The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet

About Hilary BoyntonHillary BoyntonMary Brackett

Hilary Boynton certified holistic health counselor received a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia and was trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. The devoted mother of five young kids Hilary has seen the power of nutritional healing firsthand. Inspired by her own experience of food as medicine she has dedicated her- self to helping others on their path to wellness as a cook coach and professional educator. Hilary supports her clients by integrating Paleo and Primal philosophies with the wisdom of the Ancestral Health Movement and the Weston A. Price Foundation. Hilary is a Weston A. Price chapter leader runs several local food co-ops teaches cooking classes out of her house and helped to open a farm-to-table restaurant in Concord Massachusetts. She lives in Marina Del Ray California with her family. Mary Giordano Brackett is a whole-foods advocate and a creative visionary based out of Boston Massachusetts. After receiving her BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design Mary went on to photograph hundreds of weddings events people and places before recognizing her true passion: the healing power of real food. Combining a love of photography with a devotion to nutrition is her lifes work illustrating and illuminating the importance of our food choices. Marys work has been featured in many publications online and in print as well as in numerous restaurants and cafes throughout the city. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in nutrition in hopes of helping people free themselves from the tyranny of Frankenfood and reclaim their birthright: health and happiness. Mary happily serves up three homemade meals a day to her husband and son in their Watertown Massachusetts home. Her work can be viewed at MGBrackett.com. Dr. Campbell-McBride graduated with Honours as a Medical Doctor in 1984 from Bashkir Medical University in Russia. In the following years she gained a Postgraduate Degree in Neurology. After practicing for five years as a Neurologist and three years as a Neurosurgeon she started a family and moved to the UK.  It was during this time that Dr. Campbell-McBride developed her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition and completed a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University UK. She has specialized in using nutritional approach as a treatment and has become recognized as one of the worlds leading experts in treating children and adults with learning disabilities and other mental disorders as well as children and adults with digestive and immune disorders. In 2004 she published her first book Gut And Psychology Syndrome. Natural Treatment Of Autism ADHD Dyslexia Dyspraxia Depression And Schizophrenia where she explores the connection between the patient's physical state and brain function. The book gives full details of the GAPS Nutritional Protocol highly successful in treating patients with chronic diseases. A second edition was published in 2010. The concept of GAPS has become a global phenomenon and the book has been translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of Put Your Heart in Your Mouth (rev ed. 2016) and Vegetarianism Explained published in 2017. She is also a Member of The Society of Authors The British Society for Environmental Medicine and a Board Member of the Weston A Price Foundation.  She is a regular contributing health editor to a number of journals magazines newsletters and radio programmes around the world.