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Systemic Enzyme Therapy Supplement to The Art of Getting Well

 

People must know that the correct medical name for the therapeutic

use of natural enzymes is " Systemic Enzyme Therapy. " This means that

enzymes flow throughout our body, producing the desired healing

effects.

 

For an accurate description of Systemic Enzyme Therapy, one needs to

know a little bit about the structure and function of enzymes, in

general.

 

You must know that without enzymes, there is no possibility of life,

in animals, plants or persons. Enzymes are essential for each and

every reaction in a living organism.

 

We could even follow the arising of life on earth, if we think of

enzymes that were necessary for the evolution in each stage. Oxygen

from the air arose because certain new enzymes were formed by single

plants that released oxygen. These plants had learned to produce

certain enzymes that separate oxygen from carbon dioxide in the air.

 

Today, we accurately know how this works. Every second we change;

every second we become a new human being. This is because more than

2,700 different enzymes act with an incredible speed to keep our

vital functions in order.

 

Since ancient times it was known by Egyptians and the Arabians that

there was an invisible force which made all living things shift. It

was a mysterious force that transforms one substance into another;

milk became a cheese, grapefruit to wine, etc.

 

Enzymes are catalysts, or rather we should say, " biolcatalysts. " We

are dealing with determined substances whose presence causes the

transformation of an organic substance and it also accelerates it,

just as a catalyst would do it. Today we know what these enzymes are

and how they act.

 

Catalysts produce, with a small effort, a big effect. Nature can not

waste energy. In technical terms, enzymes are albuminoid,

macromolecular bodies, with a complex structure and are active

biocatalytically speaking. These albumins are made of 20 different

amino acids. Each enzyme is specific not only in its substratum (the

place where they react) but also in its effect. In 1930 we only knew

80 enzymes. In 1993 we know more than 2,700 enzymes. However, we do

not know how many are left to be discovered.

 

Enzymes are necessary for the adequate functioning of our whole

metabolism. In our body, every part of it is related to all the rest;

that is, that even one tiny disturbance, biochemically speaking, can

result in a complete imbalance. Diseases are the consequence of this

disorder.

 

In biochemistry, when something is designated with the ending " ase, "

one can almost be sure that we are talking about an enzyme. In the

early stage of the discovery of the enzymes, they were known with

names that ended usually with an " in, " like the well known pepsin and

trypsin.

 

Enzymes are constantly produced within our body. Described in a

simple way, there are certain organic molecular pieces that in small

quantities are required to form these enzymes. These pieces are the

vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Altogether they are called " co-

enzymes. "

 

The deficiency of any of these co-enzymes will result in a specific

medical condition. For example, vitamin B1 deficiency will

elicit " beri-beri. " The vitamin B12 deficiency causes a special

anemia called " pernicious anemia. " The same thing happens with

deficiency of essential minerals and trace elements. Basically, in

these cases, we are speaking of an illness elicited by a disturbance

in the enzymatic balance.

 

These co-enzymes, in fact, are different from the enzymes. It was

already said that enzymes are made of albumin and the co-enzymes are

not. The enzymes are rather large molecules. On the other hand, co-

enzymes are rather small. Enzymes are not consumed in the true sense

during their activity, while co-enzymes are consumed in it and they

must be replaced through our diet.

 

To act adequately, enzymes must be exposed to certain physical

conditions. Each of them needs a specific temperature and pH, which

causes them to have different speeds of action. To have an

appropriate idea of the speed, you must know that lysozyme (an enzyme

that helps in the elimination of bacteria) produces a change of

approximately 30 molecules of substratum per minute, that is, every 2

seconds. On the other hand, the fastest degrader among the enzymes is

quite different, it is carboanhydrase, which changes an incredibly 36

millions of substratum in only one minute.

 

Some enzymes live only 20 minutes and must be replaced by new enzymes

of the same type, recently produced. Other enzymes remain active for

a period of several weeks before they are eliminated and when they

are, they are eliminated because of their age.

 

At the Program for Studies of Alternative Medicines of the University

of Guadalajara (Mexico), we have researched the therapeutic value of

these natural proteolytic enzymes in the treatment of acute and

chronic clinical conditions. We have had the opportunity of

reaffirming that enzymes are catalytically active polymer compounds

made of amino acids. They are involved in virtually all of the vital

metabolic processes. They set metabolic conversions in track (in

train), control energetic processes and regulate syntheses. Without

enzymes, nothing goes on at all within an organism.

 

It is therefore normal to use enzymes for therapeutic purposes.

Substitution in intestinal enzyme deficiency conditions is a

classical treatment modality that no one would dispute. External use

of enzymes for impaired wound healing (e.g. in the presence of

varicose ulcers) has been part of the armamentarium of medical

practitioners for centuries. Parental lytic therapy with

streptolinase or urokinase for cardiac infarct or for vascular

occlusions is today standard throughout the world.

 

Enzymes are very highly substrate specific. Due to their different

places of action, it is therefore reasonable to use mixtures of

enzymes in the treatment of diseases. One important enzyme is called

the hydrolases, which cleave complex compounds (esters, peptides, and

glycosides).

 

There are some substances that are very similar to co-enzymes. They

look so similar that our body can not distinguish between them. In

fact, our system does not see the difference and tries to use them as

real active enzymatic centers. Of course, the enzyme compensated by

such substances (not the true co-enzyme) do not work and the

biochemical error makes us sick. For example, when poisoning rats,

these poisons very frequently contain an aromatic, vegetal substance

known as cumarine. The animal and the human organism see the cumarine

as if it were co-enzyme vitamin K. This vitamin K has a definitive

role in the production of the enzymes necessary for coagulation. If

the body receives cumarine, it incorporates it into the enzymes,

instead of incorporating vitamin K, and so the necessary enzymes for

coagulation stop functioning. The blood liquefies in a way that

causes the rats to bleed to their death.

 

When we get sick, particularly in the case of an infectious disease,

our temperature rises. This is an intelligent way by which nature

accelerates the activity of our enzymes to try to get rid of the

problem.

 

To bring about certain tasks of great importance within our organism

and to keep our system in a perfect equilibrium between too much and

too little, the enzymes work most of the time in continuous steps,

that is, in what is called " enzymatic cascades. " One enzyme activates

the next enzyme, and, in turn, that enzyme activates another enzyme,

until one last enzyme finally produces the desired effect. This

happens due to nature's design to conserve energy, because these

small individual steps require much less energy than big complicated

ones. On the other hand, nature desires safety, in that our bodies

must be sure that these enzymatic cascades are not activated unless

really necessary. That is why there are two security systems. If one

enzymatic cascade is wrongly activated, there can be dangerous

consequences that may lead to death.

 

The first lock of the security system is to produce new enzymes, but

the characteristic of these enzymes is that they are active. That is,

they will not work until they are activated by certain changes in the

structure of the amino acids. Thus, the innocuous enzymes flow all

over the lymphatic system and the bloodstream. Whenever the body

needs to have a certain effect, a corresponding enzymatic cascade is

activated accordingly.

 

The inhibitors of the enzymes are the second security system. In

biochemistry they are so-called " enzymatic inhibitors. " These proper

enzymatic inhibitors of the organism can avoid the activation of the

enzymes when the quantity of enzymes is too large.

 

continued in books by Gary Null.