Guest guest Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 Hello, I note the following from an article, please comment. (1). The raw enzymes in food that you eat are going to help you digest your food - Before food every gets to the point where the nutrients are being extracted, it’s already been totally broken down by your own digestion process. When you eat food, it goes to a place in your stomach where there’s these incredible " fires " with acids, and stuff like that, and it totally breaks down your food before it gets to the point that those enzymes could help in the way that raw-foodists believe they help. Also, the other thing is that the enzymes of a plant are not the same as the enzymes of a human being, in our digestive tract. The enzymes of a plant are designed by a plant to help the plant digest its nutrients, its food. So the enzymes of a broccoli plant are for the broccoli plant to digest its food. If you look at them with a microscope, they aren’t the same as the enzymes in a human digestive tract. (2). The blue-green algae, the spirulina, sea vegetables, all of those things are listed as having a lot of B12, but studies have shown that they’re analog B12, which can’t be utilized by the human body. Analog B-12 competes for receptor sites with the real usable B-12. It results that eating any of those things, it’s not only that you’re not getting the B-12 you think you’re getting, you’re actually going to get less, because the analog B-12 clings to the limited numbers of receptor sites in the body for real B12 and then real B-12 can’t cling to it, because it’s already taken by the analog B-12. So, people who have been eating those things in the vegan movement thinking that it’s a natural source of B12 and that they don’t need to take a B-12 supplement, become very B-12 anemic. Thanks in advance, Yuan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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