Re: Re: enzymes on an empty stomach? Robin

[Guest guest]

Robin,

That's very interesting, as I read sometime back that

taking enzymes on an empty stomach supposed to be good

for inflammation and soreness in the body. This

discussion is all new news to me. How do these

naturopaths come up with these sort of solutions to

body problems? I don't think they are using any

scientific studies that have been done in this area.

Or maybe there aren't any. It is really a shame what

you have had to endure because of someone's lack of

knowledge in this area.

jafa

--- Robin Ann <grainwreck@...> wrote:

> > [paul] That's the million-dollar question, isn't

> it. I don't know. I've tried

> > Wobenzyme and Serra-peptase myself to no really

> obvious effect, but I have

> > had suspicions that they've worsened my digestion.

> Often studies will look

> > at the effect of supplements like that on some

> particular endpoint without

> > paying attention to other issues, like their

> effects on the gut.

>

> I'm pretty sure that taking protease on an empty

> stomach was one of

> the things that kept me in such bad digestive shape

> for so long -- for

> over a year at least. When I got the celiac biopsy

> my G.I. couldn't

> believe that my guts were in such bad shape even

> though I'd quit

> gluten for over a year (due to staying on a strict

> SCD diet of no

> starches/no sugars.) He had me bring in ingredient

> lists for every

> single thing I'd been taking so he could see for

> himself what was

> causing my guts to stay in the same eroded and

> scarred condition. When

> he saw I was taking protease he said, bingo! He

> thought the enzyme on

> an empty stomach s a pretty was a sure bet to tear

> up the guts. (My

> natureopathic doctor sold me on the idea of taking

> protease that way

> to " consume " proteins that were getting past the

> cell walls or

> something to that effect. Ack!)

>

> I quit taking protease a few weeks ago -- it was at

> about the same

> time I started to take rather large amounts of a

> liquid pet-food type

> probiotics called MSE. Except for last night when I

> accidently ate

> something very terrible (and had miserable diarhhea

> all night and

> today) I've been feeling better than I have in the 2

> years since the

> fateful ruptured ulcer. I mean I've felt positively

> radically healthy

> (!) No bloat, no gas, and reasonably good energy.

> (In fact my good

> health is why I've hardly been at the computer --

> yoga every day, the

> gym, long walks after dinner plus all the crazy

> errands I've put off.

> After 2 years nearly bedridden, it's just been

> great.)

>

> I still take at least 5 HCl and about 4 enzyme

> capsules with meals. I

> also heap in the vitamins and mineral supplements as

> well as a lot of

> free-form amino acids from Jomar Labs (great site by

> the way...)

>

> ~Robin

>

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