a new one, just came out!" "Let's try that one as well!" "And the poor child finishes up in a coctail, once epileptic medication, which dumps down their brain, turns them into zombies, so they can't learn, so despite the fact the child might not have the learning disability before, or behaviour problems" "or anything, any other mental symptoms before, they just develop their first epileptic seizure." "The child becomes learning disabled, because they cannot learn, they cannot behave, their cognitive functions suffer, because they're taking all this coctail of medications, which interfere with their brain function." "In vast majority of cases childhood epilepsy is due to toxicity coming from the gut." "So the treat has to be concentrated on the gut health in these children." "What happens in epilepsy, I believe?" "And my clinical experience confirms it, that an epileptic seizure is a safety wall for the brain." "When the level of toxicity builds up too high in the brain, to a damaging level, the brains sends one electric discharge, and burns the whole lot out." "It's a cleansing procedure for the brain." "That is why after an epileptic seizure the person is more lucid usually." "And a lot of symptoms which were due to abnormalities, go." "But then, the toxicity builds up again, they come back." "It's a very unfortunate safety wall, unfortunate coenzyme procedure, but that's what it is." "And once we clean up the gut, once we remove the source of toxicity, because these toxins that cause epilepsy, come from the digestive system in the child, once we remove that source of toxicity, the epilepsy usually goes away." "So what do we do, how do we treat these patients?" "How much time have I got?" "Fifteen minutes." "We treat them with a GAPS nutrition protocoll." "These are essentially digestive disorders." "Digestive system is a long tube." "What you fill that tube with, has a direct effect on its well being." "So diet is a number one treatment, it's the most important treatment, it's the cornerstone." "I have people asking me, well, can I do the program without the diet?" "Can I just take supplements?" "And unfortunately there aren't easy answers." "Anything worthwhile having in this world, it seems, you have to work for." "So there is website, called gaps dot me, please make a note of that." "I have a long waiting list for my clinic." "I'm overhelmed with demands for consultations." "It's not fair to make people wait so long period of time to start the program particularly when it comes to children." "Because in children, every day is precious." "There is a sense of urgency to start immediatly with these children." "That is why I put as much information I possibly could on that website, and in my book as well, so people can do the program themselves, without me being involved, without any supervision, and indeed, majority" "of people around the world do it without any supervision, themseves." "The book is a selfhelp book, and the website is a selfhelp website." "I get new emails from out of the blue from people of all over the world, all the time, saying that two years ago we've implemented to your program, and we've got fantastic results now." "That tree is down the road, autism is pretty much gone, or ADD or ADHD has gone, or something else is gone, and it's wonderful to receive these emails that people have done it themselves." "An effective probiotic is essential, because we need to introduce beneficial bacteria into the gut of these patients, whether it's a child or an adult." "There are many, many, many probiotics on the market." "The food industry has jumped in the bandwagon now, there are more drinks and foods providing probiotics, and there are many supplements of probiotics." "Majority of them are profilactic, they're designed to healthy people to stay healthy, to keep themselves healthy, for people with GAP syndrome, you need a therapeutic strength probiotic." "You need a powerful probiotic, made out of powerful species of bacteria, and in a good blend as well." "A powerful probiotic would cause a die off reaction." "When we introduce these benficial bacteria in the gut, they will start attacking candida." "Killing it." "They will start attacking clostridia, killing it, they will start attacking protozoa and staphylococci, streptococci and many, many other pathogens which were overgrown in that particular patient." "And when these creatures die, they release toxins." "And these are the toxins that give the person, his or her, individual symptoms." "Whether it is autism or depression, or obsession, or compulsion, or inability to sit still, or whatever symptom it is." "So if you suddenly give that person a lot of therapeutic probiotic, you would get quite a reaction." "The regression could be quite serious." "And that's called a die off reaction." "That is why with a strong therapeutic probitic you have to start with a tiny amount, you will get a die off, go through the die off, and then increase a little bit, and then increase a little bit, and you" "increase gradually until you reach the therapeutic level of the probiotic." "The levels of the probiotic are described for different ages, are described in my book, the dose that are just essential for differrent ages." "So you come through the die off reaction." "You don't try to avoid altogether, but you controll it at the level which is tolerable." "And at a level at which the patient can live with." "It's very important to do that particularly in patients with epilepsy, because you don't want to initiate an epileptic seizure, or an epileptic status in a person." "That's whay you have to go quite slowly, and this buildup with the dose process is very individual, it depends on how severe the patient is." "In less severe cases, they can send through in a month or three weeks, in some cases, such is fibromyalgia or ME or chronic fatique syndrome," "I have patients who start from one eight of a capsule on a tip of a knife, they open the capsule, they pour the powder out, and on a tip a knife, they take that dose and they get such severe die of" "that they actually recover from it for a couple of days." "And they take an other those like that then, and an other dose, so it takes them to get to therapeutic level several months, these people." "So it all depends on how severe the condition is." "Nutritial deficiencies need to be addressed." "A lot of nutritional deficiencies can be diagnosed clinically, simply from the observation, observing the patient, the symptoms of the patient, the look of the skin, the muscle tone, the look of the nails, the look of the tongue, and the look of the eyes" "and everything else, but there are a lot of testing methods, we can test most specifically what nutritional deficiencies are, and there are a lot of good supplements, natural supplements on the market that you can use." "And detoxification is an important part of the treatment." "So what is the diet?" "Let's go quickly through the diet, we'll go quite quickly." "Sally has given a fantastic presentation of food today, so I can go quite quickly through this subject." "And the interesting thing is that I have developed this diet, completely independently before coming across Weston A. Price foundation." "I didn't know about its existence." "Along my book was on the market for a few years and then I came across the work of Weston A. Price, and found Sally, and we were suprised to find how many similarities there are between the diet" "that I treat these patients with, and the Weston A. Price diet." "The first thing we have to address in these patients is the fussyeating habit, before we even start talking about the foods, because when I start talking about the diet, the first thing the parent says, Oh, he will not eat that." "I cannot force him, I cannot make him, or how, to eat that." "These children, a majority of them, and adults as well, and siblings of GAPS children, siblings of autistic children, and dyslexive children, and hyperactive children are quite often, so often very fussy eaters," "and the quite often it is a first sign of GAPS, of GAP syndrome in these patients, because these siblings got their gut flora from the same parents as their autistic brother or sister did." "So they would have the same abnormal gut flora, they just have different constitution, and different other things happened differently for them in life, so they not did it, they don't develop autism." "And they did not develop another severe condition, but they usually suffer from digestive problems, can be quite mild, what they can live with, they can be slightly hyperactive, they can be slightly absent minded, they can" "have slight social skill problems, they can have eczema, they can have asthma, they can have various allergies, the siblings of these children." "Because, I say, they've got the same gut flora from the same parents, so they need to be treated as well, and I find I have to treat the whole family." "Because the parents are also effected by abnormalities of gut flora, they usually have gut and physiology syndrome conditions." "Despite the fact that their mental functions might be sound." "So the first sign is the fussy eating habit." "These children and adult have got solid physiological reasons for being fussive at food." "They're not fussy because they're about badly behaved or anything like that." "They are trapped in a vicious cycle of cravings and dependencies on the very foods which damage them, which harm them." "What happens?" "Candida, clostridia, protozoa, staphylococci, streptococci and other pathogens, which are overgrowing the gut, like particular foods, and these are usually starchy stodgy processed carbohydrate foods." "Once they feast on that foods, they produce their toxins." "And part of their toxins have an endorphine structure." "When they absorb and get into the brain, they give the brain a pleasure signal." "So the brain wants more." "Another thing that happened in these children that from the very young age, usually from the moment when the solids are introduced, at the age of 4 to 6 month of age, these children learn that food makes me ill." "I get a tummy ache, my joints are aching, my body's aching," "I get a headache, of course a baby can't tell you all this, because your baby's not speaking yet, but the baby might refuse food." "That's the cause of failure to thrive." "We have a growing number of babies, in our modern world, who fail to thrive, because they refuse solids." "They would not take these solids, many of them finish up on drips on regular visits to hospital, when they have to lie down them and feed them through the vein, with the elemental nutrition, because these children are basically loosing" "weight, a dramatic weight, and cannot gain anyway, or would not eat." "Because this child has abnormal gut flora, these are GAPS children, and they know that solids are making them ill, and they naturally refuse these things." "But children who do not refuse these things, they learn to live with them, and then learn some conscience with that food makes me ill, so would they refuse foods apart from the foods which give me that kick," "which the foods which feed that vicious cycle of craving and dependency." "So they typically limit their diet to te food which feed that vicious cycle." "So they would usually eat crackers, breakfast cereals, bread, anything made out of flour and sugar, anything sugary, very sweety yoghurts, or banana perhaps, or pasta." "Sounds familiar?" "there are a lot of children who would eat that." "And if you manage to stuff anything into their mouth, it has to be smothered in ketchup sauce or something else sweet in these children." "There are a lot of children now in the modern world, who're not diagnosed with anything in particular, but they have got this parting of eating." "More than ninety percent of children with learning disabilities suffer from fussy eating habits, they limit their diets to sweet and starchy foods, with solid physiological reasons." "I have a whole chapter in my book which explains, how to break this vicious cycle." "Your child will not be able to break out of it on its own." "Your child needs your help, intensive help." "Unless you try to help, he or she will fight for every step on the way." "Like a drug addict, you have to see them as drug addicts." "Treating drug addicts is a very unthankful process." "Because they will fight you every step on the way." "And there is a solid structured approach how to do that." "I had children in my clinic, who would eat one food, there was one little boy, who looked like on of those Ethiopian children from starving Ethiopia several years ago." "Thin, little legs, clear rickets, and a big, sticking out belly." "This child was three year two month old, and he lived from the age of six month on cream crackers of a particular brand." "He would not eat anything else, this child." "And the parents get taking the child to nutritionist, under the NHS, nutritions and a dietitians were saying it's alright, he's eating, give him more cream crackers." "And follwing the program, that I have described in my book in this chapter, it's feeding time oh no, couple of month later this child was eating everything." "Meats and fish, vegetable and fruit, and all the foods that parents put in front of the child, so this vicious cycle can be broken, but it needs to be approached in a very structured way." "it's based on behaviour modification, using behaviour modification technique, you can achieve hundred percent succes." "So, talking about the diet now, so what foods that we'll avoid?" "We avoid all the foods which are difficult to digest, which Sally outlined beautifully, planned foods are difficult to digest." "Vegeterians, can you hear that?" "Planned foods damage our gut." "And grains and lentils are number one, grains and leguminous foods are the number one." "They are full of substances which damage the gut." "These children, very little all, already have damaged gut, they cannot handle these things, they cannot digest them in any shape or form." "So they have to be removed for a long enough time." "For those enterocythes to rebuild new lairs in the gut, to repair themselves, to restore the gut." "On average it takes couple of years, the younger the child the quicker he recover, adults take longer than children on general, but it is the good thing about his diet, that you you don't have stick to it" "for the rest of your life, you stick to it for a period of time, until the gut is healed, and then you can gradually start introducing other foods, and stop eating in a more versatile way." "But of course, as you went through this diet, majority of people found out that they cannot go back to their processed, and junk food diet that they used to it before." "So all grains have to be removed, all grains and anything made out of them, and that's wheats, rice, rye, oats, millets, quinoa, tapioca, couscous, amaranth, the lot." "All starchy vegetables put to eat to family, has to be out passings, has to be out, sugar and all commercial sweeteners, all commercial piles keep coming up as new commercial sweeteners, with new artificial sweeteners." "I keep getting phonecalls and emails from people all the time, what do you think about this new sweetener, what's about this, or what about xylitol, what about..." "Don't trust any of them." "Do not touch any of them." "Nature has provided us with wonderful sweeteners, which are good for us." "Milk sugar lactose has to be removed, starchy beans including soy, there is only one variety of beans that is allowed, and that's only later on at the diet, beause even those beans contain lectins and" "phytins and other substances which are very hard for GAPS gut to handle." "All processed foods naturally have to be out, and all food additives." "In this diet everything the child or the adult eats, has to be cooked at home, from fresh ingredients." "No takeaways, no eating out, because you cannot guarantee, what's been put in that food. on behalf who that food has been cooked." "Recommended foods, what do we actually eat?" "All meats cooked from fresh or frozen, all fish cooked from fresh or frozen." "Organ meats are very important." "Once a week liver has to be eaten." "I give a lot of recipes to the parents how to include liver on a daily basis into the childs diet." "I recommend that you cook a whole liver, without the needs, make a beautiful meatstock, make a beautiful bullion from it, and then you grind it with some bullion, and your food process into a fine slop, fill up an icecube tray, freeze it," "and an other icecube into a meal every day into a childs meal." "That's one of the easy coping strategies that a lot of parents do for liver." "But liver is not optional for these children, they have to have it on a daily basis, or in small amounts every day, or a good full liver meal once a week." "Good quality eggs, non starch vegetables and that means all vegetables are allowed, apart from potato, exotic potatoes, and postums." "So that's a very large choice of vegetables." "All ripe fruit." "Fruits have to be riped, because unriped fruit is full of starches, which are hard to digest." "As the fruit ripens, the starches get converted, broken down into monosugars, and the fruit is much easier to digest." "That is why, when you buy tropical fruits and other fruits, majority of commercially available fruits in supermarket is unripe, so it has to be bought and kept in a warm place to ripen." "If it would ripen, some fruit doesn't ripen at all, so you have to cook it." "Nuts and seeds are important part of the diet." "Fermented dairy." "When we ferment milk, we are fermenting bacteria, bacteria like eat in sugars, so they immediatly eat lactose, so well fermented dairy products are lactose free, tells you, lactose free dairy products." "Apart from that would happens, this bacteria predigest the proteins and the sugars, and other substances in milk." "So well fermented dairy products are predigested." "They're very easy for a damaged digestive tract to handle, that is why they're included into this diet." "However ther is a small percent of patients who are allergic to dairy, so those patients have to follow particular protocoll which are described in my book on page ninetyfive." "Cold extracted honey is the sweetener allowed." "Natural fats, that's a very, very important part of the diet." "As Sally already told you, fevers, detoxification, exortion, any vigorous activity the body has to do, consumes vitamin A and vitamin D and vitamin K and many other nutrients at an alarming rate." "These children as they detoxify on the program, they will be consuming huge amount of vitamin A, nobody has ever measured it, we don't know what the level should be, and we would never know." "But if you provide ampulle amounts of these vitamins in non food form, then it will provide too much to body would know how to deal with it, because excessive amounts of these vitamins, would it comes in a food form, the body knows what to do with it." "It's not going to cause any harm." "But if you provide supplements of those vitamins, then you can overdose quite easilly." "That is why I recommend these substances only in a food form." "That is why I recommend liver and I recommend egg yolks and I recommend cream, and butter and animal fats." "As Sally outlined it very beautifully to you, the most importent fats for us, humans can consume are animal fats." "This is something that majority of people find very difficult to get their mind around." "Because we grow up in a society of fat phobia and a cholesterol phobia." "People who are in their twenties or thirties now, have grown up from this age, seeing advertisment on TV, which are fat free, or low fat, and protects your heart, and anticholesterol and lowers cholesterol, so they grew up thoroughly brainwashed." "These people, they are afraid of animal fats, they are afraid of cholesterol, they are afraid of this sort of things." "But if you look at the structure of the human body, at the structure of human cells, of membraines and cellwalls, about half of the fats that we're made from are saturated." "Another thirty percent are mono and saturated, such is oleic fatty acid, and mainly the rest of it are various variety of polyunsaturated fatty acids." "So if we do need polyunsaturates, and I'm sure all of you've heard about the fishoils, and the flaxoil and the hempoil and many, many other oils, they've been promoted very vigorously by the health movements in the last" "few years, these oils, these fatty acids need to be consumed in tiny amounts." "And if you are on a good diet, you will get theim in food." "You don't need to supplement them." "What you do need in huge amounts, in large amounts are animal fats." "So eat your crackling on your porch, and eat your fat on your lambchops, and eat the fat on the cuts of beef." "And eat the egg yokes and eat tons of butter, you cannot overload of butter." "Particularly if you need porridge in the morning, in Russia we've got a saying, you cannot spoil the porridge with butter." "So if you have a little of porridge and lots of butter, it would be better." "Better for you." "So all the animal fats needs to be the main fats that humans should consume." "Not the hempoil, not the flaxoil, not the sunfloweroil, not the fishoil, and not the othe polyunsaturated oils." "If you're eating raw vegetable seedes, eating raw fruit, if you're eating nuts, particularly uncooked nuts, you will get plenty of these polyunsaturated fatty acids." "You don't need to supplement them, you don't need any extra" "Coconut oil and palm oil are very, very good, they are largely saturated but their value also is in pecific fatty acids which are antimicrobal, antiviral and anticandida and antifungal, so coconut oil can be used as an antifungal supplement." "And it also tastes nice, you can eat it as it is, and a lot of people who have sugar cravings, find it if they have couple of tables pours of coconut oil, when they have a sugar craving, the craving goes away." "It's more difficult to eat pork fat that way, isn't it, or goose fat." "But the coconut oil you can." "Obviously avoid all fats and fat replacements that the food industry is trying to convience us to eat." "This is a book that I've written in response to my patients." "Going back to the previous slide, when I would start talking about this subject, the natural question that everybody would immediatly ask me, am I going to die from a heart attack from your diet?" "What about my heart?" "What about my cholesterol?" "And what about to have a test of cholesterol, couple of weeks ago and it was high?" "Can I eat all these animal fats?" "And having explained to a hundred patient, that natural cholesterol and natural fats have nothing to do with heart disease, in fact, they prevent it, I thought I better write a book about it." "And this book was the result of these recommendations of the diet." "The book is available here, so if any of you who's interested should know, what fats actually cause the heart disease, what these fats do in the body, what kind of cholesterol there are, and what kind of" "cholesterol should be avoid and which not, please read the book." "Supplementation is an important part of the program." "I do not believe in eating a lot of supplements." "I believe that when we need to get our nutritions from food, not from pills." "This is a minimum list of supplements that I give to my patients," "I give them absolute minimum, three supplements, and they're all foods." "They're not really supplements." "One, an effective probiotic, an other one, cod liver oil, which will provide vitamin A, vitamin D and some vaieties provides vitamin E, and even K, in little amounts, and essential fatty acids." "Because there is a lot of research to show that fishoils in particular, help in dyslexia, in dyspraxia, and other conditions." "One condition I would warn not to give essential fatty acid in, it is epilepsy." "Evening primrose oil, sometimes cod liver oil and fish oil can trigger epileptic fits." "We don't know why, whether some sort of detox goes on, restructuring in the brain goes on, or whether something toxic's going on, but these people should not take these oils." "So for them just an effective probiotic and a little amount of cod liver oil is enough." "I would not give them any other supplements until the seizures are well under controll." "Multi vitamin, mineral amino acid supplement is optional." "I give it to a small percentage of people, when they've got some niggling problems and we're not quite dealing with them." "So the initial program, to tackle the problem, is the diet, the probiotic, and cod liver oil, and fish oil." "That's all you need." "You don't need anything else." "Digestive enzymes, again, are optional, a lot of people who have normal gut flora cannot produce enough stmoach acid, because toxins, which are produced in the gut, impair stomach acid production." "So a lot of them benefit particularly at as benefit from taking HCL and pepsin to start with, or betaine HCL." "And some people find it helpful to take pancreatic enzymes at the end of their meal, however majority of people don't know, so say, anything particular happening with this enzymes, so for them it isn't essential." "Detoxification is an important part of the program, and I believe in natural detoxification." "Juicing is a time wornout and a time proven method of removing of sorts of toxins of the body, without any side effects." "Bath with epsom salts, sea salt, cider vinegar, and toxins have to be avoided, avoiding tocin exposure is a very important part of the treatment." "I've got a whole chapter on it in my book." "This is the book." "I've got couple of examples of patients, but I think we have no time." "One minute." "I will be saying that quickly." "This little boy, who's nine years old now, he was diagnosed with type one diabetes, celiac disease and autim at once, in his second year of life." "Poor child." "He was put on inzulin injections at fifteen months." "Autistic development started from eighteen months of age, he was non verbal, dyspraxic, diarrhoea with undigested food, used to be severely constipated, bloating, reflux, finicky eater, malnourished, pale, he had eczema, allergies, poor sleep," "he was not potty trained, and diagnosed as a celiac." "We started GAPS programme in May zero two, at age of three and the half." "In six months, he had normal stools, eczema has cleared, he had much better feeding habits, he put weight on, he was not pale anymore, and he had a better sleep." "In a year he had great improvements in language development and social skills, got potty trained." "In a year and a half at mainstream school and had many friends, autism and dyspraxia were almost undetectable." "The daily dose of insulin was halved." "And now there are no traces of autism or dyspraxia, he is school champion in karate, insulin injections only occasionally at a low dose." "So his diabetes type one has also pretty much gone." "This child, Leandro, he had idiopathic generalised epilepsy and Asperger's syndrome." "Had normal development till the age of two, he was very bright, Italian family." "Had colic, and was prone to constipation and had lots of colds." "Around two became fussy with food, hyperactive, limited his diet, got abnormal stools, and became malnourished." "At three and a half after fever got absences, by four grand mal epileptic seizures and absences ten, fifteen times a day." "So the poor parents lived in fear all the time, watching this child like a hulk." "He regressed in language and learning ability, he got obsessions, self stimulation, he became hyperactive." "And he was taking about five different anti epileptic medications." "And the seizures were not controlled." "medication for epilepsy, sodium valporate, was the one that was left eventually, poor controll of seizures, became aggressive, unable to learn and personality changed." "At sevens he started GAPS nutrition protocol, in three months he was better physically, but the parents felt that medication, particularly sodium valporate, from the beginning of the programme they removed the medication, they just left the sodium valporate," "was causing the seizures and interfering with the learning ability." "So they started reducing the dose, under supervision, of course." "In nine months they reduced the dose to twohundred fifty miligramm." "He had no grand mal at that stage, one, four mild absences a day, he was thriving at mainstream school, greatly improved language and learning, better social skills, had friends, stools were normal and good eating habits." "In twenty months he was off all medication, he had occasionally very mild absence, physically was healthy, not hyperactive anymore, normal behaviour, social skills." "Academically he was two years behind. the the family moved to South Africa, and I lost contact with them, but at that stage the absences that the child had were very occasional, and they were so mild, that people who didn't know him, wouldn't notice anything." "It's only parents, he knew the whole history, would notice that he was having an absence." "But otherwise he had this very very mild absences, that nobody could identify." "These are my contact details, and the website, thank you very much for listening!"