Further explanation of the GAPS diet

Dr. McBride summarizes what a GAPS patient has to avoid:

• All grains and anything made out of them: wheat, rye, rice, oats, corn, maize, sorghum, barley, buckwheat, millet, spelt, triticale, bulgar, tapioca, quinoa, cous-cous. This will remove a lot of starch and all gluten from the diet.
• All starchy vegetables and anything made out of them: potato, yams, sweet potato, parsnip, Jerusalem artichoke, cassava, arrowroot and taro.
• Sugar and anything that contains it.
• Starchy beans and peas: soybeans, mung beans, garbanzo beans, bean sprouts, chick peas, faba beans.
• Lactose and anything that contains it: fluid or dried milk of any type, commercially produced yoghurt, buttermilk and sour cream, processed foods with added lactose.

I want to point out that this diet is a healing diet, therefore, it is not meant to be followed for a lifetime.  Most people need to be fanatically strict for two years.  After the two year period, grains and starchy vegetables are introduced slowly.

The GAPS Introduction diet is limited to homemade bone broth, meat and vegetables and is broken down in stages.  People move through these stages at individual rates.  This movement is based on how much healing has happened and if they can handle the addition of the next food item.

A list of the recommended/allowable foods on the full GAPS diet can be found at:

www.gapsdiet.com