Natrol Carb Intercept
https://www.carbinterceptsprinkles.com/page/about-carb-inter cept-sprinkles
Has anyone tried these? I've never heard of them but got a free sample the other day. IF they work, they might be handy to have in your purse for when you cannot avoid eating what you wouldn't normally. OR if your "resistance" isn't working too well that day!
Has anyone tried these? I've never heard of them but got a free sample the other day. IF they work, they might be handy to have in your purse for when you cannot avoid eating what you wouldn't normally. OR if your "resistance" isn't working too well that day!
A "morning after" pill for dieters...what a concept!
I think I may be opposed to this although I'm not sure why yet. But thank you for sharing!
I think I may be opposed to this although I'm not sure why yet. But thank you for sharing!
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gas, gas, gas, diarrhea, gas.. that is why I will oppose to these... i tried something like that preop.... Had to leave work and drive with an open window...
It was worse for me than eating beans - and I do not eat them because I can not stand my own gas afterword... lol
It was worse for me than eating beans - and I do not eat them because I can not stand my own gas afterword... lol
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
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I tried something like taht pre op.
The gas was horrible.
This suppose to inhibit the enzymes that break out the carbs..
let me know how that will work for you... I would not dare to try... to many bad memories... .
The gas was horrible.
This suppose to inhibit the enzymes that break out the carbs..
let me know how that will work for you... I would not dare to try... to many bad memories... .
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
It seems to me that any sort of "carb intercept", if it truly worked, would cause a bad case of gas or diarrhea or both.
Think of it this way: the reason beans cause flatulence is because they contain a carbohydrate, stachyose, which your digestive enzymes can't break down. In a sense, beans come with their own "carb intercept". But that undigested carbohydrate has to go somewhere, and it enters the large intestine, where gut bacteria, which CAN "digest" stachyose, produce voluminous quantities of methane and CO2 when they chow down. That gas has to go somewhere.
People with "lactose intolerance" lack adequate quantities of lactase, the enzyme which digests the milk sugar disaccharide lactose. Undigested lactose, when it enters the large intestine, is also broken down by gut bacteria into methane, CO2 as well as short-chain fatty acids which draw water into the colon. You end up with cramps, gas and diarrhea.
When you take any sort of substance which inhibits the digestion of disaccharides such as sucrose -- table sugar -- and complex carbs such as starch, you're artificially creating the equivalent of lactose intolerance, and you can expect similar kinds of unpleasant and anti-social reactions.
I have no idea whether these "carb blockers" such as the one you mention really work at all, but there are prescription drugs which act in the same way and which are used in some diabetics to blunt the after-meal increase in blood sugar. There are two such drugs: acarbose (Precose) and miglitol (Glyset), and they both have cramps, flatulence and diarrhea as potential side effects.
Note, too, that "carb blockers" can only have effects on the digestion of disaccharides (sucrose) and starches; they don't affect the absorption and metabolism of the simplest sugars such as glucose and fructose. Furthermore, they really don't have any effect on the caloric content of carbohydrates.
/Steve
Think of it this way: the reason beans cause flatulence is because they contain a carbohydrate, stachyose, which your digestive enzymes can't break down. In a sense, beans come with their own "carb intercept". But that undigested carbohydrate has to go somewhere, and it enters the large intestine, where gut bacteria, which CAN "digest" stachyose, produce voluminous quantities of methane and CO2 when they chow down. That gas has to go somewhere.
People with "lactose intolerance" lack adequate quantities of lactase, the enzyme which digests the milk sugar disaccharide lactose. Undigested lactose, when it enters the large intestine, is also broken down by gut bacteria into methane, CO2 as well as short-chain fatty acids which draw water into the colon. You end up with cramps, gas and diarrhea.
When you take any sort of substance which inhibits the digestion of disaccharides such as sucrose -- table sugar -- and complex carbs such as starch, you're artificially creating the equivalent of lactose intolerance, and you can expect similar kinds of unpleasant and anti-social reactions.
I have no idea whether these "carb blockers" such as the one you mention really work at all, but there are prescription drugs which act in the same way and which are used in some diabetics to blunt the after-meal increase in blood sugar. There are two such drugs: acarbose (Precose) and miglitol (Glyset), and they both have cramps, flatulence and diarrhea as potential side effects.
Note, too, that "carb blockers" can only have effects on the digestion of disaccharides (sucrose) and starches; they don't affect the absorption and metabolism of the simplest sugars such as glucose and fructose. Furthermore, they really don't have any effect on the caloric content of carbohydrates.
/Steve
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Well... let's look at the science. (We'll go on the assumption that this diet pill/supplement actually does what it says it does.)
According to Intercept's website:
Each convenient to-go packet provides 1,000mg of Phase 2 Carb Controller™, a clinically tested ingredient that inhibits the enzyme responsible for digesting starch into simple sugars your body can absorb.
First, let's look at the four main types of carbyhodrates:
monosaccharides, like glucose (dextrose or corn sugar), fructose (fruit sugar) and galactose, which are digested rapidly;
disaccharides, like sucrose (table sugar), lactose (milk sugar) and maltose, which are digested quite quickly;
polysaccharides, like starch, which take longer to digest;
very complex carbs, like cellulose (indigestible plant fiber) which cannot be digested at all.
Which Carbohydrates does Intercept work on then?
According to their website, Intercept works on starch-based carbs. So, polysaccharides. Which means we can forget the other 3 types, those will get digested normally and used by the body. Intercept lists these types of foods as starchy food: "Familiar starchy foods include pasta, rice, bread, cereal, muffins, bagels, waffles, pancakes, cookies, cake, crackers, starchy vegetables (e.g., potatoes, corn, peas), beans, chips (corn tortilla and potato) and snack bars."
So exactly which enzymes does Intercept block?
Mouth -- our saliva contains about 40% of the digestive enzymes needed to break down simply carbohydrates, these are called amylase. Chewing our food well mingles the enzyme completely with the food particles.
Stomach -- digestive acid in the stomach slows down breaks down carbhydrates and Intercept seems to claim that this slow down is when it does it's best work -- but after RNY we don't have acid in our pouches, so this doesn't count much. Normally when carbs encounter an acid environment the digestion process slows down, but since we don't have acid the enzymes in our saliva continues to work on the breakdown process and digestion of carbs continues to happen rapidly in the pouch.
Intestines -- most of the enzymes needed for the rest of carb digestion in the small intestine is released from the pancreas and sent directly to the duodenum. Guess what? Our duodenum is bypassed completely and not used for digestion. Those enzymes are still sent there, but they don't mingle with the food until both join up again in the common channel of our new digestive system.
My conclusion
1 - we don't eat starch stuff much after RNY. We generally avoid bread and pasta. The general population eats baout 60% of their calories from carbs, but we are only doing about 30-40%... and most of that is from veggies, dairy and fruit. Starch doesn't play a big role in our diet plans anymore.
2 - The digestive enzymes Intercept is suppose to block don't really exist in our altered guts.
3 - It's just another diet pill/supplement gimmick, in my opinion. We already have the best dieting tool - might as well use what we got with surgery.
Source
According to Intercept's website:
Each convenient to-go packet provides 1,000mg of Phase 2 Carb Controller™, a clinically tested ingredient that inhibits the enzyme responsible for digesting starch into simple sugars your body can absorb.
First, let's look at the four main types of carbyhodrates:
monosaccharides, like glucose (dextrose or corn sugar), fructose (fruit sugar) and galactose, which are digested rapidly;
disaccharides, like sucrose (table sugar), lactose (milk sugar) and maltose, which are digested quite quickly;
polysaccharides, like starch, which take longer to digest;
very complex carbs, like cellulose (indigestible plant fiber) which cannot be digested at all.
Which Carbohydrates does Intercept work on then?
According to their website, Intercept works on starch-based carbs. So, polysaccharides. Which means we can forget the other 3 types, those will get digested normally and used by the body. Intercept lists these types of foods as starchy food: "Familiar starchy foods include pasta, rice, bread, cereal, muffins, bagels, waffles, pancakes, cookies, cake, crackers, starchy vegetables (e.g., potatoes, corn, peas), beans, chips (corn tortilla and potato) and snack bars."
So exactly which enzymes does Intercept block?
Mouth -- our saliva contains about 40% of the digestive enzymes needed to break down simply carbohydrates, these are called amylase. Chewing our food well mingles the enzyme completely with the food particles.
Stomach -- digestive acid in the stomach slows down breaks down carbhydrates and Intercept seems to claim that this slow down is when it does it's best work -- but after RNY we don't have acid in our pouches, so this doesn't count much. Normally when carbs encounter an acid environment the digestion process slows down, but since we don't have acid the enzymes in our saliva continues to work on the breakdown process and digestion of carbs continues to happen rapidly in the pouch.
Intestines -- most of the enzymes needed for the rest of carb digestion in the small intestine is released from the pancreas and sent directly to the duodenum. Guess what? Our duodenum is bypassed completely and not used for digestion. Those enzymes are still sent there, but they don't mingle with the food until both join up again in the common channel of our new digestive system.
My conclusion
1 - we don't eat starch stuff much after RNY. We generally avoid bread and pasta. The general population eats baout 60% of their calories from carbs, but we are only doing about 30-40%... and most of that is from veggies, dairy and fruit. Starch doesn't play a big role in our diet plans anymore.
2 - The digestive enzymes Intercept is suppose to block don't really exist in our altered guts.
3 - It's just another diet pill/supplement gimmick, in my opinion. We already have the best dieting tool - might as well use what we got with surgery.
Source
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