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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think you did a FINE job! Well, at least I understood what you were trying to say. Debs Hi, as far as * I understand * Elemental diets are broken down into amino acids (from proteins) etc so that your intestines don’t have to do any work. I was on them for 6 months, but it was so hard not to eat anything else and only drink water! I now have Fortisip which are still drinks, but as I can now eat these just help provide extra calories – these drinks are  not broken down. When I was on the Elemental diet I had a Fortisip, which then put me in hospital as they then inflamed my intestines . Are you sure this drink is an Elemental diet drink, and not like a Fortisip? Since it contains proteins your intestines have to work to break them down into amino acids for your body to absorb. Are you supposed to be on an Elemental diet? If you are, I would check with your doctor as there could be a  difference between the two Mel I’m know that there are some of you out there could help me out in explaining this properly!! yes… I’ve tried it…I didn’t care for it to much…taste…still have some to use up! I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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Suzan, I have no experience with elemental diets, but I don’t tolerate milk-based supplements. Whey protein isolate is a milk protein. Although it is lactose-free, it still is milk so this may be a problem if you don’t tolerate dairy. Talking to a dietitian may be helpful if you can’t tolerate certain foods. Take care, Amy. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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Hi Mel, As far as I know, it’s an elemental diet, meant to give the bowels a total rest. It can be used as a supplement to add calories to one’s regular food if necessary, but it was developed to be an alternative to drugs like prednisone or surgery. Here’s something I’m copying from the info I have that will perhaps clarify better: Thanks, Suzan How was Absorb Plus Formulated?        Absorb Plus was formulated by Jini Patel Thompson, the author of LISTEN TO YOUR GUT: Natural Healing & Dealing With Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Irritable Bowel Syndrome.   After a bout of severe intestinal haemorrhaging, Jini’s weight dropped to 99 pounds (she’s 5′7") and her albumin levels showed she was severely malnourished. After receiving a blood transfusion, her doctor advised complete bowel rest – to allow the intestine heal. Continuing to eat regular food simply re-opened the wounds and started the bleeding again. Therefore, her nutrition needed to come from a completely elemental (pre-digested) liquid source.    Jini tried each of the elemental (pre-digested) products provided by the hospital, but found the taste and ingredient list unacceptable. Rather than undergoing an operation to have a tube inserted in her stomach and the elemental products pumped in, she set out to find a natural, healthy, alternative.    After an extensive search of health stores and the Internet, Jini devised her own elemental formula by mixing together 6 different products. She did this 8-9 times a day to give her body the nutrients it needed in elemental (pre-digested for maximum absorption) form. Using this formula, Jini gained 36 pounds of solid weight (not fat) in six weeks and her albumin levels were restored to normal. She went from being so weak she could barely move around her apartment, to cycling and lifting weights at the gym by the end of the six weeks at a healthy weight of 135 pounds.    Jini included directions for mixing up these elemental shakes in the first edition of her book LISTEN TO YOUR GUT (Caramal Publishing 2000). In addition, as word spread through family and friends, people with a variety of afflictions (cancer/chemotherapy, trigeminal neuralgia, age-related malnutrition and loss of appetite, etc.) began contacting Jini for her weight gain and maintenance program. However, many of these people and her readers commented that they found it too difficult and time-consuming to mix together so many different products. Having done it herself, Jini could sympathise with them! Fortunately, a year later, she met one of the founders of  and he asked her to replicate her formula in one product. She happily agreed and the result is Absorb Plus.    We know of no other product comparable to Absorb Plus in quality and composition, that is also elemental (pre-digested for maximum absorption). In addition, our own trials, and letters from our customers show that Absorb Plus really works. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, as far as * I understand * Elemental diets are broken down into amino acids (from proteins) etc so that your intestines don’t have to do any work. I was on them for 6 months, but it was so hard not to eat anything else and only drink water! I now have Fortisip which are still drinks, but as I can now eat these just help provide extra calories – these drinks are  not broken down. When I was on the Elemental diet I had a Fortisip, which then put me in hospital as they then inflamed my intestines . Are you sure this drink is an Elemental diet drink, and not like a Fortisip? Since it contains proteins your intestines have to work to break them down into amino acids for your body to absorb. Are you supposed to be on an Elemental diet? If you are, I would check with your doctor as there could be a  difference between the two Mel I’m know that there are some of you out there could help me out in explaining this properly!! yes… I’ve tried it…I didn’t care for it to much…taste…still have some to use up! I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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I think you did a FINE job! Well, at least I understood what you were trying to say. Debs – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, as far as * I understand * Elemental diets are broken down into amino acids (from proteins) etc so that your intestines don’t have to do any work. I was on them for 6 months, but it was so hard not to eat anything else and only drink water! I now have Fortisip which are still drinks, but as I can now eat these just help provide extra calories – these drinks are  not broken down. When I was on the Elemental diet I had a Fortisip, which then put me in hospital as they then inflamed my intestines . Are you sure this drink is an Elemental diet drink, and not like a Fortisip? Since it contains proteins your intestines have to work to break them down into amino acids for your body to absorb. Are you supposed to be on an Elemental diet? If you are, I would check with your doctor as there could be a  difference between the two Mel I’m know that there are some of you out there could help me out in explaining this properly!! yes… I’ve tried it…I didn’t care for it to much…taste…still have some to use up! I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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yes… I’ve tried it…I didn’t care for it to much…taste…still have some to use up!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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Hi, as far as * I understand * Elemental diets are broken down into amino acids (from proteins) etc so that your intestines don’t have to do any work. I was on them for 6 months, but it was so hard not to eat anything else and only drink water! I now have Fortisip which are still drinks, but as I can now eat these just help provide extra calories – these drinks are  not broken down. When I was on the Elemental diet I had a Fortisip, which then put me in hospital as they then inflamed my intestines . Are you sure this drink is an Elemental diet drink, and not like a Fortisip? Since it contains proteins your intestines have to work to break them down into amino acids for your body to absorb. Are you supposed to be on an Elemental diet? If you are, I would check with your doctor as there could be a  difference between the two Mel I’m know that there are some of you out there could help me out in explaining this properly!!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – yes… I’ve tried it…I didn’t care for it to much…taste…still have some to use up! I was just wondering if anyone has used this product for ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s or any other digestive ailments. It’s recommended in the book "The IBD Remission Diet" by Jini Patel Thompson (who is also the author of "Listen to Your Gut"). This is a product she created, because she wasn’t happy with any of the elemental diets available, as they had a lot of sugar and bad fats, etc. I ordered some and had high hopes. However, I merely sampled it and didn’t seem to react well. A main ingredient is Whey Protein Isolate and it’s 99.8% lactose free, so I don’t understand why and wonder if I should try it again. Knowing what anyone else has experienced would be very helpful indeed. Any feedback will be very appreciated. Thank you. Suzan

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