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Inhibiting CYP2E1 for health?

CYP2E1 is an enzyme system involved in the biotransformation/metabolism of a number of chemicals. The toxicity of the painkiller acetaminophen occurs when CYP2E1 metabolizes the dr …
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3500 Calories and Digestion

Do i need to take any enzymes or similar to help with digestion of so much calories due to trying to gain weight and bodybuilding? Well i currently dont have digestion issues as f …
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Can Someone Critique My Paleo Diet Plan?

I've strict Paleo for about a month now. (I had been doing it longer, about a year, but would occasionally cheat every 1 to 2 weeks.) Up until recently I was feeling really good, b …
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digestive enzymes not working

I've been paleo for about two months now. The first two weeks I was having a bowel movement everyday which was a first for me. After two weeks I modified the diet to treat candida …
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Celiac and Fat Digestion

I'm 27 years old and found out I had celiac disease about a month ago. I think I am having a problem digesting fat. It seems like if I eat much more than tablespoon of fat in a m …
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Pancreas and Enzyme Supplementation

A more science-y question: Lets say you weren't producing sufficient enzymes for the complete digestion of your food, and started supplementing with a complete enzyme complex w/ …
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educate me on Liver enzyme AST/ALT.

I got a physical w/ some blood work done last month for an upcoming fight. Some numbers came up slightly off the Reference range provided within the labs. In which she said wasn't …
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Proteolytic enzymes?

Anyone know anything about this formula? They also sell a digestive enzyme formula to be taken with meals, but they also have the 'proteolytic enzyme' formula I linked to first, wh …
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What happens to enzymes when you ferment food?

There are people who can digest raw food while the same foods in cooked form give them trouble (though it's usually the opposite). I suppose it's the natural enzymes in the raw foo …
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Eggs have anti-nutrients! ohnoes!

Egg whites have a number of anti-nutrients (http://thepaleodiet.blogspot.com/2010/01/paleo-diet-q-29-january-2010-update-on.html) For people like me who have trouble with digestin …
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What good or bad is betaine-HCl?

Betaine-HCl is often recommended to increase stomach acid and thus digestion. However, I found this comment by Art Ayers in which he refutes that it would work. Could it actually b …
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Digestive enzyme with my whey protein shake

Hi all, Should I be taking a digestive enzyme with my post workout whey protein shake? If I should are there any you recommend? I drink Biochem brand Whey protein shake its abou …
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Can’t eat meat other than chicken or fish

My wife can not eat beef or pork. She claims it has been that way since she was a baby. She gets sick to the stomach and will vomit for hours. I've seen it first hand when she has …
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nauseated after eating

So, this is not really a paleo related question, but maybe someone knows the answer. I was a vegetarian my whole life, i started paleo 6 weeks ago and eating meat two weeks ago, st …
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Trouble Digesting large amounts of fat?

Hi everyone, Lately I've been scaling up my fat intake by adding coconut oil, coconut butter, coconut milk, and some ghee into the mix as before I don't think I was getting enoug …

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