Hi,
My name is Sarah. I am a mum of 2 boys. My youngest is 3 years old. He is under weight. After going to doctors and specialist it has been found that his gut doesn’t have enough good bacteria. We have been removing foods that upset his guts.
While reading the clever guts diet I read that it’s not suitable for children.
I am just wondering if anyone has used this with young kids or if anyone can tell me if it’s ok if I try this with him.
Thank you in adavance for taking the time to read this and respond.
Sarah

Dear Sarahwhite82
I would be very interested to learn what Glenn and his team at Taymount Clinic have to offer.
They were recently featured in a companion TV program to Michael Mosley…where they even fixed C-Diff by changing gut microbe profile..
Kindest Regards

The inital phase of Clever Guts is restrictive in food types, calories and potentially in key nutrients. Any exclusion diet should be medically supervised in a growing child, someone underweight or those with certain health problems.

The later phases emphasise a really wide variety and balance of minimally processed wholefoods. This should be suitable for almost anyone, because the main things restricted are processed and/ or low nutrient.

Hopefully your paediatrician or dietician has advised you to keep a detailed food and symptom diary, with weighed and measured quantities, as you exclude suspect foods. You can review this yourself: looking at variety and balance of food groups (eg. grains, dairy) and food types within that (eg. wheat/ rice/ oats, cows/ goat/ sheep).

Also look at what you are replacing eliminated foods with – where possible other wholefoods (eg. brown or black rice) not heavily processed substututes (eg. Gluten free bread)

Lastly use the diary to consider which gut friendly and nutrient dense wholefoods have never featured much in your family’s diet. Some of the most frequently undereaten in the US/ UK are oily fish (rather than white fish), the full rainbow of bright and dark coloured fruit and vegetables, mineral rich seeds (rather than peanuts or tree nuts), beans and lentils.

Please do discuss any additions with your medical team. HTH!

Dear Sarahwhite82,

Thank you.!
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If you google” Lesley Paterson triathlete lyme disease”, the 3rd item is her own video which has been there since March!!

So thank you, again.
Kindest regards

@sarahwhite82,
If you should like to e-mail, I might be able to help you more easily.
Kindest Regards
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