*** Enzymes from listowner

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After hearing about all of the news coming from the DAN conference about

enzymes, I feel ready to share our experience. We have been using enzymes for

the past 2 months with much success. We originally tried EnzymAid from

Kirkman's and saw no improvements. Although as I write this, I now realize that

playing with enzyme dosage is crucial for each individual. There is a

possibility our dosing amount was incorrect. We switched to a product called

Peptizyde which has been working very well for us. I have also seen that

Kirkman's has a new enzyme product out called DPP IV Forte and EnzymAid

Complete. These are two enzyme products I will also try.

In the meantime, Hannah is doing amazingly well! I'm convinced that she was

allergic to other things that I was missing in her diet. I have long suspected

soy and possibly corn, but I was at my personal limit of restricting her diet

any further that GFCF. We were corn free for a couple of months and I admire and

respect each parent who goes further than GFCF, it can be quite a challenge.

Her teachers did not say much about progress when school first started, but they

are definitely saying things now. She even just recently earned an award for

best efforts in handwriting (one of her past challenges.) Last year all of her

spelling words were just random letters thrown together. Now she is getting

almost every spelling word correct. Her reading is excelling and her speech is

getting so much better. I have noticed that our conversations flow better. I

don't have to stop and ask her to repeat her words. Her responses are more

appropriate. She took off her training wheels to her bike and can ride her bike

now. Her confidence is really skyrocketing. I am seeing large gains as I did

when we first started the GFCF diet. While we have always moved forward at a

steady pace, we have not had the huge jumps like we did at the beginning of the

diet, until now. I can see a difference in her this month from last month.

Every family is unique and I would never suggest for a parent to challenge the

diet while taking enzymes, but we have been on the diet for 3 years and I have

on occasion slipped in some gluten or casein to reconvince myself we needed to

continue GFCF. Since we have been using the enzymes, curiosity got the better

of me and I have challenged the diet with success, although it took some enzyme

dosing experiments to get it right. Again I would never suggest others to try

this, as DAN doctors are saying GFCF and enzymes. We are still 98% GFCF (with

an occasional non GFCF treat) and along with the enzymes (which seem to be

knocking out other unknown allergens) she is doing great! I'm trying to get

others to try enzymes on a local basis to see if they also can achieve some

degree of success as well.

I just wanted to relay our personal story and encourage others who may not have

tried enzymes yet, to please look into it because it may be worth a try. I'm

sure Kirkmans or Houston Nutraceuticals would be happy to answer any questions

you may have regarding digestive enzymes. Also please feel free to e-mail me

personally as well.

Cara

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