Linenup- poor protein assimilation, ascaris

This is a good question for you, because you understand the nutrients/minerals etc

I have been reading recently about how the Ascaris Suum, put out an enzyme inhibitor, so they are not digested themselves with our digestive juices. They lay in the gut, soaking up our nutrients.

This was one I posted on the Rife forum yesterday. Could this be a cause of poor protein assimilation?? I PM'd you but when you are talking about poor protein assimilation (as a cause for ridged fingernails), what about the amino's taken in supplement form because of liver detox? And, most likely, Dysbiosis (leaky gut) is a cause?

>>There's more scientific stuff that is over my head, but I've been reading about Ascaris putting out an inhibitor that stops digestive enzymes from killing them.

>>The chymotrypsin/elastase inhibitor from Ascaris species protects it from proteolytic degradation by the host"s digestive enzymes

From another place--- medical study...developing drugs to interfere with what the ascaris are putting out to inhibit the enyzmes, so they can be exposed to being killed themselves :) Heavy metals interfere with enyzmes too, but it makes sense that ascaris cause digestive disorders from interfering with enzymes.

>>The molecular structure of a peptide secreted by parasitic ascaris worms to protect them from digestive enzymes in the stomach is described this week by a multinational group of scientists. This research may lead to drugs that can disrupt the action of the peptide, pepsin inhibitor-3 (PI-3), exposing the parasite to the host's natural defences, the investigators suggest ( Nature Struct Biol 2000; 7: 653—57).
The researchers, led by Michael James (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hmmm--and the importance of pancreatic enzymes (and laetrile, which is B17, found in apricot "nuts" in the pit)

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