The pancreas is responsible for making most of the enzymes that digest our food. The proteases need to be activated by good stomach acid and stomach enzymes, and the lipases need enough bile to emulsify the fat. Disaccharidases need a not-inflamed gut.
When you eat protein and fat, as they leave the stomach, CCK is released. CCK is a hormone that tells the pancreas to squirt out it's enzymes. It also tells the pancreas to grow, and get healthier. Which is interesting, because the pancreas is also responsible for hormones like insulin, so it's intimately connected with blood sugar regulation. It's also a major signal to tell you that you're full after a meal.
We've been talking about taking digestive enzymes. How plant-based enzymes (like digest gold) *should*be more effective than pancreatic enzymes, but many of us are seeing very different responses to the two. I started a low dose of pancreatin with each meal, and got major die off. Now I'm up to half the dose of yasko's enzymes (I'm taking 2 caps twin labs super enzymes per meal) and still seeing die off when I increase. The theory is that the pancreatin actually changes the pH of the small intestine somehow. There are also pancreas glandulars that seem to be a gentle way of doing the same thing.
The big difference between yasko's enzymes and twin lab's is that yasko's has pine nut oil powder. Certain species of pine nuts (Siberian and Korean) are known to increase circulating CCK.
So does that mean eating the right pine nuts will support your pancreas, improve your enzyme production and blood sugar regulation, improve your gut pH, and potentially cause major die off and dumping of metals?
Back to the pancreas, it's got a ton of glutamate receptors and uses a lot of vitamin K. So it seems keeping glutamate and GABA (and calcium and b12) in balance and being good on the fat soluble vitamins (A/D/K) would also be good support.
Finally, a couple of the proteases that the pancreas makes are 'serine' proteases, meaning they have the amino acid serine at the active site. Serine in the body mostly comes from glycine in the diet. The conversion uses b6 and folate. Glycine is a major component in connective tissue - so gelatin. Glycine is also one of the big detox pathways (amino acid conjugation) and is a component of another (glutathione).
So this is looking totally doable now from a whole foods perspective:
Sweetbreads are the thymus gland (longer/skinnier) and the pancreas (more oval). They're actually mild and good - prized in some places. I'm seeing the same sorts of die off symptoms from eating sweetbreads as from increasing my enzymes. http://sierrafarmslamb.blogspot.com/...%20Sweetbreads
Pine nuts should increase CCK, so encourage pancreatic health, and promote the release of enzymes.
Greens for K1, butterfat, egg yolks, roe for K2.
Gelatin and slow cooked meat on the bone for glycine to be converted to serine.
Which are all totally foods I can easily get into dd.
Anyone want to experiment with me, or help find some Siberian or Korean pine nuts?
When you eat protein and fat, as they leave the stomach, CCK is released. CCK is a hormone that tells the pancreas to squirt out it's enzymes. It also tells the pancreas to grow, and get healthier. Which is interesting, because the pancreas is also responsible for hormones like insulin, so it's intimately connected with blood sugar regulation. It's also a major signal to tell you that you're full after a meal.
We've been talking about taking digestive enzymes. How plant-based enzymes (like digest gold) *should*be more effective than pancreatic enzymes, but many of us are seeing very different responses to the two. I started a low dose of pancreatin with each meal, and got major die off. Now I'm up to half the dose of yasko's enzymes (I'm taking 2 caps twin labs super enzymes per meal) and still seeing die off when I increase. The theory is that the pancreatin actually changes the pH of the small intestine somehow. There are also pancreas glandulars that seem to be a gentle way of doing the same thing.
The big difference between yasko's enzymes and twin lab's is that yasko's has pine nut oil powder. Certain species of pine nuts (Siberian and Korean) are known to increase circulating CCK.
So does that mean eating the right pine nuts will support your pancreas, improve your enzyme production and blood sugar regulation, improve your gut pH, and potentially cause major die off and dumping of metals?
Back to the pancreas, it's got a ton of glutamate receptors and uses a lot of vitamin K. So it seems keeping glutamate and GABA (and calcium and b12) in balance and being good on the fat soluble vitamins (A/D/K) would also be good support.
Finally, a couple of the proteases that the pancreas makes are 'serine' proteases, meaning they have the amino acid serine at the active site. Serine in the body mostly comes from glycine in the diet. The conversion uses b6 and folate. Glycine is a major component in connective tissue - so gelatin. Glycine is also one of the big detox pathways (amino acid conjugation) and is a component of another (glutathione).
So this is looking totally doable now from a whole foods perspective:
Sweetbreads are the thymus gland (longer/skinnier) and the pancreas (more oval). They're actually mild and good - prized in some places. I'm seeing the same sorts of die off symptoms from eating sweetbreads as from increasing my enzymes. http://sierrafarmslamb.blogspot.com/...%20Sweetbreads
Pine nuts should increase CCK, so encourage pancreatic health, and promote the release of enzymes.
Greens for K1, butterfat, egg yolks, roe for K2.
Gelatin and slow cooked meat on the bone for glycine to be converted to serine.
Which are all totally foods I can easily get into dd.
Anyone want to experiment with me, or help find some Siberian or Korean pine nuts?
. Then again, I'm still pretty sensitive to the enzymes, so this is likely a HUGE piece for me. Can't wait to see my pee test results!
... and according to the hair test that I did last summer, I'm high in zinc.
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