Atkins Diet Caution

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"Consuming protein rich foods at inappropriate times or in excessive amounts can result in a lack of pancreatin enzymes available to fight cancers that occur. Because protein digestion shares the use of the same enzymes (particularly trypsin and chymotrypsin) used to fight cancers, the body needs a time span each day approaching twelve hours or more without protein consumption for its cancer defense mechanism to work optimally. Especially in the past few years, proteins are often looked upon as super healthy in any amount, if not by default because fats and carbohydrates have been vilified. People are eating more protein more often. It turns out the body needs about six hours to digest proteins. The body also needs several hours after that to use the pancreatin it produces to destroy naturally occurring cancers.

Poor diet choices and eating habits can tie up pancreatin enzymes with digestive tasks. For treating and preventing cancer, minimizing the amount of time pancreatin enzymes are devoted to digestion is important. Pancreatin enzymes come into play in digestion after the food has been chewed and then bathed in stomach acid. Compromising these preceding digestive functions may force enzymes to take longer to finish their job. For example, diluting stomach acid by consuming excessive water or taking antacids with meals makes the stomach acid less effective. Incompletely chewing food, eating too much food, or eating too frequently can also be expected to increase the demands made on pancreatin enzymes for digestion. In general regarding stomach acid for digestion, stronger (lower pH) is better and its function should not be compromised as it performs its job.

In order for the pancreatin healing mechanism to work, the pancreatin must be both present and "activated". Cancer cell membranes have protruding hair-like strands made of carbohydrate that can block the physical access of trypsin and chymotrypsin to the exterior proteins. Activation means also supplying enough carbohydrate dissolving amylase enzymes to dissolve the strands so that trypsin and chymotrypsin can be effective. John Beard first recognized the importance of including these amylase enzymes in effective cancer treatments. There may be other elements to activation as well.

A few words are necessary regarding protease inhibitors, a new class of drugs used to fight both HIV (AIDS) and cancer. Proteases are enzymes in the pancreatin enzyme mix that help to break down protein into amino acids and peptides. The fact that these drugs are successful in slowing the growth of cancer would appear to put a snag into this theory of using pancreatin enzymes to kill cancer cells, but both approaches are viable because they work on different mechanisms for cancer. Protease inhibitors slow down the growth of established cancer tumors by preventing them from manufacturing new tentacles from the available protein they ingest. This prevents the cancer cells from physically hooking into normal cells and therefore the blood supply for nourishment. Other methods such as radiation, chemotherapy, or surgery are required to actually kill the cancer cells. Protease inhibitors can at best manage the disease for a period of time, and exacerbate an already enzyme depleted condition. Of course, protease inhibitor use is incompatible with the use of pancreatin enzymes to overwhelm and break up the cancer cells, and vice versa. "

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Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington