Enzymes, from David

Kitty,

Here are some of the Digestive System Basics that I would
like to share with you. You seem to be fairly knowledgeable
and this may be redundant, but I always like to cover the basics.


When your food is poorly digested, you absorb nutrients that
aren't fully broken down or usable, which causes many problems
that many are unaware of.

Did you know that your immune system will attack and defend
your body against partially digested foods that get into the
bloodstream? The immune system doesn't recognize it as food.
It sees a toxic invader, and destroys the food. When this happens
you don't get the benefit of that food, and you weaken your immune
system by using it in a role it shouldn't even be involved in.

In other words, you are using the immune system and metabolic
enzymes daily to clean the bloodstream of undigested food particles,
instead of having their full strength used to protect and repair your
body.

According to the father of enzyme research, Dr. Edward Howell, the
digestive system is designed to break down approximately half of the
food we eat.

Dr. Howell was one of America's pioneering enzyme researchers and
in his classic book "Enzyme Nutrition" he explains how the digestive
system is designed to work. Before fire was discovered, man and
animals alike could only eat raw food, like raw meat, plants or fruits
and vegetables.

He explained how raw foods have a 40/60 ratio of enzymes. That
means a raw food like an apple has live food enzymes within the
apple which break down and digest 40 to 60 percent of that apple.

This leaves the remaining 40 to 60% of the apple to be broken down
by the digestive system.

Raw foods are enzymatically alive, which means these foods have
"live" enzymes within them to help digest 40 to 60% of that particular
food. Cooked and processed foods are enzymatically "dead" which
means there are no live enzymes within that food to help digestion.

These dead foods stress the digestive system, the pancreas, the
immune system, and your whole body.

Before genetic engineering and irradiation, our raw foods had the
proper 40/60 ratio, but today many raw foods are genetically altered,
or they have been irradiated for longer shelf life killing the enzymes
in the food. Which means that even the raw food we eat today could
be in a 20/80 ratio or worse!

On top of this, we are already asking our body to break down 100%
of the cooked and processed foods and supplements we eat, and
now, possibly 80% or more of the raw foods we eat.

This stresses your body, every single day!

The digestive process works like this:

First, you chew your food, and it mixes with the saliva in the mouth.
The saliva has an enzyme called Amylase which starts the predigestion
of carbohydrates. The more you chew, the better.

Then, the food is swallowed and goes down the esophagus into the
upper portion of the stomach. The food stays here for about 45 to 60
minutes to predigest. That is, it will predigest if you are eating
foods
containing live enzymes because the body does not supply any
enzymes at this stage of digestion.

Then the food goes into the lower part of the stomach where trypsin,
pepsin and hydrochloric acid break it down further. Next, the food
moves into the small intestines where the pancreas produces digestive
enzymes to complete digestion.

Then the nutrients pass through the intestinal wall and into the blood
stream where metabolic enzymes utilize these nutrients in all parts
of the body and in every living cell.

I have a series of messages that I think you will find interesting.
If you would like to see receive the remaining ones please let me
know and I will send them one at a time on daily basis.

Hope to hear from again soon.

Have a really good day!

David Simmons
enzymes@mail.com

http://betterdigestion.4all.cc



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