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 “Is No Plant GAPS ketogenic?”

Not necessarily, because remember, the piece of animal is a complete balanced meal. It has carbohydrates in it. It has everything else. And also many toxins that you will be cleansing and removing from your body will not allow you to go into ketosis. I found this with quite a few people who were on no plant GAPS diet. We found that they’ re not in ketosis, while other people go into ketosis quite easily. And ketosis. This is perfectly safe. This is called physiological ketosis. Your own body decides when to be in ketosis or when to use glucose as a source of energy. Leave it to your body. Don’ t be scientific about it.

And don’ t worry about it and don’ t think about it. The only ketosis that medical professionals are afraid of, because that’ s the only ketosis that they study. They do not study physiological ketosis. Such such a topic doesn’ t even exist in medical schools at all. They don’ To know about the existence of ketosis. So when they hear the word ketosis, immediately all the bells start ringing for the medical profession. Because the only situation that they study ketosis in is diabetic ketoacidosis. What happens in that situation? The mechanisms for regulating your blood sugar in a diabetic person are broken down. They don’ t work with this person. So the body very often chooses to use fats as a source of energy instead of sugar. So the ketones go up.

But the sugar, because all these diabetics are advised to eat buns and bread all day long and even have a bag of sweets with them. And eat those sweets every time. They’ re having far too many processed carbohydrates. They live on wheat and they live on sugar and other things like that. So this person finishes up with lots of glucose in their bloodstream. High blood sugar level. While the body cannot use it for energy production because those mechanisms are broken. So the body is just ignoring that and using ketones instead for producing energy. So the ketone bodies will be high in the blood and that’ s good. Otherwise this person will just simply die. Because they cannot use all that sugar for energy production and for other functions.

Problem is that sugar, high levels of sugar in the blood are always harmful. Sugar is one of the most dangerous things in the world. When it’ s too high in your blood, it’ s sticky. It sticks itself to proteins in the blood. Hemoglobin in particular, albumins and other proteins in your blood. Glycosylating them. And these glycosylated proteins, coated in sugar, basically. Sugar- coated proteins. That’ s what they are, basically. They’ re very sticky too. They go into any kind of rich capillary beds in your body. Such as retina of your eye, various areas of your brain, in your lungs, in your heart, in various other places, in your kidneys, you know, in particular. And they accumulate there. They stick in there. They accumulate there. As a nasty substance called amyloid.

It’ s a white, sticky substance. And it blocks up these capillary beds. And it blocks up these organs and causes organ failure. That is why diabetic ketoacidosis is dangerous. Not because of ketone bodies. Because of sugar. Too much sugar in the person. Physiological ketosis has nothing to do with that situation. Because your mechanisms for regulating blood sugar levels are not broken. They’ re working. Fine. Forget about it. Don’ t even worry about it. Don’ t even think about it. Your body will sort it out.

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.