QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT FOOD ENZYMES AND NUTRITION
1. What are enzymes?
2. What do you mean
by nutrition?
3.
What do you mean by "energy factor"?
4. How long do
I have to be on enzymes?
5. Can food
enzymes help fight diseases?
6. Can enzymes control
obesity?
7.
Is there a significant difference between raw calories and cooked
calories?
8. Do
obese people have a shortage of enzymes?
9.
1 like to eat a meal of meat, potatoes, bread, and salad. Is that
bad?
10.
I've heard that some foods contain enzyme inhibitors. Is that
true?
11.
I have severe allergies. Can enzymes help me?
12. Can enzymes
lower cholesterol?
13. Should children
take enzymes?
14.
Does the addition of raw food to the diet or juicing guarantee
enough enzymes to meet our needs?
15. I have
insomnia. Will enzymes help?
16. Can
enzymes help me with my psoriasis?
17. Can you overdose
on enzymes?
18.
Can you summarize how enzymes may help improve my health?
19. Can pregnant
women take enzymes?
20.
I started taking the enzymes and gained weight. Why?
21.
How might supplemental plant enzymes help in the fight against
cancer?
22. Can enzymes
help with diabetes?
23. What are
supplemental enzymes?
24. How do
enzymes work in the stomach?
25. How do
enzymes work in our bodies?
26.
Why does our ability to produce enzymes decrease when we get
older?
27.
If I take plant enzymes what effects will I notice?
28.
How will I know that the plant enzymes I am taking are doing any
good?
29.
I thought my body produced all the enzymes I need?
30.
I take vitamins and minerals. Isn't that enough for good health?
31.
I am taking medicine that my doctor prescribed. Should I continue
taking this medicine while I am taking plant enzymes?
Enzymes are protein molecules which carry a vital energy
factor needed for every chemical action and reaction that occurs
in our body. There are several thousand different enzymes found
in the human body. These enzymes can combine with co-enzymes to
form nearly 100,000 various chemicals that enable us to see,
hear, feel, move, digest food and think. Every organ, every
tissue, and all the 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon
the reaction of enzymes and their energy factor. Nutrition cannot
be explained without describing the part that enzymes play.
Simply stated nutrition is: the body's ability to consume the
45 known nutrients in their proper amounts; digest these
nutrients; absorb these nutrients; carry these nutrients into the
cells; metabolize these nutrients; and eliminate the waste. To
accomplish all of these functions is a tough job. The following
is a list of the 45 known nutrients: Carbohydrate 9-Amino Acids
Water Lipids (fats) 13-Vitamin Proteins 1 9-Minerals Eating foods
containing these elements (along with their enzymes) in their
proper amounts will normally ensure good nutrition. Enzymes are
responsible for digestion, absorption, transporting,
metabolizing, and eliminating the waste of these nutrients.
Again, every organ, every tissue, and all the 100 trillion cells
in our body depends upon the reaction of enzymes and their energy
factor.
The energy factor is the energy that triggers or starts the
chemical reactions between enzymes. This energy factor is
separate and distinct from the chemical make-up of the enzymes
itself. A good example of this energy factor can be seen by
placing a raw bean into a pot of boiling water. The cooked bean
will fail to sprout. It's life force (energy factor) has been
taken away from it. Science tells us that only living organisms
can make enzymes possessing this energy factor. Chemicals that
serve as catalysts work by chemical action only, while enzymes
function by troth biological and chemical action. Catalysts do
not contain the "energy factor" which is measured as a
kind of radiant energy which enzymes emit. The energy factor of
enzymes has never been synthesized. Simply stated the energy
factor is the "electricity" that makes the light bulb
(the enzyme) work.
Most everyone has an enzyme deficiency to one degree or
another. To quote Dr. Dick Couey, Professor of Physiology and
Nutrition at Baylor University, "I will never eat another
meal without taking a plant enzyme supplement. My body doesn't
deserve that treatment." As long as we eat enzyme deficient
food' which is simply defined as any food that has been processed
or cooked, our bodies need an enzyme supplement to aid digestion,
deliver the nutrients and eliminate the waste. The logical
conclusion is that we will need some supplementation for as long
as we live and breathe.
Yes. There is a connection between the strength of our immune
system and our enzyme level. The more enzymes we have, the
stronger our immune system will be and the healthier and stronger
we will be. For example, leukocytes (white blood cells) have
eight (8) different amylase enzymes which assists the white blood
cell to engulf foreign substances and reduce them to a form that
the body can eliminate. Research has shown that leukocytes
increase after one has eaten a cooked meal. This indicates a
definite compensatory measure on the part of the body to
transport more enzymes to the digestive tract for digestion.
There is no increase in leukocytes after one has consumed a raw
food meal. Research has shown that enzymes are related to all
diseases via the immune system, whether the disease is acute or
chronic. If the pancreatic output of enzymes is hindered, the
whole body is affected. Therefore, we must eat raw foods or take
supplemental enzymes to enable our body's immune system to fight
against infections.
Very definitely. Obese individuals have been found to have a
deficiency in the enzyme lipase. Lipase is found in abundance in
raw foods. Cooking destroys lipase in raw foods. Lipase is the
enzyme that aids the body in the breaking down of fats. Without
lipase, our fat stagnates and accumulates in our arteries which
could lead to heart disease. Lipase also helps us to burn fat for
energy. Cooked foods which have no enzymes will put weight on
more abundantly than raw foods. For example, pig farmers will not
feed their pigs raw potatoes because the pigs stay lean.
However, when the farmers feed the pigs boiled potatoes the
pigs become fat. Another reason why enzymes reduce obesity is
because cooked foods cause drastic changes in the size and
appearance of the pituitary gland. Research has found that
enzymes affect our hormone producing glands and hormones
influence our enzyme levels. Cooked foods causes our pancreas,
thyroid, and pituitary glands to exhaust their enzymes to digest
our foods. This causes our body to become sluggish and weight is
gained. Raw food calories are relatively non-stimulating to
glands and stabilize body weight more so than cooked food
calories.
Research supports that there is a difference. Normal
non-diabetic and diabetic subjects were fed raw starch and then
had their blood tested for sugar. It is well documented that
eating cooked starch causes the blood sugar of diabetics to
increase significantly. The diabetics who participated in this
research found that their sugar level rose only 6 milligrams the
first half hour. Then it decreased 9 milligrams after 1 hour, and
14 milligrams 2 hours after ingestion of the raw starch. In the
non-diabetic persons there was a slight increase followed by a
slight decrease in blood sugar in 1 hour. This research indicates
that there is a difference between raw and cooked calories.
There is some evidence that obese individuals do have a
shortage of lipase. Researchers at Tufts University School of
Medicine conducted some tests on the abdominal fat of 11 extra
heavy individuals (average of 340 pounds) and found a lipase
enzyme deficiency in their fat cells. This could be explained by
the fact that obesity and abnormal cholesterol deposits both have
their beginnings in our failure to permit fat predigestion of
cooked or processed foods in the upper stomach due to the fact
that the natural lipase content of fatty foods has been destroyed
by cooking .
It could be made better if your salad contains a lot of raw
foods. However, your garden salad of raw vegetables does not
contain enough enzymes, although every little bit helps, to
digest the meat, potatoes, and bread. The cooked meat, potatoes,
and bread do give you an abundance of minerals and vitamins, but
not enough enzymes. Try to adapt to a diet which contains
approximately 75% raw calories and 25% cooked calories. Eat as
many fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains foods in their raw
state as possible. If you cannot make yourself eat these raw
foods then you must take an enzyme supplement if you desire a
long and healthy life.
Yes. Tree nuts, seeds, beans, and grains contain enzyme
inhibitors, along with a very active number of enzymes. But
because enzymes are very active entities, nature had to put a
rein on them and make them dormant until such a time as the seed
could fall to the ground and be adequately covered with soil.
This slowing down by nature could be called enzyme inhibition.
However, nature will inactivate these enzymes inhibitors when
moisture is absorbed by the seed that is covered with soil. This
is the time the seed begins germinating (sprouting) to form a
seedling. Eating too many nuts and seeds, which has an abundance
of enzyme inhibitors, could cause Gl- tract problems. So, you
have only two options open to you: you can wait until the seed or
nut begins germination, or you can take enzyme supplements with
them to neutralize their enzyme inhibitors.
Many researcher theorize that being allergic to a raw food may
be nature's way of telling us that the food's enzymes are
incompatible with some unhealthy bodily condition, and the body's
immune system is trying to destroy it. This confrontation between
food enzyme and disease could result in the classic symptoms of
itching, nasal discharges, and rashes. Scavenger enzymes are
believed to patrol the blood and dissolve the waste that
accumulates from the millions of metabolic reactions that takes
place each second within each cell of the body. In fact, some of
our scavenger enzymes are present in white blood cells. The main
function of these enzymes include the attempt to prevent the
arteries from clogging up and the joints from being crammed with
arthritic deposits. If the scavenger enzymes find the right
substrate they latch on and reduce it to a form which the blood
can eliminate. If these scavenger enzymes cannot handle the
waste, nature causes some of the wastes to be thrown out through
the skin, or membranes of the nose and throat, which produces the
familiar symptoms that we call allergies. Other researchers
believe that some allergies are caused by incompletely digested
protein molecules. Allergies may be helped if certain enzymes are
taken that can act as scavenger enzymes or as protein digestive
enzymes.
Since enzymes themselves are proteinaceous compounds, an
allergic reaction is possible. Some individuals, particularly
those sensitive to molds and penicillin, may experience nausea or
gastric upset. If gastrointestinal sensitivity occurs, the use of
enzyme products should be discontinued.
Yes, in most individuals. Remember, cholesterol is a form of
fat. Research has substantiated that consumed animal fats tend to
cause cholesterol to settle in the arteries and cause
atherosclerosis. However, it has also been found that the crystal
clear "purified" vegetable oils (not heated) do not
raise the blood cholesterol level. One answer for this might lie
with the fact that lipase is found in these unheated vegetable
oils. One researcher found that the [at tissue in obese humans
has less lipase than the fat tissues in a slender person which
means that supplemental lipase may be needed. Three British
researchers tested the enzymes in individuals with
atherosclerosis to find the relationship between cholesterol and
clogged arteries. They found that all enzymes studied became
progressively weaker in the arteries as persons became older and
also as the hardening became more severe. These researchers
believe that a shortage of enzymes is part of a mechanism which
allows cholesterol deposits to accumulate in the inner part of
the arterial walls (intima). Another researcher found a
progressive decline in lipase in the blood of atherosclerotic
patients with advancing middle and old age. Yet another
researcher found that not only was lipase low in older persons,
but that older atherosclerotic persons had slow fat absorption
from the intestine. He also found that some absorbed fat was in
the unhydrolyzed state. When he fed lipase extracted from animal
pancreas to the older and younger persons he found a definite
improvement in fat utilization. Think of the advantage of taking
the plant enzyme lipase at the beginning of the meal to help in
the predigestion of food.
Yes. Children usually eat the same enzyme deficient foods as
their parents. It should be pointed out the importance of breast
feeding in comparison to bottle feeding and acquiring enzymes.
Children that are breast-fed acquire dozens of enzymes from their
mother's milk. Bottle-fed babies receive pasteurized milk that
has been heated, which destroys the milk enzymes. This causes the
baby's own enzyme factory to begin using its enzyme potential
from day one. Research indicates that this could be harmful for
the child. Their study involved 20,061 babies that were divided
into three groups (breast-fed, partially breast-fed, and
bottle-fed). They studied the morbidity (sickness) rate for the
first nine months of the infant's life. They found that 37.4% of
the breast-fed babies had sickness in comparison to 53.8% of the
partially breast-fed and 63.6% of the bottle-fed. It is obvious
that babies who were entirely breast-fed had far less sickness
than babies who were only partially breast-fed or who were
bottle-fed. They also identified the mortality rates of these
different groups which are presented as follows: No. of Infants
Total Deaths % of deaths Breast-fed 9,749 15 0.15 Partially 8,605
59 .7 Bottle-fed 1,707 144 8.4 The mortality rate among the
bottle-fed infants was 56 times greater than among the
breast-fed. In the United States one deformed child is born every
5 minutes. This adds up to 250,000 deformed babies yearly. Dr.
AndersHakannson at Lund University in Sweden discovered that when
he added mother's milk to cultured cancer cells that were alive
prior to the addition of the milk, he soon found them to be dead.
Further tests indicated that only tumor cells were killed by the
milk, while normal adult cells were left intact. Research is
trying to tell us that we, which includes pregnant women and
children, must eat raw foods that contain enzymes and/or take
supplemental enzymes.
Raw food provides only enough enzymes to digest that
particular food. There are no extra enzymes in raw food to digest
cooked or processed food. Due to the risk of bacterial
contamination many foods should not be eaten raw, including
meats, poultry, eggs and beans. Also, the fiber content normally
found in raw food is very difficult to digest due to the body's
inability to produce cellulase.
Sometimes. There are many causes of insomnia. The causes that
are associated with hormonal imbalances in the endocrine system
have been shown to respond favorably to enzyme therapy. The lack
of metabolic enzymes will definitely affect the secretions of the
pituitary gland, which could lead to insomnia. Eat raw foods or
taking special plant enzyme supplements will enhance your
endocrine system.
Many dermatologists have reported favorable results with
enzyme therapy. In the early 1930s researchers found that they
could treat psoriasis by having their patients eat large
quantities of raw butter. Raw butter contains large amounts of
lipase. Recent research has found that massive doses of lipase
will help cure it. However, when large amounts of concentrated
enzymes are used, it is essential that the patient be observed by
a doctor with experience along these lines.
Research is uncertain. However, data from over sixty years
revealed that there has not been one report of side effects from
enzyme consumption. More long term studies may be needed. Plant
enzymes are food.
The following are ways in which enzymes may help improve
health:
| Purifies our blood. It is a known fact that
fungal forms, parasites and bacteria are made up of
protein. Viruses also have a protein coating as a shell
that protect them. The enzyme protease breaks down
proteins, and since the invaders of our blood system are
protein, it makes sense that ingesting protease could
break down the protein invaders. Strengthens our
immune system. Enzymes have been found to deliver
nutrients to our cells, carry away toxic debris, digest
our food, purify our blood, deliver hormones by feeding
and fortifying our endocrine system and balance our
cholesterol and triglycerides levels while doing no harm
to our body
Breaks down fats. Research has shown that the
enzyme lipase breaks down and digests fat. This takes
stress off our gallbladder, liver and pancreas. This will
enhance weight loss.
Enzymes lower our cholesterol and triglycerides
levels. Cholesterol and triglycerides are fats that
circulate in our blood stream. The enzyme lipase will
control the release of these fats which could protect us
from certain forms of heart disease, like
atherosclerosis.
Enzymes enhance our mental capacity.
Our body uses glucose called from the liver to feed and
fortify the hypothalamus. Glucose is made from the
protein stored in our liver. Most all plant foods contain
protein enzymes. Our red blood cells carry oxygen to the
brain and along with glucose to feed the brain cells.
When there is a dysfunction with this mechanism we become
fatigued and are unable to think clearly. The
hypothalamus directs our endocrine system and is
responsible for our water balance, body temperature,
appetite and emotions.
Enzymes cleanse our colon. Foods that are not
digested properly are stored in our colon and digestive
problems can begin.
Some researchers estimate that nearly 70% of all
illness starts in our colon. Undigested protein
putrefies, carbohydrates ferment, and fats turn rancid in
our colon. Enzymes will break down our foods properly and
keep our colon free of these toxins. In fact, it is
recommended by many researchers that it is healthy to
have at least two bowel movements per day.
Enzymes help us sleep. Enzymes enhance our
endocrine glands. The under nourished endocrine system
may create a malfunction in our hormonal system which can
upset our nervous system and sleep patterns. When we are
unable to digest our food or deliver the nutrients to
keep our endocrine and nervous system in balance, we
cannot rebuild our lifestyle or energy level.
Enzymes help us shed excess weight and fat.
Many overweight people have a metabolic imbalance or will
soon create one.
Remember, our endocrine system regulates our
metabolism. Once we are able to fortify the endocrine
system, have our bowels working regularly and can digest
our food rather than turning it into fat, we have a
successful combination. Enzymes, especially lipase, will
break down our fats properly, which will help us bum fat,
thus promoting weight loss.
Improves aging skin. An adequate supply of
enzymes are absolutely essential for keeping the skin
young-looking and healthy. Enzymes fight the aging
process by increasing blood supply to the skin, bringing
with it life-giving nutrients and carrying away waste
products that can make your skin look dull and wrinkled.
Our circulation slows down as we get older. To counteract
this we need to consume more enzymes.
Maintains proper pH balance our Gl-tract. Friendly
flora such as L. Acidophilus and bifidobacerium are
important to the intestinal tract for maintaining proper
pH and also for controlling the population of potential
pathogenic organisms like clostridium and Candida. Plant
flora enzymes have now been proven to be very effective
in the pathogen control role of beneficial bacteria.
Another role of beneficial bacteria is the actual
synthesis of highly favorable natural chemicals in the
colon through the fermentation process. These fermentive
products include such molecular species as natural
antibiotics and very importantly, digestive enzymes.
These enzymes can play an extremely important role in the
digestion of otherwise incompletely digested food
substances, especially proteins.
Enzymes maintain proper pH balance in the urine.
Research has shown that a balance of the plant enzymes
(lipase, protease, and amylase) eaten by individuals
produce a proper urine pH of 6.3 to 6.6 in 24 hour
urinalysis.
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Yes, if they are taking plant enzymes. Animal enzymes should
not be taken by pregnant women. Plant enzymes make a great deal
of sense since the baby is the recipient of the nutrients that
are transported.
Enzymes break down food. The same amount of food is now being
broken down and the nutrients delivered or transported to the
cells. This is all good. However, if the calories remain the same
and the need of the body for fuel is now lessened because the
nutritional value has been satisfied. the individual may
temporarily gain weight. This usually balances itself out in
about 21 days.
There are two theories that researchers postulate as the
possible answers. First, researchers can trace the beginning of
cancer to the cell's DNA. Cancer cells begin with an alteration
of normal DNA in the cell. Promoters, such as stress, saturated
fat, obesity, ultra violet rays from the sun and others cause the
four nucleotides (adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine) that
make up DNA to change their normal chemistry which causes the
cell to make the wrong protein. Once the wrong protein is made,
the cell will continue to make the wrong protein forever. These
cells spread (metastasize) and destroy other cells. Probably at
any given time your body has approximately 100 to maybe 10,000 of
these cells trying to make the wrong protein. But nature has
provided repair enzymes to travel up and down the DNA structures
and correct the errant proteins. If you take supplemental
digestive enzymes the body's metabolic enzymes can be freed from
the work of digestion to make and use more of these repair
enzymes to help prevent cancer cells from beginning. The second
theory proclaims that cancer cells are covered with a protein
covering that protects them from attacking white blood cells. The
reason why the white cells won't attack the cancer cell is
because the white cell cannot recognize the cancer cells as
dangerous to the body. It is believed by many researchers that
the protein covering disguises the cancer cell as friendly to the
body's white blood cells. Taking an enzyme supplement (especially
protease, which digest or breaks down proteins) may break down
the outer protein covering of the cancer cell so that the white
blood cell may recognize it as unfriendly and destroy it.
It depends on the type of your diabetes. Type II (adult onset)
normally responds better to enzyme therapy than Type I juvenile).
Research has shown that when there is a lack of blood amylase,
blood sugar levels can be higher than normal. When the enzyme
amylase is administered, blood sugar levels drop significantly.
One researcher showed that 86% of the diabetics that he examined
had a deficiency of amylase in their intestinal secretions. He
administered amylase to a majority of these patients, and found
that 50% of the diabetics who were users of insulin could control
their blood sugar levels without the use of insulin. Amylase may
help with storage and utilization of sugar in the blood. Another
researcher found that cooked starch foods, where amylase and
other enzymes are destroyed, caused the blood sugar levels to
rise significantly one-half hour after ingestion. After two hours
the cooked food starch eaters' blood sugar level fell quickly and
significantly. This resulted in fatigue, anxiety, and
sluggishness. In comparison, the raw starch eaters' brood sugar
levels only experienced a slight rise and drop. These patients
experienced a much more steady metabolic rate and emotional
stability. Many diabetics could lower their insulin requirements
if they would eat raw foods and take plant enzyme supplements.
Supplemental enzymes are enzymes that have been extracted in
some manner, from either plants or animals, and are given in
addition to a normal diet. Pepsin (an enzyme that digest
proteins) was the first enzyme used by doctors to help with
protein digestion. Pepsin was extracted from the stomach of pigs
and requires a very low pH to be used by the body It is best used
in skin products for exfoliation of the skin and for meat
tenderizers. Another enzyme supplement was made from the pancreas
of slaughterhouse animals, which could not only digest proteins,
but carbohydrate and fats as well. However, the pancreatic
enzymes work best in an alkaline medium, which is present in the
duodenum. Pancreatic enzymes will not work in the acidic stomach
and cannot perform predigestion. There is little need to take
these supplemental enzymes for digestion purposes. In order for
supplemental enzymes to work they must be able to help with
predigestion in the upper stomach (fundus). The Japanese have
developed a method for extracting protease, amylase, cellulose
and lipase enzymes from fungi which work throughout the entire
digestive system. Although there are hundreds of varieties of
aspergilli, the strains (Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus
Niger) used in the fermentation of plant enzymes have been tested
to be free of mycotoxins. Extracts of these enzymes are dried
into powders and put into capsules.
These enzymes should be taken with a meal if predigestion is
to be most effective. The reason for this is if you wait until
finishing the meal, you delay the action of the enzymes on the
food.
Food entering the stomach is called a bolus. The stomach has
two distinct divisions--Fundus (upper part) and Pylorus (lower
part). The bolus remains in the upper part for approximately one
hour. This is where predigestion takes place. The fundus is where
digestive food enzymes begin to break down the food into
carbohydrates, fats and protein. Raw foods supply their own
digestive enzymes, thus saving the stomach from supplying all the
enzymes. Cooked foods, which has no enzymes, must wait in the
fundus until the stomach supplies the enzymes. Predigestion by
food enzymes occurs in every creature on earth. The only
exception is the human being on an enzyme-free diet. The upper
section has no peristalsis (movement of food), acid, or pepsin
and therefore, if enzymes are not provided in the diet, only
minimal digestion can occur.
The lower stomach (pylorus) performs the second step in
digestion, but of protein only. In the lower part of the stomach,
pepsin (a powerful digestive enzyme) and hydrochloric acid
continue the digestive process. The predigested food now enters
the small intestine and is called chyme. Here, the pancreas and
small intestine cells secrete their enzymes to further break down
the chyme into glucose (carbohydrates), fatty acids (fats) and
amino acids (proteins) for absorption into the villi (absorption
cells in the small intestine). The human stomach is really two
stomachs with separate functions. Our stomachs have been provided
with the means of permitting outside enzymes to help with the
burdens of digesting food. Thus, we don't have to make all of our
own digestive enzymes to digest our food. This will allow us to
make more metabolic enzymes as needed and make us more healthy.
When we eat raw foods the enzymes in the food are activated by
heat and moisture in the mouth. Once active, these enzymes digest
a significant portion of our food and make it small enough to
pass through the villi (small projections found in the small
intestines) and into the blood. Metabolic enzymes found in the
blood then take the digested 45 known nutrients and build them
into muscles, nerves, bones, blood, lungs, and various glands.
Every cell in the body depends on certain enzymes. Each enzyme
has a specific function in the body which is referred to as
enzyme specificity. A protein digestive enzyme will not digest a
fat and a fat enzyme will not digest starch. Enzymes act upon
chemicals and change them into another chemical, but remain
unchanged themselves. Simply stated our chemicals are changed
from their original identity by the enzyme to another chemical
with a different identity. Without enzymes nothing in our body
would work.
Bartos and Groh enlisted 10 young and 10 old men and used a
drug to stimulate the pancreatic juice flow. The juice was then
pumped out and tested. It was found that considerably less of the
enzyme amylase was present in the pancreatic juices of older men.
It was determined that the enzyme deficiency of the older group
was due to exhaustion of the cells of the pancreas. Other
research indicates that not only are there fewer enzymes in the
pancreas but also in the trillion cells in our body as we age.
One explanation for this might be that our pancreas, which weighs
only three (3) ounces, cannot begin to supply the vast amount of
enzyme activity required for the pancreatic secretion, not to
mention the tremendous need for protein to equip the enzyme
complex. The pancreas must borrow these entities stored in the
cells to make the enzyme complex. This could be a definition of
"old age" because old age and debilitated metabolic
enzyme activity are synonymous. If we postpone the debilitation
of metabolic enzyme activity, then we might delay the aging
process and possibly increase the life span to its genetic
potential.
It depends. Please understand that plant enzymes are not
"magic pills". Rather, they supplement the work of your
body's organs and glands to completely digest the food you eat.
Some people will notice a dramatic improvement in their energy
levels and feeling of vitality. Others might notice significant
improvement in the functioning of their digestive tract and
relief of long term chronic conditions. Some people's recognition
of improvement will be more subtle and gradual. It all depends on
the underlying condition of deficiency and how quickly the
imbalance can be corrected.
When you and your pharmacist evaluate your nutritional
condition, ask what you should look for in terms of improvement.
In some cases it will be the absence of indigestion. For others
it might be weight loss, more energy, more restful sleep, better
regularity or other improvements. In addition, on your follow-up
visits to your pharmacist, you will be able to visually see
through the microscope improvements in your nutritional
condition.
Not really. Because we eat so much cooked, processed and
refined food, we must supplement our bodys' natural production of
enzymes required for digestion. If we do not then the food we eat
will not be completely digested and the by- products of
incompletely digested food will be deposited in areas of our body
where it can create toxicity, lead to declining health,
contribute to the development of chronic conditions and impair
immune system functioning.
No, not if your body cannot utilize the vitamins and minerals
that are taken. Vitamins and minerals are really co-enzymes
themselves. As such they require that other enzymes act on them
in order to release their beneficial powers. If the body is
unable to supply those necessary enzymes in the proper quantities
at the proper time, the vitamins and minerals simply become inert
materials and pass unused through your body.
Yes, continue taking all medicine prescribed by your doctor
and follow all of his instructions. Plant enzymes, since they are
completely from natural organic products and are classified as
food by the FDA, will not adversely effect your medication
program.
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