Hi guys, my name is Bayou of the blog girls on Hubsa.com and today I'm going to talk to you guys about why I started the Gapst Diet and how it's going. So if you don't want the Gapst Diet is it's it stands for Gut Encyclogy Syndrome. So this is basically a diet to heal your gut microbiome and your everything about your health stands from your gut microbiome for the most part. So it affects so many different things, autoimmune diseases, mental health issues. So it's something that would be beneficial for just anyone to do and especially since I have a few of your problems that health problems I'm trying to work through, I thought it would be a really good thing for me to try it also. So let's get right into this video. So there's basically two ways to do the Gapst Diet. You can go through the intro diet. It has six stages where you start with a really limited amount of food and you add in each stage, you add in a few more new foods and then you eventually get to what's called the full Gapst Diet. And you can start with just the full Gapst Diet. If you don't have Anthony Palms, he will take longer. If you don't do the intro diet to fix your health problems or different things. So when you start on stage one, you basically can have soups that are made with meat and vegetables and that's boiled for a long time. You want to make soups that are have been boiled for about three hours. You want it long and slowly cooked. So you don't want to have any fried or roasted, anything like that yet. At this point you can have soups. You can have meat stock that you can drink. You can have peppermint, ginger or caramel tea with just a little bit of ron honey. You can use airsposa start with adding in about a teaspoon or so of sour crowd juice. I have a batch of sour crowd that's from edging over here and I have the last batch of refrigerator. You add about a teaspoon of just the juice at first, not the actual cabbage into your soup, but you don't want to make sure it's not too hot. You can have kombucha in the first stage. Of course you want to start with just a tiny little bit at once and build up just like the same in the sour crowd. So it's like super super limited in the first stage. I am in the second stage now, which is like so exciting when all you can really eat is soup and tea is like so exciting to add in any little thing. So the second stage you add in a raw egg yolk to your bowl of soup. You can add in homemade ramef yogurt. I probably could have added that in the first stage, but I waited at least a few days and then I also added in homemade ghee. So I think that's all for the second stage. The third stage is when you really are able to add in some of the say things like some pancakes that I made with squash and peanut butter and you can have the whole sour crowd, all the juice and the cabbage. So the third stage is a lot more exciting. So what you're doing is you're basically taking out any foods that are rough on your stomach. You are only eating very easy to digest foods, which is the soups that I've been cooked a long time and the meat stock is so good. It's full of gelatin and collagen. So you're basically doing is your so your gut lining is built. It's basically think of it like bricks. So the strong lining of your gut is bricks and then in between the bricks you want gelatin and collagen to fill in in between all the bricks and make it seal so that you don't have any leaking through your gut. So a lot of health problems stem from leaky gut, which is basically your gut so it your tan that there's no more lining in between the bricks in your gut and food is just going into your bloodstream which is not something your body wants at all. So that it'll set off running signals and some health problems will flare up and start causing problems and it can be any number of random things. And then the other thing you're doing is having a lot of probiotic foods like the sour croutches and the homemade from elk yogurt and the kombucha and then your your building your microbiome, your building your gut microbiome. So you're having easy to digest foods, collagen and gelatin and probiotic foods. So that's the two the two main things. So the health problems that I've been having that I'm helping to see some improvement with this are mostly I have gracicides which is hyperthyroid, I've had this for years and it's an autoimmune disease which can be caused by gut issues. So I'm hoping that with healing my gut it can hopefully help regularly my thyroid a little bit better. So the hypoheride I've also developed kidney stones that were actually they were partly from hypoheride, partly from breastfeeding, those are two things that can cause kidney stones. So I'm hoping to get rid of my kidney stones. I've had chronic bladder infections for a while and that is I think it's partly caused by the kidney stones. So that's a symptom of kidney stones a lot of times. I'm hoping to get rid of that. That's probably the most annoying symptom. And then obviously just having more energy I have three little kids to keep up with three-year-old and almost two-year-old a five-month-old. So I need a lot of energy to keep up with them so I'm hoping that going on this diet will help me help a lot more energy. So I've been documenting on Instagram my journey of starting the website and a lot of different foods that I make and just a lot of information about it. So if you want to see my journey right from the beginning go over to my Instagram it's Wilson Family Comsten and I have a story highlight that's called gaps. So you can go check that out and if you guys want to see any more videos about the gapsite if you want me to go into more detail about each stage what foods you add in you want me to go into more detail about why you do the gapsite or what health problems it can help fix or any gaps recipes. So if you're wondering what sort of recipes you can have in each stage let me know and I will try to make some videos for you guys because so far I am about a week and a half in and I've been feeling I've been feeling a lot better. So I had a really hard time not having coffee that was my main thing. I had kind of a coffee addiction. So the first few days were really rough I really crave coffee and I'm still having some cravings for coffee. The other thing I'm craving is chocolate cake which is really great and piece of gimmels never have chocolate cake. But the first like three days especially are so hard you really just have to push through those first three days and then you'll start feeling some results and it'll be a lot more encouraging. I know when I'm ready to switch to a new stage when my stomach feels good and when my valve movements are normal. So for the first few days I started having some stomach pains from taking all that food out and only having these certain foods I had had like probably stomach like obsessed stomach pains and then I was having some loose stool. So I waited until I was having no more stomach pains and my valve movements were normal and then I added in stuff from the second stage. So now I'm having just a tiny little bit of stomach upset, no bowel irregularities. So I think I'm almost ready to add in some things from the first stage. So it just really depends on your body. You want to go by your symptoms. It's not a certain length of time for each stage. It's based on how long it takes for your body to heal before you're ready to add in new things to your gut. So I hope this video was interesting for you guys and I'm excited to bring along on this journey and I hope that it really fixes some of the different health problems I'm having. Thank you for watching this video and I will see you next time. Bye!