I often feel on the outer even among my peers. I recall a period during which I was a regular invited speaker at an event, where I was increasingly the odd one out from the others & their escalating unified chant of the same single solution: the GAPS diet. I could say this was simply because being passionate about personalised prescribing, I am protocol-proof💪 🏋️♀️ but that’s not the whole story. When you imagine you’re on the outer even from ‘your own’, it leads to self-doubt: 🤔Maybe I’m the dinosaur here because I’m not an early adopter of this! Behind the 🎱 because I feel the need to wait until there’s more evidence. I took a bet each way & excused myself from future programs.
And while it’s both alarming & personally affirming to note that the spruiking of this ‘universal solution’ has slowed if not stopped since the GAPS gold rush around 2010, there’s a new one, in fact several new ones since – that repeat the pattern.
I think the inclination for early-adoption, or the self-doubt if you don’t, both make sense for us as a profession, in particular. We’re innovative by nature, rebels at heart and we’ve been gaslit that many times by conventional ‘consensus’ science & the dominant ‘only-pharmaceuticals-fix’ thinking, that we’ve lost count. We were told that leaky gut was a lie, a period of instability prior to menopause was nothing more than attention-seeking & non IgE adverse food effects a figment of our imaginations! So, naturally we’ve lost a bit of faith 😔
But equally, when we look back over the salves we’ve been sequentially sold as the latest & greatest protocol & panacea:
Anti-candida
Blood type diet
Lectin-free
Paleo (where is butter coffee – haven’t seen him around these days?)
Auto-immune protocol
Carnivore
(I could go on but feel free to add any I’ve missed)
it should provide us with some perspective.
This is not the same as saying these don’t work for anyone or that there’s no merit to any element of these approaches in some patients. In fact, it’s often the case that these have stemmed from a scientific understanding of an aspect of health that was/is often overlooked by medicine. To boot it attracted some good google reviews from early adopters. Jane Does gives this diet: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ But then that original insight or innovative idea becomes distorted & damaging through over-generalisation, misapplication, ignoring any evidence of the diet’s negatives and ignoring all other aspects – including the very individual nature of us individuals!
I saw this video of Jason Hawrelak & his patient, Alma-Jade, on socials the other day and I just appreciated it so much,
So, I asked Jason if I could share it.
So, if you sometimes feel on the outer because you’re not always an early adopter, you might be amongst some good company 🤗🤓
