Gluten-Ease or Other Digestion Pills?

[Serenity]

I was in WholeFoods the other day and saw a couple products that help your body digest gluten (similar to how lactaid helps with dairy).

I am not celiac, but I noticed that I get a little flare when I eat a lot of gluten.  I try to limit my gluten comsumption to 1 meal a day, but sometimes I slip.  I'm not able to completely eliminate it from my diet at this time.

Does anyone more knowledgeable about this stuff know whether this product will help prevent RA flares?  Will it help heal a leaky gut or is not eating gluten at all the only solution? 

Here is one example of a product.  http://www.vitaminlife.com/product-exec/PNAME/Gluten_Ease_60_Capsules/product_id/50125

I'd like to hear from people before paying the $$ for a bottle.

thanks in advance!

 

[Parisa]

Seems to me that one article I read said that unfortunately the gluten enzymes break the gluten down but to the point only that you then have even more gluten out there to disrupt the system.  The author was rather disappointed as they were hoping it would obliterate it.

[maz.aust]

[user=330]Serenity[/user] wrote:

I was in WholeFoods the other day and saw a couple products that help your body digest gluten (similar to how lactaid helps with dairy).

I am not celiac, but I noticed that I get a little flare when I eat a lot of gluten.  I try to limit my gluten comsumption to 1 meal a day, but sometimes I slip.  I'm not able to completely eliminate it from my diet at this time.

Does anyone more knowledgeable about this stuff know whether this product will help prevent RA flares?  Will it help heal a leaky gut or is not eating gluten at all the only solution? 

Here is one example of a product.  http://www.vitaminlife.com/product-exec/PNAME/Gluten_Ease_60_Capsules/product_id/50125

I'd like to hear from people before paying the $$ for a bottle.

thanks in advance!

 

Hi Serenity,

Just letting you know that gluten is only one of the things I have to watch out for – there are other things that assist inflammation that we should stay clear of.

Perhaps you should read one of the books that lists all the foods that are inflammatory.

 

Cheers,

Maz – Aust

Dec07: Diagnosed PRA, (CTD; Fibromyalgia; suspected Lyme):
Mar08: Diet to heal gut/bolster immune system (no gluten, dairy, sulphites or sugar)

Jan 2018: ABX Mon/Wed/Fri (started AP 2008)
1/2 x 150mg Roxithromycin(Biasig), 1/2 x 150mg Clarithromycin (Klacid),
1/2 x Fungillin, 1 x 250mg Cephalexin (Keflex)

All off days Probiotics

[Jennhere]

Hi.  You don't have to be dxed with CD to be gluten sensitive.  I, myself, am dxed with NOT having Celiac.  However, when I eat gluten, I am not well.  Getting rid of gluten from your diet is easy compared to living with symptoms your body may experience from eating gluten!!  From pain:crying:, to gas:shock:, to brain fog:?, to nosebleeds:headbang:, to constipation:shock:, to diarrhea:sick:… non of those are easier than going gluten free!;)

Celiac.com is a great resource.  Remember that the tests for CD are newish and not without problems.  They don't even fully understand the “spectrum” of gluten issues.  I had one doctor tell me it was too difficult to remove gluten from kid's diets because what would you do for birthday parties at friend's houses and pizza?  ….. That's just scary logic for not sticking with the diet for a child with DXED celiac disease!  My son is dxed.  Which you actually don't really want since you won't be able to get life insurance or health care coverage once you're all official.  Better to walk away with your lack of a dx and go gluten free.  Unless we get national healthcare in the U.S.  Then you will be able to live without fear of your dxes being discovered.

[Joe M]

[user=10]Jennhere[/user] wrote:

Which you actually don't really want since you won't be able to get life insurance or health care coverage once you're all official.  Better to walk away with your lack of a dx and go gluten free.  Unless we get national healthcare in the U.S.  Then you will be able to live without fear of your dxes being discovered.

Not sure I understand.  Life insurance companies will not be nationalized, and will still be able to deny based on any DX, unless the government takes the socialism one step further and forces life insurance companies to accept anyone, which will have the effect of driving life insurance companies out of business so nobody can get it.

With socialized medicine, however, we will have to fear a shortage of doctors, longer waits to get scheduled for appoitments, and a lower standard of care.  Personally I don't want our healthcare system to operate like the post office. 

I don't like posting political views and feel they have no place on this board, but when opinions are presented as fact I think the other side must be represented. 😕

Joe

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