Advice on Digestive Enzymes

The process of digestion and absorption of foods is a very interesting one:

1) Between meals take digestive enzymes so they settle in your stomach. I take Pregest and GNC Syperdigestive Enzymes(very cheap). I take two in mid morning, then two in mid afternoon. In the products lookfor Amytase, Protease, Lipase, Bromelain, Papain, Cellulase. Just like Probiotics, you can go from $12 to $50 and in many cases two tables of the cheaper will more than work than the expensive ones.

2) I eat about 4 meals a day, smaller meals make digestion easier.

3) I start out with a small cup of broth, the hot liquids signals the tract that food is coming...this by far is my biggest aid.

4) When I eat, I chew throroughly, this releases salivary enzymes into the system.

5) If possible, it is best to walk off lunch (restaurants are about half a mile away) and evening meal.

6) I also rotate probiotics: Live yogurt 3 times a day, Jarrows, Primal Defense and VSL 3(very expensive) on different days.

Enzymes are part of the picture, how you chew, the frequency of meals, and mild walking are all part of the digestion process.

Post Edited (yohimbe) : 12/4/2010 10:34:28 AM (GMT-7)

general rule of thumb with supplements, if it is cheap, it is junk. and conversely, just because it is expensive doesnt mean it is good. so you have to do your homework.

this is the brand my naturopath recommended to me. it is supposed to help with hidden sources of gluten and casein which is in a lot of stuff. i use it regularly and find this brand really helps.
http://www.healthdesigns.com/integrative-therapeutics-similase-gfcg-120-ultracaps.html

this brand also makes a good betaine HCL. you want this to come with pepsin. oddly enough, you could be having acid reflux cos you are producing too little stomach acid, not too much, so going on something like stomach acid blocker could be the opposite of what you should be doing (plus they cos damage and are bad for you long term).
http://www.healthdesigns.com/integrative-therapeutics-betaine-hcl-250-ultracaps.html

i find this site to be good and has fair prices (way cheaper than the store too - especially for brands like this which you just dont find unless you are a doctor).

ginger and peppermint help for digestion. so drink these flavored teas.

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Post Edited By Moderator (Nanners) : 12/5/2010 8:58:11 AM (GMT-7)

My cheap ones run me about $17 a bottle for 60 caplets, whereas the PD ones were like $40 (can't remember the cap count), but when I looked at the ingredients, they were almost identical, except PD had cats claw etc, in addition the the digestive enzymes.

I tried both of them for a few months and I couldn't feel much of a difference, so why should I spend 40 when I can spend 20? lol

Hey CH, I just saw yours are just as cheap as mine! ;-)