Monica Corrado, Certified Nutritional Consultant and Traditional Food Chef is planning more GAPS cooking courses:

April 20-22, Loveland, Colorado
June 2-3, Los Altos, California
September 21-23, Boston, Massachusetts

http://www.cookingforwell-being.com/Conferences.html

Dr Natasha will go through examples from the most common to the most difficult clinical case studies. A framework for a GAPS practice will be discussed, including how to run a local GAPS Group. The student group will work through various clinical scenarios which may be encountered in clinical practice and knowledge consistent with individual needs will be explored and evaluated to adequately address them.

On completion of the course you will become a ‘Certified GAPS Practitioner’ and will be listed on Dr Natasha’s resource site at www.gaps.me as well as receiving referral patients from her. In order to maintain knowledge of ongoing GAPS trends and clinical practice, ‘Certified GAPS Practitioners’ will be extended the opportunity to join the secure access ‘GAPS Practitioner Forum’ moderated by Dr Natasha herself.

Training Criteria

Training Information

The training will take place in LONDON, on the following dates:

Saturday March 3rd, 2012
Sunday March 4th, 2012

The venue and accommodation options will be notified after enrolments are complete

Tuition fee: £675

Your tuition will include the following:

50% of the tuition is due at registration if your application has been accepted and meets the set training criteria. The remaining 50% is due on January 20th, 2012. The enrolment deadline will close January 20th, unless the class is full prior to this date.

THE REGISTRATION FOR COURSE ENROLMENT IS NOW OPEN

TO REGISTER: please contact the GAPS Practitioner Registration Desk at

Medinform@lineone.net

Enrollment numbers are limited! Be sure to register promptly if you are serious about attending this training course. We expect the enrollments to fill up very quickly with the interest we have received from practitioners so far.   We will process applications in the order in which they are received and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Very Sincerely,
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride

“COOKING WITH GAPS”

This two disc set provides over two hours of detailed advice, menus, and tips on making delicious dishes for every course of a meal from breakfast to supper.  It has been professionally filmed and produced in high resolution video and is an excellent compliment to the Gut & Psychology Syndrome book.

It is available immediately from all our book distributors in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and will also be listed on Amazon in all those countries.  The prices in local currency will be shown on the distributors web sites as well as Amazon.

Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride has been involved in the entire production of this outstanding DVD set and it is the only video course on cooking with GAPS that is fully endorsed by her.

Please contact your nearest distributor to get your copy now, you will be glad you did.

Always wanted to make ghee? How about cultured butter? Yogurt or kefir? These are delicious, nutrient-dense traditional foods that are easy to make once you know how. For those of you who are on the GAPS T Diet or are thinking of beginning the diet, this class will take all the guesswork out of how to make these foods as well as when to introduce them. $55 in advance . $65 at the door.

REGISTER at - http://simplybeingwell.com/2011-class-schedule/

Ferments! GAPS (TM) Style
Saturday, June 25 . 9:30am-12 noon . Rockville, Maryland

Yes, I have been dubbed the "Lacto-fermentation Queen" by fans and students, and even the press. I have been teaching ferment classes all over for years now. This is a *new* class, based on the fermentation techniques found in the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS diet). Ferments are one of what I call the "pillars" of the GAPS diet-absolutely fundamental. One needs to know how to ferment and have plenty of ferments on hand. Come and learn "crock fermentation", which is different than the "jar fermentation" I have been teaching. We will ferment vegetables and beverages, including GAPS kvass and different kefirs. $55 in advance . $65 at the door.

REGISTER at http://simplybeingwell.com/2011-class-schedule/

Please note: GAPST and Gut and Psychology SyndromeT are the trademark and copyright of Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. The right of Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Patent and Designs Act 1988.

As you may recall, I am collecting stories for the new GAPS Stories Book (the original announcement is repeated after the story). The stories keep coming, and a few days ago this story was emailed to me by a person, whom I never met. I am going to share it with you in this blog.

I would like to thank all the GAPS people, who already sent me their wonderful stories of struggle and recovery! Your stories will make a big difference for many people out there, who are trying to regain their health. The deadline for submitting your stories has not been set yet, so there is plenty of time for those of you, who would like to share their story with the world.

Best wishes,

Dr Natasha

It all started about 4 years ago. I was a healthy 30 year-old with a good life, I was fit and enjoyed activities like Capoeira. Initially I felt mild weakness in my muscles and felt my wit was diminished, then diarrhoea developed, and a month later I developed very intense peripheral neuropathy (PN) with intermittent fever-like symptoms. I couldn’t sleep, and it felt like being swarmed by bees that were stinging constantly. I went to hospital that night and they sent me back home, as there was nothing they could do. The next day I saw my GP who diagnosed me with Alcoholic Neuropathy (symptoms initially began after drinking alcohol). I abstained and was given a course of Thiamine, which after about a week did improve my symptoms dramatically. The PN symptoms gradually improved over the next 12 months, and I begun to feel a lot less anxious, but over time new symptoms began to appear and the diarrhoea persisted continually. I always felt the symptoms were linked, and begun to anecdotally notice that sugar would makes the peripheral neuropathy a little worse, but I was told by a doctor it was probably coincidence and that I just had IBS from stress.

Then, one day about 18 months ago, the peripheral neuropathy symptoms came back intensely. I wracked my brains as to what it could be. I didn’t drink any more alcohol, I was taking 150mg of thiamine each day, so what could it be? And I suddenly realised: I had got back in to the gym and had been consuming daily protein powders full of ‘complex carbs’ that were basically sugar. I returned to my doctor and we thought maybe it was diabetes, and after tests I found out I definitely wasn’t diabetic. Over the next two years I began to experience worsening and new symptoms: fatigue, foggy confusion, very sore joints, sleep apnoea, feeling like I was getting massive electric shocks just as I dropped off to sleep, extreme sensitivity to noise, dizziness, inability to remember cash at cash machines or what people had said a few minutes before, falling asleep in the day totally exhausted. I thought I was potentially very ill and no one had any idea what was wrong with me, and no one could even understand what it felt like. Most people wrote me off as a hypochondriac. I felt very, very alone and slowly slipped into depression.

So now I knew to stay away from sugar and the PN symptoms would remain manageable. It was an improvement, so I next focussed on the diarrhoea symptoms, which I felt must be connected in some way. Then one day while trying to choose a book on IBS from Amazon I found the light! A reviewer had said that IBS books were mostly a waste of time and any potential buyer should try the GAPS diet instead. I noted down the name of the diet and moved on.

As soon as I started reading the GAPS diet I felt a weight lift off me and I felt very confident I had finally found the cause of all my symptoms. Nothing had ever explained all my seemingly disparate symptoms any better than the GAPS diet. I knew at once this had a very high chance of success. So about 6 weeks ago I embarked on the diet.

Within these last 6 weeks my diarrhoea had dramatically improved, fatigue has improved dramatically and they remain the only mild symptoms left. I have now stopped taking thiamine, which would usually make the PN symptoms return within a couple of weeks, and so far I’m feeling only mild pins and needles. I can’t believe that after 4 years I have finally solved these health problems and I can honestly say I owe my life to this diet, as there were times when I felt the poor quality of life made me feel that I didn’t want to carry on much longer living this way and living in fear of what symptoms I would get next.

In hindsight after reading the GAPS diet book, I believe it’s all rooted in the oxytetracycline I was given for (mild) acne in my youth about 15 years ago. I was too young to know then what effects it might have, but I would never take such a long course of antibiotics now.

Many thanks for all your work! I am now getting on with life again!

G.H.
May 2011

Help!

At the last WAPF conference I met dozens of wonderful people, who were telling me how the GAPS Programme changed their lives and lives of their families. These people gave me an idea: WE NEED TO PUBLISH ALL THESE STORIES AS A BOOK! There are millions of people and families out there in desperate situations, who believe the mainstream establishment that there is nothing they can do to help themselves. Your stories - stories written by real people, will show those families that there is a way out and there is hope!

Please, write your story and send it to me, Dr Natasha, at medinform@lineone.net. It is your choice to publish your story under your real name or just the initials.

YOUR STORY MAY SAVE MANY LIVES!
THANK YOU!

Let’s try and understand this in more detail.

We all have different heredity and constitution. If your predecessors were Vikings or Eskimos, then chances are that you will generally need to eat lots of fish, meat and fat. But if your predecessors came from a Mediterranean culture or some tropical area of the world, then you will probably need more carbohydrates in your diet. Ancient Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines try to classify different constitutional types of people, and would not dream of applying diet or herbs without this knowledge, as different constitutional types need very different approaches.

Constitution is just one factor. There are many more.

Throughout our lives our bodies go through anabolic / catabolic cycles, in other words cycles of building itself up and cleansing itself. There is a daily building / cleansing cycle, a seasonal one and ‘as-it-is-necessary’ ones which can happen any time. For building itself your body needs very different nutrients from those it uses for cleansing itself (animal foods are generally building, while plant foods are generally cleansing). Only your body knows what it needs at every moment of your life.

Depending on what your body is doing at the time, depending on the season of the year, on the weather and the level of stress you are under, your body can switch between different ways of energy production: using glucose for example or using fats. Only your body knows what is appropriate at any particular moment of your existence, and it requires very different nutrients for different patterns of energy production.

We all have an autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for all the ‘autopilot’ functions of the body: for your heart beating, for your blood circulating, for your digestive system feeding you, etc. The autonomic nervous system is made out of two branches: a sympathetic nervous system and a parasympathetic nervous system. These two systems generally work in opposition to each other providing a very complex balance in every function of the body. Again, depending on an infinite number of factors (daily cycle of activity and sleep, season, weather, stress, infection, feeding / cleansing, your occupation at the time, etc.) you will shift from being ’sympathetic dominant’ to ‘parasympathetic dominant’. This shift can happen several times every day, every few days, every season and it is different in different age-groups. The important thing is that these two branches of our nervous system require very different sets of nutrients to be fed: one likes meat and fat, while the other needs more carbohydrates. Only your body knows what proportions of protein/fat/carbohydrate it needs at any given moment of your life; no laboratory or scientist will be able to calculate this for you.

Then there is the acid / alkaline balance in the body, which again changes all the time every day depending on many factors. There is a myth in nutritional circles that ‘being acid is bad’ and that all of us have to strive to be alkaline all the time. Different foods have been classified to be ‘alkalising’ (such as fruit and vegetables) or ‘acidifying’ (such as grains and meats). This simply is not true. Your body shifts from alkaline to acid states all the time depending on many factors: activity of your autonomic nervous system, the type of energy production at the time, your hormonal profile at the time, respiration, kidney function, many of which in turn change according to daily cycle, season, weather and your activity. Depending on all those factors an apple, for example, which is considered to be an ‘alkalising’ food, can make your body acid, and vice versa, a piece of meat, which is considered to be ‘acidifying’ can make your body alkaline. Only your body knows how to use foods at any given moment of your life; only your body has the inner intelligence to make these impossibly complex calculations.

As if that is not enough, then there is the water and electrolyte balance in the body, which also shifts all the time depending on many factors. Our mainstream medicine pronounced salt to be ‘evil’ and recommends reducing its consumption. Processed salt should not be consumed just as all processed foods should not be consumed (as these things are unnatural for human physiology and should not be called ‘food’). However, natural unprocessed salt (such as Himalayan crystal salt or Celtic salt) contains more than 90 minerals and not only is good for us, it is essential for our bodies to maintain the right water/electrolyte balance. Then there is the myth that we need to drink lots of water every day, even different amounts in litres-per-day are prescribed in nutritional literature. Following that advice blindly can get you into a lot of trouble, if your body is low on electrolytes and needs salt instead of water. No matter how clever we think we are, we cannot calculate how much salt or water we should consume at any given time: only your body knows that, and it has excellent ways of telling you what it needs - thirst for water, desire for salt or any particular food, which may have the right mineral composition. Make no mistake, your body knows the nutrient composition of foods on this planet.

These are just a few factors to demonstrate to you that no laboratory, no clever doctor or scientist and no clever book can calculate for you what you should be eating at 8am, or 1pm, or 6pm or in between. Only your body has the unsurpassed intelligence to figure out what it needs at any given moment of your life, as your nutritional needs change all the time: every minute, every hour and every day.

So, what do we do? How do we feed ourselves properly? The answer is: get back in touch with your body’s inner intelligence. Just think: if your body needs so much protein right now + so much fat + so much carbohydrate + so much of vitamin B12 and so much of vitamin C, how would it let you know that it needs this particular composition of nutrients? And even if your body had a way of letting you know all this information, how would you go about providing this mix of nutrients? How are you to calculate all those factors and provide the right amounts? Well, Mother Nature is kind and it is not asking us to do anything so complicated. Instead it gave us senses of SMELL, TASTE, DESIRE for a particular food and a sense of SATISFACTION after eating it. So, when your body needs a particular mix of nutrients, it will give you a desire for a particular food, which contains just that right mix; this particular food will smell divine to you and taste wonderful, and you will feel satisfied after eating it.

But in an hour or two the needs of your body will change, and that particular food will not be appealing anymore for you; instead you will have a desire for another food, which nutritionally will serve you correctly for that particular moment of your life.

So, the only way for us to serve our bodies properly with the right food is to be in touch with our senses!

Let us think about it a little more.

The DESIRE for a particular food.
The word ‘desire’ has somewhat a negative feel for many people thanks to centuries of religious and political conditioning, desire is considered to be something we ‘have to resist’ and must not ’succumb to’. Yet, desire for a particular food is the main way your body tells you what it needs at any particular moment nutritionally. So, when you get hungry stop and think: "What would I desire to eat right now? What is the most appealing food for me right now?" Forget about all the books you have read, forget about all the nutritional mantras of what you have to eat at a particular time of day, and just ask the question. The answer will come immediately, and just the thought of that particular food will fill your mouth with saliva. Respect your desire! Desire is your inner body intelligence talking to you, letting you know what it needs to keep you healthy, energetic and happy. If you listen to your desire every time you eat, you will be able to digest that food well and it will do you only good, because you have eaten it at the right time, just when your body asked for it.

Trouble is that in our modern commercial world people’s desires for food have been manipulated through the use of addictive and taste-altering chemicals in processed foods. Yes, many processed so-called ‘foods’ contain chemicals specifically designed to make them addictive. Listening to your desire only applies to natural foods - foods that Mother Nature has designed. Stop eating processed foods and your normal sense of desire for food will return.

The sense of SMELL
Have you ever observed animals? They will never put anything in their mouths without smelling it first. Why? Because wild animals are fully in touch with their instincts - their inner body intelligence. Sense of smell gives your body a lot of information about the food: is it safe to eat, has it been contaminated by chemicals or microbes, is it fresh, and most importantly, is it appropriate for your bodily needs at the moment? So, before putting anything into your mouth smell it: if it is the right food for you at the moment, it will smell very appealing. If it is not the right food, it will smell repulsive. Respect your sense of smell and listen to it.

Trouble is, that many people in our modern world have a damaged sense of smell due to use of synthetic perfumes. All smelly man-made chemicals, such as laundry detergents, domestic cleaning chemicals, so-called air fresheners and perfumes block the olfactory receptors (the smell receptors) in your nose. Your nose has a set number of olfactory receptors, and once they are blocked by a chemical, new molecules of that chemical coming in have nothing to attach to, so you cannot smell it anymore. We all have met people who smell like a perfume factory, but they do not realise just how excessively they apply their perfume onto themselves, because they cannot smell it anymore, their smell receptors in the nose are blocked with that chemical. The same happens with common laundry detergents, which use very powerful perfumes in order to disguise the unpleasant smell of the detergent itself. People who use them regularly are unable to smell them anymore, because these people are exposed to this smell all the time from their clothes, towels and bedding. These people cannot smell their food properly either, as their smell receptors in the nose are permanently occupied by their laundry detergent. To restore you sense of smell, remove all smelly/perfumed chemicals from your environment: replace your laundry detergent with a non-scented natural one and do not use any perfumes, scented personal care products or air fresheners. In a few weeks time your olfactory receptors will clean themselves up and your sense of smell will return.

The sense of TASTE
Food is one of the greatest pleasures of life, and so it must be! If the food is not pleasurable, then it is the wrong food for you at the moment (no matter how ‘healthy’ it is supposed to be)! So, listen to your sense of taste and respect it! It is your friend as it is one of the channels of communication between your body’s inner intelligence and your conscious mind. How else would your body tell you that it needs a particular mix of nutrients, but by giving you great pleasure from consuming them in the form of food?

The trouble is that many people have an altered or dulled sense of taste due to regular consumption of processed foods. Many processed foods contain taste-altering chemicals, which are deliberately added to the ‘food’. These chemicals are not only toxic, but can alter your perception of taste for a long time, so it is essential to stop consuming processed foods in order to restore your normal sense of taste. Many nutritional deficiencies can alter the perception of taste (zinc deficiency is particularly known for this). As you start consuming a natural wholesome diet your nutritional deficiencies will diminish and your sense of taste will return. Toxins in your mouth can also alter your perception of taste. Try to brush your teeth with cold pressed olive oil (or any other cold pressed oil) instead of toothpaste: this Ayurvedic procedure has a good record in detoxifying the mouth. Working with a holistic dentist is very important, as many dental materials in the mouth can make it toxic and alter your sense of taste.

The sense of SATISFACTION after eating
If you have eaten a meal appropriate for your body’s nutritional needs at the time, you will feel fully satisfied. There will be no cravings for something else, only a nice comfortable feeling of satisfaction, which will allow you to focus on other things in your life and forget about food for a while. It is important not to overeat, so you don’t feel ’stuffed’.

However, if you listen to your sense of pleasure from food, then you will not overeat because you would stop eating as soon as the food stops being pleasurable. Pleasure on / pleasure off are the signals your body gives you to let you know about its needs. Your sense of pleasure will keep you eating as long as your body still needs the nutrients from that particular food; as soon as your body had enough of those nutrients, the food will stop giving you pleasure.

Cravings for sweet foods are common amongst GAPS people due to unstable blood sugar level. It takes time to normalise blood sugar and the most effective way to deal with it is to increase your fat consumption, particularly animal fats (within your pleasure zone, of course). So, consume plenty of animal fats with your meals. In order to keep your blood sugar at a stable level between meals make a mixture of raw butter (or coconut oil) with some raw honey to taste, put it into a glass jar which you can carry with you, and eat a few spoonfuls every 20-30 minutes all day. This measure can be very helpful in the initial stages of the treatment. As your blood sugar regulation will normalise through the use of GAPS Nutritional Programme, you will be able to gradually reduce and stop eating butter/honey mixture.

How do we do apply this wisdom while on the GAPS diet?
The GAPS Diet is not set in stone; you have to adapt it for your unique body, for its unique daily needs. The GAPS diet gives you the list of foods to work with. When you eat these different foods and in what proportions is up to you. Listen to your body’s needs, communicated to you through the senses of desire, smell, taste and satisfaction. For example, one day you may feel like only an apple for breakfast, but tomorrow you may enjoy a large cooked breakfast made from eggs, bacon, sausages and a salad. For example, on the first day you were very happy just to drink meat stock and eat some cooked chicken, but next day you do not feel like meat or meat stock at all and are much happier to eat vegetables and yoghurt. Your body will let you know what proportions of protein, fat and carbohydrate to have at every meal. How? Through desire for particular foods; so when you sit down to a family meal, eat only what appeals to you at the time, and in the amounts that appeal to you.

It is essential to listen to your body’s desires when you are following the GAPS diet - the Introduction Diet or the Full GAPS Diet. Your desires will let you know how quickly to move through the stages of the Introduction Diet. It is possible that you would have to eat something not allowed on a particular stage if you really desire it, because that is what your body requires at that time, and you have to respect it. You are unique and nobody can prescribe the right sequence of food introduction for you. If you were following the GAPS Introduction Diet to a letter and felt well, but then one day you get a strong desire for, let’s say, raw tomatoes (which are not included into the plan), then listen to this desire! This is your body telling you that it needs particular nutrients at this particular time, and raw tomatoes will provide them. If you deny your body that need, you may get yourself into trouble: your electrolyte balance may get upset or your hormones may not work well, or something else will not work. Yes, you would have ‘cheated’ on the diet by eating tomatoes, but once that particular need of your body has been satisfied, you can continue with your programme. Any progress goes through two steps forward then one step back, and healing is no exception. So, don’t worry about ‘cheating’ on the diet sometimes if your body has really asked for it. This is not cheating; this is working with your body and respecting it. Remember, your body knows infinitely more about itself than we will ever know with all our intelligence and science!

Remember also that your body’s nutritional needs change all the time. So, your desire for foods will also change all the time: what felt wonderfully satisfying for breakfast may not be appealing for lunch, and what was delicious in the afternoon may feel repulsive at dinner time. All these feelings are very valid and should be listened to! You are a unique individual, so what suites one person around the table may not suite you at all.

How do we apply this to children on GAPS diet?
As parents we have to make decisions for our children. GAPS children have altered senses of smell, taste and desire for foods, and they may have severe cravings and addictions to the very foods that harm them. The cravings and addictions usually are to processed foods; as we start the GAPS Nutritional Protocol we remove all processed foods, and as a result your child may go through a period of withdrawal with all sorts of symptoms (behavioural and physical). This is important for the parents to understand in order to help the child to go through this difficult period: your child’s body is stuck in a diseased metabolic state, so it demands particular unhealthy foods to maintain and serve that state. So, unless we want to maintain this diseased metabolic state, we cannot allow the child to have those foods. Shifting the child’s body to a healthy metabolic state will take time and effort, and the GAPS Nutritional Programme will do it for you. So stick to the list of foods allowed on GAPS diet. However, within that list try to provide a large enough variety of foods for the child to choose from (when the state of withdrawal is more or less over!). It is very important for your child to start using the senses of desire, smell, taste and satisfaction. Your child will need time to learn to use these senses and to discover them in the first place, as in a diseased metabolic state these senses were suppressed and perverted. So, fill your house with GAPS food and allow you child to pick and choose (within reason of course). Allow your child to explore food the way he or she wants to, eat it with hands, eat it cold or warm, eat it at a meal table or graze on it all day. It is essential for any child (GAPS or healthy ‘normally’ developing child) to develop a healthy relationship with food right from the beginning of their lives. Unfortunately, in the Western world in many cases that does not happen. It is very upsetting to see some mothers in the Western world working intently on the child’s table manners, while not putting any effort into preparing a decent meal for her child (serving some micro-waved processed concoction). A combination of poor quality food and heavy pressure on eating that ‘food’ with the best table manners can put anybody off food, let alone a small child! In order for the child to develop normal senses in relation to food the child needs natural healthy foods full of flavour and taste; and the child must be allowed to explore that food on his or her terms (eating it with their hands, making a mess, enjoying it). Table manners can come later, when the child has developed natural food senses of desire for food, smell, taste and satisfaction from food, which will serve your child’s body well for the rest of his or her life.

In conclusion: Mother Nature took billions of years to design the human body; it is an incredibly intelligent creation! As the natural foods on this planet have been designed during the same time, your inner body intelligence knows their composition, and knows what foods to choose for particular needs. All we have to do is treat this intelligence with respect. Use your senses of smell, taste, desire for food and satisfaction from eating it to guide you in your decisions: when to eat, what foods to eat and in what combinations. And remember: you are unique, so what suits your neighbour may not suite you at all.

Best wishes,
Dr Natasha

I have great news!

Peter, who is my husband, my dear life-partner and my business manager, has come up with a good way for us all to support WAPF! Both of us feel very strongly that this wonderful organisation is doing a priceless service to humanity and needs to be supported in any way possible.

It has been brought to my attention that several people are launching commercial enterprises based on GAPS™. Gut & Psychology Syndrome™ and GAPS™ are my trademarks and copyright, so Peter has contacted these people to ask them to recognise the trademark and acknowledge that Gut & Psychology Syndrome is my intellectual property and to pay a small royalty for the use. We also told them that we are donating these royalties to WAPF as a way of supporting their excellent work. I am pleased to announce that this has been received with great enthusiasm, that just shows how much respect this organisation has!

GAPS is growing in its popularity, more and more people around the world are using The GAPS Nutritional Protocol to heal themselves and to heal members of their families. Implementing GAPS is not easy, and I feel that people who successfully went through it, have earned the right to take it further and to share it with others. I have no objections to that, as these people have the priceless enthusiasm for GAPS and good knowledge to be able to help many more around the world. So many people out there need this information desperately! So, those of you who mastered GAPS and would like to use it in a commercial way to spread the word, I will encourage you with pleasure, but first, please contact us, so we can help you to comply with the trademark and copyright requirement. We are going to ask you to pay a small royalty, which we will donate to the Weston A Price Foundation, and hopefully through this we can provide a long-term sustained support for this very worthwhile organisation!

My best wishes to all of you!

Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride

The GAPS™ Nutritional Programme is essentially a self-help programme. However, there are large numbers of GAPS™ people in the world who need help and guidance from a qualified health practitioner - a practitioner who is GAPS™ trained!

I have good news: I am happy to announce the first four Certified GAPS™ Practitioner Training courses in the USA! I would like to train doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, osteopaths, homeopaths and other health practitioners about how to work with GAPS™ patients.

We will go through examples from the most common to the most difficult clinical case studies. We will establish a framework for a GAPS™ practice, including running a local GAPS™ Group. We will work through various clinical scenarios you may encounter in your practice. On completion of the course you will be a Certified GAPS Practitioner and will be listed on my resource site at www.gaps.me as well as receiving referral patients from me.

After the initial four training sessions, listed below, I will hold training courses in Europe and other locations around the world.

2011 USA Certified GAPS™ Practitioner Training Schedule

• Seattle: September 24th - 25th (Sat. & Sun.)
• Chicago: September 28th - 29th (Wed. & Thurs.)
• New York: October 1st - 2nd (Sat. & Sun.)
• Dallas: November 15th - 16th (Tues. & Wed.)

Tuition: $1175.00
(Tuition includes the two-day training, lunches, training materials, and a business starter package)

For training location information and registration, please call the GAPS Registration Line at:

516-216-4658 or e-mail GAPSTraining@gmail.com

The GAPS Registration Line is open now Monday - Friday, 10am to 6pm (EST USA)

For more details, please go to:
http://www.immunitrition.com/GAPS_Practitioner_Traini.html

I look forward to seeing you at a future GAPS Training Course!

Best wishes,

Dr Natasha

Listen to the latest radio interview with Dr Natasha Cambell-McBride at www.oneradionetwork.com/blogcategory/diet_and_nutrition/