What do you make of this product?

IDreamInColor · Post by **IDreamInColor** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:57 pm

My mom called me a minute ago and told me about this product she heard about, it's called GlutenEase, here is the website, do you think it's worth investigating?

http://heritagestore.com/glutenease-60ct-capsule.html

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:00 pm

I think it would be worth looking into if that were my only problem. Unfortunately, I think soy is as significant for me as gluten. Certainly, dairy is, at least for me.

IDreamInColor · Post by **IDreamInColor** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:15 pm

This product apparently helps with casein intolerance as well as gluten.

Post by **tex** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:52 pm

IDreamInColor wrote:do you think it's worth investigating?

It probably won't hurt you to try it, but it would be a miracle if you are not disappointed with the results. The active ingredient appears to be nothing but an ordinary starch enzyme. I would be very, very surprised if it is effective for breaking down all the gluten and casein peptides that we react to. The thing that bothers me the most about that ad is the extremely misleading information that is included:

The main treatment for gluten or casein intolerance has been to remove offending foods from your diet, which does not provide an ultimate solution.

Excluding those foods from the diet may not be an "ultimate" solution, (there is no such thing as an "ultimate" solution), but it is the only solution that is currently 100% effective and safe. They are obviously trying to mislead anyone who ventures to their website.

Tex

harma · Post by **harma** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:02 pm

the problem with gluten is (and assume it will be the same with casein from milk) is that only one trace will/can cause an autoimmune reaction. If this stuff was working (yes I am very sceptic about it), than I don't believe that it will take care of every trace of gluten and casein in the food, before the immune system has detected it and will respond to it.

Also if there really was a medicine the prevent an allergic or intolerance reaction from gluten or casein it would be sold a a medicine. The reason it is not sold as medicine is (what I believe) that the stuff does not work at all or does not work for the fully 100%. And when it only works for 80 or 90% that it is for our kind of intolerances worthless.

I think the money is better spent on some GF, DF, SF (and whatever more free) food replacements.

My apologize If I sound so negative about this, but for me these advertisements fall in the same category as miracle pills to loose 20 kilo's in one week, creams that make you look 10 years younger in one night. Things we would like to work, but just do nog exist.

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:37 pm

firstly i think it is a hype product - with all the media attention on GF diets people are trying to profit from that (like the slimming products market)

secondly - yes eating gluten does cause D, albeit my main reason for avoiding my trigger foods is that the reaction that causes the D is affecting the health of the cells in my digestive tract and therefore could be affecting my ability to absorb nutrients from foods.

generally products like this are a bandaid, they cover the issue not solve it

hoosier1 · Post by **hoosier1** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:23 pm

I'm skeptical.

To point out Gabes comment about hype, when I was in San Francisco this weekend, I told the waiter I was on a restricted, GF diet. He asked, "Oh, are you just trying to avoid it or are you really allergic to it". It seems on the west coast especially, GF is becoming more of a fad than a medical necessity. So I suspect you are seeing supplements like this that have not been proven effective but are merely targeting the developing fad.

Don't we all wish this was just a fad for us?

The vanity out there is incredible.

Rich

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:06 pm

Rich I had a very similar experience a couple of weeks ago at the local Outback restaurant. When I was ordering off of the GF menu she asked if I was really sensitive to it medically. I asked wha t difference that would make and the interesting reply I got was that they prepare it differently if you are just avoiding it as a matter of choice nit for medical reasons

As far as this product goes it is an interesting premise, but as Tex pointed out its just a starch related enzyme. With one of the excepted issues with MC being leaky gut, I have no idea how this would help.

--Joe

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:22 am

Products come and products go and most of know that they just don't help. West Coast seems to be Hollywood actor/performer driven on the GF thing and not really a medical issue for most.

Just the tried and true way for me and most of us - avoid the triggers.

Love, Maggie