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ENZYMES
I have dedicated a huge amount of time on enzymes because I feel they are very important in maintaining our health.
Enzymes are a delicate lifelike substance found in all living cells whether animal or vegetable. Enzymes are large and complex energized protein molecules necessary for life. They catalyze and regulate nearly all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. Enzymes turn the food we eat into complex nutrients and energy for use in the body. Our bodies naturally produce both digestive and metabolic enzymes as they are needed. Surplus enzymes can be stored by some organs for later use and used as fuel for the brain. Metabolic Enzymes speed up the chemical reaction within the cells for detoxification and energy production. They enable us to see, hear, feel, move and think. Every organ, every tissue, and all 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon metabolic enzymes for their very survival. Metabolic enzymes are painstakingly produced from the 43 essential nutrients only after great effort by the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and other organs.
Both metabolic and digestive enzymes represent huge expenditure of energy and nutrient by our bodies: they require that thousands of amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and lipids be assembled in just the right way. Hence, whenever possible, our bodies strive to extract them (already made) from the food we eat, thus saving the energy for other bio-processes. The difference in energy expenditure ( energy our body must spend just to maintain itself) between ingesting ready-made enzymes from living/ raw / fresh foods or quality plant-based supplements and making our own from scratch is immense:
It can be likened to the difference between receiving an automobile and receiving all the parts for that automobile in a big jumbled pile: it IS possible to MAKE the car from the parts, but, chances are you’d be just a little late for work that day! If the food we eat is alive AS WE EAT IT, then the enzymes are in tact and ready to do their jobs, but if the food is NOT ALIVE AS WE EAT IT, then some degree (often complete) of enzymatic degradation has occurred. This means the enzymes are now ‘broken’. Like the car and, say, a car part such as a spark plug or brake pad, there is a lot more that can go wrong with an enzyme than a nutrient. So because they are so large and complex, enzymes are also easier to ruin. All it takes is the cleaving of one chemical bond and the entire enzyme is now useless: it now becomes a burden as opposed to an asset, and your body (using other enzymes) must now break IT down to it’s components to recover any value at all. This, of course, represents another great expenditure of (needless) energy and taxes you a little every time it happens.
LIFE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT ENZYMES
ENZYMES are needed for every chemical reaction that takes place in the body.
ENZYMES are catalysts.
ENZYMES are connected to every working organ in our body and run our life's processes.
ENZYMES are needed by vitamins and minerals to accomplish their delivery within the body.
ENZYMES are required by all food for digestion.
ENZYMES are destroyed by cooking and processing food.
ENZYMES can prevent partially digested proteins from putrefying, carbohydrates from fermenting, and fats from turning rancid within your system.
ENZYMES from a plant source become active as soon as they enter the body.
ENZYMES from an animal source are only active within the small intestine in an alkaline setting of 8.0 pH
YOUR ENZYME POTENTIAL
We are all born with the ability to produce a finite number of enzymes during our lifetime. Studies dating from the 1940's prove that this ability varies in each of us and is dependent on our individual DNA. This enzyme-making potential gives our body's organs the ability to produce either digestive enzymes to facilitate the relatively simple but critical function of getting nutrients into our blood and organs or metabolic enzymes to facilitate the complex functions we rely on for vitality. When we eat a meal, the requirements for digestive enzymes become a high priority. Unless those enzymes are in the (living) food we just ate, our body's enzyme-making machinery must work overtime and often still can not meet the demand for all of the enzyme requirements the body may have.
Since digestion always takes precedence over nearly everything else, the body functions requiring metabolic enzymes are shortchanged during these times. The result is a lower disease-fighting capability and a general weakening of the body's ability to mend itself. Because, over the years, we use up so much of our enzyme potential making the digestive enzymes necessary to digest our food, as we age we begin to run short; our ability to keep up with the digestive enzyme requirements begins to suffer.
This deficiency leads to malabsorption and poor nutrition, plus the many digestive problems suffered by the elderly. Undigested foods collect in the colon. Poorly digested protein putrefies, fats turn rancid and carbohydrates ferment. These undigested food particles leak back into the bloodstream from the colon and create further toxicity.
As we use up and abuse our enzyme potential, we begin to loose energy, lose our ability to fight disease, and lose the ability for our body to remedy its own naturally occurring malfunctions, leading to disease and eventually death. We associate this scenario with ‘aging’ (the passage of time), yet it is more accurate to associate it with the depletion of metabolic and digestive enzyme activity within us.
This enzyme potential concept clearly supports the case for supplemental plant enzymes. If the body can get the necessary extra digestive enzymes it needs to complete the digestive process without taxing the body's enzyme-making potential, then a metabolic enzyme shortage will not occur and our body will be in a much more favorable position to fight biologic and genetic malfunctions and diseases as they occur, arresting the ‘aging’ process.
Conversely, using too much of our enzyme potential to produce digestive enzymes limits our ability to produce metabolic enzymes making us susceptible to disease and aging. A complete and robust array of enzymes in our bodies is the most important requirement for a strong immune system.
Using supplemental enzymes to promote digestion reduces our need to produce digestive enzymes allowing our body to produce the metabolic enzymes needed to fight off viruses, yeast mold mildew, bacteria, other disease sources such as pollution, stress, food toxins (which are present in raw foods as well as cooked), etc., and operate efficiently overall.
ENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION
Humans that eat a diet void of enzymes will use up a tremendous amount of their own enzyme potential. Enzymes act as energy or a catalyst and every action of our organs and glands needs this energy to work. We receive energy from the nutrients in our blood. These nutrients are put there through the digestion of food and carried to and throughout our system by the energy of enzymes. A lack of enzymes often results in a lowered resistance to illness, all types of stresses, and physiological environments, which, of course, leads to all types of illness and disease over time, and shortens our life span. This much seems intuitive, but what is surprising is that, once a person’s enzyme ‘array’ has been fortified, bolstered, and the ‘gaps’ of missing enzymes are ‘filled in’, maladies of MANY types can begin to disappear.
WHY IS ENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION IMPORTANT?
Much of the food choices on the shelves at the local grocery store have no enzyme activity left because of processing. Our body makes our metabolic enzymes from the complete amino acid food we ingest. It takes a combination of many plant products to make a complete amino source, and these sources are usually processed or heated, destroying the enzymes. We usually cook our animal products, robbing them of their enzymes. Remember: As we age, our bodies ability to produce enzymes decreases. Only enzyme supplements assure an adequate enzyme supply.
ENZYME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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I have dedicated a huge amount of time on enzymes because I feel they are very important in maintaining our health.
Enzymes are a delicate lifelike substance found in all living cells whether animal or vegetable. Enzymes are large and complex energized protein molecules necessary for life. They catalyze and regulate nearly all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. Enzymes turn the food we eat into complex nutrients and energy for use in the body. Our bodies naturally produce both digestive and metabolic enzymes as they are needed. Surplus enzymes can be stored by some organs for later use and used as fuel for the brain. Metabolic Enzymes speed up the chemical reaction within the cells for detoxification and energy production. They enable us to see, hear, feel, move and think. Every organ, every tissue, and all 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon metabolic enzymes for their very survival. Metabolic enzymes are painstakingly produced from the 43 essential nutrients only after great effort by the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and other organs.
Both metabolic and digestive enzymes represent huge expenditure of energy and nutrient by our bodies: they require that thousands of amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and lipids be assembled in just the right way. Hence, whenever possible, our bodies strive to extract them (already made) from the food we eat, thus saving the energy for other bio-processes. The difference in energy expenditure ( energy our body must spend just to maintain itself) between ingesting ready-made enzymes from living/ raw / fresh foods or quality plant-based supplements and making our own from scratch is immense:
It can be likened to the difference between receiving an automobile and receiving all the parts for that automobile in a big jumbled pile: it IS possible to MAKE the car from the parts, but, chances are you’d be just a little late for work that day! If the food we eat is alive AS WE EAT IT, then the enzymes are in tact and ready to do their jobs, but if the food is NOT ALIVE AS WE EAT IT, then some degree (often complete) of enzymatic degradation has occurred. This means the enzymes are now ‘broken’. Like the car and, say, a car part such as a spark plug or brake pad, there is a lot more that can go wrong with an enzyme than a nutrient. So because they are so large and complex, enzymes are also easier to ruin. All it takes is the cleaving of one chemical bond and the entire enzyme is now useless: it now becomes a burden as opposed to an asset, and your body (using other enzymes) must now break IT down to it’s components to recover any value at all. This, of course, represents another great expenditure of (needless) energy and taxes you a little every time it happens.
LIFE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT ENZYMES
ENZYMES are needed for every chemical reaction that takes place in the body.
ENZYMES are catalysts.
ENZYMES are connected to every working organ in our body and run our life's processes.
ENZYMES are needed by vitamins and minerals to accomplish their delivery within the body.
ENZYMES are required by all food for digestion.
ENZYMES are destroyed by cooking and processing food.
ENZYMES can prevent partially digested proteins from putrefying, carbohydrates from fermenting, and fats from turning rancid within your system.
ENZYMES from a plant source become active as soon as they enter the body.
ENZYMES from an animal source are only active within the small intestine in an alkaline setting of 8.0 pH
YOUR ENZYME POTENTIAL
We are all born with the ability to produce a finite number of enzymes during our lifetime. Studies dating from the 1940's prove that this ability varies in each of us and is dependent on our individual DNA. This enzyme-making potential gives our body's organs the ability to produce either digestive enzymes to facilitate the relatively simple but critical function of getting nutrients into our blood and organs or metabolic enzymes to facilitate the complex functions we rely on for vitality. When we eat a meal, the requirements for digestive enzymes become a high priority. Unless those enzymes are in the (living) food we just ate, our body's enzyme-making machinery must work overtime and often still can not meet the demand for all of the enzyme requirements the body may have.
Since digestion always takes precedence over nearly everything else, the body functions requiring metabolic enzymes are shortchanged during these times. The result is a lower disease-fighting capability and a general weakening of the body's ability to mend itself. Because, over the years, we use up so much of our enzyme potential making the digestive enzymes necessary to digest our food, as we age we begin to run short; our ability to keep up with the digestive enzyme requirements begins to suffer.
This deficiency leads to malabsorption and poor nutrition, plus the many digestive problems suffered by the elderly. Undigested foods collect in the colon. Poorly digested protein putrefies, fats turn rancid and carbohydrates ferment. These undigested food particles leak back into the bloodstream from the colon and create further toxicity.
As we use up and abuse our enzyme potential, we begin to loose energy, lose our ability to fight disease, and lose the ability for our body to remedy its own naturally occurring malfunctions, leading to disease and eventually death. We associate this scenario with ‘aging’ (the passage of time), yet it is more accurate to associate it with the depletion of metabolic and digestive enzyme activity within us.
This enzyme potential concept clearly supports the case for supplemental plant enzymes. If the body can get the necessary extra digestive enzymes it needs to complete the digestive process without taxing the body's enzyme-making potential, then a metabolic enzyme shortage will not occur and our body will be in a much more favorable position to fight biologic and genetic malfunctions and diseases as they occur, arresting the ‘aging’ process.
Conversely, using too much of our enzyme potential to produce digestive enzymes limits our ability to produce metabolic enzymes making us susceptible to disease and aging. A complete and robust array of enzymes in our bodies is the most important requirement for a strong immune system.
Using supplemental enzymes to promote digestion reduces our need to produce digestive enzymes allowing our body to produce the metabolic enzymes needed to fight off viruses, yeast mold mildew, bacteria, other disease sources such as pollution, stress, food toxins (which are present in raw foods as well as cooked), etc., and operate efficiently overall.
ENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION
Humans that eat a diet void of enzymes will use up a tremendous amount of their own enzyme potential. Enzymes act as energy or a catalyst and every action of our organs and glands needs this energy to work. We receive energy from the nutrients in our blood. These nutrients are put there through the digestion of food and carried to and throughout our system by the energy of enzymes. A lack of enzymes often results in a lowered resistance to illness, all types of stresses, and physiological environments, which, of course, leads to all types of illness and disease over time, and shortens our life span. This much seems intuitive, but what is surprising is that, once a person’s enzyme ‘array’ has been fortified, bolstered, and the ‘gaps’ of missing enzymes are ‘filled in’, maladies of MANY types can begin to disappear.
WHY IS ENZYME SUPPLEMENTATION IMPORTANT?
Much of the food choices on the shelves at the local grocery store have no enzyme activity left because of processing. Our body makes our metabolic enzymes from the complete amino acid food we ingest. It takes a combination of many plant products to make a complete amino source, and these sources are usually processed or heated, destroying the enzymes. We usually cook our animal products, robbing them of their enzymes. Remember: As we age, our bodies ability to produce enzymes decreases. Only enzyme supplements assure an adequate enzyme supply.
ENZYME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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