This blog is part of a series on the GAPS diet and No Plant GAPS. I had the pleasure of spending time with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, learning directly from her expertise. The information shared in these blogs comes from our private conversations, public interviews, and exclusive content from a special interview included in the No Plant GAPS training session.
Monika Holland asked Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride “Many people are concerned about eating too much protein and their kidney health. How does No Plant GAPS affect the kidneys?”
Kidneys are a filter they filter out a lot of toxins out of the body a lot of things out of the body and when your gut is damaged and it’s porous and leaky, your food absorbs undigested. All food that you eat absorbs undigested in lumps and bits and pieces. Then the immune system finds these lumps of food in your blood, in your lymph, looks at it, says ‘ You’re…’ Re not food and it tries to deal with it and it will use all sorts of tools to deal with these lumps of food which should not be in your blood and should not be in your uh lymph, and as the immune system attaches different things to those lumps of food they become even bigger and when they arrive at the kidney, they block the filter, they settle in the filter, and that causes nephropathy and that causes other nephritis, that is an inflammation of the kidney, and that usually the chronic situation is called nephropathy and that causes other nephritis, and that causes other nephropathy and that And in that situation, people are recommended not to eat protein, to avoid all protein. The proteins that are impossible for the human beings to digest and which are the most harmful for the human beings, all come from plants. Plants have lots of proteins. And all of those proteins are indigestible for the human digestive system. And if the gut wall is damaged, porous, and leaky and has big holes in it, these plant proteins absorb undigested.
They block the kidney, not the meat, not the eggs, not the dairy, not any of that. They block the kidneys. That is the first thing that must go in any nephropathy situation. Plant proteins. Gluten is the most researched plant protein. And the more we research in gluten, the more. We’ re realizing that nobody can digest it. It damages everybody. Even a person who thinks that they are fine. That they can digest it and they’ re absolutely fine. Even in those people, there are processes going on which are pathological and they cause chronic disease. It’ s just that people will not connect their chronic arthritis with bread that they eat. Or their migraines or their memory lapses or their Alzheimer’ A disease developing or their skin problems or something else. That they have.
Or allergies or asthma or whatever else they may have, these people. So everybody finds it difficult to handle gluten. That is what the honest research shows. And that is only one protein that has been researched from grains, from plant matter. There are thousands of other proteins that we haven’ t even researched yet. The majority of them. What you need for your kidneys, you need collagen. Lots and lots of collagen. So if you have pro-nephropathy, if you have a kidney problem. In particular. What you want to remove is the muscle of the animal. That’ What the Western world calls meat. The muscle of the animal. But all the other bits of the animal you want to gorge on. You want the joints. You want the fat. You want the organs.
You want the collagen. As much collagen as possible. Because this collagen will heal and seal your gut lining. It will close all those holes in your gut lining. So all your food will start digesting properly before it absorbs. And once this undigested bits of food stop appearing in your blood and in your lymph, the immune system will calm down and stop attacking them. So because the enemy will be gone and your filter will clean itself up. Kidneys, liver, their filters. So the kidneys will clean themselves up. They clean themselves up all the time. And your nephropathy will be gone. So don’ t worry about protein. That is too scientific. Protein doesn’ t exist in, you know, this term nature didn’ t give us. Protein or carbohydrate or whatever. That’ s scientific.
That’ s coming from the Western science. Meat is not protein alone. But it’ s the muscle that is very rich in the very proteins that are difficult to digest. And that get through the damaged, leaky, porous gut lining. You want lots of collagen. If you have a nephropathy. You want lots of meat stock, meat stock, meat stock, meat stock. And then you start blending into it. The skin of the pig, the skin of the chicken, the skin of the turkey and all the other gelatinous bits of these animals, which have a lot of collagen in them. And that will allow your gut lining to seal itself. So food will digest properly before it absorbs. And once that happens, your kidneys will clean up and they will recover.
The protocol for the No Plant GAPS diet is outlined comprehensively in the book “Gut and Physiology Syndrome” by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, the creator of this approach. Further information on the protocol can also be found here.