by Paul Fassa
(Health Secrets) Can healing your child’s gut really cure autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or other behavior problems? Hypocrites proclaimed that all disease begins in the gut. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine has known this for thousands of years. Lately, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), has been ending children’s behavior problems in her UK pediatric clinic, with dietary restoration and balance of intestinal flora. She learned her methods by ending her son’s autism..
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Dr. Campbell-McBride has done a lecture of the United States explaining GAPS and how she has handled whole families with various GAPS problems, not just the children. Her book is available on Amazon. It outlines her findings fully, and includes her dietary solutions. She notes that early childhood diseases and behavior problems often occur because the mother’s intestinal flora was weak or destroyed during delivery and the baby then inherits whatever its mother has to offer during its exit through the womb. Then there are vaccines and tainted foods to worry about. Perhaps this is why breast feeding and avoiding vaccinations really does produce more healthy children.
The behavior problems and psychological disorders Dr. Campbell-McBride has treated successfully cover the full spectrum of what’s become epidemic over the last few decades. In her Michigan lecture, she noted her treatable GAPS spectrum includes “autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and more.”
She has observed that the patterns of these behavior problems overlap. They are not the separate boxes that conventional psychiatry has established to prescribe an array of toxic drugs. If a child’s damaged intestinal flora doesn’t manifest itself with behavior problems, then it will manifest with physical problems. Asthma, allergies, and eczema appear during early childhood. With a damaged immune signal system, the child is also more prone to illness than someone with an intact immune system. More vaccinations will exacerbate this issue.
Antibiotics or intake from commercial dairy and meats tainted with antibiotics destroy our friendly flora. So do processed foods and GMOs, but there are dietary measures for restoring a healthy gut. Dr. Campbell-McBride explains in her book how powerful probiotic supplements can help restore gut populations initially. But probiotic sources from fermented foods and kefirs should be probiotic staples.