There are at least 100 million patients in the USA and Canada that have recurrent, long-term gastrointestinal symptoms. More than 80 million people in North America suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Abdominal pain, distension with excess gas, constipation and diarrhea are the four prominent symptoms. Other digestive disorders are common - heartburn afflicts 44% of Canadians & Americans; peptic ulcer disease has an incidence of 8% and non-ulcer dyspepsia afflicts 20-40%. Most members of this large group will self-medicate and suffer long-term. 

Some will emerge from this large symptomatic group with well defined disease. The rest of the symptomatic population will remain by default victims of the “irritable bowel syndrome.” Most members of this symptomatic group will have other dysfunction associated with and probably caused by their digestive problems. Those who receive the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome will often receive inadequate or inappropriate advice and will be prescribed medication with limited efficacy. Very few long-suffering patients will receive adequate instruction in effective diet revision.

Crohn’s, Celiac disease and Ulcerative Colitis are three of the more serious diagnoses that imply a long-term tendency to digestive tract disease. These digestive tract diseases are immune-mediated, with  increased permeability of the digestive tract, and are associated with a long list of whole body, immune-mediated diseases. Patients with these conditions are often symptomatic for many years before the diagnosis is made.

Digestive disorders are common diseases that often originate in the food supply. Diet revision should be the primary therapy. The gastrointestinal tract is a sensing, reactive device which monitors the material flowing through it. Symptoms arising from this system provide information about its dysfunction. Seven basic symptoms alert you to the gastrointestinal tract's displeasure with your food choices - nausea, heartburn, vomiting, bloating, pain, constipation and diarrhea. Over-the-counter medications for digestive (gastrointestinal) tract symptoms is a multi-billion dollar industry and people often self-medicate when symptoms are mild or infrequent.

Food input to the digestive tract is neglected as a source of dysfunction and disease; an oversight that the Alpha Nutrition Program can correct. We encourage everyone with digestive tract problems to give diet revision a try.

Alpha ENF      

One strategy to solve digestive tract problems is to take a food holiday. You stop all food input into the unhappy digestive tract and await spontaneous clearing of the problem. Food can be replaced by an elemental nutrient formula - pure nutrients that are well-absorbed, require little digestion, and are free of most problems. Alpha ENF supplies complete nutrition while it bypasses the digestive processes and reduces the input of the "wrong stuff" to a minimal level.