pancreatic enzymes (pork glandular) by Nutricology
Andy,
I've been looking into digestion support lately - pre/probiotics, enzymes and betaine hcl - and I wonder if you might explain why you chose that particular product.
Thanks
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pancreatic enzymes (pork glandular) by Nutricology
Note: for those taking yucca, I did ok with taking two pills a day instead of sprinkling it on my food at every meal (because it tasted funny).
Hi AVS. I've been following the GAPS diet since Jan 2012. Developed by neurologist Natasha Campbell McBride to help her autistic son, healing the gut is the top priority. She advocates HCL at beginning of meal, when digestion needs help, plus ox bile at end of meal. I was initially using a mixed digestive enzyme, but have recently switched to ox bile on its own. This gives me a larger dose, and is much better on the budget. I also take apple cider vinegar before meals. My tendency has been toward alkalinity, but recently when I felt heartburn, which I'd been treating w/ apple cider vinegar, I tested urine and was acidic. So I used 1/4 tsp bicarb in water, and it shifted to alkaline. I'm only using bicarb as needed.xjhuez
I also wanted to mention that all of the other products that you are looking into, I don't believe would hurt either. I take a probiotic (away from the pancreatic enzymes) and on occation a digestive enzyme with food so I wouldn't discount digestive support from other angles as well. Also, I wanted to ask about Betaine HCL, I haven't heard much on this support?
Thanks
AVS
Wow, this is awsome (these are my first few posts). I am so grateful for people like you who are willing to help me understand. I am so into learning more about methylation and I couldn't have asked for a better place.
dbkita, thank you for your insight on the CBS A360A. I was trying to make that a priority issue after reading "heartfixer". I noticed that Dr. Roberts had a +/- A360A and he was treating it as his first priority (he did also have an SOUX defect so that may have been a contributing issue). Anyway, in heartfixer they are all about both CBS defects being a priority. I notice that in Yasko methidology she doesn't focus on 360A as much as the 677T. I was concerned with my CBS ++ because my father had a heart attack at 52y/o and I believe he has passed on the APOe 4 (I am APOe 4/2, Pamela McDonalds work on lipid/cholesterol clearing) and the heart fixer guys really fix hard on the fact that CBS upregulation is a huge contributor to heart disease by causing a free radical response from ammonia, alpha keto glutarate, and other excitotoxins when homocycteine escapes down the transulfuration pathway. I also figured that my BHMT 4 and 8 were contributing to the CBS problem as well.
So would you suggest then that I tone down my treatment on my CBS A360A and move on to treating the MTHFR C677T and SHMT? I do understand that I need to address that C677T but I was waiting until I got my CBS under control because I read that it may be worse to treat methlyation intermediates with out first addressing CBS because of the fact that you may lose everythiing down the CBS pathway.
Again I am really excited to have someone to talk to about this. I really appreciate everyones help.
Just for reference here is what I currently take daily:
Fish oil (epa dha), resveratrol, vit C, vit D spray yasko, ultimate B complex yasko, CBS/NOS support yasko, molybdenum, yucca, charcoal (every once in a while b/c of constipation), probiotic, pancreatic enzymes (pork glandular) by Nutricology,
on occasion - GABA, nettle, magnesium, potassium
I have Methylmate B (active folate), MTHFR caps (liver support), SHMT spray, Methylcobolamine B12, Hydroxycobolamine B12 but I am holding off because I want to make sure that the CBS is not an issue.
Thank you all so much
Andy
If you read my "couple of questions" thread you will see in the articles I linked you will see that the heterozygous CBS C699T has almost no impact on trans-sulfuration flux post methionine loading. In addition if you check out this link:
http://browser.1000genomes.org/Homo...0-44485850;v=rs234706;vdb=variation;vf=135834
You will see that heterozygous CBS is there for 34% of all Americans and even higher for other ethnic groups.
Many on here believe the heterozygote CBS is a big problem for them. I don't know what to say other than the data, I offered you. But I will say I wish I was heterozygous instead of being homozygous. The bump in ammonia when I try to eat a steak is not fun in terms of body pain. Sigh.
Sorry but you are interpreting the data wrong. The percentages you quoted are for allele frequency, not the frequency of then hetero or homozygote genotypes as listed in the table below the pie charts.I imagine those percentages are updated as more data comes in. If you check the link you provided, the current percentage for America and for All is 22%, 32% in Europe.