The Importance of Enzymes.

Dear San2006,

Each of us has about 75 trillion cells in our
body. Each cell depends on enzymes, which are
living proteins, to function efficiently.
Without enzymes, all of the chemical reactions in our body would come to a halt.
All of our tissues, muscles, bones, organs,
and cells are run by enzymes

Where do enzymes come from? First of all,
our bodies, when they are healthy, produce
their own enzymes. Each cell can and does
produce the metabolic enzymes that it needs
to function normally. The pancreas and endocrine glands (thyroid, adrenals, etc.)
produce extra enzymes which they "loan out"
to other organs that may need them.

But the second source of enzymes is raw, living food. Raw fruits and veggies are full
of enzymes. In contrast, dead, processed, and
cooked foods have few, if any, enzymes. Why?
Because enzymes die when they're heated above
118 degrees, or when the food they call home,
is chemically processed. That includes just
about everything in boxes and cans at your
supermarket.

When you eat an apple, banana, or any living
food, you put it in your mouth and chew it.
The saliva in your mouth is full of digestive
enzymes. So the chewed apple heads for your
stomach with (1) its own living enzymes, and
(2) your digestive enzymes from the saliva.

That makes digestion an easy process for your
body. Some of the digestion takes place in your stomach, but much of it takes place in
your small intestine. Your stomach turns the
apple into chyme, a kind of watery gruel.
When the chyme gets to your small intestine,
your pancreas secretes enzymes that turn the
chyme into a liquid that your body can absorb.

But when you eat DEAD FOOD -- a Big Mac, French fries, ice-cream, and diet soda pop --
all that food has virtually NO enzymes. You chew it quickly, so it gets coated with very
few digestive enzymes from your saliva. And the next thing you know, all that dead, processed food is sitting in your stomach --
with few, if any, digestive enzymes to break
it down.

What happens? Digestion is a priority in your
body, so your stomach sends alarm signals to
every cell and organ. "Send me some enzymes
ASAP! I'm full of dead food, and I need help
quickly!"

Your body responds. It "borrows" enzymes from
other places, especially from glands like your
thyroid. It may borrow enzymes from your
eyes, knees, sexual organs, or any of the
other organs in your body. And your stomach
uses those borrowed enzymes to help digest the
fast food.

You can get away with that for awhile; if you're lucky, a number of years or even
decades. But eventually, those other organs
which have been supplying their OWN much-needed
enzymes to the stomach and intestines, begin
to break down. At that point, you've got a
chronic health problem.

So what do you do? Two things: The easy answer
if to take a digestive enzyme with EACH meal
that you eat. Then if you eat a slice of pizza
(dead food), your stomach WON'T have to borrow/rob enzymes from other organs. It will
use the enzymes in the tablet you ate, to
help digest the pizza.

The harder solution is to phase out the dead,
cooked, and processed food from your eating
regimen, or at least, to cut down on it.
Instead of eating meat twice each day, cut
it back to three times a week. Try not to
eat cooked food at every meal. If you do
eat cooked food, make sure you take a digestive enzyme before you begin eating.

Doctor Jon Barron is one of the superstars of
alternative health therapy. Several years ago,
someone asked John this question: If you
were limited to just ONE nutritional supplement, what would it be? Jon chose
digestive enzymes. I, for one, believe him.
That's why I take a digestive enzyme with
each meal, even though most of the food I
eat is alive. And I make sure to chew my
food thoroughly, so as to coat it with saliva.

There are lots of enzyme products out there.
I've used a number of them for the last 15
years. My current choice is Mega-Zymes, made
by Enzymatic Therapy. It contains 7 digestive
enzymes, and 3 pancreatic enzymes. I think it's the best enzyme supplement on the market.

I buy Mega-Zymes from Swanson Vitamins, which
has the lowest price I've seen. They sell a
bottle of 200 tablets for $18.09. I take 3
tablets each day, so a bottle lasts me a little over 3 months. I consider that a bargain.

Swanson's website is: http://www.swansondirect.com
Their phone # is 1-800-437-4148. Mega-Zyes
is product # R9 ET255.

You can also buy Mega-Zymes, as well as other
good enzyme products, in any health food store.

I hope this information is helpful to you,
San2006. If you give digestive enzymes a
try for 6 months, I think your health will
be significantly better.

Blessings,

Owen



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