“All disease begins in the gut” — Hippocrates
The Journal
Reading, thinking,
and the evidence
Articles on the gut, real food and the land — written for people who want the reasoning, not just the rules.
Latest
From the journal
New writing on the protocol, the research behind it, and the practical business of doing it at home.
-
Latest
Why processed foods aren’t really food
If something did not exist as food for most of human history, is it really food at all? On the difference between food and food-like products.
Read the article -
Most read
Meat stock before bone broth
Two things that sound the same and do different jobs. Why the Introduction Diet asks for one and not the other, and what changes when you get it the wrong way round.
Read the article -
Seasonal allergies, pollen and your gut
Pollen is a protein. Why a compromised gut barrier may be the reason your immune system reacts to it — and why food allergies so often travel with hay fever.
Read the article -
The role of fats: seed oils
They are cheap, flavourless and in almost everything. The case against industrial seed oils rests less on the seed than on what has to be done to it.
Read the article
More
Also in the journal
Nine more pieces on the protocol, the kitchen and the land.
-
The role of fats: trans fats
The only fats in the human diet that were invented rather than found. What hydrogenation does, and what it costs the heart, liver, brain and gut.
Read the article -
The Crisco story
The role of fats: animal fats
How a candle company taught the world to fear lard. The story of Crisco, and the case for the fats humans cooked with for all of history.
Read the article -
The power of food
Why almost every problem in the body traces back to the gut, what happens when the gut flora is thrown out of balance, and the additives that do the throwing.
Read the article -
With a recipe
The magic behind sourdough
What fermentation does to bread, why the long rise matters, and a rustic loaf recipe from a baker who started at fourteen.
Read the article -
Outsmarting the cold and flu season
The best time to think about your immune system is before it is tested. Why sugar undercuts it, and what the traditional remedies actually do.
Read the article -
Nature and its ability to heal
Grounding, walking, sunlight and soil — and the case for treating time outdoors as part of a protocol rather than a pleasant extra.
Read the article -
Are self-care products caring for our bodies?
Skin is the largest organ and it absorbs. What is in mainstream detergents, shampoos, moisturisers and deodorants — and what to look for instead.
Read the article -
Starting ferments slowly
A teaspoon of sauerkraut juice is not a timid start — it is the correct one. What happens in the first fortnight, and why rushing it usually costs you a month.
Read the article -
What the Introduction Diet is for
It is not a detox and it is not a test of willpower. It is a sequence with a job to do, and understanding the job makes the six stages far easier to hold.
Read the article
For the build: ten of these thirteen articles are real, and carried across from gapstraining.com — the three fats pieces, processed foods, the pollen and gut article, the power of food, sourdough, cold and flu, nature, and self-care products. Each keeps its original author byline and publication date and carries a rel="canonical" tag back to the original so the two sites do not compete in search. Each has also been edited: brand recommendations, supplement lists and several unsourced medical claims were removed, and each article page carries a note saying exactly what was cut and why. Read those notes — some of that material was removed because it should not appear on a doctor’s own domain without her sign-off. The remaining three — meat stock, ferments and the Introduction Diet — are placeholder copy written for this build and approved by nobody. Also worth deciding: most of the training site’s other 34 posts are GAPS Youth Movement teen lifestyle content in a very different voice, and they are not a natural fit here.
Get new writing
as it lands
Members get new articles, live Q&A sessions and the research summaries first.
- New writing monthly
- Live Q&A for members
- Research explained plainly
- Straight from the source