Anyone have any success with GAPS?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 3.5 years
- Published
- Jun 2013
Summary
After 3.5 years of severe ME, she combined a GAPS/Paleo hybrid diet with aloe vera, glutamine, bone broth, juicing, liver-detox herbs and probiotics. She estimates the diet alone took her from "10% with pain to 40% with no pain," describing it as ongoing, effortful maintenance rather than a finished treatment.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Supplements, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Probiotics and fermented foods.
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