<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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 * Visit the Celiac Web Page at www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html *