© By Lena Sanchez

Digestive Enzymes, the food of life!

Statement: “A specialized type of protein is called an ‘enzyme’. Enzymes are protein molecules made by RNA and other enzymes with the ability to facilitate and speed up chemical reactions throughout the body. In the haphazard process, thought to have been the beginning of biochemistry in nature, which eventually gave birth to life. Amino acids formed and strung themselves together by chance into polypeptide chains some of which became enzymes quite by accident.”

Most of that statement I can buy but I don't for a minute believe it was by chance! God made our bodies to react exactly the way it should.

 A study done over a ten-year period shows how our digestion is affected by what we eat or don't eat and how digestive enzymes create our health and without enzymes create our illnesses.

 In the 1940's, a medical doctor, Francis M. Pottinger, did a study using 900 cats to determine what effects processed foods have on the body. The cats were divided into five groups. Two of the groups were fed whole foods-raw milk and meat - real foods for cats. The other three groups were given denatured foods pasteurized, evaporated and condensed milk. All the groups were fed the same minimal basic diet to sustain life. However, the predominant portions of the diets were either real foods or denatured foods as listed above. The cats were observed over a four-generation period and Dr. Pottinger documented the following results:

 Group A cats were fed raw meat. Their first generation remained healthy. 2nd, 3rd, & 4th generations also remained healthy.

Group B cats, which were fed raw milk, their first generation remained healthy. 2nd, 3rd, & 4th generations also remained healthy.

Group C cats, which were fed pasteurized milk, group D evaporated milk, and group E condensed milk and cooked foods. All first generations of C, D & E
developed diseases and illnesses near the end of their lifespan. Their second generations developed diseases and illnesses in the middle of their life span. Their third generations developed diseases and illnesses in beginning of life, and many died before six months of age. No fourth generations were produced; either third generation parents were sterile, or fourth generation cats were spontaneously aborted before birth.

The cat study gives us insight into why children today  are getting degenerative diseases that used to only  show up in humans of 50 years or older!

The benefits of a raw food diet are evidenced by the classic Arctic Eskimo diet of 80% saturated fat consisting primarily of raw fat and raw meat. Essentially,
these people were disease-free. Their sled dogs ate the same diet and were also disease-free. A study of  over 3,000 of these people revealed that none of them had high cholesterol, heart disease, arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure. Only one out of 3,000 was slightly overweight. This 80% saturated fat diet is almost twice that of the average American diet, and more than three times what the American Heart Association says is safe, calling into question the presumptions made by traditional science as to the causes and source of these diseases.

Dr. Edward Howell, a medical doctor who began extensively
researching digestive tract nearly 70 years ago discovered the true mechanism of action. His research published in 1946 as a book titled The Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism. In 1980 it was slightly revised and reissued as Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity, and revised and reissued again in 1994. A popularized version of it was published in 1986 called Enzyme Nutrition, which is still in print. Everyone should read Enzyme Nutrition to gain a fuller understanding of this concept. It is also a highly interesting book, and is filled many fascinating real life illustrations of how the concept works.

Dr. Pottinger & Dr. Howell both reached the same conclusion; human and animal bodies were not designed for the food we give it. Well, everybody "knows" this, but they don't understand that our bodies are designed to function optimally only eating raw foods. Because people don't experience difficulty eating cooked food and because they haven't had enough experience eating raw food, their minds are simply unaware of the difference.

Now these questions must be asked: Why do we prefer cooked food? Why are raw foods so good for your body? How can we get the same benefits of raw foods while eating cooked foods? Can we use enzymes to lose weight?

Why are raw foods so good for your body? Raw foods are enzyme rich, and it is enzymes which actually do the "digesting" of food. Eating cooked food requires our bodies to make up for the lack of enzymes so that we can digest it. A doctor will tell you that our pancreas will manufacture the enzymes we need just fine. Unfortunately, they simply do not understand that the body actually handles raw foods (or foods which have been enzyme-supplemented) differently than our "normal" enzyme-depleted foods. The consequences of this extend to weight maintenance, energy levels, body tissue maintenance, immune system functioning, and even lifespan in general. The evidence for this is quite strong, but this is not taught in medical schools and so few doctors ever learn it. The lesson is clear: if you eat cooked food long-term, your body inevitably stores excessive amounts of fat, and you gain weight and develop degenerative diseases; if you eat raw food long-term, you stay sleek and slim and live a healthier life.

Food enzymes, in addition to actually doing food digestion, actually stabilize the metabolism of food by slowing digestion down and letting it proceed at a more "natural" pace. I should also point out that there is a popular misconception that eating fat causes fat to be stored on the body, and that to loose weight fat intake should be reduced. This is a tremendous fallacy! All foods (fats, proteins, and carbohydrates) are converted into glucose. It is ONLY excess glucose (from ALL sources combined) that is stored as fat. Thus, the slower food processing caused by supplemental enzymes has a profound impact on weight maintenance because excess glucose levels can be avoided.

Enzymes are critical to the body's ability to repair and maintain itself. Enzymes are in fact like little "tools" which are required in every chemical reaction in the body. The pancreas is the body's primary enzyme and hormone factory, but it has a limited production potential. When the body's ability to produce enzymes declines to insufficiency, the body breaks down for good. The pancreas has a lot of demands on it, and it prioritizes its production of enzymes. Food enzymes are the highest priority, because the body has to quickly dispose of what is put into it.

By providing supplements of these enzymes, other enzymes can be produced. For example, tissue repair will achieve higher priority, resulting in better skin tone over the long term. Even more interesting, lifespan itself has been experimentally correlated with enzyme potential in some species. Because of this your body can actually live longer as well as be more active and healthier simply by providing supplemental food enzymes.

How can we get the same benefits of raw foods while eating cooked foods? Dr. Howell investigated this question and found that the right kind of enzyme supplements provided the same type of functioning as if the foods were enzyme rich. The solution to the problem is to find the right kind of enzyme supplements to take with cooked and processed food to compensate for the ones removed. Sadly not all enzymes sold are beneficial; therefore it is essential to make sure you purchase quality processed plant enzymes.

Supplemental enzymes should definitely be taken along with any other weight loss regimen, since they will prove invaluable in processing current food intake optimally and in getting the body onto a good weight maintenance track.

Maximum health when enzymes taken on an empty stomach!

Taking enzymes with food helps digest that food while probiotics help the intestines distribute the nutrients without discomfort and pain. The combination of taking digestive enzymes with food for proper digestion and on an empty stomach, which helps clean the bloodstream and turns two negative situations into two positives, thus giving our natural protectors (pancreas, liver and immune system) back it's normal everyday job  and repairing full strength protecting us from outside illnesses and disease.  For more information on Probiotic actions necessity to your body Click Here!

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Author: Lena Sanchez a retired Medical Office Nurse and Medical Office Consultant who took charge of her life in 1992 found pain relief from a multitude of health issues who committed to helping others do the same. Now educating people on the possibilities of actually treating illness and disease rather than masking them by treating symptoms.  Publishes Ask Lena Health Q & A weekly newsletter. To subscribe mailto:healthandbusiness-subscribe@health-education-biz-facts.com