The Case of the Disappearing Spider Veins - Fibromyalgia

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The Case of the Disappearing Spider Veins

By: Dr. William Wong ND, PhD.

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Three years ago I was working with a fibromyalgia / lower back patient

restoring her strength and ability. She had been debilitated by fibromyalgia

for some 5 years prior and had strained her back while attempting to cope

with life in a weakened state. For the 20 years prior this 40’s something

gal had been an executive for a well known cosmetics company. Along with

the rehab and general strengthening exercises we were doing, I had her

start taking Systemic Enzymes as a natural no side effect way to relieve the

inflammation causing her back pain and, to eat away at the fibrosis of her

Fibromyalgia. (Fibrosis is the actual cause of the ischemic muscle pain of

fibromyalgia).

Three months went by with this determined gal exercising hard, getting

stronger raising her energy levels and improving her ability to do the all

important Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s). One day she bounces into the

office and announces that not only is her back and Fibromyalgia pain mostly

gone but a great many of her spider veins had disappeared and her varicose

veins no longer hurt! It had to be something we were doing she said, either

the exercise or the enzymes because nothing else was different in her life

or daily routine!

After a bit of head scratching and research diving we discovered it was

mostly the enzymes that were doing the trick. Yes, large range-of-motion

resistance exercise pushes the pooled blood out of the stretched blood vessels

and can temporarily drain them. Yet, in all the decades of exercise

research, no one has ever found a way of making spider veins go away or

reducing the flaccidity of veins that are already fully stretched out

(varicosed)

using exercise of any sort.

So what are enzymes? Enzymes are “bio-catalysts†they cause chemical

reactions to happen. We have some 3000 enzymes and over 7000 enzymatic

reactions in our bodies. Without enzymes we would be stone cold dead!

Moreover, enzymes are essential for vitamins and minerals to work. Everyone

has

experienced the fact that even though a certain vitamin or mineral is

supposed to do a particular thing, it does not work for everyone the same way

all

the time. Most of us take supplements and really can’t tell whether they

are working or not. One person might feel great another not feel any good

effect at all.

Vitamins and minerals are misnamed; they are really co-enzymes and

co-factors. In other words, they are things that make enzymes work better; but

what if you don’t have much of the enzymes to begin with? Then the

co-enzymes

won’t work! In our youth we made a slew of enzymes, that’s what kept us

young, strong, without pain, healing quickly and frankly looking good.

After the age of 27 Physiology teaches that we enter “old ageâ€! That’s

right 27! From 27 to 35 we have the fastest and steepest drop in our health,

looks and ability we’ll ever have in less than a decade. Why?

Enzymes or the lack of them are the trigger to aging. Dr. Max Wolf MD and

Ph.D. x 7 is the fellow who discovered the enzyme / aging relationship

while he was doing research at Columbia University in the 1930’s and 40’s.

He found that the body makes a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime. We

use up a good many of them in our youth and so round about 27 the body slows

down the release of it’s protein cutting enzymes (the most important

ones), and then begins to dole them out with an eyedropper instead of a

tablespoon as it did before. And further, every year it produces less and less

enzymes in order to stretch life out a little further. What happens as this

depletion progresses? The hydrolytic / proteolytic (protein cutting)

enzymes are responsible for hundreds of things but their most important actions

are:

1). They are the bodies’ first line of defence against inflammation.

Think of when you were a kid, you walked off or shrugged off injuries that now

would lay you up for a week. Enzymes.

2). Enzymes control the rate and accuracy of healing. They speed healing

without allowing the build up of scar tissue. Think of the wounds you

healed as a kid, with their thin, strong, plyable, almost invisible scar. Now

think of your wounds lately, thicker, knotty with scar tissue, not as

strong and certainly not invisible!

3). Systemic enzymes eat away at the fibrosis the body does not need!

Though the development of fibrosis conditions such as Fibro Cystic Breast

Disease, Uterine Fibroids and Endometriosis are all linked with being

Estrogen Dominant, fibrosis conditions of all types cannot happen or are

dramatically lessened if there are enough strong protein cutting enzymes

present in

the body.

4). They also clean the protein coating that connective tissue builds up

(polymerization). Why is that important? Well if the connective tissue is

under the skin and holding it up, when it develops a coating of protein,

it won’t hold water any more and collapses – bingo you’ve got a wrinkle.

Restore the water holding ability of the connective tissue and the wrinkle

is gone or eased considerably.

5). Enzymes regulate immune function. If the system is to run down, the

enzymes will increase the cleaning / killing action of the white blood cells

on bugs and increase the bodies production of good things called Natural

Killer cells. If the immune system is running to high and creating auto

immune conditions such as MS, Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis, then the enzymes

will down shift the immune system, control inflammation and eat the

antibodies the immune system is creating to attack it’s own tissue!

6). Protein cutting enzymes clean the blood of all the debris the liver can

’t manage to clear out of the blood on the “first pass†or the first time

the garbage goes thought the liver in the blood. This purifies the blood

and makes it flow easier. Not only do they clean the blood, the enzymes

also strengthen blood vessel walls and open micro circulation passages

clogged with fibrin improving circulation overall.

Even if they didn’t make spider veins disappear, all those actions listed

above are enough of a reason to go and supplement enzymes for the rest of

your life.

The Systemic Enzymes effect on spider veins was discovered when patients

in Europe, where doctors prescribe systemic enzymes, reported the clearing

up of spider veins and easing of varicose vein discomfort. Studies done

afterward on the effect of oral enzymes in circulatory diseases confirmed the

casual findings.

Now be warned; just like anything else that works, there are some folks

who will turn out a like product that won’t. Enzymes are finicky living

critters and if not handled just right during the blending, tableting or

encapsulation process they will die and not ever work. I had my wife Michele

on

a load of a leading systemic enzyme to prevent the formation of scar tissue

after the emergency c-section birth of our son. To my astonishment

almost a year afterward, her scar tissue development was extensive. It ran

from

the incision to just under her ribs, and wound into the abdomen

threatening to choke off her intestines! (That danger usually requires surgery

to

free the bowels). Her “bubble†of spider web like scar tissue was palpable

(touchable) from the outside and was even restricting her leaning back. I

changed to a different enzyme product and in 6 weeks the scar tissue was

completely and totally gone – eaten away safely and painlessly!

“Sounds like fairy dust; too good to be true†you say! Look up the

recommended readings below and convince yourself otherwise that spider veins,

wrinkles, inflammation and fibrosis are not incurable conditions. Remember

beauty beings on the inside!

Recommended reading:

Enzymes the Fountain of Life by: D. A. Lopez MD. R.M. Williams MD, and K

Miehlke MD. Published by Neville Press 1994.

The Complete Book of Enzyme Therapy by: Anthony Cichoke DC. Published by

Avery 1999.