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Dear friends:

I asked this question:

How could I properly absorb or digest the polysaccharides of GF diet with
one severe atrophy of the intestinal villi ?


I recieved two answers:

1) Or the nutrients sure hope you are finding something to eat that is gluten free. I live on TPN 
lil 

2) In order to repair your intestinal tract you need to purchase some enzymes
to help you digest food into its simplest components.  This means that your
gut will work less hard and absorb more to repair itself.  Make sure that
the enzymes are not from barley - this is very important.  You can get
vegetarian enzymes or enzymes from pig.  They should be taken with each
meal, and at the beginning of the meal.  Take one capsule for all regular
foods but two at least if eating red meat.
The difficulty in absorption for celiacs is not polysaccharides as much as
it is with protein. In any case, the enzymes will help with all of it.
Also, if you have as severe a problem as you say, it could take 12 months or
more to see an impovement.  I usually test my patients for nutritional
deficiencies.  Celiacs tend to be deficient in zinc, calcium and B12.  The
B12 will not be absorbed orally - it has to initially be given by shots and
then can be taken sublingually (under the tongue).
Good luck - Susan Solomon M.D.

But, I have another question: why the all doctors give us only a GF diet if we only
can absorb monosaccharides for a long time?

If anyone have others opinions or conceptual foundations at the light of the 
actual magazines or books on celiac I could summarize again.

Saludos from Argentina.

Carlos Mangione
CELIAC
Buenos Aires

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