The GAPS diet claims that healing a leaky gut might improve or cure these conditions.
However, research and scientific evidence is lacking to back up the GAPS diet.
What Is the GAPS Diet?
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It is important to note that there are no peer-reviewed scientific studies examining the efficacy of the GAPS diet.
What Can You Eat on the GAPS Diet?
There is also adairy introduction phase, explained in more detail in the books.
Think of this intestinal lining as a protective barrier.
This is called intestinal hyperpermeability or leaky gut.
The foundational foods in the introduction phase include meat stocks and broths, soups and fermented foods.
Stage 2:Continue foods in Stage 1.
Stage 5:Add cooked apple puree and raw vegetables, starting with lettuce and peeled cucumber.
Stage 6:Add peeled raw apple; add other raw fruit and honey as tolerated.
She recommends that people follow the full GAPS diet for 18 months to two years.
See below for a more extensive list of foods you’re able to and cannot eat.
If you have no symptoms, you could increase portions.
Are There Benefits to the GAPS Diet?
The GAPS diet emphasizes vegetables and fermented foods, both of which have been linked to a healthy gut.
The GAPS diet is extremely restrictive, which has several consequences.
For starters, this makes it time-consuming to plan and cook meals.
Putting childrenor adults for that matteron an extremely restrictive diet can lead to malnutrition and/or disordered eating patterns.
In addition, it seems to be gluten-free as it doesn’t allow any grains.
In my opinion, no.
In addition, it is extremely restrictive, time-consuming and relatively expensive.
