The GAPS juicing protocol is used for removing toxins and heavy metals from the body: naturally and yummily. However, this is undertaken only stage-4 onwards, since the detoxification can be uncomfortable. Therefore, go slow and begin with very small quantities and increase gently, making it a daily routine. 

 

We start with the basic juice and turn the same juice into a smoothie and then into a milkshake. Ready?

 

For most people, they like to combine fruits and vegetables in order to balance the sweetness and also enhance properties: chelating ability. For our purpose, we will use regularly available fruits and vegetables. 

 

From Dr. Natasha Campbell Mc-Bride’s Yellow and Blue book, look up the GAPS compatible fruits and vegetables for various uses, including juicing.

 

Warning: if you are Diabetic, please be Responsible for the dosage and ensure that you use lots of fat with the smoothie or the milkshake. As a diabetic, we recommend you Do Not drink the straight juice. You should instead use the juice for the smoothie and the milkshake.

 

 

Apples, carrots, celery sticks for the basic juice (you can also combine with cabbage and half a beetroot, for example)

 

Apples, carrots, celery sticks, avocado and egg for converting the same juice into a smoothie

 

Apples, carrots, celery sticks, sour cream and egg for converting the basic juice into a milkshake (the sour cream is a milk product)

 

 

Juicer (if you do not have a juicer, you can chop the ingredients into smaller pieces and the grind them in your mixer jar with some water. Then, you can strain it through a sieve or through a clean cloth)

 

Wooden or bamboo chopping board

 

Stainless steel knife

 

Glass tumbler

 

Glass or stainless steel container for containing the juice if you are not using a regular juicer

 

 

 

Ensure that your ingredients are very well washed

 

Cut the apples, carrots and celery into appropriate sizes for juicing

 

Start the juicer and allow to collect into the/a container

 

Your basic juice is ready

 

 

Take a quarter or half of the avocado and add into the blender (now that your basic juice is at hand, you may also use a hand-held blender)

 

Add to the avocado, one whole egg

 

Add the basic juice to the avocado and the egg

 

Blend for 30 seconds or until blended

 

Your smoothie is ready

 

 

Add to the basic juice, a generous amount of sour cream in the blender (or a tumbler containing the juice if you are using a hand held blender)

 

Add an egg

 

Blend for 30 seconds

 

Your GAPS Milkshake is ready

 

Note: as per our experience, Raw Cream of a good quality is unavailable. Raw cream is needed to make sour cream (when you put raw cream into a glass jar and allow to ferment naturally for upto 48 hours, you get sour cream. Do Not use the available commercial cream for souring. It can make you very sick). 

 

Therefore, the next option is: buy high quality raw milk and allow to ferment naturally in a warm, dark place with the lid tightly shut. Depending on the weather, your raw milk will ferment naturally in about 48-100 hours. When fermented and ready, you will see the fat/cream on the top of the fermented milk, the curd in the middle and the whey at the bottom.

 

Now, skim off the cream fro the top and collect it. You now have your sour cream. (After you have collected the cream, strain the curd for whey. Collect the whey and eat the rest of the curd/yogurt as an excellent probiotic)

 

Alternatively: if you are short of collected sour cream, you may use a good quality coconut oil instead of the sour cream (it will add a different flavour, along with the many benefits of coconut oil: anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, anti-viral and great for the lungs and brain) However, it will now be a Thick Shake. Enjoy.

 

Once you are gradually regular with the juicing, you can always have it as a snack or a breakfast. However, Do Not start your day with a straight, undiluted juice. The sugar shot may not be appropriate. Instead, have it as a smoothie or a shake.

 

In the middle of the day, when your stomach is empty for a couple of hours or more, you may have the straight juice. 

 

Sip and chew your juice, smoothie or milkshake, blending it with your salivary enzymes. That’s the way. Do Not gulp it down.