WHY you will supplement and drink protein forevah

** This is taken from a post by Rachel Hawkridge, a member of Graduate-OSSG and various other groups. Rachel has explained why we need to supplement protein as well as other nutrients better than anyone I know of. If, after reading this, anyone chooses not to supplement, then at least they're aware of what they're doing to their body and their health. ** Normal digestion involves chewing food in the mouth, where some simple sugar is absorbed, and an enzyme called amylase, which digests starch, is produced, and mixed with the food as it chewed. The food is swallowed, and in the stomach, it is mixed with hydrochloric acid, and enzymes pepsin, and lipase. The mixture is then churned together for one to two hours. The resulting mixture, called chyme, is then squirted, a little at a time into the first part of the small intestine, called the duodenum, where it is mixed with bile acids and pancreatic enzymes. The duodenum is where the absorption of most of the calcium, iron, zinc, B vitamins, and fat soluble vitamins A, D, and E takes place. Simple sugars, whi*****lude table sugar (sucrose), fruit sugars (fructose), honey, and maple syrup, and the digested starches, are absorbed all along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. When we have gastric bypass surgery, or RnY, we bypass, or stop using, normal digestion, and skip over our duodenum, in favor of a tiny pouch, an always open stoma, and we introduce chewed food directly into the small intestine. The duodenum is the primary absorption site for protein, calcium, iron, zinc and vitamins A, B Complex, D, E. A large percentage of our magnesium is also absorbed in the duodenum, as well. These vital nutrients may be absorbed to some lesser degree further down the gut, but in much smaller amounts. Since we have so little, if any, digestion going on, the chance of any of these nutrients being absorbed from the food that we eat is very small. And since we eat such small amounts of food, even if we digested and absorbed all the nutrients from food, we would probably still be in trouble.

Thanks! Very helpful!!!

My Dear Friend Angel, Thank you for posting this. So many of us do not understand how our bodies digest after our RNY. I get so upset when i read about bypass patients not supplementing. It is so very vital to our continued health and life long commitment to weight loss. By the way See you Fri at Synergy Dee Thompson