You Are What You Digest

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You Are What You Digest

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How are your enzymes today? Enzymes break down fat, carbohydrate, and protein

into their basic building blocks so that the body can digest and use them.

Without enzymes, even the most balanced natural foods diet would be worthless

- because the food cannot be digested and used by the body.

Raw foods contain varying quantities of the following four basic types of

plant enzymes: protease for protein digestion, amylase for carbohydrate

digestion, lipase for fat digestion, and cellulose for fiber digestion. Every

raw

food contains exactly the right quantities and types of enzymes necessary to

digest that particular food. For example, fruits high in carbohydrates - such as

apples - contain high amounts of amylase. Fruits high in fat - such as

avocadoes - contain high amounts of lipase.

Although enzymes are present in all raw foods, they become devitalized in

cooked or highly processed foods. Temperatures greater than 118° F. kill

enzymes. Even steaming vegetables kills enzymes, as does irradiating or

microwaving

them. Freezing, however, does not affect enzymes. If we ate a diet

consisting of 75 percent raw foods, supplemental enzymes would not be required.

When the body receives foods deficient in enzymes, it increases its number of

white blood cells as a defense mechanism. Enzymes are then released from

themhese cells as well as from the lymphatic tissue and spleen, where they also

are stored into the blood to digest toxins resulting from eating processed

foods.

When white blood cells are continually elevated due to a diet high in

processed food, the immune system is weakened. This is because enzymes, normally

held in reserve to help fight infection, are instead pulled out of storage from

white blood cells and other storage sites to digest the processed food.

Conditions that can relate to enzyme deficiency are immune system disorders

and chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, hardening of the

arteries, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Older people

are

generally more deficient in enzymes than younger people because the enzyme

stores

are gradually used up over time. When people eat enzyme-deficient diets, the

pancreas must make up the difference by producing digestive enzymes.

Pound for pound, animals who eat raw food diets have a smaller pancreas than

those who eat cooked food diets. Man has a proportionately large pancreas

because the pancreas has increased in size to make enough enzymes to digest

cooked food. One solution to the problem of pancreatic enlargement is to provide

plant enzymes so that the pancreas doesn't have to work so hard.

To prevent enzyme depletion, many naturopathic physicians recommend a plant

enzyme supplement derived from the aspergillus plant be taken before meals.

The enzymes extracted from this plant can be taken even by people with food

allergies. Many cases of food allergies are helped by plant enzymes because

allergic reactions will not occur when food is fully digested.

A key to maintaining optimal health is to eat fruit, vegetables, nuts, and

seeds in the raw unprocessed state whenever possible. Since it is difficult in

our society to eat a lot of raw foods, it may help to supplement with an

enzyme formula from the aspergillus plant. Enzyme supplementation helps assure

proper assimilation of nutritional supplements (vitamins and minerals) as well

as foods.

Enzymes Ready for a Comeback

By Cunniff — AP Business Analyst

_NEW YORK (AP)_ (http://www.apme.com/) —You probably thought your

relationship with enzymes had ended several years ago when they were confused

with

phosphates causing consumers to be wary of them. If so, you are still confused.

The mix-up is understandable though, because enzymes, while perhaps the

hardest workers dram for dram in the entire universe, are invisible except in

their effect. And this effect is almost incalculable.

Yes, they have returned as ingredients in detergents. And they help make your

bear, your cheese, and your corn sweeteners. Your medicines too. Soon they

may help turn organic matter into fuel for your car.

Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say the possibilities appear endless. They

might, some knowledgeable commentators say, help turn around the U.S.

imbalance of payments.

In effect, they are tiny protein molecules that have a catalytic effect on

chemical reactions. They make things happen. They turn things into other

things quietly, efficiently, uncomplaining.

That improvement in the U.S. foreign payments, for example, is conceivable

because of this country's unmatched ability to produce huge corn crops, which

enzymes help turn into sugar-like sweeteners.

" We could become the world's greatest producer of natural sweeteners, " says

Professor E. Kendall Pye, biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania and

authority on uses of enzymes.

The U.S. enzyme-aided sweetener industry is growing swiftly. Philips,

head of Novo Laboratories, estimates 3 billion pounds of high fructose corn

syrup is now produced each year.

The fact that it costs considerably less to make the syrup than to produce

sugar explains in part why the high fructose industry seems headed toward sales

of $1 billion a year.

Novo Labs, whose Danish parent, Novo Industri, is the world's largest

producer of commercial enzymes, estimates enzyme sales worldwide will total $170

million this year.

One of the relatively new applications is in treating milk so it can be

assimilated by people of non-European origin, many of whom cannot otherwise

tolerate the cow's product in their adult years.

In Europe, where they have an excess milk supply, the good work of enzymes

might make possible a large export business to the African continent,

benefiting both Europeans and Africans, says Pye.

In sheer potential, however, nothing approaches the mind-boggling

possibilities of enzymes in making fuel.

Ethanol, an alcohol that in combination with gasoline adds up to gasohol,

comes to you courtesy of enzyme fermentation. Ethanol already is used in a small

way in this country, and in a big way in Brazil.

The product it is claimed upgrades gasoline's performance in automobiles

while reducing pollutants. It might cost more, but prices might be reduced

sharply if the industry reaches its full potential.

Jeff el

10360 Pine Lakes Blvd

North Fort Myers, Fl 33903

http://www.msprotocols.com/