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Do enzymes help relieve osteoarthritis — the more common type? You bet. Dr. Cichoke reports a test of 80 patients who suffered from osteoarthritis of the knee. Half received an enzyme formula and half were treated with a leading prescription pain reliever called diclofenac.

The enzymes proved just as effective as the drug in relieving pain by day or by night, at rest or in motion.

The Germans have also studied healthy athletes to see if enzyme therapy relieves pain and swelling and speeds up healing. The results were startling.

In a study of a hundred athletes, half took a placebo and half an enzyme formula. More than three out of four of those on the enzymes rated the results as “good.” Only 14% of those on the placebo were willing to say the same thing. Neither group knew which pills they’d received. The Germans have really taken the results to heart. According to Karen DeFelice, German and Austrian teams training for the Olympics consume “millions of enzyme capsules.” Dr. Cichoke says it’s common for German prize fighters to take enzymes to prevent injuries and speed up recovery.

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Both Cichoke and DeFelice cite a German study involving 1004 rheumatic patients and 141 doctors. If you know anything about the crippling pain of rheumatoid arthritis, then you have some idea of what these people must have suffered. Yet after enzyme therapy, from 76% to 96% “improved” or “considerably improved.” Most of the rest were “unchanged” and a mere 2% got worse. Only ten patients out of a thousand complained of side effects. (AC, page 172) In a smaller study of 42 rheumatoid arthritis patients, 26 got better with Wobenzym (62%). Thirteen experienced no change and only three deteriorated.

In that study, it’s important to note that blood tests showed improvement in a key marker of inflammation called “circulating immune complexes,” or CICs. The patients who reported less pain were the ones whose blood tests showed their inflammation had indeed gone down.

CICs figure big not only in arthritis but also in cancer and heart disease as well. The German studies cited by Cichoke show that enzyme therapy can reduce CIC values to normal within weeks. Altogether, he cites eight German studies on arthritis specifically and ten more studies (including one he conducted himself) on pain, sports injuries and inflammation. The evidence is impressive.

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This is so well established by so many studies, it’s a wonder that enzyme therapy hasn’t taken America by storm. It will. Just give it time. Alternative doctors in the USA are discovering the wonder of these overlooked nutrients. Maybe they should learn to read German, or at least check out the book I cited in the last chapter, Dr. Anthony J. Cichoke’s Enzymes & Enzyme Therapy. He summarizes dozens of German (and other) studies that prove the healing power of enzymes.

And according to Karen DeFelice, author of Enzymes for Digestive Health and Nutritional Wealth, “For over 20 years in Germany, doctors have successfully continued to treat osteoarthritis with enzymes and consider enzymes equivalent in effectiveness to medications.”

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It’s a pity that enzymes have been so neglected. But remember, we’re just in the early stages of
researching the thousands of wonderful nutrients in plants. The research has to be conducted with almost no money, and in the face of fierce hostility and ridicule from the medical establishment. We’ve only known about the power of antioxidants for around 25 years.

The breakthrough book, Life Extension, was published only in 1982. What’s more, the authors were two mavericks from outside the medical establishment. Tens of million of people now take antioxidants and know what a free radical is, but many in the medical establishment still call it quackery. Or consider lycopene. This bioflavonoid found in tomatoes is now considered a powerful cancer-fighter, yet it was discovered just a few years ago. We know little or nothing about thousands of other nutrients.

You can think of enzymes as the new antioxidants. As we learn more about enzymes’ benefits, more and more people will supplement with them. There will be more studies and we’ll learn much more about them. Better and more advanced products will come on the market.

You can wait to learn more, but it hardly seems necessary. There’s enough evidence now in the form of studies and anecdotal evidence from patients. Enzymes are foods (even the FDA agrees), they’re safe, they’re pretty cheap and the benefits can be enormous.

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Dr. Cichoke cites no fewer than 12 studies to support enzyme therapy for diseases of the heart and circulatory system. But all 12 were published in German, meaning most American doctors, including alternative doctors, aren’t aware of them. What’s more, at least 17 studies –mostly in Japanese — confirm the benefits of nattokinase. Remember Dr. Max Wolf, the developer of Wobenzym? He reported a study of 347 patients with an inflammatory disease of the veins (phlebitis). An incredible 58% became totally well and a further 29% became almost symptom-free.

Add the two figures together, and almost nine out of ten of these patients improved greatly. What’s more, they got better in one-half to onethird the time the control group needed. Another German study of patients with a blood clot disorders showed 94% got completely well or improved vastly in only eight weeks. A mere six percent reported no change in their condition. Eight weeks is not much time to correct a lifelong nutritional deficiency.

Those results are fast. A third German study cited by Dr. Cichoke involved 216 patients who had a disease of the veins. 93% got totally or partly well.

A fourth study involved 100 elderly patients with a blood clot disorder. The swelling in their legs went down by half in less than two weeks. That’s very little time for a nutritional therapy. But there’s more: these patients reported less pain, better mobility — and lower cholesterol to boot!

In a fifth study— placebo-controlled — blood viscosity (thickness) declined after patients had spend just two weeks on enzymes.

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Almost the only catch is that patients already taking blood thinners should employ protein-eating enzymes with care and under the guidance of a physician. The enzymes can be powerful blood thinners and clot-busters in their own right. Here’s another consideration: the sooner you start enzyme therapy, the better. Dr. Cichoke believes it’s less effective once the blood vessels are severely damaged. Enzyme therapy may only partially dissolve advanced plaques.

But don’t let that discourage you. Even slowing down or halting the progress of heart disease without drugs is well worthwhile. And Dr. Cichoke cites research that shows even elderly patients or those with advanced blood vessel disease DO benefit greatly.

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According to Dr. Cichoke, enzyme supplements not only devour fibrin themselves but also stimulate your body to make its own fibrin-eating enzymes such as plasmin. Your circulation benefits from a “two-fer.” He calls enzyme therapy “a lifesaving treatment.” He’s not alone. A Spanish doctor, J. Valls- Serra of the University of Barcelona, published his findings on the enzyme treatment of phlebitis (inflammation of the veins).

“In the case of earlier methods of treatment, it took several months for phlebitides to heal,” wrote dr. Valls-Serra. “The present methods of treatment bring about healing within only a few weeks.” Regarding longer term symptoms, he writes, “…the results were also astonishingly good and superior to all methods of vessel dilation and anti-coagulant therapy previously undertaken.”

The benefits include improved circulation, breakup of clots and repair of damaged blood vessels, plus reduced pain, swelling and inflammation. Studies show that enzyme therapy also improves the supply of nutrients and oxygen to tissue and removes wastes.

In study after study, patients suffering from inflammation and pain recover faster than do patients in control groups taking placebos or conventional medicines.

That’s a remarkable list of benefits from a substance the FDA classifies as a safe food.

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Fibrin is the “glue” our blood produces for coagulation — for clotting. When fibrin production runs unchecked — probably because of a deficiency in plasmin — our artery walls build up a thick fibrin coating. But that’s just part of the harm. There’s more: our free-flowing blood becomes thicker and tends to clot.

This is important because researchers now point to clots as the final triggers in heart attacks and strokes. Heart disease is a gradual process, but the end result is sudden. Circulating clots are the last straw.

Over many years the arteries become harder and narrower and the blood becomes thicker. One day a small circulating clot finally meets a blood vessel that’s too narrow to let it pass. The clot blocks the blood vessel. If the artery leads to the heart, the clot causes a heart attack. If it leads to the brain, the result is a stroke. Likewise, blood clots can block the veins in our legs. This is less deadly, but very painful and disabling.

This is why doctors have millions of Americans on blood-thinning medications. There’s a better way.

Enzymes can dissolve little clots (microthrombi) and help normalize your blood flow. Enzymes also reduce the tendency of blood platelets to clump and harden.

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We can combat inflammation AND dissolve fibrin by taking enzyme supplements. No, we can’t supplement with plasmin, the enzyme we produce ourselves. No manufacturer has tried to come up with a plasmin supplement. But it doesn’t matter because we can take a variety of protein-eating enzymes that do the job quite well.

Two of these protein-eating or proteolytic enzymes are bromelain and nattokinase. The patented German product Wobenzym is another. But there are many protein-eating enzymes on the market, and fat-eating enzymes to boot. Later in this report you’ll find tips on how to choose an enzyme supplement.

Although not necessarily identical to those our own body makes, these enzyme supplements do a large part of the job of breaking down fibrin — and all proteins, as far as that goes. In so doing they relieve stress on our overworked body organs (mainly the pancreas) that manufacture enzymes. (In case you were wondering, enzymes don’t devour our own living tissue. Our cells are tagged with a protective marker.)

You’ll be happy to know the result: An orally ingested enzyme mixture makes it possible to lower your cholesterol and triglycerides — those two bogeymen your doctor bugs you about. There’s a good chance these markers of heart disease will improve if you take enzyme supplements. What’s more, a lot of less-famous heart disease indicators will heal at the same time. That’s because excess fibrin production is harmful in several ways, and the supplements control the fibrin.

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Dr. Cichoke believes the cholesterol in plaque takes a form that our immune system rejects as a foreign object. The immune system tags the cholesterol as an invader and attacks it. The result is chronic inflammation.

We’re not absolutely sure of the exact cause of this inflammation, but we do know that it figures in artery disease.

Inflammation is the mark of any autoimmune disease — the type of disease in which the body fights itself. It’s likely that heart disease is — in part — an autoimmune disease. Rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are also autoimmune diseases. So are allergies and MS.

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