You could be missing the powerful healing power of enzymes!
You can eat the best foods all day long, but if you don’t have enough of the right kinds of enzymes you won’t digest and assimilate them. This makes it very hard to get healthy simply by eating “right”. So, today we’ll look at the role of enzymes in your body’s quest for homeostasis, i.e. health.
In short, enzymes…
- are in every living cell and all living organisms.
- are the life force and catalyst for protein molecules.
- do not work without co-enzymes – vitamin and minerals.
- cooked and processed foods do not have the necessary enzymes.
- come in two types – metabolic enzymes and digestive enzymes.
First let’s look the two types and why it is so very important to take digestive enzymes so your body can actually function without disease.
Metabolic Enzymes
Over 3,000 metabolic enzymes have been identified as being necessary factors in running the human body. You need enzymes for cell reproduction, breathing, digestion, nerve transmission, disease protection, and thousands of other biochemical reactions that take place in the body. The body has a limited supply of renewable metabolic enzymes, and the faster you use the enzyme potential you inherited at birth, the quicker you run out of these vital essential enzymes.
Digestive Enzymes
The enzymes necessary to digest our foods are contained within that food. Ripe, raw fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of natural digestive enzymes. When you eat a ripe fruit or vegetable, the enzymes it contains can do almost all of the necessary digestion with very little help of the digestive enzymes secreted by the body. Unfortunately, enzymes can only develop and mature in a natural food source because the enzymes develop along with the food. Therefore, we would need to eat the food just before it became rotten when it is really just digesting itself. The more natural enzymes a food possesses, the more self-digestion occurs, which lessens the amount of digestive work the body has to do.
However…
What happens when you eat a enzyme deficient, chemically impregnated, highly processed and well preserved meal, which seems to be the favorite of today’s high stress, fast food society? Well, without the correct enzymes the food you ingest isn’t completely digested or assimilated and can remain in your intestinal tract in this undigested state for months. It is estimated that by middle age many people have as much as 20 pounds of undigested putrefying food in their colon! As this undigested, putrefying food builds up in the intestine it begins to produce harmful bacteria and poisonous toxins. This leaves you wide open for degenerative diseases and colon cancer. It is estimated that 80 percent of all disease conditions can be traced back to a malfunctioning intestinal tract and missing enzymes.
Metabolic vs. Digestive Enzymes
A diet that is lacking in proper digestive enzymes can also disrupt body functions other than the digestive tract. Your body’s 3,000+ metabolic enzymes are in all the cells, tissues, organs, and fluids of the body which are designed to provide energy, fight disease, and make sure the body processes continue to run efficiently. These metabolic enzymes were not designed to digest food. But, when you eat enzyme deficient foods, it forces the body to transform metabolic enzymes into enzymes needed for digestion. So, you are robbing Peter to pay Paul. This stealing of metabolic enzymes from other sources to fulfill needs of the digestive tract sets up a competition for enzymes among the various organs and system of the body.
As tissues and organs, such as the pancreas, spleen, heart, kidneys, and liver are depleted of their needed metabolic enzymes, they begin to deteriorate and malfunction. This leads to chronic conditions and degenerative diseases such as allergies, skin conditions, pancreatitis, diabetes, and cancer.
Most of us deplete our natural enzyme levels as we age. A 70 year old person has about half the enzyme levels of a 20 year old. But, because of our modern enzyme deficient diet, even 20 year olds are now showing signs of enzyme deficiency. Essentially, you live as long as your supply of enzymes lasts. When the time comes that you can no longer make certain enzymes, then total system shutdown is not far away.
Early signs of enzyme deficiency are:
- digestive problems
- heartburn
- acid reflux
- gas
- bloating
- belching
Enzyme deficiency could be a major contributor if you experience:
- chronic fatigue
- aches and pains
- chronic viral or bacterial infections
- premature aging
- arthritis
- rheumatism
- swelling of the joints
- skin conditions
- high blood pressure
- poor digestion
- obesity
- respiratory problems
- allergies
- loss of memory
“Supplemental digestive enzymes insure assimilation and maximized utilization of core nutrients for health and healing.” Dr. Linda G. Rector-Page – Health and Healing
“Radiation of our food supplies preserves the food (up to 4.5 rads of gamma radiation) which is 10,000 times the lethal dose to humans. This process destroys enzymes. So even if you eat fresh raw foods, you may not be getting any enzymes at all.” Dr.Carson E. Pierce – What Would I Do If I Had Cancer Again
Learn more about enzymes and how you can purchase a time honored formula.
Rena
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