Guest guest Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 If the doc said he definitely has leaky gut, do healing measures and diet based on that. With leaky gut, any food you eat can become a problem, so picking on this food or that food might not be so helpful. One thing would be to start rotating foods: a rotation diet. This means that you keep giving a wide variety of foods on a set schedule so that no one food type is given repeatedly. This helps prevent any one food from becoming a problem. People may commonly register higher sensitivities to milk and grains because that is what is commonly eaten over and over. On an allergy list, I read that it was common for Asian people to have rice intolerance more than other foods. If you switched to adding in a lot of soy, then soy would become a high problem. I don't have a good reference for doing a rotation diet, but I think Dana has one at her site somewhere. Giving enzymes regularly will help heal the gut and prevent foods from becoming a problem because they are more thoroughly digested. Probiotics, zinc, maybe aloe vera, and essential fatty acids to help with gut healing. I favor oatmeal to help with healing personally, Also, a good multivitamin/mineral such as brainchilds liquid might be good since leaky gut often leads to poor nutrient absorption. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Something else you may want to consider for leaky gut: we also make an intestinal repair formula called Intestimend, which helps with leaky gut -- basically supports and gives sulfur to the glycosaminoglycans (GAG's). These are little sulfur-laden " shields " that line the intestinal walls, very important for gut integrity. Here's a link: http://www.brainchildnutritionals.com/Intestimendx.html I have a leaky gut kid (11yo), and this has been helpful for him. He's one who reacted to literally almost every food they tested him for. Rotation diets, enzymes and all that weren't very helpful for us, as I don't think we were ever able to take enough foods away to make a difference, and he also reacted badly to most enzymes I tried. His gut is much healthier now, I believe, due to persistent efforts to heal it using many of the things mentioned. Terri at Brainchild At 04:23 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: >If the doc said he definitely has leaky gut, do healing measures and >diet based on that. With leaky gut, any food you eat can become a >problem, so picking on this food or that food might not be so helpful. > >One thing would be to start rotating foods: a rotation diet. This >means that you keep giving a wide variety of foods on a set schedule >so that no one food type is given repeatedly. This helps prevent any >one food from becoming a problem. > >People may commonly register higher sensitivities to milk and grains >because that is what is commonly eaten over and over. On an allergy >list, I read that it was common for Asian people to have rice >intolerance more than other foods. If you switched to adding in a lot >of soy, then soy would become a high problem. > >I don't have a good reference for doing a rotation diet, but I think >Dana has one at her site somewhere. > >Giving enzymes regularly will help heal the gut and prevent foods >from becoming a problem because they are more thoroughly digested. > >Probiotics, zinc, maybe aloe vera, and essential fatty acids to help >with gut healing. I favor oatmeal to help with healing personally, > >Also, a good multivitamin/mineral such as brainchilds liquid might be >good since leaky gut often leads to poor nutrient absorption. > >. > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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