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Digestive enzymes play a key role in breaking down the food you eat. These proteins speed up chemical reactions that turn nutrients into substances that your digestive tract can absorb.

Your saliva has digestive enzymes in it. Some of your organs, including your pancreas, gallbladder, and liver, also release them. Cells on the surface of your intestines store them, too.

Different types of enzymes target different nutrients:

Amylase breaks down carbs and starches
Protease works on proteins
Lipase handles fats

Diet and NutritionBile acid malabsorption, Diet, Digestive enzymes, Fat malabsorption, Fat soluble vitamins, Nutrition, Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), Vitamin A, Vitamin ADEK, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D

An ENETS Position Statement on nutritional support in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

By Ronny Allan Jun 26, 2025 0 Comments

Diet and Nutrition, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Survivorship, TreatmentB12, Bile acid diarrhea, Bile acid malabsorption, Bile acid sequestrant, Bile acids, Bile salt, Carcinoid syndrome, Digestive enzymes, Endocrine, Fat malabsorption, Fat soluble vitamins, Gallbladder, Gut Flora, Hormones, Iron Deficiency Anaemia, Lanreotide, Liver, Malabsorption, Neuroendocrine, Neuroendocrine cancer, Nutrition, Octreotide, Pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic NET (PanNET), Pernicious anaemia, Probiotic, Quality of LIfe (QoL), Side effect, Small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), Small intestine NET (SI NET), Somatostatin analogues, Steatorrhea, Surgery, Vitamin ADEK, Vitamin B12, Water soluble vitamins

Neuroendocrine Cancer Nutrition Series Article 2 – Gastrointestinal Malabsorption

By Ronny Allan May 23, 2024 20 Comments

Neuroendocrine Cancer Nutrition Series Article 2 – Gastrointestinal Malabsorption is the second article in the Neuroendocrine Cancer Nutrition series. In the first article, I focused on Vitamin and Mineral deficiency risks for patients and there is a big overlap with the subject of Gastrointestinal Malabsorption. Those who remember the content will have spotted the risks pertaining to the inability to absorb particular vitamins and minerals. This comes under the general heading of Malabsorption and in Neuroendocrine Cancer patients, this can be caused or exacerbated by one or more of a number of factors relating to their condition. It's also worth pointing out that…

Diet and Nutrition, Patient Advocacy, Treatment75Se-homocholic acid taurine (75SeHCAT), Bile acid diarrhea, Bile acid malabsorption, Bile salt, Bowel surgery, Cholecystectomy, Crohn's Disease, Digestive enzymes, Fecal bile acid test, Gallbladder, Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Pancreatic insufficiency, Serum 7αC4 test, Small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), Small intestine NET (SI NET)

Neuroendocrine Cancer Diarrhea- building the jigsaw: Bile Acid Malabsorption

By Ronny Allan Dec 05, 2021 5 Comments

Before progressing, I wanted to emphasise this is not necessarily the same type of malabsorption caused by exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) which can potentially lead to something known as steatorrhea (amongst other things) but it can produce the same effect. Steatorrhea is different from bile acid issues and is more related to fatty acids. But it's another piece of the diarrhea jigsaw. Bile Acid Malabsorption (BAM) and Bile Acid Diarrhea (BAD) Post-surgical diarrhea is probably something to expect in the early days and after time, adjustments can be made to cater for these side effects. With NETs, particularly where there…