The Natural Environment of the Gut

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The Natural Environment of the Gut

 

http://www.totalityofbeing.com/FramelessPages/Articles/EnvironmentoftheGut.htm

By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.

 

That enzymes and good bacteria (pro biotics) each have beneficial health

promoting effects on the body is beyond question. Little over a decade ago

physicians would laugh in the face of any mother who told her child's doc that

she

used the pro biotics to cut the antibiotic caused diarrhea in her baby. Today

there are actual pharmecutical companies marketing pro biotic products to go

along with antibiotic therapy in children to correct the disbiosis caused by

the drugs. The good bacteria do various super important jobs from simple

digestion and the enhancement of food absorption, to turning the colon into the

largest organ of immunity in the body, as the intestinal wall once well

colonized

with good bacteria will turn out immunoglobins by the tens of millions and

help the body fight and avoid disease.

 

Enzymes have a 40+ year history of use not only for digestion but also to

fight inflammation and fibrosis of all sorts. At present there are over 200

peer reviewed medical and university studies on the therapeutic effects and uses

of systemic enzymes, backed by decades of practical medical application mostly

in Central and Eastern Europe and Japan.

 

These days some biochemists who think that what happens in test tubes is

exactly what happens inside of man, are saying that enzymes and good bacteria

are

mutually exclusive of each other and antagonistic to each other. They site

that in the test tube when you put enzymes over good bacteria most of the pro

biotics die off. These egg heads are saying we have to choose between one and

the other since according to their work we can't have both!

 

It's a good thing Nature pays no heed to fools! There is a rule in both

statistics and scientific experimentation that if results don't match observed

reality then the experiment or statistic is wrong regardless of how well

conceived and carried out the work was. Since mammals have been alive and, for

the

nearly 4 million years mankind has walked the earth, good bacteria and enzymes

have been both active and working together within the same system to create

health. In digestion it is the job of the enzymes (mostly in the mouth and

small intestine) to begin the breakdown of food. Somewhat in the small

intestine

and then strongly in the large one, the good bacteria comes into play to

complete the job of food breakdown and enhance the absorption of our foods.

Each

of the products has it's “sphere of influenceâ€, with the pancreatic juices

releasing enzymes in the duodenum (first segment of the small intestine) and

the strongest concentration of enzymes being there. But the enzymes remain with

the food, continuing the breaking down process, as it crosses into the later

part of the small intestine and then into the larger colon. In a healthy

human or animal it's these areas that should be colonized with the good

bacteria.

Both enzymes and the good bacteria keep a check on the bad yeast and

bacteria that can grow in the gut and create conditions such as Candida

infections.

 

To show that there is no problem with enzymes and pro biotics working

together one company, Specialty Enzyme of Chino California, has created and

university / hospital tested a product named SEBiotic. In SEBiotic a good

bacteria

capable of surviving stomach acid via an external spore, is combined with

enzymes to aid digestion and absorption. (Remember stomach acid is a pro

biotics

true enemy as it is the true enemy of enzymes as well). In this marvelously

thought out product not only does the good bacteria and the enzymes survive the

stomach acid but their combined action increases digestion and absorption of

all foods, including producing phosphoprotein phosphate which helps in the

digestion of milk proteins! It also has strongly positive effects on the fight

against yeast infections in the digestive and genital tracts. The studies are

conclusive that both factors in the product are active and working in synergy

to keep digestion and immunity at peak performance. So you see bio chemistry

has some implications on physiology but people thankfully aren't test tubes!