Digestive Enzymes

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Anybody can take digestive enzymes to help their digestive system and for better health.  Digestive enzymes can help break down food proteins, carbohydrates, meats, fats, dairy, wheat, soy, vegetables, and other foods.  Taking digestive enzymes is based on how much food is digested, not on weigh or age.  Digestive Enzymes would have to be taken before each meal or snack.

Digestive enzymes may also help children or adults with autism, ADHD/ADD, or related disorders.  A dairy/casein and/or gluten/wheat free diet has also known to help.  Digestive enzymes may or may not replace the need for that diet.  Everybody digestive system is different and enzymes may not work for everybody.  I read it's hard to find the enzyme to digest casein or gluten from this link from www.gfcfdiet.com and mercury can cause the enzymes to not work!  But enzymes may still help in conjunction with the diet.  Click here for more information.

If you have a child with autism, ADHD/ADD, or related disorders that isn't on a dairy and/or gluten free diet, I would suggest looking into the peptides for casein and gluten blood or urine test at Great Plains Laboratory or any other lab that offers those tests.  Click here for links to other labs.

If you don't want to start the diet, definably get your child enzymes and you can get that same test done mentioned above several months later after being on enzymes to see if the results differ any.  (They should, if not that means the enzymes aren't working).  You should also noticed changes in your child's behavior if the enzymes were working.  Even if on the diet, you can still get those tests done to see if your child been eating the right foods!  I think taking enzymes would be for a lifetime.

If you don't see any improvement with enzymes, you might have to try different doses and time it just right, may have to take them 15 or more minutes before a meal or they may be not working.

I've heard that some people may have to take more then 1 or 2 capsules before meals, like 4-8 if dairy or gluten is digested.  There is no harm in taking too many.  Check out the enzymes and autism Yahoo! Group.  They talk all about enzymes and different dosages.

Visit enzymestory.com to read how digestive enzymes helped a child with Asperger Syndrome.

I've heard some people with autism also besides being dairy and gluten FREE has to be soy, egg, corn, yeast, and sugar FREE!  I saw that from this Yahoo! group.

Digestive enzymes may be brought from health food stores or online at health or vitamin stores.  There are health and vitamin stores in the malls on the shopping page.

Here are 3 companies that sell digestive enzymes:

Houston Enzymes

Kirkmanlabs

Klaire Laboratories

Here's a link for information about digestive enzymes: www.enzymestuff.com

Here's a link to Enzyme University for info on all kinds of enzymes.