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BEFORE

AFTER

I suffered long due to acute skin rashes that caused me to miss work, have restless nights and inability to wear work clothes the next day.
Going through the next day was sheer determination with my job, travel for 4 hours, two children and the household duties I had to keep up with.

Thankfully, I found the GAPS Nutrition Protocol and went through it with discipline.
It is now six months since I started and I am 99% better. My skin rashes have cleared almost completely.

I am much more healthier than before and have lost lots of fat, too. A wonderful side benefit. Everything based on food.

Working with Mr. Jal, Certified GAPS Nutrition Coach, was a very inspiring journey. I was coached and supported every step of the way and had easy access to him via phone and WhatsApp.
It was a most worthy investment of my money and time: I Have My Life Back 🙏🏼

I recommend the GAPS Nutrition Protocol to anyone with gut imbalance, leaky gut and various types of autoimmunity.
I also recommend that you first take a Discovery Call and find out details before taking a committed step.

Go ahead, a completely New You awaits you.

Mrs.Vrushali Nijai,43,
Nalasopara West, Dist. Palghar, India.

Coach's Response

Thank you, Mrs. Vrushali.

I take this opportunity to appreciate your own strict application and discipline through the extended Introduction Stages.

For the reader’s education and information:

Firstly, please do read the Disclaimer.

The time taken is highly individual and depends of several factors, two of them being “adherence & detoxification”.

Adherence includes all the steps that Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride recommends: the Nutrition Protocol: the Dos and the Don’ts. After all, it is based on her extensive clinical experience with thousands of her patients.

Detoxification includes, all the recommendations: enemas, sunbathing, foot soaks etc.

Patience is a key ingredient. This is not a protocol that can be rushed through. The body needs “its” own time. It does things in its own Wisdom and Nature. Mrs. vrushali has now moved onto the Full GAPS Nutrition Protocol where the variety of foods are much more and very interesting. However, it is due to her patiently following her Coach’s instructions and the trouble shooting required from time to time. That is what a coach is for: to help with the nuances, encourage, educate, answer queries and being a well wisher.

Finally, the Introduction Stages are very individual and can extend to months in some clients and for weeks in some. Please do note.

Thank you once again, Vrushali ji, for allowing the use of the photos and your story, encouraging other GAPSters towards Victory.

Jal Bhagwagar,
Your GAPS Coach.

Chronic Urticaria & Asthma: A Before & After

Autoimmune Conditions?

Chronic Urticaria & Asthma?

Please read on:

I suffered Chronic Urticaria symptoms for six years starting 2019.
I was under Allopathic and Homeopathy treatments with little relief.
Along with my Urticaria, I suffered Low Immunity, Chronic Acid Reflux & Bloating.

Asthma attacks during season change was regular since 2009, without relief.

Nose blocks and difficulty breathing were part of my life every morning.

Strange skin eruptions on eating were so rampant, I developed a fear of eating and started wondering/doubting “what I had eaten” and cut out several foods, but, no relief. (Allergy Panel Test was of little help).

My job is a high responsibility, security job. Stress was part of my life.

I did not understand the seriousness of Auto-immunity, until, I took a Discovery Call with my would be GAPS Nutrition Protocol Coach, Mr. Jal Bhagwagar, CGC.
I also read up on the GAPS for India website, the page: “What Afflicts Me”.
It was then that I fully understood the issue like never before.

I immediately started the GAPS Nutrition Protocol from the Introduction Stages and carried out the instructions faithfully, starting 1/3/25.

Fast forward to today: 3/6/25.

👉🏼I attended a family wedding recently and was forced to eat Non-GAPS foods, including ice cream: Zero reactions 💪🏻🤸🏻‍♂️

👉🏼I have no more skin rashes:
Urticaria in remission.

👉🏼Asthma symptoms, gone.

👉🏼Chronic Bloating & Gas
symptoms, gone.

👉🏼Chronic acid reflux, gone.

👉🏼Freshness & energy levels,
up.

I rate my coach, Mr. Jal Bhagwagar, CGC, 5 stars!

He offered flexible solutions and provided vital emotional support and motivation when I needed it most.
His genuine care and follow-up support ensured I stayed on track and made necessary adjustments.

I thank God 🙏🏼, most of all, for getting me to The GAPS Nutrition Protocol.

Best Wishes,

Suraj Kumar Sahoo,
CISF/Deputy Commandant.

Coach's Response

Dear Reader, please do read the comprehensive Disclaimer, before reading further.
 
Thank you Suraj, for two major reasons:
 
Trusting the GAPS Protocol and the Body’s/Nature’s Innate capacity to heal, and, for putting it into practice so sincerely (especially understanding that you are in a high security, high responsibility job, and have regular change in duty times. Kudos), and putting into practice the entire Protocol.
 
As the Disclaimer states . . . this Victory belongs to the Body and Nature (Same).
 
The dates mentioned, a correction: start date 1/3/25, upto 3/7/25 (Instead of 3/6/25) at the time of sharing this GAPS Story.
 
As a GAPS Coach, CGC, I highly recommend readers not to see the dates as relevant. 
Your journey, your body, your application will all vary. Here one cannot hurry. The body takes its own time, in fact, its own sweet time to put things in order and heal itself. There were no promises made to Suraj and he accepted it. It also depends on how long the problem has existed. The older the affliction/condition, the more the time taken by the body to heal. Suraj’s problem, as I see it started with his Asthma, 2009, and then manifested as Chronic Urticaria, 2019 onwards.
 
Important: since auto-immunity almost always accompanies The GAPS Syndrome, auto-immunity keeps producing newer and newer manifestations/symptoms of auto-immunity, unfortunately often ending in cancers. Please visit the page: What Afflicts Me, to learn more about auto-immunity and cancers, with the research/references provided for you to read for yourself. 
 
Yet, just what did we do? 
 
We followed Hippocrates’s & Dr. Natasha Campbell Mc-Bride’s vast clinical experience: all disease begins in the gut. We followed the GAPS Nutrition Protocol to the letter: Heal and Seal the gut, balance the microbiome, eliminate nutrition deficiencies and detoxify the body. That’s all.
 
You too, can heal completely, no matter what the condition! It all begins in the gut.
 
Wishing Suraj the very best ahead.

Mr.Bohman Shamardan’s Testimonial: A GAPS Story

At 85 years of age, I realised that age is actually just a number. I feel younger and happier today than in the last 40 years. 
 
My name is Bohman Shamardan, proudly ex-Indian air-force top gun and squadron leader. I have seen action in Indo-Pak wars and served my country with my heart and retired early due to eye injury during flying. 
 
I am blind by both eyes, with one being injured during my flying career and the other eye due to use of spurious eye drops for two years. I was going downhill fast and was afflicted with several health conditions: diabetes type-2, impotency, hydrocele, incoherent speech due to a stroke, dry eye syndrome, chronic constipation and chronic sleeplessness. The quality of my life was most uncomfortable and painful to say the least, compounded by sleeplessness for a very long time.
 
I started with the GAPS Nutrition Protocol under the excellent coaching by Certified GAPS Coach, CGC, Mr.Jal Bhagwagar, in February 2025. I am very ably assisted by my caretaker, Mr.Akhilesh Yadav, who put the GAPS Nutrition Protocol into practice for me, under Mr.Jal’s coaching.
 
Fast forward to August, 2025, and I am absolutely blown away with the results:
 
My long standing blood sugar levels are now in control. As a result, as Jal explained, my impotency is resolved and even though I am a Bramhachari, I had a wet dream for the first time in 3-4 decades. This was a very huge surprise for me, but when I said it to Jal, he said he was not surprised: that it was connected with better levels of testosterone and the blood sugar getting normal.
 
My chronic hydrocele condition is resolved and I have stopped my medications for that. The comfort I feel now is worth all the time, effort and money I have invested. 
 
My speech has improved to such a degree, I am much more comfortable speaking to family and friends without trying their patience. I have shared this entire testimonial on voice message, because I am blind. Being able to speak coherently is such a big gain for my age and quality of life.
 
My dry eye syndrome was such a huge discomfort. Every morning I had to make an effort to open my eyes because they were stuck together due to oozing through the night. It was very painful and uncomfortable with burning and irritation in my eyes for long after that. This was despite using two different drops 3-4 times a day. Now, I have stopped one of the drops completely, and the other one is only once a day. This was beyond my expectations.
 
Years of chronic constipation and extreme discomfort, now resolved.
 
I now also sleep very well and have stopped my sleep medication. I am surprised at the content of my dreams: happy dreams.
 
My mood is now so much better and I look forward to each day. I have gained some healthy weight and people are commenting that I look rosy.
 
I thank God, the GAPS Nutrition Protocol, my caretaker, Akhilesh, so ably guided by Jal, for A New Beginning for me. I now look forward to every day. 
 
My heartfelt advise to anyone who has ageing parents: do seriously consider The GAPS Nutrition Protocol and give them a great quality of life, just as I have experienced first hand.
 
Jai Hind.
 
Bohman R. Shamardan, 
Palghar, Maharashtra,
India.

Coach's Response

All Glory goes to God/Consciousness Alone. He Alone Heals.
 
Thank you, Bohman and Akhilesh. Bohman, for trusting the process/Protocol and committing to it. Akhilesh, for ably implementing the  Protocol to the letter. Without Akhilesh it would have been impossible.
 
I started appropriately with Bohman, taking into consideration his daily and eating habits then. With the initial wins, I immediately put him on the Stage-2 Introduction Diet, which he still is on and will be for the next few months, until I see it fit to progress him. 
 
These results are not surprising as a GAPS Coach. 
As Coaches, Dr.Natasha Campbell Mc-Bride and her team have trained us rigorously in the GAPS Nutrition Protocol and we are still in training with the GAPS Coach community. Learning never stops. Especially if one needs to understand “nuance” and how Nature has designed the body: magnificent, the body wants to heal, is designed to heal, not to be sick and diseased. 
 
As the reader, you have read just how systemically the body can be diseased, and, once addressed Nutritionally and using the Protocol to the letter, the body heals systemically, too. Therefore, it is very common to see a client taking the GAPS Nutrition Protocol for reason X, but healing in several other ways:
 X,Y,Z,P,Q,R . . . ! It is worth repeating: disease and healing are both systemic. 
 
All disease begins in the gut, as Hippocrates quoted in antiquity. And, therefore, as we heal the gut, all diseases can be healed, without even going into “healing” per se. (Please read the Disclaimer for more understanding of the statement).
 
As Bohman said, age is just a number. True. 
The Indian Paediatrics Association calls juvenile type 2 diabetes: an epidemic. Why should children under age 10 be diabetics if age has anything to do with disease. It doesn’t. It depends on the right food: is the food being consumed toxic and insulinogenic, or, is it nourishing and life giving as Nature designed it for humans?
 
In Bohman’s and other people’s GAPS stories, what is common is: ancestral/human appropriate food, healing and sealing the gut via food, balancing the microbiome, covering nutrition deficiencies and detoxification. That’s what the GAPS Nutrition Protocol does. The results are there to see for all.
 
Very important is the spirit in which the Protocol is applied. In this case I give it full marks. Many thanks to Mr.Akhilesh Yadav, Bohman’s caretaker.
 
I appeal to the reader to seriously consider The GAPS Nutrition Protocol for their ageing parents. In the final analysis, it will save you a lot of time, money and heartbreak. Age is just a number. As demonstrated, it is never too late to give them a graceful, painless ageing process.
 
Thank you.