A shortage of enzymes leads to chronic, degenerating disease and premature
aging…
Enzymes are catalytic proteins. They spawn chemical reactions and regulate
chemical processes inside the body.
Enzymes are for everyone, especially if you are:
*Dieting
*Intend to over-eat
*Use alcohol
*Get easily fatigued due to an acidic system or if you are sick, or if you are
recovering from illness.
*love to eat meat
*have skin problems
*have poor digestion
Enzymes keep you in
good health, and prevent disease; it regulates the body’s internal functions.
Enzymes strengthen ones immune system. It restores the balance in ones body and
improves ones digestion.
Enzymes cleanses your blood, enhance your white-blood cells, and it improve
antibacterial properties.
In
Short: Without enzymes, life itself would not be possible!
Combine enzymes with our SOQI - treatments, and you can cure almost any disease
inside the body!
(SOQI Treatments = Far infrared dome and Chi-machine used together)
Enzymes are needed for EVERY Chemical Action and Reaction in the body. Our organs, tissues, and cells are all run by metabolic enzymes. Minerals, vitamins, and hormones need enzymes to be present in order to do their work properly. Enzymes are the labor force of the body.
What is an enzyme?
An ‘enzyme’ is said to be a protein molecule and each acts in certain ways in the body doing specific jobs such as digesting food, building protein in the bones and skin and aiding detoxification, to name just a few.
What do enzymes do in the body?
Enzymes are involved in every process of the body. Life could not exist without them. Enzymes in the blood take prepared, digested food and build it into muscles, nerves, blood and glands. They assist in storing sugar in the liver and muscles, and turn fat into fatty tissue. Enzymes aid in the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs. Enzymes dissolve blood clots. Enzymes in the immune system attack waste materials and poisons in the blood and tissues. As we become enzyme deficient, we age faster. The more we store up our enzyme reserve, the healthier we will be.
Where do we get our enzymes?
There are two ways to preserve and replenish our enzyme level: by eating raw food and by taking enzyme supplement… Enzymes are involved in every metabolic process. Our immune system, bloodstream, liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, as well as our ability to see, think and breathe depend on enzymes. The lack of them in any of these areas can prove to be detrimental in degrees of depletion. Enzymes break down toxic substances so that the body can eliminate them without damaging the eliminative organs.
How food enzymes aid digestion:
One can live for many years on a cooked food diet but eventually this kind of diet will cause cellular enzyme exhaustion, which lays the foundation for a weak immune system and, ultimately, disease.
Enzymes and longevity:
When a young person eats cooked food, there is a greater outpouring of enzymes from the organs and body fluids than in adults. This is because years of eating a cooked food diet has depleted the adult, whereas the young adult’s tissue reserve is still at maximum.
As our enzyme reserves are depleted over the years, these same foods can cause illnesses such as constipation, blood disease, bleeding ulcers, bloating, and arthritis.
In older individuals, the lower enzyme content of the body makes that foods are not properly digested. They ferment in the digestive tract, producing toxins that are then absorbed into the blood and deposited in the joints and other tissue areas.
A ‘chronic disease’ is a disease that has lingered in the body for many weeks, months, or sometimes years. It has been a constant drag on the body, depleting it of its enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals. During chronic disease processes, there is usually a low body reserve of enzymes. There is a definite correlation between the amount of enzymes a person possesses and the amount of energy they have. Increasing age causes a decrease in enzyme reserve. When the enzyme level becomes so low that metabolism suffers, death will finally result.
Any time the metabolism is falsely stimulated by coffee, a high protein diet, or other stimulants, the metabolism increase, enzymes are used up, a false energy output is experienced, and the individual feels a sense of wellbeing. However the end result will be lower energy, a more rapid burnout of enzymes, and premature old age.
A high protein diet is very stimulating to the body, but can cause serious damage.
Experiments have shown that when subjects consumes 75 grams of protein daily, even with the intake of as high as 1400 milligrams of calcium, more calcium was lost in the urine than was actually absorbed.
The deficiency must be made up by the body’s calcium reserve, which is taken from the bones. Deficient bones are a stepping stone to osteoporosis.
When our enzyme level is lowered, our metabolism is lowered, and so is our energy level. If we do not replenish our enzyme level, and only consider vitamins and minerals, we defeat ourselves. The body must replace enzymes from within itself, stealing enzymes from all parts of the body – which in the end causes exhaustion, premature aging, and a low energy system.
It seems that the body needs smaller amounts of vitamins and minerals when combined with enzymes.
Enzymes and their relationship to disease:
Enzymes are a part of every metabolic process in the body-from the working of our glands to the proper functioning of our immune system.
The speed of the metabolism is determined by the activity of enzymes. There is a connection between the strength of our immune system and our enzyme levels. The greater the amount of enzymes reserves, the stronger our immune system, the healthier and stronger we will be.
Enzymes act as scavengers in the body. They latch onto foreign substances and reduce them to a disposable form. They also prevent the arteries from clogging up and joints from becoming gummed up. During the course of a chronic disease, the immune system also shows signs of great expenditure. The correlation is clear. Enzymes are found to be related to all diseases via immune system, whether the disease is acute or chronic. Our enzyme levels must be maintained at any expense to help maintain vitality, endurance, and to prevent disease.
Endocrine system and enzymes:
Canned food, because of being cooked and/or preserved, is completely devoid of enzymes. It exerts a powerful stimulating effect on the endocrine glands, which can cause an increase in body weight.
If cooked food raises the white blood cell count, it can cause weight gain, and also robs the body of enzymes which otherwise would have been used to maintain metabolism.
If the nutrients and enzymes that usually accompany food aren’t present because of overcooking, the glands, not finding these nutrients, over-stimulate the digestive organs, demanding more food than is needed to maintain strength and vitality. This results in over secretion of hormones, overeating, obesity, and finally, exhaustion of the hormone reproducing glands, not to mention the enzyme reserve it depletes trying to carry on the increased metabolic activity.
One can see the overshadowing damage that is done by eating enzyme-free, overcooked food. Large amounts of enzymes are used up in eating overcooked food, leaving the organs and tissues without their rightful share.
Obesity and circulatory diseases:
Lipase is the enzyme that aids the body in fat storage and the breaking down of fats. Without lipase, fat stagnates and accumulates in the arteries, capillaries, and other organs. If there is over abundance of cooked calories, they are stored in the body tissue as fat. This fat accumulates in the liver, kidneys, arteries & capillaries. The stress on the body caused by enzyme-free food not only causes an increase in body weight, but also causes the internal organs to change. For example, a heat treated, refined food diet causes drastic changes in the size and appearance of the pituitary gland.
The glandular secretion of the pancreas and pituitary glands become exhausted from over stimulation resulting from cooked food diet. The body becomes sluggish, thyroid function also becomes exhausted, and the individual gains weight.
Enzyme deficiencies can also be the cause of circulatory diseases, high blood pressure, and other blood vessel problems.
The more digestion that takes place before the food reaches the small intestine, the better for the integrity, strength, and immunity of the whole body. The pancreas is one of the first organs to dysfunction during diabetes and chronic illnesses.
There is a law called the “Adaptive Secretion of Digestive Enzymes.” This law states that the more digestion that is accomplished by food enzymes or supplemental enzymes in the stomach, the fewer enzymes need to be secreted by the pancreas and intestines, conserving the body’s enzymes for metabolic processes such as repairing tissues, organs, and performing other functions.
It has been estimated that 80% of the diseases are caused by improperly digested food and their by-products being absorbed into the body. Cooking does not improve the nutritional value of food. It destroys or makes unavailable 85% of the original nutrients. Cooked foods is totally lacking in enzymes. Naturally, predigested foods include sprouts and fruits. Sprouting seeds is simple and beneficial to your health.
Body, Mind and enzymes:
Since it seems that our happiness depends largely upon the thoughts we think, it is impossible to think positively at all times when we are toxic, stiff, and are experiencing low blood sugar levels. Our brain exists on large amounts of sugar and oxygen. When this supply is low, we experience a lack of concentration, insomnia, lethargy, irritability, and confusion.
A lack of enzymes, oxygen, and sugar supplies to the cells of our body can cause hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is a disorder resulting from too low blood sugar, and sugar is the fuel for our cells.
It has been shown that the pituitary and other organs can enlarge, become exhausted, and be susceptible to disease when a deficiency of enzymes is present.
Detoxification and enzymes:
There are several methods that have been used to detoxify the body: fasting, purging, vegetarian-type diets, macrobiotic diets, the ‘grape cure’, and others.
But at the same time, none of these regimes will work all the time. The question is: What can be done to improve all these methods of cleansing the body to make them more proficient?
Anytime cooked food is eaten, it must be digested by enzymes. The body draws enzymes from all of its tissue resources to do the job, decreasing its enzyme level.
Concentrated foods, such as heavy starches, animal proteins, and fried foods, are more difficult to break down and consequently more enzymes are needed. This is why, in most situations, a vegetarian diet is used for cleansing purposes.
I have seen tremendous recoveries using predigested food diets that consist of raw sprouts, freshly squeezed juices, fasting, soaked and sprouted grains and soaked seeds and nuts that are blended before eaten.
In the detoxification process, what we try to accomplish is to purify the blood stream and balance the endocrine glands so that they will work in harmony instead of being over stimulated and exhausted. This purifies the organs and tissues, and takes the stress of the entire body.
We have discussed that enzymes are a part of our immune system.
So there is no need, at this point, to prove that enzymes are used for breakdown of toxins and foreign accumulations in our bodies. It would seem logical then that any diet would increase the enzyme level would aid the purification process, especially when we now know that enzymes can be reabsorbed and reused in the body.
Many authors have written about the so-called “healing crises” – The “healing crises” occurs when the system is overloaded with toxins. As a result, the body works to eliminate them through the skin, bowels, sinuses, kidneys, and lungs, producing such symptoms as rashes, lung and sinus congestion, constipation and diarrhea, and urinary tract problems. All of these can be symptoms of body cleansing.
The point here is that enzymes can be used not only to maintain health, but also can be used during detoxification programs. Enzymes can be used in both medical and non-medical approaches to healing. They can be the support system to all systems and to health-promotion processes.
Children and enzymes:
One of the first questions asked is, “How are babies born with health problems?”
There are two major factors involved when considering children’s health. First, of course, is the mother’s health. ‘Unless the mother is detoxified before conceiving, the baby comes into the world…, full of toxins from the mother’s blood.
The baby is, in fact, so toxic that even with the best care it usually takes three years to eliminate his or her inherits birth poisons.
The foods most school children consume lack enzymes. Learning disabilities are often caused by nutrient deficiencies. The majority of deficiencies are caused by foods that lack enzymes – too much cooked food, junk food, processed food, etc. The child’s body becomes toxic and the nerves become irritated.
The importance of enzymes cannot be overemphasized. If the lack of enzymes can cause disease, then adding enzymes to the diet, either by supplementation or by eating proper food, will help to prevent disease.
The use of enzymes in the prevention of allergies and Candida:
A major part of our immune system consists of several types of white blood cells.
White blood cells provide transportation for enzymes throughout the body. Antigens, bacteria, yeast, and other toxins enter the body through the digestive tract. Allergens can also enter the body simply through the air we breathe. Often the toxins causing allergies and infections are secreted by bacteria that also contain protein substances.
It should clearly be understood that the human body needs a tremendous supply of enzymes to counteract the constant bombardment of these proteins to digest and eliminate them. This digestion of protein is done by enzymes, not only in the digestive tract, but in the bloodstream itself.
Candida albicans, which lives almost everywhere in the body, can take over our whole body if the immune system is weakened such as in advanced cases of AIDS. It is important to realize that yeasts are also protein bodies and can be digested by enzymes if the body has a proper supply.
Yeast and most antigens can be eliminated by administering supplemental enzymes. These supplements nourish the white blood cells, which causes a direct improvement of the immune system.
Sports – Enzymes – and Nutrition:
An athlete’s main concern should be the type of food he or she eats in order to maintain a healthy body and to replace the nutrients which are lost during exercise or competition. Enzymes, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals are the fuels that the body needs to function properly.
Unfortunately, eating the proper amounts of foods and nutrients is only half the problem. “Utilization” is the key word here because the food usually lacks the proper enzymes. Enzymes are essential in the digestion of food and the release of nutrients into the body.
Nothing can happen without enzymes. Without enzymes, nutrients cannot be used properly in the body and proteins cannot be digested. This can result in bloating, fatigue, stiffness, and hardening of the arteries. The consequence of the lack of enzymes is innumerable, but the point to recognize is that enzymes can be a missing link in good nutrition. The more enzymes you take in through eating a good quantity of raw foods and supplementing your diet with enzymes, the more energy you will have.
Who should take enzymes?
This is a question that only the individual can answer according to his knowledge and understanding, but certain facts must be considered:
Aging correlates perfectly with the enzyme reserve in the body. There is a greater amount of enzymes found in the young person’s tissues than in an elderly person’s tissues. Taking this in consideration, doing all you can to maintain and increase enzyme levels would be an advantage to tissue and organ longevity.
During all acute and chronic illnesses, enzymes are used up more rapidly than is normal. If one is sick or trying to recover either from an acute or a chronic disease, taking enzyme supplements would be beneficial. People with hypoglycemia, endocrine gland deficiencies, obesity, anorexia nervosa, and stress-related problems, could all benefit from enzyme supplementation. Every person should take enzymes!
Food enzymes – the missing link to radiant health – Humbart Santilo, MH, N.D