Re: was Thyroid now: Lectins/ANITA

May 2, 2007

Lectin lock is not an enzyme. The main idea behind the LL is to

decoy the lectins away from you. Essential sugars attract the

lectins. Normally, those essential sugars are on the cells of your

gut lining. If you take the sugars with your meals, then the idea is

that the lectins don't make it to the cells of your gut lining where

they'll do damage (if you're susceptible), but are escorted out by

the essential sugars, leaving you unharmed.

It really is too bad about the milk. :-(

When you say the enzymes made them worse, did you start super, super

slow (sorry, I don't want to ask insulting questions that you've

already answered a million times) and try some different kinds?

Enzymes are one of the very few things that can make kids worse on

their way to being better.

One of the things I didn't mention about my son's gut was stomach

acid. I can't remember how I knew he had low acid (it's late and I'm

too burnt out) but somehow I realized that. I switched from buffered

C to plain ascorbic acid and over a period of about 4 weeks his

poops, although still not great, were less filled with undigested

food. He gets about 4-5 grams of ascorbic acid a day.

It is so very hard to figure out how to make a kid better if

supplements/food don't get absorbed.

Anita

-- In , " Victor & "

<curlytatertot@...> wrote:

>

> So it looks like we don't eat anything on the " big problem " list.

> They do eat veggies and fruits on the lesser problem list but I

> can't remove them w/out making them fast! The problem is because

> they are so hungry, they eat huge amounts of food so even if

> something is okay in moderate amounts, they don't eat moderate

> amounts of anything! When I was at the store yesterday buying

> zucchini for dinner, the produce guy asked me if I was buying for a

> restaurant!! Is the VRP lectin lock an enzyme? My children do not

> tolerate digestive enzymes so that won't work.

>

May 2, 2007

Hi , me again. :-)

If you are doing SCD you are right, a lot of the problem foods are

already eliminated. Peanuts and tomatoes are very high in harmful

lectins however, and bananas and tree nuts are also suspect.

However, there is much we don't know yet about many dietary lectins.

My guess is that really, they are in *every natural food but beyond

the well-studied grain/legume/nightshade lectins there are still lots

of ones we don't know much about - which ones are beneficial, which

ones are harmful (and how they are harmful and under what

circumstances).

Rather than go on a food-free diet, I think it's best to incorporate

several strategies. For example, if you use nuts consider soaking

them overnight with a bit of sea salt and then drying them in a

dehydrator or low oven before use. Fermenting also destroys lectins

so you may want to consider using cultured veggies.

It may be that the people who are most susceptible to lectin damage

are those who are deficient in essential sugars, and essential sugars

act directly on lectins by binding them and safely escorting them out

of the digestive tract. Lectin Lock is primarily an essential sugars

product, though it has some pepsin in it. I'm pretty sure it

wouldn't be considered SCD legal, unfortunately, since most of the

essential sugar sources are polysaccharides. This is common in

many " glyconutrient " products that would otherwise be very helpful

for people using SCD who are also concerned about lectins. Very

frustrating. You can, however, find refined versions of the

essential sugars N-acetylglucosamine and Mannose (both simple sugars

in their refined form), and those could be very useful. N-

acetylglucosamine is great for gut healing and formed stools and it

also binds a number of harmful lectins, including Wheat Germ

Agglutinin. D-mannose is helpful for many urinary tract infections

and also binds Gliadin.

You may also want to consider using more whole foods that are

naturally high in essential sugars. I would try to make sure to

consume a combination of foods that covers the eight known essential

sugars, as each one selectively binds different lectins. Look here

for more information on using wholefoods as an essential sugars

source:

http://www.innvista.com/health/nutrition/essensug/default.htm

hope this helps

Rene