Enzymes: Go With Your Gut: More Practical Guidelines For Digestive Enzymes

This is a must read for everyone whether they have autism or not. So many people have health issues and don't realize that their gut is probably a big part of the problem. Karen does and excellent job of explaining how it all works, so people can start working on healing. Well written, well documented and provides a lot of details so the reader can do something about their health. This book adds more information to her first book (about autism). I bought and recommend both.I have been sick for over 30 years, and been to lots of doctors with no solution. With her information, I am a LOT stronger and healthier. I have been using her info, and other for about 3 months now with noticeable improvement. It is not a magic pill or a quick cure, but it makes sense and it works if you stick with it!

I am posting this review in several places, for each product mentioned in this review, in hopes that it will reach the people that may be able to benefit from what I have found has helped me.I decided to post what has been key for me in recovering my digestive health after 5 years of exposure to black mold in an office I was in, and 3 years of treatment to detox the toxins that were circulating through my system under Richie Shoemaker's 7 step protocol for the treatment of mold illness: Enzymes.First, I realized that I had to have Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth, SIBO. I have the symptoms. So I researched what to do about that and and found an nih study that showed that two herbal protocols are as effective if not more effective than the standard extremely expensive antibiotic protocol for the treatment of SIBO. I put myself on one of them, FC Cidal and Dysbiocide, 2 caps twice a day of each. Immediate improvement in my digestion.However, SIBO almost always comes back after the treatment, usually within 30 days. Why? Along the way of figuring out what to do about the SIBO, I started taking pancreatic enzymes. I had a test that showed I was low on pancreatic enzymes, even though I was taking them at the time. Why? Then I got a recommendation from my Health Coach, who uses a Life Biofeedback machine for energy balancing, that I should take Cholacol. Cholacol is gallbladder bile supplement. It is given to people who have had their gallbladder removed. So, Why? again, in that I have not had my gallbladder removed, but needed the supplement. More on that in a minute. It is not enough for me to just feel better, I have to know why. I will not rest until I figure out the answers.I found such improvement after starting the pancreatic enzymes and the Cholacol that I started taking Enzymedica Digest Spectrum. More improvement. So then I started researching enzymes in general. I found a book called Enzymes: Go with Your Gut by Karen DeFelice. In it she describes a protocol for taking 10 capsules per day of Enzymedica Extra Strength Enzyme Defense for 30 days to eliminate hidden viruses. I know that I have herpes simplex Type A, and would love to get rid of it, so I figured, What the heck, may as well give the protocol a try and see what happens. I started it two weeks ago. The stuff is awesome. Within 24 hours I was able to start eating things I had not been able to eat in literally years, am sleeping better, pain is almost non-existent. Also, two of my employees are out with a nasty virus, but although I also have the virus that has flattened both of them, I am not sick. I realized when I found out that they were sick that I have that virus, but for me I almost didn't realize that I had it because it has been so mild, just a runny nose for three days, and a slightly enlarged and tender lymph node under my jaw that cleared up in two days. They are both much younger than me (I am 65) and very sick. I'm not.So back to the puzzles of why SIBO comes back, and why I would need pancreatic enzyme supplements, and supplements of gallbladder bile when I haven't had my gallbladder out. This thought process took me several months this last year. I realized that the pancreas was not getting enzymes into my digestive tract and bile was not getting from the gallbladder to the digestive tract, so, therefore, it was likely that I had something blocking the flow of those products to the small intestine. I also figured out that the reason SIBO comes back is because the bile from the gallbladder controls the growth of bacteria in the small intestine, so without enough bile from the gallbladder, you can treat the SIBO, but it will come back because the bacteria will just grow back again because there isn't enough bile to control it. So finally I scoped out the connections between the liver, gallbladder, pancreas and small intestine, and discovered that stones are produced in the liver, then move to the gallbladder and the pancreas through the common ducts that connect those three organs, and the common duct that allows the pancreatic enzymes and bile from the gallbladder into the small intestine. I also had a dull ache, sometimes sharper, especially if I ate anything with sugar, carbohydrates (which convert to sugar) or fat, in the lower right quadrant of my back. Those are all symptoms, I found out, of gallstones. The allopathic response to gallstones is to yank out the gallbladder. Um, I don't think so. So I researched how to get rid of the stones that had to be blocking all those ducts through which the pancreatic enzymes and gallbladder bile should be flowing into the small intestine. I found Stone Free, and started taking that. That was also a huge help. Within 24 hours the ache in my gallbladder had eased substantially. Now I still have a very light pressure from my gallbladder, which I don't notice unless I think about it. Most people from middle age on will have stones in the gallbladder and that also block those common ducts that enable the bile and pancreatic enzymes to get to the small intestine. So most folks need to get cleaned out. Stone Free will do it.So for me, it has been the combo of several things.1. Several different types of Probiotics including Hyperbiotics Pro-15, Perfect Pass and Culturelle.2. Pancreatic enzymes and Cholacol.3. FC Cidal and Dysbiocide to eliminate the SIBO. I am in the middle of my third course of it, and both I and my Health Coach dowse that I should continue to stay on it for now, so that tells me that the blockages are still present preventing enough bile from the gallbladder getting into the small intestine, that and the still present light pressure from the gallbladder.4. Stone Free to eliminate the blockages for enzymes to get to the small intestine, supplementing with the pancreatic enzymes and Cholacol until I get everything flowing the way it should.5. Enzymedica Digest Spectrum 2 caps taken with each meal.6. Finally, the addition of the protocol of the Enzymedica Extra Strength Enzyme Defense, 5 caps twice a day on an empty stomach, for 30 days. Actually, I will probably stay on it for longer than that, but I will see what both my own dowsing and the Life Biofeedback machine have to say about that when I reach the end of the 30 days.that has finally allowed me to eat like a more or less normal human being. I still can't eat dairy products, but am otherwise eating pretty much what I want.Life is good. Hope that will be true for others that may read this post.All of the products and the book mentioned here are available from and have been purchased from Amazon.

I just received this book and already have found so much useful information that I will order a copy for my daughter. This book covers a wide spectrum of problems and will benefit us in dealing with our separate issues. I like that it has a "low and slow" plan for those with severe problems who fear reactions from full-on frontal attack, but cross references this with stronger methods to continue the fight when you are ready. Thirty years ago I spent a couple of years dealing with Candida, with an excellent immunologist leading the way. After many years of being able to eat mostly what I wanted, a week in the hospital on antibiotics a year ago has left me struggling with yeast and probably other gut issues. I don't want to go the anti-fungal drug route, so I'm using the internet for updated diet and supplement info. I really appreciate that the author is specific about the best types of enzymes for help against Candida. This is a very practical book, not a "snake oil" pamphlet promising to cure you in seven days or less.

The information presented in this book has made a substantial difference for me. I was without energy or motivation, just sitting around, for many months. Most would diagnose this as "depression" but I have found, through extensive experience, that my problems are physical and require a physical solution. Because a friend had gotten good results from enzymes, I decided to give this a try, especially since enzymes are not something you have to take for life, if you are going after viruses. So....I started in with digestive enzymes (Digest Gold) and basically nothing happened. So I went to the next step and got some Enzyme Defense, formerly called Virastop. I am getting results that agree with patterns the book talks about (there is more than one pattern) and am delighted to have gotten back my energy and motivation in fairly short order. I know I am "not done yet" because I am not yet at full dose, and expect to have the stair-step progress that is detailed in the book. HIGHLY recommended if you have on-again, off-again symptoms that your doctor cannot do anything about. Written for regular people.Update, 5/21/17. I am now in a down period just like before, with zero energy but....have been ingesting caffeine which I know depletes my energy (mitochondria problems.) Am just now going off caffeine to see if that helps. I am, however, back up to the first dose I took that sent me off into major herx-land to the point where I had to stop, reset for a week, and start again at a sane dose. So now....something is definitely different. I'll keep you posted on the long term results I get. I'm sticking with the program just like I did with Kerri Rivera's autism protocol with CD/MMS (stuck with that one for a year and got amazing benefits.) So I know this is a marathon, not a sprint.

She gave us a gift of excellent research and information to help take us take responsibility for our own and loved ones health and well being. Something sorely missing from any doctor visit.

a great read and I learned so much that I never knew. who knew there was so much to know just on enzymes and health alone

Good but most of the information is already covered in her previous book