basic question I'm wondering about

[Guest guest]

I have a question for people who have benefited from the use of

enzymes with their kids. When I read information from the files it

speaks mostly of the benefits of enzymes in breaking down gluten and

casein- but I know the spectrum of enzymes is broader for proteins,

carbs, and fats. So, my question is whether it has helped kids who

have not responded to the GFCF diet (kids who do not appear to have

difficulties with these proteins)- but just have other digestive

issues?

I appreciate your help-

Marissa

[Guest guest]

Yes. We had some response to the diet, but I think it was more to cutting way

back on sugar than gluten and casein. In fact, my daughter did not test

sensitive to dairy.

The enzymes have helped her. The only real digestive issue we had was extremely

large stools and problems with constipation.

Just last night we had a very normal looking poop and I did the dance of joy.

Isn't it great when you can get excited about poop.

basic question I'm wondering about

I have a question for people who have benefited from the use of

enzymes with their kids. When I read information from the files it

speaks mostly of the benefits of enzymes in breaking down gluten and

casein- but I know the spectrum of enzymes is broader for proteins,

carbs, and fats. So, my question is whether it has helped kids who

have not responded to the GFCF diet (kids who do not appear to have

difficulties with these proteins)- but just have other digestive

issues?

I appreciate your help-

Marissa

[Guest guest]

> I have a question for people who have benefited from the use of

> enzymes with their kids. When I read information from the files it

> speaks mostly of the benefits of enzymes in breaking down gluten and

> casein- but I know the spectrum of enzymes is broader for proteins,

> carbs, and fats. So, my question is whether it has helped kids who

> have not responded to the GFCF diet (kids who do not appear to have

> difficulties with these proteins)- but just have other digestive

> issues?

My son had much worse problems with foods OTHER than gluten/casein.

He showed some minimal improvement with gfcf, but it was OTHER foods

that were the major problems. Plus, he tolerated basically NO foods,

just some were much worse than others.

Enzymes were very helpful for him so he could actually eat something

and not have major problems. But I still needed to remove certain

foods, because the enzymes did not address his problems with them.

For my son, those foods were artificials, corn, rice, and luteins.

Good luck.

Dana

[Guest guest]

>>>When I read information from the files it speaks mostly of the

benefits of enzymes in breaking down gluten and casein- but I know

the spectrum of enzymes is broader for proteins, carbs, and fats.

The Files section was the main place I kept articles and records, but

a number of people were having a hard time accessing the Files from

their computers ( thing). When I started the www.enzymestuff.com

site, I moved most of the information over to there and add new items

to that site.

In the beginning, people were mostly interested in enzymes

(Peptizyde) to enhance, supplement, or replace a GFCF diet. Since

that was the main interest, that is why most of the early reports

revolve around that.

Now, it is known that enzymes can be used very successfully for other

issues in autism besides improving on a GFCF diet. It is also

apparent that casein and gluten are only starting points when

considering diet. Most everyone doing GFCF is *really* removing many

other foods as well - not just GFCF.

Some use Feingold, others SCD, others yeast control or keto diets,

and others. Some just start eliminating everything that seems to be a

problem.

The main problem is impaired digestion, so anything eaten can be a

candidate for problems. This is why enzymes help so many so much. It

goes the root problem instead of focusing just on one or two foods.

>>>>So, my question is whether it has helped kids who have not

responded to the GFCF diet (kids who do not appear to have

> difficulties with these proteins)- but just have other digestive

> issues?

Definitely yes. I followed 260 families for 7 months a couple years

ago. Most had done GFCF at some point. It turned out that if GFCF did

not produce improvements, trying enzymes was very successful for

about 50% of the people. If someone did see improvement with GFCF,

adding enzymes gave further improvement for nearly 100%.

This shouldn't be that surprising. GFCF is totally based on the idea

that a couple proteins are not sufficiently digested. If you add

digestive enzymes to further break those proteins down, you are doing

the same thing food eliminations are. And an improvement on GFCF

signals that there is a problem with digestion. Digestive enzymes ARE

the method by which food breakdown works. So one would expect adding

in digestive enzymes to be helpful.

If someone does GFCF and does not see improvement, enzymes may still

be helpful because it could easily be that other foods besides grains

and dairy are not being thoroughly digested and causing problems.

My older son was more seriously debiliated than my younger one (on a

behavioral and functional level). He never showed any eating or bowel

problems at all. He responded wonderfully to Peptizyde.

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