Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Hi Yes I am certainly waiting for the test results to come back, the last one I did had many blastocystis hominis. I believe that causes weak digestion. I do really chew my food and have tried many things. enzymes I have tried before burned but I have just ordered V-GEST to try out, hopefully the proteases will not be too strong. The ones I tried before were kirkman and klaire broad spectrum If any one has any advise or knows on whether parasites + Candida weaken/effect enzymes or stomach acid would appreciate the info. Thanks Phil > > > > Hi, I know I have weak digestion but is there any chance anyone could > > advise on what area they think I need to focus on to improve it. My > > stools are dark brown pebble like and float. The food looks fairly well > > digested but when I did a stool test the other day the contents > > actually look a little undigested. Does this sound like I need to > > increase stomach acid or take enzyme supplements? > > > > Thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Hi Yes I am certainly waiting for the test results to come back, the last one I did had many blastocystis hominis. I believe that causes weak digestion. I do really chew my food and have tried many things. enzymes I have tried before burned but I have just ordered V-GEST to try out, hopefully the proteases will not be too strong. The ones I tried before were kirkman and klaire broad spectrum If any one has any advise or knows on whether parasites + Candida weaken/effect enzymes or stomach acid would appreciate the info. Thanks Phil > > > > Hi, I know I have weak digestion but is there any chance anyone could > > advise on what area they think I need to focus on to improve it. My > > stools are dark brown pebble like and float. The food looks fairly well > > digested but when I did a stool test the other day the contents > > actually look a little undigested. Does this sound like I need to > > increase stomach acid or take enzyme supplements? > > > > Thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 > > Hi, I know I have weak digestion but is there any chance anyone could > advise on what area they think I need to focus on to improve it. My > stools are dark brown pebble like and float. Pebble-like usually means constipation http://www.danasview.net/constip.htm Floating bms usually mean improper fat digestion/absorption. This can mean you need a lipase enzyme supplement, or you might have more-involved issues. My son needed mito cocktail and amino acids in order to properly process fats. I wrote about it here http://www.danasview.net/mar05.htm Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Every food requires a different enzyme for digestion. Ideally we should only eat one food at a sitting and wait some time between foods for optimum digestion. I'm not from the scientific field and that is a very simple way of explaining the digestion question, but that is how I understand things and I try and keep things pretty simple. Breakfast was about 10# of watermelon. Lunch was the other half of the watermelon. Dinner will likely be peaches as they were very good at the farmer's market. Snacks in between were blueberries, blueberries and more blueberries! The field closed today and I'm so very sad. They have been excellent this year. Shari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Oh Lana, you bring up a very important topic! Gut flora is sooooo crucial to digestion and therefore health. I got my system out of whack as a teenager when my family doctor put me on tetracycline for months (years?) at a stretch. That led to endless problems (I will spare you the gory details but it was worse than most), which I had to figure out for myself, with a little help from Dr. Crook, the first person to write about candida albicans overgrowth. It went systemic on me when I lived in Japan, during my vegetarian/macrobiotic phase. Finding WAPF and lacto-fermented vegetables and kombucha etc. has been a godsend for me. As I told , I take digestive enzymes, but I also think the sauerkraut I consume most days has helped normalize my system and improved my digestion more than any singular thing. But for me both have been important. As well as adding healthful fats to my diet. I was on the low-fat bandwagon for awhile. Actually, many pieces have been important in this puzzle. That's a good point that our bodies' requirements may change over time. Jeanmarie On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Lana Gibbons wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jeanmarie Todd <jaytee3@...> > wrote: > > > I see evidence on both sides. The experience of many people, me > > included, is that eating even properly prepared starches tends to > make > > the body want more and more. Not everyone experiences that. > > I did at one time and now I don't. At this point I'm fairly > convinced that > overeating mostly has to do with gut flora being out of whack > (especially > yeast overgrowth and oh drat, which microbe is it a lot of SCD > people battle > with? I think it starts with C?), or digestive enzymes being > deficient (and > therefore not actually getting the nutrition those foods offer) and > not the > foods themselves. > > To repeat my earlier point, I don't think there's one right answer for > > everybody. Dr. Price found that there was a wide variety of > healthful > > native, traditional diets among people he met. > > Agreed. > > > For people who grew up > > on the SAD diet, and maybe for other factors we don't understand, it > > may be helpful to restrict carbohydrates in general more than other > > people. I would never say everyone has to. I'm mainly trying to > refine > > what works for me. > > I agree here too. Both things I mentioned above (flora imbalance and > inadequate enzymes) could easily be a part of growing up on SAD. Low > carb > worked for me at first but not for long. For me it was a temporary > fix that > I tried to stick to without realizing that as I healed, my body's > requirements would change. Now I thrive on carbs - still not the > full USDA > " requirement " , but far more than any low carber would ever dare to > eat. > > -Lana > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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