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click here for a professional thingy about Equalactin

and now for my version:

it is a soluble fiber treatment. it comes in chewable tablets, and they supposedly have a "citrus" taste. yeah, right. to me, they taste like flavorless Smarties. not objectionable, to me at least.

take two, chew 'em up, drink a glass of water, and you may be set!

anyway, they are cost-prohibitive for most of us if used as your sole soluble fiber supplement, but most of us still keep 'em on hand, for the following reasons:

a) i keep 'em on hand for treatment in emergencies. i take two chew 'em up, drink the water, then pop some hycosamine (Levsin) to head off an attack of D at the pass. (don't know that it works as well for the C.... not sure.

b) i also chew up a couple and have a glass of water when i haven't had time to eat every 2 or 3 hours, like i should. your colon is so much happier when you have soluble fiber all gelled up and keeping it full. if i can't eat something soluble fiber-y every few hours, i'll take the Equalactin to hold me over. Ditto if i'm not particularly hungry but know i need to have some SF.

3) i keep some in my purse so if i'm going to eat somewhere that may be sketchy (for example, i'm cheating!

), or if there's a place that may not have soluble fiber for me to eat, then i load up on some Equalactin. usually does the trick!

i buy mine on drugstore.com.

hope this helped?!

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