Anybody tried AMP

[Mazen]

Hi Guys. Anybody tried Aloe Mucilaginous Polysaccharides? I read about it on the net and there are lots of testimonials that it helps with Crohn's. So any experience with this is appreciated

http://www.serovera.com/
http://www.aloeelite.com/crohns_disease/index.shtml?gclid=CLzUg_Dj5Y4CFQgRZwodpQ0CMg

 

[D Bergy]

looks like you are the first to hear of it. I have never heard of it. But I have heard of taking Aloe Vera. Not sure what the difference is.

Dan Bergman

 

[Mazen]

Hi Dan. I think the difference is that with AMP, they only have the healing part of the Aloe, and they removed all irritating substances and other stuff, that are laxative or something like that.....

 

[Kev]

welllll, I never heard of it before this posting.. And I'd hazard a guess that the 'polysaccharides' part of the name infers that they've removed any 'mono' or 'di' saccharides that the body could readily breakdown and absorb, similar to what is being done with the modified lactose products the Japanese came up with to resolve constipation. Same principle with the SCD.. Double or multi chain carbs require more processing, and specific enzyme activity for a body to breakdown. At least that's my limited understanding of the process!!
But, like I said at the start, that's just my WAG (= Wild Assed Guess). :-(

 

[nc bri]

Anyone tried this yet? I haven't tried it , but am sooo tempted to after reading about it on the web. I was looking at a company called Serovera, but there are several out there. Being a poor college guy again I hate to spend the money, but it sounds legit... but that doesn't mean they are. I called and talked to them and they were very helpful.
I'm taking Remicade treatments and they were seeming to really help for a month or so, but I've recently gone down hill quickly, so I'm not sure what'ss happening.

 

[Sojourn]

I lived off of this stuff for almost two years when I was first diagnosed and it kept me in remission. But after the first year it slowly began to lose it's effect, and by the second year I was going back to the doctor and taking meds. I have mentioned it before here, but in vague terms because it's so expensive and in the end it didn't work for me. I didn't want to mislead anyone considering the cost.

Originally there was only one manufacturer, Molocure. But the owners got divorced and they had a legal fight over the company so it shut down for awhile. They were also under scrutiny from the FDA for having the word "cure" in the name. Meanwhile, all these other companies sprang up. The wife resurfaced and opened up Ampfloracel http://ampfloracel.com/ which allegedly uses the original Molocure formula.

If anyone is going to try it, I recommend going with this company.

But again, in the end, my symptoms came back.

Edit: Does anyone else see this product advertised on this website?

 

[Kev]

Wellll, I don't know how comfortable I am in accepting any specific item 'really' causes a remission.. When I started on my extremely restrictive diet, I ceased having symptoms.. thought I was in 'remission'. Thought my diet and regimen was responsible for it... What else could it have been, right? Then, it just stopped working.. Why? I didn't change ANYTHING. In retrospect, I've wondered whether the diet REALLY caused a remission. I could have been 'expecting' one, 'anticipating' one, and had a remission due to 'placebo' effect.. and all of the studies I've seen have noted a relatively high occurence of 'placebo' effect... sometime in excess of 20% of patients. Or, it could be that the introduction of products like AMP, or diet, or whatever... some totally drastic change from your typical lifestyle/habits, knock those lil buggers for a loop.. temporarily. The ones it takes out, that lessens symptomology... leading one to assume a remission. But the ones who adapt, accept the change, they slowly, geadually learn to thrive in the new environment, and when they master it, WHAM, your IBD is back big time... And what once worked just no longer phases them. I dunno. It's all speculation.. I just like to think of it in one or the other of these possibilities, to take the 'super powered' villan (sp?) aspect away from IBD. Either that, or it's all just coincidence...

 

[Sojourn]

Yeah, I just use the term remission for lack of a better word. The conclusion that I came to was that my symptoms weren't advanced at the time so the product did have some effect. Also, along with the AMP, they sent the recommended soft-food diet which I wasn't familiar with at the time. So I went to soft-foods, took AMP, and it was early on in the disease. But in reality, I know that it did do something. It was more than the placebo effect. It was really amazing, for awhile.