You asked, and we listened! We understand that your options are limited for elemental shakes. The options are even fewer for elemental shakes that taste good.
We took that to heart, and I worked with Imix Nutrition to formulate not one but TWO delicious new unsweetened options! We think you’ll love them as much as we do. Absorb Plus UNSWEETENED has natural flavors but no added sweeteners.
Absorb Plus is an elemental shake product that I formulated, for use as an elemental diet, or a half-elemental diet, or just to supplement your diet with highly nutritious, easily absorbed nutrients – for those who cannot digest or absorb the nutrients from whole foods. Since UNSWEETENED has no added sugars, simply drink as is, add a bit of stevia, or your preferred sweetener of choice.
You can also use any of the Unsweetened Absorb Plus flavors to reduce the sweetness of the regular flavors! Let’s say you really love Caramel Toffee Twist, but it’s just too sweet for you – then add a scoop or two of Unsweetened Vanilla or Unsweetened Chocolate to keep the caramel flavor, but reduce the sweetness. Mixing it up also gives you more variety on your elemental diet.
The stool that results from an elemental (purely liquid, pre-digested) diet is greatly reduced in volume and usually liquid, therefore, it also gives your colon a rest from passing normal stool and this helps colonic wounds to heal faster.
You can learn more about elemental diets here, and you’ll find even more information within the elemental diet section of my blog.
Is it possible to double-up shakes on the elemental diet if also following the oregano oil + probiotic protocol? It seems to require 4 hours between meals (2 hours before oregano oil, then another 2 before probiotics), and this only allows for 3-4 meals per day.
Hi Jon, you can take the wild oregano at any time, as long as it’s 2 hours away from probiotics. So you could take a dose of woo and 10 minutes later have your shake.
You could also mix the probiotics in with your Absorb Plus shake (just don’t mix probiotics in a blender – mix by hand or shake in the BlenderBottle). Because an elemental shake is in your bloodstream within 20 minutes and entirely liquid, the normal “empty stomach” guidelines don’t apply.
I wouldn’t double up the shakes because that’s too much protein for your body to utilize in one go and you’ll lose a bunch of it to excretion.
Hope that helps!
That’s helpful to know the empty stomach rules are different. Based on this, it seems I can wait just 2 hours between shakes and alternate between probiotics (in shake) and woo (10 minutes before).
Thank you very much for your response!
Sounds like a good plan and you’re welcome!