Great Lakes Gelatin (Collagen)

ursamajor68 said...
I stumbled onto collagen peptides before ever being aware of having pathogens, etc. It was highly recommended for assisting to heal leaky gut. I use Vital Proteins brand (the blue cap)....had really good reviews (up there with Great Lakes brand) and at the time was more cost effective....but not sure if that is the case anymore. Love to hear if anyone else is using Vital Proteins collagen peptides...

How has you experience with it been?

Dacarte3 - my experience has been both good and bad. I believe it is necessary, and my body tolerates it fine...but I started it before knowing about Lyme, hoping it would "heal" my leaky gut, as so many said it would (with other items of course, not 100% on its own). But nothing I tried healed the leaky gut. That was because I had parasitic overload which I never noticed until a parasite cleanse as a last effort at finding why I was so ill.......suddenly my GI tract issues changed remarkably. So I struggle with knowing what does what, because until I started removing pathogens from my gut, I just couldn't heal or feel better.

This is not a great lakes gelatin update but just a comment.

I hope this really works/helps, because I just got another little wrinkle under my eyes where the bags and dark circles already resides.

I'm bummed to say the least. Not for "vanity" reasons but because I don't want to walk around looking like I'm a drug addict. I look like a heroin addict right now. :-(

Luckily a couple of my bosses at work, know what I'm going through, so it's not like they are going to take me aside and start asking me questions and drug test me.

But still who wants to walk around in life looking like a junkie. Once again I hope this helps.

I am optimistic it will but know it will take multiple weeks to see results if it does.

Also, could this be the doxy doing it? This would be the end of week 3 of doxy. I didn't have this issue prior. I know that isn't the most logical way to think of "cause and effect" but just a thought.

PeteZa,

I have notice as the eyes have getting worse, I've been a little more thirsty and my lips have been drying out rapidly.

However, I was hydrating "properly". Do I need to up my hydration to another level? Like more than the above average healthy person? Like a "lyme" level of hydration?

Also my LLMD said poor gut health can cause this and that I should make sure I take a orthobiotic probiotic in between taking the anitbiotic.

I have been taking some supps that have "probiotic" properties but I have not been taking a straight up probiotic supplement. I know this is very important but for some reason I just thought I was taking in enough.

I am not laughing.

I have read 2 differing rules on water consumption.

1 says take your weight and divide it in half and change those pounds to ounces and that is it. A 200 pound person should drink 100 ounces.

2 says take your weight and multiply it by 2/3 (67%) and change those pounds to ounces and that is it. A 200 pound person should drink 134 ounces.

I just remember that 60% of our body is water and we need to change it constantly so it doesn't go stagnate like an old pond. lol

Oh and both of those "rules" do not calculate in sweating.

I had a very sweaty job. I drank a huge Coleman water jug of water every day and never went to the bathroom. I had to start taking another Coleman water jug. I am a woman so I shouldn't say sweaty job, I should say I had a glowy job.

Research has shown that the symptoms we experience as a result of these infections are directly related to the health of our immune systems.

At least 70% of our immune system is in our gut. Antibiotics kill not only the bad bacteria but the good bacteria. The only way to even begin to replace the good bacteria is by taking probiotics and eating probiotic foods (fermented foods, etc.)

All Lyme patients would benefit from taking at least 50-100 billion organisms worth of probiotics daily....a variety of strains... including soil-based organisms, saccharomyces boulardii and bifidobacterium bifidum.

A small bowl of home-made kefir (very easy to make) has almost 5 TRILLION organisms.

I just learned recently that Cat's Claw is excellent for healing leaky gut (you may know that this is one of the primary herbs in Buhner's Lyme protocol)

Cd,

I'm going to my llmd and getting some tomorrow.

Things will turn around, Suzee.....it can take an insanely long amount of time until everything "clicks". Keep increasing your detox and doing things to support your body and immune system and things will start falling into place.

Oh, I meant to share that I was happy with the price I paid Vitacost for Great Lakes Gelatin green can (too hard to type the real names lol). I can't remember it exactly but I was able to get it at a lower price than Amazon.

Vitacost has frequent sales.....and $49 orders will get you free shipping.

The Great Lakes "gelatin" in the green can (collagen hydro something) doesn't have laxative properties and can be used in cold items as well....

I beg to differ. It may not intentially have laxative properties but can, sort of like coffee. Coffee isnt purposely a laxative either. I notice when I drink it in water I'm fine. If I put it in tea it's different story. But everyone is different.

DS started taking the collagen from the green can this week. I've added a small amount to his lemon water but he can taste it and doesn't like it. I'm glad to see the suggestions to add it to other food. I will try and remember this.

How much do you all take daily? We are hoping it will help with his knee pain but it is so hard to fit all this in! Plus I wonder how much/long until he may notice an improvement. He is now off sports which is VERY hard for us all as he is typically very energetic and still is but can't burn it off.

yancync said...
DS started taking the collagen from the green can this week. I've added a small amount to his lemon water but he can taste it and doesn't like it. I'm glad to see the suggestions to add it to other food. I will try and remember this.

How much do you all take daily? We are hoping it will help with his knee pain but it is so hard to fit all this in! Plus I wonder how much/long until he may notice an improvement. He is now off sports which is VERY hard for us all as he is typically very energetic and still is but can't burn it off.

From the 100+ testimonies I read on multiple sites, people are usually saying 2-4 weeks to "start" seeing noticeable improvements (assuming recommended dosage is used). So I would say stick with it for at least a month.