What is an Enzyme?

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What is an Enzyme? JoAnn Guest Jun 18, 2003 16:59 PDT

There is convincing evidence that the destruction of enzymes in the

cooking and processing of food is, perhaps, the

most significant factor in chronic and degenerative diseases in both

humans and animals.

 

It begins with a phenomenon known as digestive

leukocytosis.

 

" Leukocytosis " is a pathological condition defined in Dorlands

Illustrated Medical Dictionary as

 

" a transient increase in the number of leukocytes in the blood,

resulting from various causes,

such as hemorrhage, fever, infection, inflammation, etc.

 

Leukocytosis was first discovered in 1846.

 

At first, it was considered normal because everyone who was tested had

it.

 

Paul Kautchakoff, M.D.later found that leukocytosis was not normal.

 

In fact, the major cause of leukocytosis was discovered to be the

eating of cooked food.

 

An entire category of leukocytosis was classified as " digestive

leukocytosis, "

that is, the elevation of the white blood cell level

inresponse to the lack of enzymes in the cooked food in the

intestine.

 

It is pathological because the pancreas was never intended to

provide 100% of the digestive enzymes needed.

 

Dr. Kautchakoff divided his findings into four classifications

according to the severity of the pathological reaction in the blood:

 

Raw food produced no increase in the white blood cell count.

 

Commonly cooked food caused leukocytosis.

 

Pressure cooked food caused even greater leukocytosis.

 

Man-made, processed and refined foods,

 

such as carbonated beverages,

alcohol, vinegar, white sugar,

white flour, and other processed food,

caused *severe* leukocytosis.

 

Cooked, smoked and salted animal flesh brought on

violent leukocytosis consistent with ingesting *poison*.

 

This phenomenon occurs after eating cooked food, since prolonged heat

above 118 degrees Fahrenheit destroys enzymes in food.

 

Three minutes in boiling water destroys the enzymes;

 

pasteurization destroys 80% to 95%;

 

and frying, stewing and canning destroys 100%.

 

Nature designed food with sufficient enzymes within it to digest

that food when it is ingested.

 

When enzymes are destroyed by cooking or other processing, ingesting

that food triggers the body's immune

system,

 

and it responds with leukocytosis.

 

Many health professionals are coming to the conclusion that this

syndrome is an abusive scenario that puts significant stress on the

pancreas,

accounting for the " enlarged " pancreases of people in

industrialized societies,

and contributing to blood sugar problems

such as diabetes and hypoglycemia, as well as the proliferation of

chronic degenerative disease.

 

 

 

What Is An Enzyme?

 

The medical dictionary defines an enzyme as a protein produced in a

cell capable of greatly accelerating,

by its catalytic action, the chemical reaction of a substance (the

substrate) for which it is specific.

 

This is the standard definition taught in medical school.

 

But more significantly,

 

enzymes are the body's workers.

 

Enzymes operate on a biological and chemical level, perhaps even the

radiological level, and although vitamins, minerals, hormones, proteins

and other substances are essential to life, it is enzymes that perform

the work and utilize these

substances in restoring, repairing and maintaining health and life.

 

 

Enzymes are the closest thing to what can be described as a

" life force. "

 

Without them, life would not exist.

 

In fact, when enzyme levels fall below a given level in any living

system, life ceases.

 

Attempts to produce " synthetic " enzymes have *failed*.

 

Science has identified over 80,000 different enzyme systems,

 

and it is suspected that there may be hundreds of thousands,

even millions of different types of enzymes.

 

Yet although science endeavors to know what certain

types of enzymes are made of,

no one has yet been able to directly measure or take a picture of one.

 

What Do Enzymes Do?

 

Enzymes build, orchestrate and unify the physical expression we call

" life. "

 

They seem to know precisely what to do and when to do it.

 

They assemble molecules during their formative growth and they take

molecules apart when individual cells are fractured.

 

Enzymes create and modulate every system in the body.

 

Enzymes help assemble a human body from a one-cell organism into a 50

to 70 trillion-cell life form.

 

Enzymes are involved in repairing the body when it is damaged;

they transport, use,and transform oxygen molecules and every other

nutrient the body needs;

 

they break down metabolic waste and the by-products of cells; they

quench free radicals, and they split off unwanted molecules from

nutrients, adding necessary ones.

 

The physical existence of every human being and the existence of all

other living organisms is

totally dependent upon the ability of enzymes to do their job.

_____________

 

 

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