Gluten and Clarity Ferm Update
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:39 am
I want to share something with anyone here who has issues with gluten or Celiac or is involved with anyone having these issues. This is just a theory, but I'm beginning to believe that the enzyme in Clarity Ferm that pulls the gluten out of the fermenting wort just may accumulate in the body and continue to work inside the body. Like I say, this is only a theory, but it sure is convincing me. I'll try to explain what makes me think this.
Most of my life, I steered way from wheat products, not knowing why, but they just didn't agree with me. Later in life I started losing my discipline and gave in to the convenience of handy carbs. That's when digestive problems started becoming routine, but I just accepted them, thinking that years of abusing my body were just taking their toll. I had no trouble with hard liquor, spicy foods, nothing bothered me except carbs. I drank mostly wine and whiskey, lots of it, but hardly ever beer. Then when I started making my own beer at home, I started drinking it pretty much every day. The digestive troubles got out of control within six months, and after months of doctor visits and tests, we figured out I was Celiac. My beer drinking came to a screeching halt, as did my brewing.
Then one day at the LHBS I mentioned it and the guy told me about Clarity Ferm. I got excited and ran home to try it. At first, I didn't see any miraculous results, but I did notice that I wasn't as miserable as before when I drank a beer made with the stuff. After about six months of drinking these beers, I actually noticed that my overall condition was improving, not just after drinking beer, but even when I cheated on foods, as I often do. I used to just say I want this and I don't care what the consequences are. But now not only were the consequences from drinking the beer significantly reduced, but they were also reduced when eating wheat products.
It's been about eight months now, and I seriously believe that the enzyme in Clarity Ferm has gradually accumulated in my body, something like the way probiotics do, and now they're working inside my body very much like they do in the fermenter with wort. If this turns out to be true, then drinking beer every day, which at one time was the straw that broke the Celiac camel's back, is now the very thing that may be taming that camel. It almost seems too good to be true, but stranger things have happened. And I've never had anyone else's Celiac other than my own, so I don't know if it's less severe or what, so even if this works for my level, that doesn't guarantee it will work for a more severe case. Many unknowns, but a very promising theory, at the very least. Just had to share that in the slim hope that it may prove useful to someone else. Assuming it's not all just an odd coincidence.
Most of my life, I steered way from wheat products, not knowing why, but they just didn't agree with me. Later in life I started losing my discipline and gave in to the convenience of handy carbs. That's when digestive problems started becoming routine, but I just accepted them, thinking that years of abusing my body were just taking their toll. I had no trouble with hard liquor, spicy foods, nothing bothered me except carbs. I drank mostly wine and whiskey, lots of it, but hardly ever beer. Then when I started making my own beer at home, I started drinking it pretty much every day. The digestive troubles got out of control within six months, and after months of doctor visits and tests, we figured out I was Celiac. My beer drinking came to a screeching halt, as did my brewing.
Then one day at the LHBS I mentioned it and the guy told me about Clarity Ferm. I got excited and ran home to try it. At first, I didn't see any miraculous results, but I did notice that I wasn't as miserable as before when I drank a beer made with the stuff. After about six months of drinking these beers, I actually noticed that my overall condition was improving, not just after drinking beer, but even when I cheated on foods, as I often do. I used to just say I want this and I don't care what the consequences are. But now not only were the consequences from drinking the beer significantly reduced, but they were also reduced when eating wheat products.
It's been about eight months now, and I seriously believe that the enzyme in Clarity Ferm has gradually accumulated in my body, something like the way probiotics do, and now they're working inside my body very much like they do in the fermenter with wort. If this turns out to be true, then drinking beer every day, which at one time was the straw that broke the Celiac camel's back, is now the very thing that may be taming that camel. It almost seems too good to be true, but stranger things have happened. And I've never had anyone else's Celiac other than my own, so I don't know if it's less severe or what, so even if this works for my level, that doesn't guarantee it will work for a more severe case. Many unknowns, but a very promising theory, at the very least. Just had to share that in the slim hope that it may prove useful to someone else. Assuming it's not all just an odd coincidence.