Greetings Eric Bakker, thanks for tuning in.
I've got a question here from a subscriber who's asking me "What is pancreatic elastase
deficiency?"
So let's first talk a little bit about what the pancreas is.
It sounds like a quite interesting name.
Pancreas is a digestive gland, which is found really sort of midway in the body, quite deep
inside.
It's quite a large, feather-shaped gland that connects up to different parts of the digestive
system, particularly the small intestine.
What happens, basically, is it produces a whole bunch of different digestive enzymes
that really help you to digest food properly.
The stomach plays the principal role in first pre-digesting food.
You chew it up, you swallow it, it turns it into like a milky substance called chym, which
goes into the small intestine, which stimulates the production of basically enzymes that come
from a particular duct in the pancreas, which then facilitates proper digestion of protein,
carbs, fats, things like that.
Now we've mentioned this before in many videos, that you need quite a good functioning stomach
to have a good functioning pancreas.
So people, for example, who don't chew properly or eat poorly and eat bad foods and have a
stomach that's not functioning optimally will invariably have a pancreas that won't function
optimally as well.
So it pays to eat well, chew well, eat good foods, and watch out particularly for alcohol
consumption 'cause that will really screw this whole thing up.
So what is pancreatic elastase?
It's an enzyme made by the pancreas, which can be tracked through a stool test.
So a simple stool test through your doctor or as part of a comprehensive stool analysis
can determine the pancreatic elastase.
I think it's called P-1 enzyme.
So it's an easy one to assess.
So the levels, I think, is a micrograms per gram.
I think that's the rate.
That's the scale basically, the reference range.
Anything I think up to 500 I read about, between two to 500 I think is a good range to be in.
So two to 500, yeah.
That's a good range to be in really for a healthy person.And this can be someone on
the lower end of the scale, particularly vegans, who don't eat a lot of meat or eat no meat
products, or vegetarians as well, they'll be lower end on the scale.
Nothing wrong with that, it just means that they're not outputting that enzyme because
they're not eating highly acidic foods like meat eaters do.
So they don't require higher P-1 output as the omnivores do.
That's what we find.
But if your level drop between 100 to 200, you've got some problems and this is often
when people come to see people like me, that they get bloating and gas.
They might have pain here, sort of the center, even radiating through to the back.
They could be most concerned about that.
Nausea, like queasiness or vomiting, oily stools, feeling really bad or this cramping
pains in the gut, terrible cramping pain thinking you're gonna die kind of thing, that can be
pancreas quite commonly.
The levels need to be good, really, to keep you in great health.
Low levels can often be because of poor eating patterns, deficiencies, not chewing as I mentioned.
Pharmaceutical drugs can do this too, they can really lower the pancreatic elastase,
but some drugs can also elevate the pancreatic elastase enzyme and you may also find it elevated
in certain inflammatory type conditions.
If it is high, it needs to be investigated why.
If it's low, it's much easier to bring it up than if it's high to bring it down.
So it's important to get the pancreatic elastase enzyme checked if you have issues with your
digestive system, particularly in the mid area there.
So if you drink alcohol, moderate to heavy use, you need to stop this immediately if
you've got pancreatic problems.
It's just a no-brainer.
You don't do that kind of crap.
The same with chocolate and fish and chips and other fatty food.
This is just a dumb thing to do.
If you've got a million dollar mortgage on a property, you're not gonna spend night after
night at the casino either, are you?
You don't do stupid things like that.
Or normal people don't.
The thing is, you can get the pancreas in a lot better of a shape.
Digestive enzymes are going to help.
So I recommend that if you are concerned, go and see a naturopath or a nutritionally
friendly doctor and discuss this enzyme, the issue that you've got.
Find the best solution when it comes to you taking an enzyme.
You can also check out the product I make called Canxida Restore, so this one here.
This one could do quite nicely if you've got elastase problems.
I've certainly verified that many people, after doing stool test results, having low
pancreatic elastase, I put them on Canxida Restore twice per day, generally with the
main meals like lunch and evening meal, and usually after about five or six weeks, the
elastase levels start coming up again.
So they can make a big difference, just a basic digestive enzyme, a good quality one,
can make all the difference in the world.
So I hope that gives you a bit of information on pancreatic elastase.
And do check out my other videos regarding this particular enzyme.
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