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natural sweetener, such as honey. animal food, predominantly fat (as much as
Does that type of diet square with the hu- they could tolerate and digest) including organ
man anatomy? I’m not against changing certain meats and bones (usually in the form of broth),
patterns of the diet based on what a person can but not so much protein—something like two to
tolerate. But when someone says this person four ounces of protein, two to three times a day
because of their blood type needs to be an her- was about the average of what people ate. The
bivore, a vegan, I think to myself well, yes, that remaining 30-35 percent plant foods provides
would be fine if they had a rumen. Let me tell variety and additional amounts of vitamins and
you, the first cancer patient who comes in with a minerals. The protein and fat part is what builds
rumen, I’m putting them on a vegetarian diet, I a healthy body structure, the endocrine and im-
don’t care what blood type they are. If they have mune systems, and, most importantly, the brain
very long intestines and a rumen with bacteria to and nervous systems. People ate plants for bal-
ferment cellulose, I’d put them on a vegetarian ancing their pH, for accessing different minerals
diet. and phytochemicals. Because these plant foods
were often fermented, they served as food for
THE GORILLA SYNDROME bacteria, which greatly increased their vitamin
Interestingly, the primate that has the largest content for the benefit of humans.
amount of plant food in the diet, the gorilla, has This is the framework to the hypothesis that
a very long digestive tract and the smallest brain cancer is a disease of civilization. Taking these
of any primate. If you were in the jungle and ideas as a basis, my cancer therapy is based on the
had only leaves to eat, you would starve in the GAPS diet, low-dose naltroxone (LDN), Iscador
midst of abundance because you cannot digest (mistletoe extract) and cardiotonics in order to
leaves, at least most leaves. But the gorilla is so create a “pre-civilization” milieu for the cancer
contructed that he can eat high-cellulose plant patient.
foods like leaves.
Remember that the herbivorous animals GAPS DIET
literally must eat all day to extract nutrients The diet I use for treating cancer patients is
from grass, leaves and seeds. You, as the preda- the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet,
tor human, can get concentrated fats and protein formulated by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride
from the herbivores, and you need only a short in her book of the same name. Let me give a
digestive system to get all you need to develop brief description of how the GAPS diet works.
a healthy body and a healthier more robust brain The healthy intestine contains millions of tiny
to talk, think and create. You don’t have to eat all absorptive villi. It also contains a layer of good When you
day long. When you revert to a more “gorilla-ish” bacteria, a diverse colony. We have, or should revert to a
way of life, you increase the number of times have, more microorganisms in our gut—five to more
you have to eat, increase the size of your diges- seven pounds of them—than we have human
tive apparatus, and shrink your brain, which is cells in our body. These bacteria represent our “gorilla-ish”
exactly what has happened to us over the last ten immune system. Children with autism have holes way of life,
thousand years. I’m not so sure that this is the in their intestinal walls that allow toxic proteins you increase
way we want to go. and other chemicals to leak through their porous
I wish I had a dollar for every patient who guts into their blood stream. The two most seri- the amount of
walked into my office—usually a female pa- ous are casomorphin and gluteomorphin. These times you have
tient—who has said, “My belly is bloated and leak into the blood stream and cause neurological to eat, increase
I’m full of gas; I have digestive disturbance symptoms.
and a foggy brain.” Usually they end up with Think of your intestines as soil and grass: the size of
a diagnosis of hypothyroidism. When you ask the villi are like the soil, and the layer of good your digestive
them what they eat, they tell me, “I’m mostly bacteria is like the grass covering the soil. If you apparatus,
vegetarian.” They have gorilla syndrome. go to a meadow or a perennial grass field and
The human anatomy is precisely designed you overgraze or do something to strip the grass, and shrink
for a hunter-gatherer diet of about 70 percent the soil will become eroded. If this condition your brain.

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