Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-McBride M.D

Author:Natasha Campbell-McBride, M.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Medinform Publishing

4. It’s Feeding Time! Oh, no!

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Le Petit Prince, 1943

It is very rare to meet a GAPS child who is not a finicky eater. The same can be said about many GAPS adults as well. This problem is particularly pronounced in autism. The majority of autistic children and adults have feeding problems, sometimes very severe. Some are very fussy and accept only a very limited range of foods. Some cannot chew properly and hold food in their mouth for a long time or try to swallow it in a lump. Some can only suck from a bottle and will not drink from anything else. Feeding time is a nightmare for many parents of autistic children.

There are number of possible reasons why GAPS patients have these problems.

First is a distorted sensory input. The taste buds in their mouth receive the information about food, which gets passed to the brain. A GAPS brain is clogged with toxicity and cannot process this information properly. As a result, to these people the food can taste completely different to what it should taste like. Add to that a distorted feeling of food texture and temperature and we start appreciating why an autistic child, for example, does not accept many foods. The taste, texture and feeling of food can be quite offensive to them.

Second is a craving for sweet and starchy foods that is typical for all people with abnormal bodily flora, particularly with Candida albicans overgrowth. No matter how finicky a GAPS child or adult might be, most of them would accept sugary drinks, biscuits, cakes, sweets, sugar-laden breakfast cereals, chocolates, chips, crisps, pasta and white bread. In fact these are the foods to which many GAPS people limit their diet thus feeding the vicious circle of abnormal flora and toxicity in their bodies.

Third is the state of the mouth itself. A human mouth is home for a large population of microbes which normally protect the mouth from pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi, and maintain the healthy state of the mucous membranes and various structures in the mouth. GAPS children and adults often have a very abnormal bacterial flora in their mouths, often with an overgrowth of Candida and other pathogenic microbes. The activity of this abnormal flora produces a lot of toxins, which are stored in the mucous membranes of the mouth and alter the functioning of taste buds, saliva glands and other structures. Apart from contributing to the distortion of taste, this process causes a chronic inflammation in the mucous membranes of the mouth, making it a target for the immune system. As a result of microbial activity and inflammation, many GAPS patients have bad breath, very red lips and mouth, various spots and ulcers on the mucosa of the cheeks and a coated furry tongue. Many foods, like raw fruit and vegetables, herbs, uncooked nuts and seeds, cold-pressed oils and some

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