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Hey everyone, this is Dr. Rucho.

Let's discuss gluten enzymes and if they are helpful.

Because if they are, what a win, anything that can improve,

food tolerance, afford you, food freedom is a huge bonus.

However, it's also very commonplace that people use supplements for gut health that they don't need and maybe even make them worse.

So let's recap what these enzymes are and then look at the research. Do they actually

work? Because there is an answer to this question and then give you a protocol to improve your

gluten tolerance irrespective of if that includes enzymes or not. Okay, gluten enzymes as

probably fairly obvious, help to digest gluten, and it's mainly

the amino acid proline that tends to be immunogenic or triggering for people. These enzymes are

either pharmaceutical or naturally derived, and these enzymes are either pharmaceutical, and there's one formula here.

There's a number of natural enzymes, some derive from papaya, some from barley. And let's look at what the evidence show is regarding the benefit.

Whether it be pharmaceutical or natural, we'll look at the whole shabang together.

Coming back to proline for a moment, let me explain how these enzymes work.

Now, wheat is high in prolamines, aka proline.

You've probably heard of the proteins that wheat gets broken down into,

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