Do you need corn and soy-free eggs on GAPS?
There is a surprising amount of variation in egg quality when you dig into the certifications, feeds, and practices used for laying hens. While most people choose organic eggs for the GAPS Diet, there are some people for whom that quality alone may not be enough. If...
GAPS Diet Meat Stock Mistakes – with recipe
On the GAPS protocol, we use short-cooked meat stock, not long-cooked bone broth. Understanding the difference between meat stock and bone broth is the first of the GAPS Diet meat stock mistakes, and the easiest to correct. Short-cooked meat stock is high in the amino...
Low Histamine GAPS Diet
There’s a belief floating around the internet that you can’t do the GAPS Diet if you’re experiencing histamine intolerance or mast cell activation disorder (MCAD). The truth is that other nutritional plans address histamine by showing you how to avoid it in foods. The...
The No-plant GAPS Diet for SIBO
The problem with most SIBO treatments is that they aim to starve out or kill an overgrowth without healing the gut and the enteric nervous system, which are crucial in overcoming SIBO long-term. To address this I’ve always recommended a Low-FODMAPS version of the GAPS...
Natural Salt
Dr. Weston A Price traveled the world studying the food of many people groups in the 1920’s and 30’s and found that all traditional cultures included some natural salt in the diet, even when it wasn’t easily accessible in their locale. This became part of the research...
Quality Drinking Water and Healing Diets
We’re learning to question our food sources and eat what’s real and whole, but most of us don’t hold that same standard for water. With all the focus on foods in therapeutic diets it’s easy to overlook something even more foundational – water. Quality drinking water...
Welcome! I’m Jennifer, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified GAPS Practitioner.
I like to share with my clients as I go, and I am not claiming to be some know-it-all guru.
I’m learning so much every day about health, wellbeing, and happiness, and this is where you will find the subjects I’m pondering and ideas I’m exploring.
