George Yeo 網路自強號

GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症, autism 自閉症, ADHD 注意力缺失過動症, ADD 注意力缺失症, learning disabilities 學習障礙, dyslexia 誦讀困難, dyspraxia 運動障礙, neurological disorders 神經系統疾病, psychiatric disorders 精神疾病, depression and schizophrenia 抑鬱症和精神分裂症, immune disorders 免疫系統疾病, and digestive problems 消化系統問題。


How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...

July 31 2011 | 334,451 views
( http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx )

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has a full-time medical practice in the United Kingdom where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.

Here, she shares her insights about Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), which can make a child particularly prone to vaccine damage, and the GAPS Nutritional program; a natural treatment for autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression and schizophrenia.

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

    I'm thrilled to share this interview with you as Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride presents a truly fascinating and elegant description of the foundational conditions that contribute to autism, along with a pragmatic approach to help circumvent and stem the autism epidemic, which has been a perplexing puzzle for most of us.

    Dr. Campbell is a medical doctor with a postgraduate degree in neurology. She worked as a neurologist and a neurosurgeon for several years before starting a family. When her first-born son was diagnosed autistic at the age of three, she was surprised to realize that her own profession had no answers…

    Back in 1984, when she graduated from medical school, autism was an exceptionally rare disorder, with a prevalence of about 1 in 10,000.

        "By the time I graduated from medical school I had never seen an autistic individual," she says. "… To be honest, the first autistic child that I encountered was my own… Five years ago we were diagnosing one child in 150, which is almost a 40-fold increase in incidence. Now in Britain and some countries, we are diagnosing one child in 66."

    The rates are similar in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand as well. She quickly delved into research, looking for an answer for her son, and ended up getting a second postgraduate degree in human nutrition. As a result of her work, her son fully recovered and is no longer autistic.

    Although originally from Russia, where she received her medical training, she moved to the UK about 20 years ago, and now has a clinic in Cambridge, England, where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems.

Early Treatment is Key

    The treatment she developed is simply called the GAPS Nutritional Program, and as Dr. Campbell explains, the younger the child is when you start the treatment, the better the results.

        "When we start the GAPS treatment at the age of 2, 3, 4, up to 5, you give your child a real chance to completely recover from autism, from ADHD, ADD, dyslexia and dyspraxia—and that larger group of children who do not fit into any diagnostic box… These are the children with whom doctors usually procrastinate. They ask the parents to bring the child in six months and again in six months to observe the child in order to just give the child a diagnosis and a very precious, very valuable time gets wasted that way while the child could have been helped," she says.

It All Starts in the Gut…

    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.

        So breastfeeding is crucial to protect these children."

Brain Toxicity Leads to Symptoms of Autism

    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...

How has Children's Gut Flora Become so Drastically Altered?

    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."

The Massive Importance of Fermented Foods and Probiotics

    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.

Bottle-Feeding and Antibiotics Exact a Heavy Toll

    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."

Changes are Urgently Needed

    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.

The Role of Vaccines

    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."

How to Identify GAPS

    Fortunately, it is possible to identify GAPS within the first weeks of your baby's life, which can help you make better informed decisions about vaccinations, and about how to proceed to set your child on the path to a healthy life.

    One of the KEY issues is to screen all children BEFORE they are immunized, and if they have the metabolic characteristics of GAPS, they should NOT be immunized until that is reversed. This simple measure could prevent unnecessary and tragic trauma in hundreds of thousands of families. In all likelihood there are far more children being harmed by vaccines than being helped at this point.  By simply modifying the process one could radically reduce the risk of a child developing an illness on the autism spectrum.

    Dr. Campbell describes the entire process in her book.

    In her practice, she starts out by collecting a complete health history of the parents, and their gut health is assessed. Then, within the first few days of life, the stool of the child can be analyzed to determine the state of her gut flora, followed by a urine test to check for metabolites, which can give you a picture of the state of your child's immune system.

        "Now we have excellent tests that find chemicals produced by various species of microbes in the gut," she says. "… So by analyzing urine, indirectly we can say what kind of species of microbes are sitting in the gut of the child, or what kind of chemicals they are producing."

        "… If the child has abnormal gut flora we can assume that the child has a compromised immunity, and these children must not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol because they simply get damaged by it. They should not be vaccinated."

    The non-invasive tests described in her book are now available in most laboratories around the world, and typically run around $80-100 each in the US. This is peanuts compared to the incredible expense of treating an autistic child once the damage is done.

        "Our children are being used as a market for selling vaccines," Dr. Campbell says. "The children are vaccinated in our Western world, I'm afraid, not for the sake of saving the child but for the sake of making money… It's an extremely sad and worrying situation."

Siblings are Also at High-Risk for Vaccine Damage

    Another group of children that may also over-react to vaccinations are siblings of children with autism, severe hyperactivity, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental conditions, or type 1diabetes.

        "Younger siblings of autistic children, and younger siblings of children with all these disabilities should not be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol," she warns.

        "The immune tests that I was talking about can be repeated every six months or every year for these children. Whenever the child is considered to be perfectly healthy and the immune system shows itself to be perfectly well functioning, only then can a vaccination be considered for these children because we simply cannot take the risk."

Strategies to Restore Health to Children with GAPS and Autism

    Dr. Campbell has developed a very effective treatment for GAP children, called GAPS Nutritional Protocol. It is described in great detail in her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome, which is designed to be a self-help book.

        "[P]robably tens of thousands of people now, around the world, are saving their children with this program," she says. "… The majority of these people just bought the book, read it, followed the program, and got fantastic results."

    In summary, the protocol consists of three elements:

        1.Diet—the GAPS diet consists of easily-digestible foods that are dense in nutrition, including fermented foods.

        According to Dr. Campbell: "On average, people adhere to the diet a couple of years. It takes two years to drive out the pathogenic flora, to reestablish normal flora in the gut, to heal and seal the damaged gut lining in these people and turn the gut back to being a major source of nourishment for the person instead of being a source of toxicity."

        2.Food supplements, including: probiotics and vitamins D and A in the form of cod liver oil, although sun exposure is also an important part for GAPS patients, for proper vitamin D production.

        3.Detoxification—The GAPS nutritional protocol will naturally clear out most toxins. Dr. Campbell does not use any kind of drugs or chemicals to remove toxins as it can be too drastic for some, and can produce damaging side effects. Instead she recommends juicing as a gentle but effective way of removing toxic build-up, as well as baths with Epsom salt, sea salt, seaweed powder, apple cider vinegar, and baking soda.

    Dr. Campbell discusses many additional and priceless details relating to this protocol, so please, set aside some time to listen to the interview in its entirety, or read through the transcript.

More Information

    I have always found that the best health strategy is prevention, and I'm sure many would agree. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

    Now that we've identified a way to help prevent autism and related neurological and physical damage from manifesting, I can't urge you enough to take this information to heart, and to pay close attention to your gut health well before planning your pregnancy, and to take the simple and relatively inexpensive precautions described by Dr. Campbell that can significantly reduce the chances of your child being harmed.

    The avalanche of autism must be curbed—and quickly! And for now the burden rests on you, the parent, to take control of your and your child's health, and to arm yourself with information that can have life-altering ramifications.

    If you're pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or know someone who is, I can't recommend Dr. Campbell's book enough. Buy it for yourself, or as a gift.

    You can also find more information on Dr. Campbell's website: www.GAPS.me, and on her blog at www.doctor-natasha.com.

        "We have an absolute epidemic of GAPS – Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Gut and Physiology Syndrome, and the number of sufferers are growing," she says. "I'm completely overwhelmed by demands for consultations, and people all over the world need GAPS practitioners...

        So I am preparing a training course for medical practitioners and health practitioners. The first wave of training will be done in September-October in Seattle, Chicago, New York and Dallas.

        We will cover the U.S. with a good number of GAPS trained practitioners. This will be people who will be able to take you through the diet, through the whole protocol, and they will run local GAPS groups where all the patients and other GAPS people will be able to come weekly or fortnightly to exchange recipes, exchange news, help each other, give each other moral support and learn more about GAPS."

    Once she's done the trainings in the US, she will continue on to Europe and other parts of the world. If you're a doctor, nutritionist, dietician, osteopath, homeopath or other health practitioner and you're interested in becoming a certified GAPS practitioner, please see this link for more information. http://gaps.me/preview/?p=446


一位醫生如何治療了她兒子的自閉症...

2011年7月31日| 334451次瀏覽

娜塔莎·坎貝爾 - 麥克布萊德醫生 (Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride) 在英國是專職的臨床醫師，她治療患有自閉症，學習障礙，神經系統疾病，精神疾病，免疫系統疾病和消化系統問題的兒童和成人。

在此，她分享她對胃腸道及心理綜合症（GAPS）的見解，這個見解可以改變特別是疫苗損害的孩子，以及 GAPS 營養計畫 -- 一個針對自閉症，多動症，誦讀困難，運動障礙，抑鬱症和精神分裂症的自然治療。

Mercola博士 (Dr. Mercola) 的評論：

    我很高興能與您分享這次採訪中，娜塔莎·坎貝爾 - 麥克布萊德博士提出的迷人和優雅的說明，有助於自閉症基本條件，以及與務實的態度，有助於避免和阻止自閉症流行病，一直對我們大多數人的一個令人困惑的難題。

    坎貝爾博士是一名具神經學畢業後研究學位的醫生。她結婚前即擔任神經科醫師和神經外科醫生至今。當她的長子三歲時被診斷出自閉症時，她驚訝地發現她的所學裡沒有答案...

    回到1984年，當她從醫學院畢業時，自閉症是一種罕見的疾病，患病率約一萬分之一 (1/10000)。

        “我從醫學院畢業的時候，我從來沒有見過自閉症的人，”她說。“...說實話，我遇到的第一個自閉症的孩子，是我的(兒子)......五年前，我們在 150 名孩子診斷出一位這樣的孩子 (1/150)，這發病率幾乎是 40 倍成長。現在，在英國以一些國家，我們是在 66 名孩子診斷出一位這樣的孩子 (1/66)。

    這個比例接近美國、澳大利亞、紐西蘭。她迅速地深入探討研究，為她的兒子尋找答案，最後獲得了人類營養學方面第二個畢業後研究學位。她的兒子完全康復，不再是自閉症患者。

    雖然她從俄羅斯接受醫學訓練後遷居英國已經 20 年，現在她在英國劍橋有一間診所，專門治療患有自閉症，學習障礙，神經系統疾病，精神障礙，免疫功能紊亂，消化問題的兒童和成人。

早期治療是關鍵

    坎貝爾博士說，她研製的治療方式簡稱 GAPS 營養計畫，年齡越小開始治療，效果越好。

        “當我們在孩子二歲到五歲時開始治療，你就給了自閉症、多動症、讀寫障礙、運動障礙以及大部份的孩子們完全康復的機會......這些孩子們的醫生通常會 拖延。他們要求家長六個月內帶來孩子，並在六個月內再次觀察孩子，只是，這樣在孩子們需要得到幫助的非常寶貴的非常寶貴的時間被浪費了，“她說。

這一切都始於在腸道中...

    坎貝爾博士相信，自閉症兒童其實是完全正常的大腦和完全正常的感覺器官出生​​。

        “這些兒童無論發生什麼事情皆因他們出生後不正常發展的腸道菌群” 她說。“腸道菌群是我們人類的生理一個非常重要的組成部分，斯堪地納維亞半島最近的研究表示，人體內 90％ 的細胞和遺傳物質是在我們的腸道菌群。我們只是棲息在我們裡面的微生物群的外殼。我們忽略了他們曝露於我們的危險中。

        “正如結果所示，孩童們的消化系統變成毒性來源，而非營養來源。這些病原微生物破壞他們的消化道腸壁完整性。因此，所有的孩子們血液中的毒素和微生物如洪 水般地依序進入孩子們的大腦。這通常發生在二歲時，母乳餵養的孩子，母乳為孩子們提供了一層保護，防止這種不正常的腸道菌群。非母乳餵養的孩子在一歲時有 了自閉症的徵兆。

        因此，母乳餵養是關鍵，以保護這些兒童。“

腦中毒自閉症的症狀

    孩子們用他們的感覺器官從環境裡收集訊息，將其傳遞給大腦處理。這是一個學習的基本組成部分。

    然而，患兒童腸道及心理綜合症（GAPS）的孩子們，從他們的心臟流出的毒性進入了大腦，毒物阻塞了大腦，防止大腦處理各項正常功能和過程的感官訊息...

        “感官訊息在孩子們的大腦裡變成了噪音，噪音使得孩子們不能學習，他們無法解譯有用的東西，”她解釋說。

        “這就是為什麼他們不知道如何溝通。他們無法好好學習怎麼理解的語言，如何使用語言，如何發展所有的自然本能行為​​與因應行為，正常兒童大腦的發展，二歲至關重要。這時候是孩子們溝通能力發展、技能發展、和模仿行為發展的黃金期。

        如果孩子的大腦被毒物堵塞，孩子就錯過了學習的機會之窗，並且根據這些毒素混合物開始發展自閉症，依孩子們腸道菌群異常的嚴重與否而有不同程度的發展。 ”

    GAPS 可以顯示這些徵候的不同，孤獨症，注意缺陷多動障礙（ADHD），注意力缺陷障礙（ADD）的診斷多動症，誦讀困難，運動障礙，或強迫症的症狀，我只是舉幾種可能...

兒童的腸道菌群是如何變得如此大幅改動？

    如果自閉症和其它的學習障礙始於腸道，那麼，在過去的 25 年裡兒童的腸道菌群發生了什麼變化，變成這種不正常的狀態呢？

    坎貝爾博士解釋說：

        “目前科學上已知，母親子宮內嬰兒在九個月的懷孕期間是無菌的。寶寶的腸道是無菌的。寶寶出生時從媽媽的產道獲得媽媽腸道菌群成為自己的腸道菌群。

        媽媽的陰道裡住了什麼？這是女人身體裡的一個非常豐富的地區。陰道內的菌群是來自於腸。因此，如果這個媽媽有著不正常的腸道菌群，則她的產道就會有不正常的菌群。因為父親的腹股溝也有腸道菌群，並定期與母親分享他們的腹股溝菌群，所以不能排除父親的因素。

        “我總是收集母親、父親、甚至最好是祖父母的孩子的健康史。我發現，我們有個不斷發展和深化的異常腸道菌群，自第二次世界大戰開始，抗生素被發現，它抹除了我們腸道中每個頻譜的微生物的有益物種，這使病原體失控。"

大量的發酵食品和益生菌的重要性

    這就是為什麼當你服用抗生素之後接著用發酵食品和益生菌“補種”你的腸道是如此地重要。如果你不常吃發酵食物，特別是當你吃了很多加工食品之後，你最好定期補充益生菌。

        “在健康的腸道中具有益微生物的同時，科學家們發現了數以千計不同種類的致病微生物、細菌、病毒、真菌和其他微生物，但是只要你腸道裡的好菌佔主導地位，控制著所有的地盤，則這些好菌將使得上述致病微生物只是小菌落，不讓他們增殖病原體。

        各式各樣的抗生素消滅了有益的細菌，給病原體打開了增殖的機會之窗，這些病原體的生長變得不受控制，佔據你的腸道。

不同種類有益菌群從長滿各種病原體中恢復腸道約需兩個星期至兩個月，這是一個機會之窗。

        我看到 100％ 自閉症兒童的家庭媽媽有不正常的腸道菌群與健康相關問題。後​​來，我再看母親身邊的祖母，我的祖母也有不正的腸道菌群，但比較溫和。“

    從本質上講，我們所擁有的是一個世代累積的腸道菌群異常，每一代變得比以往任何時候都更容易使用抗生素疫苗，我將進一步討論此傷害。

奶瓶餵養和抗生素給了我們沉重的代價

    減少母乳餵養明顯地加重了這個傷害。我們現在知道，和奶瓶餵養的嬰兒相比，母乳餵養的嬰兒發展出完全不同的腸道菌群。

嬰幼兒配方奶粉從不是也絕不會是母乳的健康替代，有許多原因，腸道菌群的改變是其中一項。

    坎貝爾博士發現，有很大比例的自閉症兒童母親是奶瓶餵養。然後，這些孩童收到了許多他們母親童年整個療程的抗生素，腸道菌群的異常，在他們體內進一步深化。

        “自從抗生素治療，特別是從上世紀50年代和60年代，他們被規定為每咳嗽和打噴嚏就得使用抗生素。他們真的超過了規定的抗生素。每個抗生素療程之後，這些女孩的腸道菌群異常問題會更深入。

        然後，在 15 歲 16 歲時，這些女士們開始吃避孕丸，避孕丸會對腸道菌群產生破壞性的影響。如今，女士們在準備好開始他們的家庭生活前已經服用了好幾年的避孕丸。“

    總括來說，奶瓶餵養為過度使用抗生素和避孕藥加深了嚴重性，每過一代則其腸道菌群就越不正常。你有一張使腸道健康亮起紅燈的菜單 -- 添加人工處理的垃圾食品和過度消費高果糖玉米糖漿的日常飲食。

    意識到你吃下去的加工食品和糖幾乎完全是在餵食你消化系統裡的病原體是重要的，這些食品使他們能夠增殖。

        “現代化的社會，這些現代化的因素創造出大量的年輕具不正常的腸道菌群的女士，在他們準備好生第一個孩子時，他們的

腸道菌群十分地不正常，而這傳給了自己的孩子， “她解釋說。

        “雖然，嬰兒們一出生就獲得不正常的腸道菌群，但是，在母乳餵養的情形下，有不正常的腸道菌群的母親血液裡的抗體會經由母乳傳給嬰兒，保護嬰兒。

        雖然，母乳餵養對這些從媽媽那裡收到異常腸道菌群的寶寶，有一定的保障。但是，一旦停止母乳餵養則停止了保護。此時，腸道菌群將異常蓬勃發展，並開始向下 滑動到自閉症或注意力缺陷過動症 (ADHD) 或注意力缺失症 (ADD) 或任何其他學習障礙或生理上的問題，如第一型糖尿病，例如，與腹腔疾病或其他自身免疫性疾病，哮喘，濕疹和其他物理問題。此即這種流行病的成因。“

改變是迫切需要的

    不幸地，所有建立異常腸道菌群的因素在全球各地變得越來越普遍。這意味著年輕婦女的下一代擁有比她們的母親更糟糕的腸道菌群，這樣出生的兒童罹患自閉症的比例將更高！

        “我們需要明白，他們需要為此準備就緒，”坎貝爾博士提出警告。

疫苗的作用

    如同坎貝爾博士解釋的，嬰兒出生時除了擁有無菌腸也有不成熟的免疫系統。出生後二十天內建立正常腸道菌群的生活在寶寶的免疫系統的成熟方面起著至關重要的作用，而那些發展不正常腸道菌群的嬰兒們則留下了受損的免疫系統。

        “接種疫苗已成為兒童們建構最初的完全健康的免疫系統的方式，”她說。“GAPS 孩子們不適合標準的疫苗接種方案。”

    她的書 (書名: Gut and Psychology Syndrome 腸道及心理綜合症) 有一整章講述哪些事情需要保健專業人士去做以改進疫苗接種策略，因為標準接種方案和損壞 GAPS 嬰兒們有關。 

        “這是件打破駱駝背上最後一根稻草的事，”她解釋。“如果孩子的腸道已被損壞得差不多了，則疫苗將成為壓倒駱駝的最後一根稻草，但是，如果它不提供最後一根稻草給特殊孩童，則它就會讓孩子更接近突破點。”

    她還指出疫苗的另一個高風險因素：

       “我們必須明白，因為自然病毒、自然細菌、或微生物早已存在於自然界之中，所以製藥業不能申請生產自然病毒、自然細菌、或微生物方面的專利，亦即，在他們申請專利之前，他們必須先對這些細菌或微生物基因改造，”她說。

        “因此，我們還沒有足夠數據了解這些含基因改造病毒和基因改造微生物的疫苗，究竟會對人體做什麼事，究竟這些基因在孩子們的腸道菌群裡正做些什麼事。”

如何辨識 GAPS

    幸運的是，您可以在您的寶貝出生後一週內辨別 GAPS，它可以幫助您在您寶貝疫苗接種方面做出更明智的決定，以及如何安排您的寶貝通往健康之路。

    關鍵問題之一是在所有兒童們免疫之前篩選出這些兒童。如果兒童們有新陳代謝問題的徵兆，則他們不應該進行免疫接種，或者等到解決了這方面問題後再進行接種。這個簡單的措施可以防止幾十萬家庭因而陷入不必要的傷害。在所有的可能性中，有更多的孩子，在這一點上所受到的傷害比沒接受接種疫苗所受到的傷害還大。經由簡單地修正此過程，可以從根本上減少孩子罹患自閉症的風險。

    坎貝爾博士在她的書中描述了整個過程。

    在實務上，她開始收集完整健康史的父母，和其腸道健康評估。在孩子出生後幾天內，可以分析孩子的大便，輔以尿液測試和檢查代謝產物，以確定她的腸道菌群狀態，然後給你一個圖片，你的孩子的免疫系統狀態。

        “現在我們有超讚的測試，發現不同種類的微生物在腸道中產生的化學物質，”她說。“... 經由分析尿液，間接地，我們可以知道孩子的腸道裡盤據的是什麼樣的微生物，以及這些微生物正生產什麼物質。”

        “如果孩子腸道菌群異常，則我們可以假設孩子免疫力下降，這些孩子不能接種疫苗 (不適合標準接種方案)，因為那只是更被疫苗損壞，他們不應該接種疫苗。”

    現在世界各地的大多數實驗室已經可以試驗她書中所描述的非侵入性試驗，在美國，通常每位80-100美元左右。相較於一旦這些孩子罹患自閉症後龐大的治療費用，這筆錢只是花生般的小錢。

        坎貝爾博士說：“市場正利用我們的孩子銷售疫苗，”。“我很害怕，在我們的西方世界，孩子們接種疫苗，不是為了拯救孩子，而是為了賺錢......這是一個非常令人傷心和擔憂的情況。”

兄弟姐妹們也是疫苗損害的高危險群

    另一組的孩子可能也是這個對疫苗過度反應的自閉症、重度多動症、強迫症、精神狀況差、或第一型糖尿病兒童的兄弟姐妹。

        “自閉症兒童的年輕兄弟姐妹，以及所有這些殘疾孩子的兄弟姐妹們都不應該用標準接種方案來接種疫苗，”她警告說。

        “我講的免疫測試可以每半年或每年為這些孩子身體情況複檢。因為我們不能冒這個險，所以當孩子身體健檢的結果是非常健康的以及免疫系統運轉良好時，始可為這孩子接種疫苗。”

GAPS 兒童和自閉症兒童恢復健康之法

    坎貝爾博士開發出一種對 GAP 兒童非常有效的治療方法，叫 GAPS 營養協定，詳見她的著作 Gut and Psychology Syndrome (胃腸道及心理綜合症)，它是本自助的書。

        世界各地數以萬計的人正用這個方法拯救自己的孩子，“她說。” “大多數人只買了這本書，讀它，遵循這程序，並取得了意想不到的效果。”

    總結，這協定 (GAPS) 由三部分組成：

        1.日常飲食 -- GAPS 飲食由富含營養的、容易消化的食物組成，包括發酵食品。

        據坎貝爾博士：“平均而言，人們要堅持這樣飲食兩年。要兩年才能驅除致病性菌群，重建腸道中的正常菌群，恢復和封住這些人損壞的腸壁，使它是營養來源而不再是毒性來源。”

        2.食物補充，包括：益生菌和魚肝油裡的維生素D和維生素A，經由陽光照射 GAPS 患者產生維生素D也很重要。

        3.解毒 -- GAPS 營養協定將自然地清除大部份毒素。坎貝爾博士不使用任何一種藥物或化學品清除體內毒素，因為它們過於激烈，並且可能產生副作用。相反地，她建議榨汁作為一種溫和而有效的方法去清除毒素，用 Epsom 鹽、海鹽、海藻粉、蘋果醋、小蘇打沐浴或盥洗。

    坎貝爾博士提到許多和本協定有關的額外的和免費的方法，所以請留出一些時間聽全部訪談或閱讀訪談紀錄。

更多信息

    我一直覺得，健康最好的策略是預防，我敢肯定，很多人會同意，一盎司的預防勝過一磅的治療。

    現在，我們發現了一種方法，可以幫助預防自閉症和相關神經系統和顯現出來的損害。我不要求你把這些訊息記在心裡，在您規劃懷孕之前，要密切注意您的腸道健康，並採取簡單、價格相對低廉的坎貝爾博士所描述的預防措施，可以大大減少你的孩子受到傷害的機會。

    如雪崩般的自閉症必須得到遏制，而且要快！現在的負擔在於你們這個為人父母的，控制你和你孩子的健康，吸收這方面的知識，可以改變人生。

    如果你是孕婦、計劃懷孕、或其它人，我不能建議坎貝爾博士的書就夠了。請買本適合自己的書作為禮物吧。

    您可以在坎貝爾博士的網站 ( http://www.GAPS.me/ ) 和她的 blog ( http://www.doctor-natasha.com/ ) 得到更多資訊。

        “我們有個 GAPS (腸道及心理綜合症、腸道及生理綜合症候群) 超流行的世界，受害者人數不斷地成長，”她說。“面對這麼多諮詢需求，我完全不知所措，全世界的都需要 GAPS 從業人員...

        所以，我準備醫生和保健醫生的培訓課程。第一波培訓工作將在9月至10月，地點在美國西雅圖，芝加哥，紐約和達拉斯。

        我們將在美國培養相當數量訓練有素的 GAPS 從業人員。這些人可以帶領你經由飲食和整個 GAPS 協定，他們將運作本土的 GAPS 團體，所有的病人和其他 GAPS 病人可以每週或每兩週來交換食譜，交換心得，互相幫助，給對方的精神上的支持和了解更多關於 GAPS 方面訊息。”

    一旦她做完在美國的訓練，她也將繼續做歐洲和世界其他地區的。如果你是一個醫生、營養師、整骨師、自然療法醫生、或其他保健醫生，有興趣成為一名 GAPS 認證醫生，請參閱此鏈接以得到更多資訊。 http://gaps.me/preview/?p=446


GAPS treatment

GAPS treatment for learning disabilities, psychiatric and psychological disorders, immune system problems and digestive problems

The purpose of the treatment is to detoxify the person, to lift the toxic fog off the brain to allow it to develop and function properly. In order to achieve that we need to clean up and heal the digestive tract, so it stops being the major source of toxicity in the body and becomes the source of nourishment, as it is supposed to be. As more than 90% of everything toxic floating in our blood (and getting into the brain) comes from the gut, healing it will drop the level of toxicity in the body dramatically.

This target is achieved by means of The Nutritional Programme. This programme has evolved through the personal experience with my own family and clinical experience with thousands of GAPS children and adults around the world.

What does this programme involve?

The Nutritional Programme for Gut And Psychology Syndrome

1. Diet. GAPS conditions are essentially digestive disorders. The digestive system is a long tube; what you fill that tube with has a direct effect on its well-being. That is why the diet is the

most important and the number one treatment. Everything else takes a second place.

2. Supplementation.

3. Detoxification and life-style changes.

Please, read the GAPS book for full information on treatment.


GAPS 治療

GAPS治療學習障礙、精神和心理障礙、免疫系統疾病和消化系統的問題

治療的目的是解中毒的人，清除大腦裡的毒苔，以便大腦能正常發育。為了實現這個目標，我們需要清理和治療消化道，把消化道這個毒性來源轉變成營養來源，假定它是這樣的。那麼，超過 90％ 來自腸道（和進入大腦）浮在我們的血液的毒將顯著地被解掉。

實現這個目標的營養計劃。這項計劃已經由我的個人經驗、我的家庭、和世界各地成千上萬的 GAPS 兒童和成人的臨床經驗得到印證。

這個計劃包括什麼？

腸道和心理綜合症的營養方案

1. 日常飲食。GAPS 狀況基本上是消化功能紊亂。消化系統是一根長長的管子，您怎麼填這根管子關係到您的幸福，這就是為什麼日常飲食是最重要的頭號治療，其它都其次。

2. 營養補充。

3. 解毒和生活方式的改變。

請閱讀 GAPS 書以得到治療上的所有信息。

發展障礙主題之二 -- 為 GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症患者設計的飲食, 請看這裡 http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/linuxyeo/article?mid=940


Additional Reading (您可參閱以下各篇)

GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症, 發展障礙主題 -- How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism 一個醫生如何治療了她兒子的自閉症 從三歲到十二歲, 完全康復, 請看這裡 http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/linuxyeo/article?mid=904

GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症, 發展障礙主題 -- GAPS diet 為 GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症患者設計的飲食, 請看這裡 http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/linuxyeo/article?mid=940

GAPS 腸道與心理綜合症, 發展障礙主題 -- Fussy eaters and failure to thrive 挑食者與發展障礙, 請看這裡 http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/linuxyeo/article?mid=1019