hi I'm Cara from Health Home and Happiness and today we're going to talk
about the difference between detoxification and knowing if you're
having your recurrence of symptoms when you're on the gaps diet most people that
are going through the introduction part of the gaps diet where you start with
just meat broth and cooked vegetables and cooked meat and then you slowly add
things in they'll get what's called a healing crisis and a healing crisis is
when the pathogenic bacteria low in your gut are dying off because you're not
feeding them the starches and the carbs anymore that they need to survive when
they die off they release a ton of toxins into your bloodstream that can
affect your brain and then they can kind of back up in your system and cause
rashes or cause digestive problems or sometimes even vomiting diarrhea that
kind of stuff as your body tries to get rid of them overall this it seems
horrible it is horrible it's not fun to go through but it means that they're
dying and they're no longer living in your body slowly emitting these little
toxins are slowly causing problems with your digestive system so that's what a
healing crisis is I will link to a blog post that explains that more in detail
down below down below this video as well as some more informational articles on
how to know if you're having a detox reaction or a healing crisis or when
you're supposed to go on the next stage so if you're having a healing crisis on
gaps something that you can do to help deal with the symptoms is Epsom salt
baths those are in my intro book and they're recommended by dr. Natasha epson
salt has both sulphur and my museum and both of those are needed for your
detoxification pathways so your body can naturally clean up the toxins that are
there the second thing you can do to help eliminate your detox reactions is
to take a charcoal if you're having too much of a detox reaction and maybe
you're vomiting a lot or you're so lethargic that you can't do
living things this I don't think it's recommended by dr. Natasha but she
doesn't say anything bad about it I know a lot of my readers have had success
with taking activated charcoal it's just you can get it at any link Walgreens or
anything like that it's just a little pill and it's full of activated charcoal
you give this for poisoning to kids that's actually what's recommended by
most mainstream pediatricians instead of the syrup of ipecac that makes them
throw up now you just give them the charcoal and that absorbs the toxins in
there so stuff in their system but for gaps if you have accidentally consumed
too many probiotics or you've eaten too many Pro fermented foods and you're
having a detox reaction and that's acute you can take the charcoal we don't want
to take this every day because it does bind to the vitamins and minerals that
we need so if we take a charcoal every day to try and get rid of the detox
reactions and we're also going to be starving our body of the nutrients that
we need so it's good for an occasional use if you need it just to get you out
of a healing crisis quickly and then be careful not to do whatever you did to
cause a healing crisis to come on so fast usually it's probiotics by a cult
is super powerful so if you just take just start with just a tiny little bit
of that and that's another question that I get a lot is do you do bye uncle
during the introduction I don't do about cope during the intro I feel like intro
just alleviating all of those carbohydrates is plenty to kill off the
bacteria so if you are also taking bio cult that those good strains that are in
bio cult will go down and kill the bacteria even faster and that can cause
too much of a healing crisis for most people to handle so we have Epsom salt
baths which help our body to detox because the sulfur and magnesium is
needed for detoxification pathways slowing down fermented foods and
probiotics or not doing them at all and waiting till you've had
or healing the charcoal for immediate relief that is our third thing and then
finally is just taking it slow just go through the gaps intro diet as slowly as
you can try things like try the egg yolk a lot of people can handle the egg yolk
and it feels like they're doing more but introducing especially the probiotics as
slowly as possible coconut is not in the GOP's intro diet and I believe that's
because it does kill off that pathogenic bacteria quickly as well coconut can get
through your healing crisis for lots of people as well and then the next thing
we're going to talk about is how do you know it should go on the next stage of
the gaps diet there's five or six intro stages all this that down below I'll put
a link to the the foods that are in each stage and the exact numbers and what's
allowed on them but you go the first stage is just the meat and the veggies
and the broth and that's pretty restrictive and a lot of people are
really hungry so I don't ever really recommend people stay on that unless
they're having severe diarrhea and vomiting for more than a day or two so
I'll do a couple days on the first stage and then once you can add the egg yolks
into a few more days and then slowly add about one food a day and if you start
seeing symptoms come back like if you've done that guy's diet for depression and
you didn't have depression through stage three then you go to introduce something
on stage four and depression comes back or eczema comes back or whatever you're
doing gaps diet for if something went away in the first stages and then it
comes back it means you need to back up a stage so the difference between
knowing when to go on the next stage and seeing your symptoms come back and know
when you need to reverse a little bit is if it's something new that's usually a
healing crisis so if you used or if it's like a big flare so if you had a little
bit of eczema and then you go on stage one and you see a big eczema Fleur
that's from the die-off if you don't notice something until you go up a stage
then that's usually your body not being able to handle that next stage up so
that's how I tell it's kind of it takes a lot of charting there's a chart in my
intro book that can help you to track these symptoms so we marked a lot of
symptoms on calendars and we were doing doing this we put a big desk calendar
those big ones that we just put one of those up in the kitchen and I marked her
symptoms like melt we were doing meltdowns bowel movements and how much
he ate a day so if she was like really hungry and she had very few meltdowns
and she had good bowel movements I would mark that on our calendar for that day
and then if I introduced a food that day I would mark that too so then if the
next day I saw well she didn't sleep really well last night let's see what we
did yesterday well her everything was good yesterday but we did introduce like
the raw garlic they saw oh maybe she's not good with the raw garlic yet so then
we just take the raw garlic out and do whatever we did prior to adding the rock
garlic in for a couple days and then go ahead and try the raw garlic again the
the GOP's intro is super healing and it's super efficient so hopefully every
couple days if you just give your body a couple days to rest then a few days
later you'll be able to introduce whatever food you were just trying to do
that caused that detox reaction or that healing crisis and you can introduce it
again so I hope that helps know when to go on the next stages and again I'll
link a few blog posts down below if you can give me a thumbs up if this was
helpful on YouTube that would be helpful to me to get these words out there and I
hope you have a healthy day thank you
hi I'm Kara from health home and happiness and today we're going to talk
about detox reactions in the gout site in the gaps diet you're hilarious