Essential Enzymes

Virtually everyone who lives on a cooked and processed diet wastes enzymes needlessly with every meal. And, because of this "wasting of enzymes" in the digestive process, we age more quickly, get disease earlier in life, and acquire physical impairments as our bodies degenerate.

And the biggest tragedy of all is that people aren't aware of how they are prematurely draining their bodies of enzymes and energy supply. The body's ability to function efficiently and protect and repair itself is impaired because of the lack of enzymes.

The best way to achieve optimal health is by having high enzyme levels in the body and conserving the body's enzyme levels. When the body has an abundance of enzymes, it can protect itself and repair the damage from virtually all degenerative disease disorders!

Water, nutrients and oxygen are the three basics for the body to function properly. Nutrients are needed to supply the body with enzyme activators. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids and phyto-chemicals (from Plants) are all enzyme activating factors. Every single one of the body's trillions of cells needs nourishment to help keep it healthy and functioning properly. These nutrients must be broken down into the smallest possible form to be utilized by the cells.

This smallest form is an ion, and is called an ionic form. In an ionic form, food particles or nutrients are small enough to be utilized by the cells for their functioning. When digestion doesn't occur completely or efficiently, nutrients aren't used because they are too big to be absorbed into the bloodstream or to be used by the cells because the nutrients can't enter the cell's membrane.

Some facts
.    A fully active and functional immune system will protect you from colds, flues, tumors, cancers, heart disease, viral infections and related conditions and much, much more.
.    Your body has the capability (through protection and regeneration) to repair almost any damage that happens to the body or cells.
.    Many of the physical problems that you acquired could be healed by the proper functioning of the immune system.
.    We are causing virtually all of our own disorders and diseases every time we eat a cooked or processed food. When we eat cooked or processed foods we're eating dead or denatured foods. Dead foods have no living enzymes and most nutrients are diminished significantly.

The dead foods thus overwork our digestive process and deplete the enzyme reserves in our organs and other metabolic areas. Our bodies are overworked each and every day, eventually leading to a weakened body and immune system.
Dr. Edward Howell was one of America's pioneering Biochemists and Nutritional Researchers. His 50+ years of enzyme research have shown that most physical problems and diseases can be traced back to one cause, which is improperly or not fully digested food because of the lack of enzymes in the foods.

When food is swallowed it goes down the esophagus and into the upper portion of the stomach. The food will stay here for about 45 to 60 minutes and the live food enzymes within raw foods automatically start breaking down the food. When the food goes into the lower part of the stomach where trypsin, pepsin, and hydraulic acid help break down the meal. When living juices are taken, the work the body needs to do is reduced to the minimum, and the rapid intake of enzymes felt quickly.

Proper digestion occurs when a good portion of the food is broken down within the first 45 to 60 minutes after swallowing. Amply live enzymes in the upper part of the stomach is the key.
We must have enzymatic activity in the first hour after we have eaten food or the problem will not be corrected. Think about this, every time we put dead food in our body, the body must deal with digesting 100% of the food instead of 50%. This means you are doubling the body's work every time you eat dead food.

Your immune system will attack and defend your body against improperly digested foods that get into the bloodstream. The immune system doesn't recognize these particles as food. It sees them as a toxic invader and attacks and kills the invader.
In such cases we are using the immune system and metabolic enzymes (the repairers) to clean up the bloodstream of undigested food particles every day.

If we take supplements in the correct form and eat raw food occasionally, most people would assume that the nutrients are being utilized to give the body the support it needs. However, without the assistance of digestive enzymes with the processed foods, many of the nutrients from the supplements are going to be used for energy by the metabolic enzymes to clean up the blood stream, instead of supporting the body's normal daily needs. Another cause of deficiencies.

At the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, experiments were performed on two groups of people. The people in the first group were 21-31 years old. Those in the second group were 69-100 years old. The researchers found that the younger people had 30 times more amylase,( the enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates), in their saliva than the older people.

This is the reason that when we're young we can handle a diet of bread, pasta and cooked foods without much problem. But this type of diet can cause rapid aging and depletion of enzyme supplies.

Physical Disorders associated with Enzyme Deficiencies and the decreased levels of Each Enzyme

Protease (digests proteins): anxiety, low blood sugar, kidney problems, water retention, depressed immunity, bacterial and viral infections, cancer, appendicitis, bone problems.

Amylase (digests carbohydrates): skin problems (rashes, hives, herpes, liver and gall bladder disease.

Lipase (digests fats): high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure, chronic fatigue, spastic colon and dizziness.

Cellulase (digests fiber): gas, bloating, acute food allergies, facial pain or paralysis, yeast infections.

Sucrase (digests sugars): lung problems, asthma, bronchitis, seizures, hyperactivity, mood swings, insomnia, depression, chronic diarrhea and dizziness

Reviewing the Importance of Enzyme (through raw foods, supplements and living juices)

.    The source of most health problems can be traced directly back to improperly digested foods.
.    The human body is designed to break down only half of the food we eat.
.    Cooked and processed foods overwork and drain the human body's energy.
.    Improperly digested food particles in the bloodstream distract the protectors and repairers away from doing their job.
.    Fat is the best source of energy, fully digested fat is good fat.
.    It has been clinically proven that the more enzymes you take the more quickly your body can restore, repair and strengthen itself.
.    The combination of digestive enzymes, vitamins, ionic minerals and clean water gives your body the support it desperately needs.
.    We have a choice, to add to the body's ability to protect or repair, or to continually and slowly drain the body's energy and enzyme reserves. Your choice will be a determining factor in your long-term health.

Copied in part from a booklet by Ronald K. Schneider and published here by permission.