Dr. Campbell on gut health and toxins

I found an interesting interview on mercola's website-its an interview of Dr. Campbell, who developed the GAPs diet.


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx


I couldnt figure out how to format this correctly so here is the article...

"Dr. Campbell is convinced that autistic children are in fact born
with perfectly normal brains and perfectly normal sensory organs.

"What happens in these children [is that] they do not develop normal gut flora from birth…" she says.
"Gut flora is a hugely important part of our human physiology.
Recently research in Scandinavia has demonstrated that 90 percent of all
cells and all genetic material in a human body is our own gut flora. We
are just a shell… a habitat for this mass of microbes inside us. We
ignore them at our own peril.
…As a result, their digestive system—instead of being a source of
nourishment for these children—becomes a major source of toxicity.
These pathogenic microbes inside their digestive tract damage the
integrity of the gut wall. So all sort of toxins and microbes flood into
the bloodstream of the child, and get into the brain of the child. That
usually happens in the second year of life in children who were breast
fed because breastfeeding provides a protection against this abnormal
gut flora. In children who were not breastfed, I see the symptoms of
autism developing in the first year of life.
Children use all of their sensory organs to collect information from their environment,
which is then passed to the brain for processing. This is a fundamental part of learning.
However, in children with Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), the
toxicity flowing from their gut throughout their bodies and into their
brains, clogs the brain with toxicity, preventing it from performing its
normal function and process sensory information...
"Sensory information turns into this mush; into a noise in the
child's brain, and from this noise the child cannot learn. They cannot decipher anything useful," she explains.

"That's why they don't learn how to communicate. They don't learn
how to understand language, how to use language, how to develop all the
natural instinctive behaviors and coping behaviors that normal children
develop. The second year of life is crucial in the maturation of the
brain of the baby. That's when communication skills develop and how
instinctive behaviors develop and play skills develop in children and
coping behaviors develop.

If the child's brain is clogged with toxicity, the child misses
that window of opportunity of learning and starts developing autism
depending on the mixture of toxins, depending on how severe the whole
condition is, and how severely abnormal the gut flora is in the child."

GAPS may manifest as a conglomerate of symptoms that can fit the
diagnosis of either autism, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity,
dyslexia, dyspraxia, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, just to name a
few possibilities...

If the epidemic of autism and other learning disorders originate in
the gut, what has changed in the past 25 years to alter children's gut
flora into such an abnormal state?

Dr. Campbell explains:

"As far as science knows, the baby inside the mother's womb
during nine months of gestation is sterile. The baby's gut is sterile.
The baby acquires its gut flora at the time of birth, when the baby goes
through the birth canal of the mother. So whatever lives in mom's birth
canal, in mom's vagina, becomes the baby's gut flora.

So what lives in mom's vagina? It's a very richly populated area
of a woman's body. The vaginal flora comes from the bowel. So if the
mother has abnormal gut flora, she will have abnormal flora in her birth
canal. Fathers are not exempt because fathers also have gut flora, and
that gut flora populates their groin and they share their groin flora
with the mother on a regular basis.

… I always collect health history from the mother, the father,
and preferably even grandparents of the child. I find that we have a
growing and a deepening epidemic of abnormalities in the gut flora,
which began since Second World War when antibiotics were discovered.
Every course of broad spectrum antibiotics wipes out the beneficial
species of microbes in the gut, which leaves the pathogens in there
uncontrolled."

This is why it's so important to 'reseed' your gut with fermented
foods and probiotics when you're taking an antibiotic. If you aren't
eating fermented foods, you most likely need to supplement with a
probiotic on a regular basis, especially if you're eating a lot of
processed foods.

"In parallel with beneficial microbes in the healthy gut,
scientists have found thousands of different species of downright
pathogenic disease-causing microbes; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other
microbes. But as long as the good ones predominate in your gut, they
control all the pathogens… They keep them in small colonies and they
don't allow them to proliferate.

Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial
bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to
proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut.
The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between
two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that's a window of
opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow.

What I see in the families of autistic children is that 100 percent of mom's of autistic children have abnormal gut flora
and health problems related to that. But then I look at grandmothers on
the mother's side, and I find that the grandmothers also have abnormal
gut flora, but much milder."

In essence, what we have is a generational build-up of abnormal gut
flora, with each generation becoming ever more prone to being further
harmed from the use of antibiotics—and vaccines as well, which I'll
discuss in a moment.

Adding injury to insult is the significant decrease in breastfeeding.
We now know that breastfed babies develop entirely different gut flora
compared to bottle-fed babies. Infant formula never was, and never will
be a healthy replacement to breast milk, for a number of reasons;
altered gut flora being one of them.

Dr. Campbell discovered that a large percentage of the mothers of
autistic children were bottle-fed. Then, as they received many courses
of antibiotics throughout their childhood, the abnormalities in their
gut flora further deepened.

"Ever since antibiotics were prescribed, particularly from the
50s and 60s, they were prescribed for every cough and sneeze. They
really over-prescribed antibiotics. And with every course of
antibiotics, the abnormalities in the gut flora would get deeper and
deeper in these girls.

And then, at the age of 15, 16, these ladies were put on a
contraceptive pill… [which] have a devastating effect on the gut flora.
Nowadays ladies are taking it for quite a few years before they're ready
to start their family."

So, to recap, bottle-feeding along with over-use of antibiotics and
use of the contraceptive pill set the stage for increasingly abnormal
gut flora with each passing generation. Then, add to that a diet of
processed junk food and excessive consumption of high fructose corn
syrup and you have a prescription for disaster in terms of intestinal
health.

It's important to realize that processed foods and sugar almost
exclusively feed pathogens in your digestive system, allowing them to
proliferate.

"Many of these modern factors created a whole plethora of young
ladies in our modern world who have quite deeply abnormal gut flora by
the time they are ready to have their first child. This is the abnormal
gut flora that they are passing through their children," she explains.

"So these babies acquire abnormal gut flora from the start and
while the baby is breastfed the baby is receiving protection because
whatever is in the mother's blood will be in her milk. Women who have
abnormal gut flora would have immune factors in their blood, which they
have developed against their own gut flora to protect them. These immune
factors will be in their milk.

While the baby is breastfed, despite the fact that the baby has
acquired abnormal gut flora from the mom, there will be some protection.
But as soon as the breastfeeding stops that protection stops as well.
That is the time when the abnormalities in the gut flora really flourish
and the child starts sliding down into autism or ADHD or ADD or any
other learning disability or physical problems such as diabetes type 1,
for example, and celiac disease or other autoimmune conditions, or…
asthma, eczema and other physical problems. That's where this epidemic
comes from."

Unfortunately, all the factors that create abnormal gut flora are
getting increasingly more prevalent, across the globe. This means that
the next generation of young women having children will have even worse gut flora than their mothers, so the proportion of GAPS children being born predisposed to develop autism will be even higher!

"Our authorities need to understand that, and they need to be ready for that," Dr. Campbell warns.

As Dr. Campbell explains, babies are born not only with a sterile
gut, but also with immature immune systems. And establishment of normal
gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a crucial role
in appropriate maturation of your baby's immune system. Hence, babies
who develop abnormal gut flora are left with compromised immune systems.

"Vaccinations have been developed, originally, for children with perfectly healthy immune systems," she says. "GAPS children are NOT fit to be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol."

Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome
contains an entire chapter outlining what health care professionals
need to do to improve the vaccination strategy, because the standard
vaccination protocol is bound to damage GAPS babies.

"It's a matter of the last straw breaking the camel's back," she explains.
"So if the child is damaged enough, the vaccine can provide that last
straw. But if it doesn't provide that last straw in a particular child,
then it will get the child closer to the breaking point."

She also points out another risk factor of vaccines:

"What we also have to understand is that the pharmaceutical
industry cannot patent natural viruses, natural bacteria or any microbe
that nature has created. They have to genetically modify them before
they can patent them," she says.

"So these vaccines contain genetically modified viruses,
genetically modified microbes. We still haven't got enough data to know
what exactly they're doing to the human body, and what exactly these
genes are doing to our gut flora in these children."

I was wondering if anybody had any insight on the topic of this
article in relation to fibromyalgia (or hair loss). I developed
"fibromyalgia" after having been on antibiotics for several years, and
the interview topic seems to be a good explanation for the autoimmune
component that creates most of my symptoms. I tried supplementation,
chelation, detoxes, and infection reduction. All helped me make some
pretty good gains in functionality, with infection reduction probably
being the biggest help (using rife, anti-fungals, enzymes, etc). But
considering my history with antibiotics, the scenario that campbell
presented seems to fit the best in my particular case. I forgot who it
was on here posted once that there are some 800 types of bacteria that
live in the gut, and once the number gets down to 4 or 500 chronic
health problems follow. Ive made more improvement in one month of
following a paleo diet and taking lots of probiotics than I have in the
last year trying all the other stuff (although rife did help quite a
bit). Drinking ozonated water is another thing that helped a lot-its
pretty obvious that my problems center around the health of the gut.
Jdp has posted a lot of info on here about cell wall deficient bacteria
and biofilms causing autoimmune issues, lyme being a common one that
comes to mind. For a while I thought that there was just one or several
types of microbes causing my issues, which could still be the case, but
im wondering if maybe the best angle of treatment would be to work more
on recolonizing the gut flora. Most online sources say to take lots of
probiotics, but it is obviously more complicated than that.


First, how do you replace several hundred strains that might have been
wiped out of the gut ecosystem? Second, how do you get them to
actually colonize the gut? I think this might be possible if the gut
was actually healed, which wont probably happen if you have inflammation
from gut flora imbalance. I know that gut bacteria direct all sorts of
bodily functions, but there just isn't much research that I've found on
it. Im worried that I did a lot of damage to my gut ecosystem with
several years of non-stop antibiotics (which a doctor put me on for acne
in college - dumb). Is anyone familiar with any great research on this
that would be helpful? The only thing of interest that I ran across
was some doctor in Australia that does fecal implantation. Disgusting
and dangerous as it sounds, that seems like it would be an effective way
of transferring a large variety of flora. CS and everyone keeps saying
how what you eat really does affect your health and it is definitely
true. In particular, i'm hoping Littlefighter might chime in on this,
he seems to have an avid interest in probiotics...

manofmanytrades wrote:The only thing of interest that I ran across was some doctor in Australia that does fecal implantation.Disgusting and dangerous as it sounds, that seems like it would be an effective way of transferring a large variety of flora. CS and everyone keeps saying how what you eat really does affect your health and it is definitely true. In particular, i'm hoping Littlefighter might chime in on this, he seems to have an avid interest in probiotics...

I found out when i was born, umbilical chord was torn before it should had been. That's why my first trip was to get some foreign blood in foreign environment. I started to think my health was affected badly because of it. All the ADHD and autoimmunity.

More and more i read about it fecal implantation can be more powerful than tons of probiotics and prebiotics. Can you provide the link of Australians doing it?

Some animals eat foreign stool to repopulate gut flora...

Its called human probiotic infusion, here a couple websites...

http://www.topix.com/forum/health/colitis/TA5ANBB43CD9AP8NP
http://probiotictherapy.com.au/pages/what_is_hpi.html

As far as i can tell, very few doctors do it but ive seen a few forum posts on it that claim great health improvements.

That therapy sounds very interesting. I also wonder about any complications, immunity?

One of the aspects of gut health I am wondering about is the effectiveness of probiotics. If anybody would like to chime in on this, that would be great. Are oral probiotics (assuming pre-biotics also) really enough? Do they adhere to the gut wall and actually augment the gut flora given sufficient time on them. I worry I'm taking them and simply sending them out the other side with out really effecting gut ecology.

If one were really trying to change their gut flora, would a combination of oral intake and also suppositories be even more efficient? Are there any type of things that can be used as suppositories that benefit gut ecology, meaning probiotic substances or things like EDTA. I've heard of coffee enemas before but am not sure what their point is.

This area is key for many.

In our society, we have become "germ-a-phobes"

Many of us are victims of iatrogenic doctors. Harm done to us by vaccination, unnatural procedures at birth, antibiotics and all kinds of unproven methods. It was once well known that taking a baby to the hospital caused all kinds of problems. Now today, most people are afraid of not having their baby born in the hospital. Probably because there are some ways (food wise) that prevented the need for pain reduction, dilation, etc, but that is all long forgotten since we have become less smart about this stuff.

TV, movies, media, etc. place fear into microbes and germs as if they can catching something. I think we are exposing ourselves to too many toxins and not enough bacteria.

So in part, not getting enough dirt (I'm not kidding) in our bodies can increase our chances of problems.

Have you ever wondered how trees and plants convert hard rock minerals into ionic form to be driven into their roots?

Homeostatic soil organisms (HSO's), which are things found in the soil do just that. In us, they work in symbiosis with our bacteria/microbes to build up defenses.

manofmanytrades,

There are about a half dozen extremely promising new treatments out there. Fecal transplant is one of them. It's been talked about on this forum before. I don't want to get into all the details but like CCSVI, it may be a good idea to make sure the pathogenic load is lowered as low as possible before attempting from a healthy donor such as your wife or similar, IMO.

I forget where I watched it but it was mentioned that there is an area where previoiusly it has been used by putting fecal material in a tea and consuming that way. I forget the ingredients of the tea.

Other extremely promising treatments are if you own your own cow, can inject ones blood into them. The cow will produce the antibodies. Then the first milk after a calf is born (colostrum), one would then consume that. That is an old and rarely heard of method to get over a serious ailment. The reason why is in some serious ailments, one doesn't produce the needed antibodies.


The endocannabinoid system is another. While this forum uses supplements, there are some researchers looking for alternative methods that don't have access to cannabis to juice. Here is a video making it's way across the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xPmR8j4plw

Here is a quote from Ken on this post https://immortalhair.forumotion.com/t7972-the-endocannabinoid-system-question#80772

A brief quote from Ken on why juicing over smoking

We would have to grow a large patch of hemp to have it as a salad or juice (500 mg of THC per day). Smoking is only giving us 3 to 5 mg and while this will help, it would be better to be on the 500mg dose and not get high.

The problem with juicing cannabis beyond the obvious, is that it requires an "extremely" large quantity which isn't very practical. Beyond supplements, a professional massage may be helpful. ChiAmp or a similar tactile transducer may be an alternative to reduce whole body stress when one can't get a professional massage.


However, there has to be an easier and better way. Thanks to James Bare's molecular weight to frequency conversion one can one can look up the molecular weight and find a frequency. Any benefits would be homeopathic benefits and used for 5 - 10 minutes per day in general.

#THC Molecular Weight: 314.4617
dwell 600
program c
7.0827 #7.08275426375314

I felt my legs for the first time for a couple minutes in 15 - 20 years from prior severe neuropathy so it maybe hopeful or maybe all in my head, lol.

Another method I may try is to buy a Soda Stream and or make as a mead of http://www.amazon.com/Hemp-Seed-Hulled-Organic-Botanicals/sim/B003CR5XYG/2 or maybe an echinaccea plant to extract hopefully large quantities of Cannabinoids without having to juice extremely large quantities of the illegal plant.

None of this will get one high BTW and perfectly legal but hopefully get the health benefits.


Regarding Rife, I should mention just in case as I'm not sure how many do but don't forget to run freq that also heal the body. Johann is a perfect example of the kind of extremely good results one can get so long as they also use freq to help heal the body besides inhibiting pathogens. A good thread ont his = http://www.rifeforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4071&page=10

I'm getting incredibly good results over here with running PEMF or similar frequencies besides inhibiting pathogens.

hope this helps

I guess I'dn never realized that the gut becomes colonized from the mother during the birthing process. This would make sense that there is an increase in chronic health issues every generation...if the gut flora is damaged due to diet and toxins, it might not manifest as much in an adult as it would in a newborn...then that damaged gut flora is damaged even more as the child becomes an adult, again passing it on to their offspring. Youd expect a constant generational increase in autoimmune issues and cancer due to the degradation of the gut flora colonies. How the different bacteria interact with each other seems to be extremely complex, and I would expect that research on how to correct imbalances is probably years away. Ill have to look into probiotic infusion more, since it would seem that the best way to correct something so complicated would just be to transfer the entire ecosystem. There are so many hundreds of species of bacteria and yeasts that interact in the gut I dont know how else youd figure out what the necessary microbes were that are needed. I speculate that there could be dangers associated with accidental transfer of harmful bacteria that someone previously didnt have, that interact with the persons genetics to cause new health challenges.

That therapy sounds very interesting. I also wonder about any complications, immunity?

One
of the aspects of gut health I am wondering about is the effectiveness
of probiotics. If anybody would like to chime in on this, that would be
great. Are oral probiotics (assuming pre-biotics also) really enough? Do
they adhere to the gut wall and actually augment the gut flora given
sufficient time on them. I worry I'm taking them and simply sending them
out the other side with out really effecting gut ecology.

If one
were really trying to change their gut flora, would a combination of
oral intake and also suppositories be even more efficient? Are there any
type of things that can be used as suppositories that benefit gut
ecology, meaning probiotic substances or things like EDTA. I've heard of
coffee enemas before but am not sure what their point is.

The research papers that ive seen on this indicate that the probiotics only stick around for a week or two and then the count is down to zero again. Perhaps if all the layers of the gut were healed they might stick...or maybe once the flora is damaged its not as simple as just throwing something new in there and expecting it to live... Taking probiotics does help though, so they obviously do influence the gut somehow as they pass through. Im wondering if kefir and kombucha would have a greater internal effect than probiotics capsules alone, since there are dozens of symbiotic yeasts and bacteria in them. I know that some practitioners that specialize in the gut use suppositories to deliver probiotics because it bypasses the stomach acid, CS would probably know more about it than i do, maybe have a more scientific explanation for why the bacteria dont seem to be able to colonize and reproduce...

RDKML, thanks for the info, ill look into those. I do credit the rife machine for a definite improvement in my symptoms and think that it enables the success of other treatments. Im usually a skeptic but im confident that it works, one time i was using it in the middle of the day and after a few minutes got instant sore throat and headache, flu like feeling herx...thatll make a believer out of you! Ive never gotten a herx from running lyme freqs but things like babesia and different parasites have given me herxs. A bit off topic, but since you mentioned colostrum, what is your opinion on auto-urine therapy? Klinghardt raves about it for autoimmune issues.

manofmanytrades wrote:what is your opinion on auto-urine therapy?

I don't know. I've never tried it.