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By some estimates, half the protein we eat is actually used to make enzymes.

This is probably why doctors overlook the power of enzyme therapy. If you eat the proper proteins, healthy fats, minerals and vitamins — if you give your body the building blocks it needs — it should do the rest.

That’s the theory, but most people don’t eat right. We live on a diet of cooked and processed foods in which all the enzymes have been destroyed. What’s more, as we age, our bodies lose the ability to make enzymes. It’s no coincidence that our risk of cancer, heart disease and other medical problems goes up sharply with age. And if our diet is enzyme-poor, the lack of these vital nutrients speeds up our aging process. So in spite of the fact that enzymes

SHOULD be in our food or we SHOULD be able to make them ourselves, the reality is, they aren’t and we don’t. That means when you take steps to change the situation, the improvement you see can knock your socks off.

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Your body makes its own enzymes out of the proteins you eat. Every cell in your body possesses
enzymes. In addition, every type of food contains natural enzymes. If everything is working right and you eat a proper diet, your body gets all the enzymes you need.

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An enzyme is a catalyst — a chemical that causes a reaction to happen, or happen faster. Enzymes are a type of protein. Both enzymes and proteins are made up of the same building blocks: amino acids. Scientists have identified at least 3,000 enzymes in the human body, but when it comes to therapy, we’re mostly concerned with digestive enzymes.

Digestive enzymes literally take food apart, piece by piece. They reduce it to the smallest, most basic elements of life. Your body can then use these fundamental parts to build your own bone and tissue or to burn for energy. Imagine that you have a brick barn and you want to use the bricks in the barn to build a house. You can take the barn apart brick by brick and use the bricks to build a house. A lot of work!

If you do that, you’re acting as a catalyst. You’re doing what enzymes do in your digestive system. They take a piece of meat, for example, and dismantle it down to the individual amino acids — the bricks. Then other enzymes reassemble those amino acids into the cells of your body. By the magic of enzymes, a cow is turned into you.

As you can well imagine, this is a complicated process. It involves multiple steps with many enzymes, starting from the moment you take a bite and going all the way through your stomach and intestines. There are many places where things can go wrong. And they do. Enzyme deficiencies are the main cause or a secondary cause of a long list of illnesses.

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Enzymes achieve incredible results when used to treat a wide variety of diseases and symptoms including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, chronic fatigue and pain, allergies, migraines, MS and autism. And of course, enzymes can help or completely clear up digestive problems like irritable bowel syndrome, excessive gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, “leaky gut” syndrome and intestinal yeast infections. There’s even evidence that enzymes can fight viruses.

What’s more, enzymes are totally safe. All living things — plant or animal — contain enzymes. Enzymes are vital to life. All foods contain enzymes — unless the enzymes are cooked out of them. Our own bodies make at least 22 digestive enzymes, and most enzyme supplements simply give you more of what your body makes anyway. Or they replace the enzymes we’ve destroyed in our foods by cooking and processing. So how is it possible that even alternative doctors take so little interest in enzymes? It’s easy to miss what’s right under your nose…

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Dr. Edward Howell spent a lifetime studying enzymes. His book, Food Enzymes for Health and
Longevity, lists more than 400 studies on the value of enzymes that were published between 1904
and 1938. His work was largely forgotten by our drug-obsessed medical culture. But he was rediscovered when doctors had to deal with AIDS and cancer and conventional medicine had no answers. Alternative doctors were forced to ransack the attic to find new solutions. The enzyme research of the early 20th century was one of the things they found.

Now enzymes in one form or another are used by most alternative doctors who treat cancer. Quoted in the Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer, Dr. Jack Taylor says, “Ideally, you want to make it unnecessary for the digestive system to have to produce so many digestive enzymes. If you assist in the process of digestion by providing food enzymes such as those found in papaya or pineapple, you can divert the body’s overall enzyme production so that it has a greater capacity to make and channel more metabolic enzymes to the site of malignancy and normalize its enzyme chemistry.”

The papaya and pineapple enzymes Dr. Taylor refers to are papain and bromelain, respectively. You can buy them at almost any supplement shop or health food store and start taking them today. They’re almost totally safe — the only conceivable worry is for folks who have an ulcer or who already take blood-thinning medications (because the enzymes are natural blood thinners).

Naturally, you shouldn’t self-treat for any medical condition you may have. If you’ve got a health problem, you should see an appropriate health professional. But you might want to seek out one who knows something about enzymes.

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Your pancreas and your immune system organs can become like a fire department with too many fires to put out at once. Or you could say your limited supply of enzymes is like an army in battle. Every good commander knows you need a strategic reserve. If you’re attacked at an unexpected place and your whole army is already engaged — if you have no reserves — you’re out of luck. Do you want to call in your immune system to deal with every meal you eat? It makes more sense to eat raw foods that are enzyme-rich and to supplement with enzymes. When you make sure there are enzymes in your diet, you let your body use its limited resources to grow, maintain and repair itself instead of having to digest your food.

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There’s an important fact that few laypeople and probably few doctors know: the immune system steps in to help us digest food if we suffer a shortage of digestive enzymes — as millions of us do, thanks to decades on poor diets. Research links an abnormally high white blood cell count to an enzyme-poor diet of cooked foods. The condition is called digestive leukocytosis, and it’s the immune system’s response to “too much food in your gut and not enough enzymes.” (Natural Cancer Treatments that Work, page 303)

If we lack the digestive enzymes to properly digest our food, then white blood cells, which carry a large quantity of enzymes, will attack the food instead and break it down into individual nutrients, such as amino acids, that our bodies can absorb and utilize. That’s not a job your white blood cells should be doing. If they’re digesting your food, they aren’t available to fight disease or perform other important functions.

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A recurring theme among enzyme experts is that your body has a limited ability to produce enzymes. It’s like your household budget. There’s only so much to spend. If you buy a new car, there might not be enough for the vacation you’d like.

If you eat an enzyme-free diet of cooked foods, and fail to take enzyme supplements, the strain can “bust the budget” and you can go broke. Our bodies manufacture thousands of enzymes used in all kinds of bodily functions. Enzymes are intimately bound up with our immune system, so if we suffer any kind of health problem from a cold to cancer there’s an acute need for more enzymes at the scene of the crime, so to speak. If your enzymes and immune system cells must be used to digest food, they’re not available to fight a disease, heal a wound, and do all the other things that need to be done.

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Like our enzymes, our levels of stomach acid decline with age. Discover a surprising relationship between a lack of stomach acid and arthritis. Arthritis is another supposedly “normal” aging disease. A deficiency of stomach acid (hydrochloric acid) and digestive enzymes is a major reason that older people are prone to mineral and vitamin deficiencies. It doesn’t matter how much of these nutrients is in the food they eat; they lack the means to break their food down into usable parts. You can eat a cooked diet that’s rich in minerals, vitamins and other nutrients — and still starve! Your diet won’t have the enzymes you need. Your body can’t absorb the nutrients.

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The strain isn’t visible in younger persons. Their bodies produce a high level of enzymes, so
they can devour meal after meal of hamburgers, fries and colas. Their digestive organs including
the pancreas will make up for the enzymes the foods lack. The young person is like a rich kid who can spend foolishly and still have plenty left. But the wealth eventually runs out.

Dr. Howell warned, “The more lavishly a young body gives up its enzymes, the sooner the state of enzyme poverty, or old age, is reached.” For example, he found that an 18-year-old naturally produces 30 times as much amylase as a 69-year-old. Amylase is the enzyme that digests carbohydrates. But enzyme production goes down about 13% with each decade of age, even with the pancreas working like a field hand and getting as big as a balloon ready to pop. Dr. Howell decided that eating fresh or raw foods can prevent enlargement of the pancreas. And he believed that an enlarged pancreas is correlated with chronic degenerative diseases like atherosclerosis and cancer.

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