Friday 1.27.12

We have had a few people talk about doing the spartan race. For those of you thinking about doing it, sound off on comments so that you guys can group together!

Teams of 3

40 bear crawls

40 crab walks

200 calorie row

*bear crawls and crab walks will be done one at a time, calorie row will done 10 calories per person until the finish.

Thanks for the flyer Bobbie!

There is a meat sale going on, click on the picture to enlarge and check out the details. I will post this on the whiteboard.

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Sign up for the Relay for life here

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Supplements Day 3

Digestive Aides (there will be 2 seperate sections of this, the first is Proteases, Lipases, Amylases, and the second is probiotics.)

1.Proteases, Lipases, Amylases

What is it?

These three are enzymes that are normally released by the pancreas, and they digest protein, carbs, and fat. If you have low stomach acid or inflammation to the pancreas caused by grain intolerance, abnormal gut flora, or high insulin levels, it can decrease the amount of digestive enzymes released into the small intestines, thus reducing the effectiveness of our digestion – Robb Wolf, Paleo Solution.

What does it do?

Aides in digestion (duh) ….

The way I understand it, is that they are still wrapping their heads around this fully, but it seems that stomach acid is less of a factor in breaking the food down, but what it does is signal the release of downstream digestive co-factors, like bile released from the gall bladder, stimulation of pancreatic digestive enzymes that break down protein, carbs, and fat. So it doesn’t break the food down specificaly, but what we’re doing is priming the pump, or sending the signal downstream to kick the digestive system on.

Where do we get it and how much do I need?

 ( From the Whole 9 )

Broad-spectrum digestive enzyme 2-4 capsules with each meal. We want to digest and absorb as much of our food as possible; simply eating more is not a good solution.

Study of interest: http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/full/82/4/1053

Example: Now Foods Super Enzymes

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2. Probiotics

What does it do?

Critical in the digestive process and protecting our gut lining, they have a tight communication with both our immune and nervous systems.

Where do I get it?

Well, where did we get it in the past? Our ancestors were particularly fond of the intestinal contents of herbivores. Its not the greatest thing to think about….but a few options are either sauerkraut, kiefer, miso, or kimchi, any kind of fermented veggies will do, or probiotics in supplement form, perhaps even at some point throwing in some fermented yogurt.

you can use a mixed probiotic such as jarro-dophilus or products from new chapter.

How much do I need?

Follow the label recommendations and take it in the morning on an empty stomach.

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Here is a good transcript from one of the Paleo Solution Podcasts

So what I’m seeing is that people who had other, you know, they would complain about weak digestion, bloating from meals that contain fruits and vegetables or just generally they’re like, “I feel a little bit bloated, a little bit slow in my digestion.” They do this whole process of figuring out where they feel heat with taking betaine hydrochloride or like a NOW Foods Super Enzyme kind of gig, where they find that heat level like dial their dosage back by like one capsule, and they stay at that level until they feel heat again, and then dial a capsule back and kind of do that process.

And what these people do is they build their digestion back to where they do not need to take the digestive enzymes, and frequently, these people report kind of undigested food in their stools. The food comes out looking the same way that it went in, particularly vegetable matter type stuff. And over the course of time, their stool quality changes and so they start actually digesting their food.

So at the end of the day, what I find is that -­‐-­‐ here’s some stuff to just kind of consider here. These digestive enzymes that we’re recommending are dirt-­‐cheap. The NOW Foods Super Enzymes are super, super cheap. So if you want to give it a shot, it’s not going to really cost you all that much. If your digestion is not working that well, like that’s a baseline, kind of leaving money on the table kind of scenario that you could improve.