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Enzymes
FAQ Page What
are enzymes?
What are enzymes?Enzymes
are protein molecules
that are made by all
plant and animal cells.
Enzymes are catalysts.
A catalyst makes chemical
reactions occur in a
more optimum manner.
Digestive enzymes
cause food that we eat
to be broken down much
faster, and much more
effectively, than
would occur without
them.
All cells require different enzymes for every chemical action and reaction that occurs in our body. There are several thousand different enzymes found in the human body. These enzymes can combine with co-enzymes to form nearly 100,000 various chemicals that enable us to see, hear, feel, move, digest food and think. Every organ, every tissue, and all the 100 trillion cells in our body depend upon the actions of enzymes. What is meant by nutrition?Simply
stated, nutrition is
the body's ability to
consume the 45 known
nutrients in their proper
amounts; digest these
nutrients; absorb these
nutrients; carry these
nutrients into the cells;
metabolize these nutrients;
and eliminate the waste.
The following is a list of the 45 known nutrients: Amino
Acids Water Lipids (fats)
13 Enzymes
are responsible for
digestion, absorption,
transporting, metabolizing,
and eliminating the
waste of these nutrients. Can enzymes help fight diseases?Yes.
There is a connection
between the strength
of our immune system
and our enzyme level.
The more enzymes we
have, the stronger our
immune system will be
and the healthier and
stronger we will be.
For example, leukocytes
(white blood cells)
have eight (8) different
amylase enzymes which
assists the white blood
cell to engulf foreign
substances and reduce
them to a form that
the body can eliminate.
Research has shown that leukocytes increase after one has eaten a cooked meal. This indicates a definite measure on the part of the body to transport more enzymes to the digestive tract for digestion. There is no increase in leukocytes after one has consumed a raw food meal. Research has shown that enzymes are related to all diseases via the immune system, whether the disease is acute or chronic. If the pancreatic output of enzymes is hindered, the whole body is affected. Therefore, we must eat raw foods or take supplemental enzymes to enable our body's immune system to fight against infections. Research has shown that people who have a chronic disease, or have low energy levels, also have lower enzyme content in their blood, urine, and tissues. While there is a direct relationship between disease and a person's enzyme levels, only recently has that relationship been understood. Researchers are investigating if a person's enzyme levels were low because they were sick or were they sick because their enzyme levels were low. The researchers found something surprising. A person does not have a low enzyme content because he/she is sick or aged, but instead, the reason a person may be sick or aged is because of low enzyme content. Can enzymes control obesity?Very
definitely. Obese individuals
have been found to have
a deficiency in the
enzyme lipase. Lipase
is found in abundance
in raw foods. Cooking
destroys lipase. Lipase
is the enzyme that aids
the body in the breaking
down of fats. Without
lipase, our fat stagnates
and accumulates in our
arteries which could
lead to heart disease.
Lipase also helps us
to burn fat for energy.
Cooked foods which have
no enzymes will put
weight on faster than
raw foods. For example,
pig farmers will not
feed their pigs raw
potatoes because the
pigs will then stay
lean.
However, when the farmers feed the pigs boiled potatoes the pigs become fat. Another reason why enzymes reduce obesity is because cooked foods cause drastic changes in the size and appearance of the pituitary gland. Research has found that enzymes affect our hormone producing glands and hormones influence our enzyme levels. Cooked foods causes our pancreas, thyroid, and pituitary glands to exhaust their enzymes to digest our foods. This causes our body to become sluggish and weight is gained. Raw food calories are relatively non stimulating to glands and stabilize body weight more so than cooked food calories. Do some foods contain enzyme inhibitors?Yes.
Tree nuts, seeds, beans,
and grains contain enzyme
inhibitors, along with
a very active number
of enzymes. But because
enzymes are very active
entities, nature had
to put a rein on them
and make them dormant
until such a time as
the seed could fall
to the ground and be
adequately covered with
soil. This slowing down
by nature could be called
enzyme inhibition.
However, nature will inactivate these enzymes inhibitors when moisture is absorbed by the seed that is covered with soil. This is the time the seed begins germinating (sprouting) to form a seedling. Eating too many nuts and seeds, which has an abundance of enzyme inhibitors, could cause Gl tract problems. So, you
have only two options
open to you: you can
wait until the seed
or nut begins germination,
or you can take enzyme
supplements with them
to neutralize their
enzyme inhibitors. Can enzymes help fight allergies?Many
researcher theorize
that being allergic
to a raw food may be
nature's way of telling
us that the food's enzymes
are incompatible with
some unhealthy bodily
condition, and the body's
immune system is trying
to destroy it. This
confrontation between
food enzyme and disease
could result in the
classic symptoms of
itching, nasal discharges,
and rashes.
Scavenger enzymes are believed to patrol the blood and dissolve the waste that accumulates from the millions of metabolic reactions that takes place each second within each cell of the body. In fact, some of our scavenger enzymes are present in white blood cells. The main function of these enzymes include the attempt to prevent the arteries from clogging up and the joints from being filled with arthritic deposits. If the scavenger enzymes find the right substrate they latch on and reduce it to a form which the blood can eliminate. If these scavenger enzymes cannot handle the waste, nature causes some of the wastes to be thrown out through the skin, or membranes of the nose and throat, which produces the familiar symptoms that we call allergies. Other researchers believe that some allergies are caused by incompletely digested protein molecules. Allergies may be helped if certain enzymes are taken that can act as scavenger enzymes or as protein digestive enzymes. Since
enzymes themselves are
proteinaceous compounds,
an allergic reaction
is possible. Some individuals,
particularly those sensitive
to molds and penicillin,
may experience nausea
or gastric upset. If
gastrointestinal sensitivity
occurs, the use of enzyme
products should be discontinued. Can enzymes lower cholesterol?Yes,
in most individuals.
Remember, cholesterol
is a form of fat. Research
has substantiated that
consumed animal fats
tend to cause cholesterol
to settle in the arteries
and cause atherosclerosis.
However, it has also
been found that the
crystal clear "purified"
vegetable oils (not
heated) do not raise
the blood cholesterol
level.
One answer for this might lie with the fact that lipase is found in these unheated vegetable oils. One researcher found that the tissue in obese humans has less lipase than the fat tissues in a thinner person which means that supplemental lipase may be needed. British researchers tested the enzymes in individuals with atherosclerosis to find the relationship between cholesterol and clogged arteries. They found that all enzymes became progressively weaker in the arteries as persons became older and also as the hardening became more severe. These researchers believe that a shortage of enzymes is part of a mechanism which allows cholesterol deposits to accumulate in the inner part of the arterial walls. Another
researcher found a progressive
decline in lipase in
the blood of atherosclerotic
patients with advancing
middle and old age.
Yet another researcher
found that not only
was lipase low in older
persons, but that older
atherosclerotic persons
had slow fat absorption
from the intestine.
He also found that some
absorbed fat was in
the unhydrolyzed state.
When he fed lipase extracted
from animal pancreas
to the older and younger
persons he found a definite
improvement in fat utilization.
Think of the advantage
of taking the enzyme
lipase at the beginning
of the meal to help
in the predigestion
of food. Can children take enzymes?Yes.
Children usually eat
the same enzyme deficient
foods as their parents.
How many times have
you noticed an obese
child, only to see that
the parents are obese
as well?
"Like Father - like Son" is an old, but true, saying. Does eating raw foods in a meal (like a salad) guarantee enough enzymes for total digestion of the complete meal?The
cells of all raw foods
contain just enough
live enzymes to digest
THAT cell, and that
cell only. There are
no extra enzymes in
raw food to digest cooked
or processed food as
well. So, just
because you eat a salad
with your steak and
baked potato, that won't
help you digest the
meat and starch.
Can you overdose on enzymes?Data from over sixty years revealed that there has not been one report of side effects from enzyme consumption. More long term studies may be needed. Purifies
the blood. Strengthens
the immune system.
Breaks
down fats. Enzymes
lower cholesterol and
triglycerides levels.
Enzymes
enhance mental capacity.
Enzymes
cleanse the colon.
Enzymes
help us sleep. Enzymes
help us shed excess
weight and fat.
Improves
aging skin. Maintains
proper pH balance in
our Gl tract. These fermentive products include such molecular species as natural antibiotics and very importantly, digestive enzymes. These enzymes can play an extremely important role in the digestion of otherwise incompletely digested food substances, especially proteins. Enzymes
maintain proper pH balance
in the urine. Can pregnant women take enzymes?Yes, if
they are taking ONLY
plant enzymes. Enzymes can be derived from either plant or animal sources. Both are effective, though many people can't tolerate (physically, emotionally or religiously) animal products. Enzymes made from animal sources are usually derived from the pancreas or the gall bladder. Ox Bile and Pepsin are such animal derived enzymes and are highly effective. Betaine HCL, Papain, Cellulase, Bromelain and Lactase are plant derived enzymes. Some digestive enzymes actually use enzymes from both groups, to "cover all bases". These are known as "wide spectrum digestive enzymes". INFINITY Super Enzymes fall into this catagory. How do digestive enzymes work in the stomach?The
stomach has two distinct
divisions: Fundus
(upper part) and Pylorus
(lower part). The eaten
food remains in the
upper part for approximately
one hour. This is where
predigestion takes place.
The fundus is where
digestive food enzymes
begin to break down
the food into carbohydrates,
fats and protein.
Raw foods supply their own digestive enzymes, thus saving the stomach from supplying all the enzymes. Cooked foods, which have no enzymes, must wait in the fundus until the stomach supplies the enzymes. Predigestion by food enzymes occurs in every creature on earth. The only exception is the human being on an enzyme free diet. The upper section has no peristalsis (movement of food), acid, or pepsin and therefore, if enzymes are not provided in the diet, only minimal digestion can occur. The lower stomach (pylorus) performs the second step in digestion, but of protein only. In the lower part of the stomach, pepsin (a powerful digestive enzyme) and hydrochloric acid continue the digestive process. The predigested food now enters the small intestine. Here, the pancreas and small intestine cells secrete their enzymes to further break down the food into glucose (carbohydrates), fatty acids (fats) and amino acids (proteins) for absorption into the villi (absorption cells in the small intestine). The human stomach is really two stomachs with separate functions. Our stomachs have been provided with the means of permitting outside enzymes to help with the burdens of digesting food. Thus, we don't have to make all of our own digestive enzymes to digest our food. This will allow us to make more metabolic enzymes as needed and make us more healthy. When we eat raw foods the enzymes in the food are activated by heat and moisture in the mouth. Once active, these enzymes digest a significant portion of our food and make it small enough to pass through the villi (small projections found in the small intestines) and into the blood. Metabolic enzymes found in the blood then take the digested 45 known nutrients and build them into muscles, nerves, bones, blood, lungs, and various glands. Every cell in the body depends on certain enzymes. Each enzyme has a specific function in the body which is referred to as enzyme specificity. A protein digestive enzyme will not digest a fat and a fat enzyme will not digest starch. Enzymes act upon chemicals and change them into another chemical, but remain unchanged themselves. Simply stated our chemicals are changed from their original identity by the enzyme to another chemical with a different identity. Without enzymes nothing in our body would work. Does our body produce less enzymes as we get older?Bartos
and Groh (researchers)
enlisted 10 young men
and 10 old men and used
a drug to stimulate
the pancreatic juice
flow. The juice was
then pumped out and
tested. It was found
that considerably less
of the enzyme amylase
was present in the pancreatic
juices of older men.
It was determined that
the enzyme deficiency
of the older group was
due to exhaustion of
the cells of the pancreas.
Other
research indicates that
not only are there fewer
enzymes in the pancreas
but also in the trillion
cells in our body as
we age. The pancreas
must borrow these entities
stored in the cells
to make the enzyme complex.
This could be a definition
of "old age" because
old age and debilitated
metabolic enzyme activity
are synonymous. If we
postpone the debilitation
of metabolic enzyme
activity, then we might
delay the aging process
and possibly increase
the life span to its
genetic potential. What effects will I notice if I take supplemental enzymes?It depends.
Enzymes are not "magic
pills". Rather, they
supplement the work
of your body's organs
and glands to completely
digest the food you
eat. Some people will
notice a dramatic improvement
in their energy levels
and feeling of vitality.
Others might notice
significant improvement
in the functioning of
their digestive tract
and relief of long term
chronic conditions.
Some people's recognition
of improvement will
be more subtle and gradual.
It all depends on the
underlying condition
of deficiency and how
quickly the imbalance
can be corrected.
Remember: every body is different. Will taking supplemental enzymes interfere with other medicines?Unless specified by your doctor, you may continue your supplemental enzymes, since they are organic products and are classified as food by the FDA.
Find
out what the Encyclopedia
says
about Enzymes
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