Drugs vs Natural Supplements & Whole Food Enzymes

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Drugs vs Natural Supplements & Whole Food Enzymes

JoAnn Guest

Dec 03, 2004 10:50 PST

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Drugs vs Natural Supplements & Whole Food Enzymes

 

Gas, bloating, heartburn, stomach ache, feeling full when beginning to

eat, abdominal cramping, unsatisfied hunger - these are common symptoms

of enzyme deficiency.

 

But most doctors treat such problems as though theywere signs of drug

deficiency! Perfect examples are Tagamet and Prilosec -

Nexium, standard drugs given for indigestion and heartburn.

 

Now the main reason there is pain is simple: blockage.

 

All that pizza, fries, tacos, cookies and white bread is

devitalized food: no enzymes.

 

As a result, once in the stomach, it just sits there!

 

The stomach produces more and more acids and the few digestive enzymes

trying to break down this overcooked, chemical-laden sludge we

mistakenly refer to as food.

 

But it can't do it. All that digestive juice sitting there unable to do

its work is uncomfortable.

 

It burns the stomach.

 

On swallowing, the acid splashes back into the esophagus causing a

painful condition known as reflux esophagitis, or heartburn, or for the

really clueless - hiatal hernia.

 

So first the geniuses try Tagamet, with the idea that all the excess

acid needs to be absorbed. When that doesn't work, Prilosec..Prevacid or

Nexium

 

The shrewd rationale behind this brain-child is to stop all digestion by

halting further production of digestive juices!

 

Short-term, the discomfort is postponed, but what about the underlying

cause - the sludge is still sitting there in the stomach?

 

It now begins to rot (go rancid, putrefy, or ferment, depending on

whether it is fat, protein or carbohydrate).

 

Then we have intestinal blockage, which promotes diseases like peptic

ulcer, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn's Disease, chronic colitis, Leaky

Gut Syndrome, and colon cancer.

 

This is how anti-digestive drugs like Prilosec can set the stage for a

condition doctors call " auto-intoxication " .

 

Enzyme supplements are such a simple solution to a whole spectrum of

health challenges, many of which are life-threatening, that they are

generally not considered by mainstream practitioners.

 

Most MDs are taught to look for the dramatic rescue, the " quick-acting

drug " , the heroic procedure that can snatch the patient from the jaws of

death, or whatever.

 

That's more sexy; it's " real medicine. "

 

The first problem is... that most medical doctors don't even know of the

existence of whole-food enzymes, because such supplements are too

inexpensive to be sold by the pharmaceutical companies.

 

Yet.

 

The second problem is... that medical doctors have a very limited

exposure to enzymes in medical school.

 

The only concept they usually have is what is found in Guyton's

Physiology, the standard text.

 

They learn that enzymes are " catalysts, " which means substances that

cause things to happen but are themselves unchanged in the process.

 

Dr. Howell, who was himself an MD, proved not only was this idea

inaccurate, but that there was a grand and dynamic interchange between

the enzymes of digestion and the enzymes of all the other life

functions, which are called " enzymes of metabolism " .

 

Less than 20 digestive enzymes have been discovered; but there may be as

many as 5000 metabolic enzymes.

 

Enzymes are in a constant state of flux and re-organization.

 

If this were not the case, many of us would have been dead long ago,

because we wouldn't have been able to borrow from our metabolic enzymes

to help out our " overwhelmed " digestive enzymes. Interlocking

adaptation:

 

survival.

 

There are several high quality enzyme supplements on the market today.

There are also many mediocre or worthless enzymes available that are

just on the shelves to sell.

 

How do you tell the difference?

 

THE BEST WHOLE FOOD ENZYMES

 

1. are from Aspergillus, cultured in whole grain

2. contain all necessary cofactors

3. are totally bioavailable to the cells.

 

Scientists found out decades ago that Aspergillus-derived enzymes were

the best supplements for humans because they were broad spectrum, and

could operate in the whole range of pH which exists in the human

digestive tract.

 

Broad spectrum means the enzymes can digest fats, proteins, and

carbohydrates.

 

The best companies also add cellulase. This is the fiber-digesting

enzyme, which allows the vitamins and minerals within fiber to be set

free and made available to the bloodstream.

 

The esophagus, the stomach, the sections of the small intestine, and the

colon define a wide range of pH. That means an acid/alkaline range.

 

Aspergillus- derived enzymes work well in all these environments.

 

The best enzymes supplements contain all the necessary minerals

necessary as cofactors for enzyme activity to take place, as explained

above. Without these cofactors being included, the necessary minerals

will be drawn from the body's reserves, thereby causing an overall

negative effect.

 

Remember, by themselves enzymes and minerals are worthless. The only way

they *function* is in each other's 'presence'

 

The final feature - bioavailability.

 

Not only is the food able to make it from the digestive tract into the

bloodstream; it also has been broken down to simple units that can be

used completely by the cells.

 

This is what is known as a clean product - nothing left over in the

blood after it does its work.

 

Complete digestion.

 

ENZYME THERAPY

 

So once more, unless the patient will eat an 80% raw foods diet, he must

take enzyme supplements in order to insure complete breakdown of foods

and unclumped red blood cells.

 

The trick is to find an enzyme supplement that will be absorbed easily

into the bloodstream be taken up readily by the cells and leave behind

no metabolic residue as a result.

 

Holistic nutritionists have found that there are two obvious benefits to

beginning a simple program of enzyme therapy:

 

digestion and blood detox

 

When enzyme supplements are taken with a meal, most of the enzyme energy

is expended in digesting that food.

 

When enzyme supplements are taken on an empty stomach, they are

absorbed into the bloodstream and work to break down undigested debris

in the bloodstream, which had been clogging the blood.

 

Both these functions are vital to optimum health.

 

The body is the same as the cells - when wastes can't be removed, aging

and breakdown occur.

 

NAME OF THE GAME

 

 

With no background in nutrition, the family physician, quite obviously

may not be the best source of information or advice when it comes to

whole food enzymes.

Why?

 

Because the patient is taking the first step in the dangerous direction

known as " I Can Be Responsible for My Own Health " .

 

As Dr. Mendelsohn explained, most doctors don't support this idea at

all, because it tends to take away their control of things.

 

And if you don't think the name of the whole game is Control, just

observe any TV channel with a stopwatch and tell me how long you can sit

there without someone telling you to take some type of medication.

 

Five minutes? Ten?

 

Your job is to NEED as many drugs as possible between now ....and the

day you die.

 

Their job is to SELL them to you amd make you dependent on them.

 

Does this have anything to do with health?

 

Rarely!.

 

This has to do with pharmaceutical economics.

Good Health is an entirely different topic, altogether.

 

Most medical doctors tell patients that diet has very little to do with

their particular disease.

 

Ever hear of a medical doctor doing a thorough analysis of a patient's

diet before diagnosing him as a diabetic and putting him on insulin for

life?

 

Of course not. This is sales and marketing.

 

Occasionally doctors might say that diet may have contributed to a

disease, but almost NEVER will they say that diet can cure a disease.

 

They will say that curing disease comes from only one thing:

drugs.

 

GLOWING HEALTH ...OR MERE SURVIVAL?

 

 

A human being is not a static mass of cells, but a living process.

 

Each day we have a chance either to improve overall health, or else

just to survive for another 24 hours.

 

Each day, each meal, is an opportunity to strengthen the immune system,

to shore up the body's reserves through nutritional

choices.

 

At any given moment in time, our health is simply the cumulative result

of all these past choices.

 

Three opposing forces are constantly at work, trying to control our food

selection :

 

1. our informed brain

 

2. the advertising skills of the food industry

 

3. non-nutritive food additives whose only purpose is addicting us to

certain foods by stimulation of the taste buds and the nervous system

 

Eating when we're not hungry, or else just enough to get through the

day, choosing the most conveniently available foods, the ones with that

quick jolt of sugar, or processed fat –

 

this will allow us to survive.

 

But there's another option available to us - choosing foods that will

detox the body, build our immunity, unclog our blood, and optimize the

quality of life. Our ability to make rational choices based on the

body's real needs rather than on the programmed urges from the food

industry - this ability will determine our total health potential.

 

Look around you. Go shopping, or to the mall.

 

How often do you see an example of this Glowing Health, even among young

people? Where is it?

 

Or rather do you see bloated, slovenly, unhappy people with bad

skin and blocked colons?

 

Processed foods become our cells.

 

We become processed food.

 

Never underestimate the forces at work 24 hours a day to make us consume

as much processed dairy, hydrogenated soybean oil, white sugar, and

white flour as possible.

 

We are addicted to the things that poison us.

 

40/20 If you've hit 40 and are still eating the way you did at 20,

chances are you're aging much faster than necessary.

 

You're wearing out, filling up.

 

The body has exhausted its efforts to break down all those chemicals,

all those preservatives, all that hydrogenated oil.

 

Since you still take it in, it has to end up somewhere.

 

It does - inside you.

 

With rare exceptions, at 40 you simply can't eat the way you did at 20.

Not if you're going to be healthy enough to avoid doctors and hospitals.

 

Comfort foods? You need your comfort foods?

How comfortable will you be in that expensive ICU?

 

 

THE MASTER KEY

 

The best course of action would be to eat a diet consisting of more than

80% enzyme-rich raw foods.

 

No arguments there.

 

But most of us simply can't resist all that conditioning and

advertising, and we rationalize to ourselves how " life was meant to be

lived and the hell with the rest, " etc.

And that line of reasoning brings most of us to processed foods.

 

Luckily, today we have a way at least to minimize the clogging,

toxifying residues of undigested food.

 

Everything we put in our mouths IS a decision, even if it's an

unconscious one.

 

Each food choice poses two questions:

 

- will this nourish the body?

......or

- will this clog the body?

 

The cumulative effect of these decisions determines whether we are

toxifying or detoxifying day by day –

whether we are getting sicker or better, building our immune reserves or

using them up, promoting degeneration

or slowing it down, moving toward life or toward death..

 

Aging or anti-aging.

 

ONE SIMPLE STEP

 

Whole food enzyme supplements can be the key to health, without changing

one single other thing. Detox the blood.

 

What's the alternative?

 

The toxins accumulate in the blood, just like they always have. Result:

allergies, autoimmune stuff, arthritis, or any type of disease that

starts with a chronic low-grade inflammation of something or other.

Almost sounds too simple.

 

But that's the hallmark of the classic cure ---- simplicity.

 

We're not adding anything new. We're simply replacing something that has

been artificially removed by food processing: enzymes. We allow the body

to find its normal equilibrium.

 

Mainly, that just means stop poisoning it.

 

Unless we take in sufficient enzymes to completely break our food down,

we eat too much.

 

Year by year, we balloon up - check out the mall! Even for those of us

who are not overweight, we still have a decision to make.

 

If we insist on sticking with the modern American

processed food diet, our only salvation from

" digging our graves with our teeth " is this:

*Whole food enzymes*.

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