Dr. Cichoke shows how every life process depends on enzymes. He covers a broad range of subjects starting with
digestion, elimination, co-enzymes, how to obtain more enzymes in your diet and through supplementation. He has a 5-step program
of do's and don'ts, including avoidance of aluminum cookware, refined sugars and salt, coffee, and so on. He also tells you how and what to eat and how
to prepare foods for the best utilization of enzymes. Dr. Cichoke addresses a large range of health problems from extending
life to AIDS and cancer. He also covers medications that affect enzymes, including OTC drugs and prescription drugs, as well
as foods that contain enzyme inhibitors. Enzymes--living substances that regulate health--work with certain minerals in our
bodies to form an antioxidant system that fights corrosive free radicals. Dr. Cichoke explains how to make the most of this
amazing natural partnership to speed recovery from injury and lessen the effects of back pain, multiple sclerosis, viruses,
and fatigue
Enzymes are delicate dynamos. Delicate because they are destroyed by temperatures over 118 degrees (some
by as little as 105 degrees), which means that they may not survive even light steaming. Dynamos because they are powerful
biochemical catalysts; they speed burning or building reactions in the body according to need. They are specialized proteins,
often with long complicated names ending in -ase.
Professor Jackson of the Department of Anatomy at the University
of Minnesota, has shown that rats fed for 135 days on an 80% cooked food diet resulted in an increased pancreatic weight of
20 to 30%. What this means is that the pancreas is forced to work harder with a cooked food diet. "Although the body
can manufacture enzymes, the more you use your enzyme potential, the faster it is going to run out..." wrote Dr. Edward
Howell, who pioneered research in the benefits of food enzymes. A youth of 18 may produce amylase levels 30times greater than
those of an 85 year old person.
Edward Howell, M.D. - "Enzymes are the catalyst for the hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions that occur throughout the body; they are essential for
the digestion and absoption of foods as well as for the production of cellular energy. Enzymes are essential for most of the
building and rebuilding that goes on constantly in our bodies. Among the many thousands of species of creatures living on
this earth, only humans and some of their domesticated animals try to live without enzymes. And only these transgressors of
nature’s law are penalized with defective health. It is not surprising that dogs (and cats) have many human diseases
since they are given only canned or packaged, heat treated, enzyme free food"
The digestive tract more slowly than raw food, tends to ferment, and throws poisons back into
the body. Colon cancer is second only to lung cancer as a killer in America and is related, in various ways, to eating enzyme-deficient
cooked food. Prolonged intestinal toxemia may manifest the following symptoms: Fatigue, nervousness, gasto-intestinal discomfort,
recurrent infections, skin eruptions, hormonal disturbances, headaches, arthritis, sciatica, low back pain, allergies, asthma,
eye, ear, nose and throat disorders, cardiac irregularities, pathological changes in the breasts, and so forth. All of these
conditions have been shown to respond to therapy directed to correcting the bowel toxemia. Of course, it is important to have
fiber in the diet to scrub the colon walls clean, but even more important are the enzymes which will allow proper digestion
and assimilation of vital nutrients. Cooked food often passes into the bloodstream as unsplit molecules that are deposited,
as waste, in various parts of the body. If it is a fat molecule we know it as cholesterol plaque; if calcium, arthritis; if
sugar, diabetes. White blood cell count rises dramatically after ingesting a meal of canned or cooked foods ("digestive
leukocytosis"). Elevated WBCs are correlated to bacterial infection, inflammation and depressed immunity. Raw foods
do not produce this reaction. All raw foods contain exactly the right enzymes required to split every last molecule into the
basic building blocks of metabolism: Amino acids (from protein), glucose (from complex carbohydrates) and essential fatty
acids (from unsaturated vegetable fats).
Each of us receives a supply of enzymes at birth. The supply is NOT limitless;
it must supply the organism with life sustaining enzymes for the duration of its existence. When the enzyme supply is exhausted,
it signals the breakdown of the organism (the dog). Enzymes are needed to run all body systems. Metabolic enzymes are used
by the heart, lungs, kidneys, immune system, and for brain functions; digestive enzymes convert protein, carbohydrates and
fat into fuel to maintain the organism. Over taxing the body to supply digestive enzymes can reduce the supply of metabolic
enzymes. Eventually, the body becomes enzyme-deficient making it vulnerable to disease. Not suprisingly, glands and major
organs suffer most from enzyme deficiency. How can one prevent the body from depelting its own supply of enzymes? Nature solved
the problem for us by providing those enzymes in RAW FOODS. Food enzymes begin the process of digestion in the stomach. If
there are no food enzymes, the body must produce additional digestive enzymes resulting in fewer metabolic enzymes.
When
we reason that cooking is harmful, then what do we eat? Salad? Raw carrots ? That is difficult to do because we all love the
taste of food. Now the art of creating raw food that is highly flavored and temptingly delicious is upon us! The new book,
The Raw Gourmet, Simple Recipes for Living Well, contain over 300 recipes that bring us the tastes we crave and the raw enzymes we need to survive on this planet in this millennium. Including is an entire chapter devoted to Fast food/Raw food, meals
that can be prepared in under 15 minutes. Finally, a healthy book designed for the busy consumer,who seeks good nutrition
but is unable to make tremendous sacrifices in time.
"Everyone has
a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest
force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is
to feed your sickness." Hippocrates, Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)
"Dr.
Alexander Leaf published the findings of his research about the oldest people in the world in the January, 1973
edition of National Geographic Magazine. He found that the three most consistently disease-free and long-lived people on Earth
are the Abkhazians of Russia, the Vilacabambans of Ecuador and the Hunzukuts of Pakistan. None of these peoples suffer from
Western diseases: NO obesity, NO cancer, NO heart disease! On the average these people live to be over 100 years old. The
men are physically active and still fathering children at 100 years of age. The diet of all of these people consists of 70-80
percent high-water-content foods such as raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables.
Disease proliferate only where there
is not enough oxygen for cells to be healthy. Raw foods contain an abundance of oxygen. In cooked foods, oxygen is destroyed.
Joel Fuhrman MD -"Following a strict vegetarian diet is not as important as eating a diet rich in fruits
and vegetables. A vegetarian whose diet is mainly refined grains, cold breakfast cereals, processed health-food-store products,
vegetarian fast foods, white rice, and pasta will be worse off than a person who eats a little chicken or eggs, for example,
but consumes a larger amount of fruits, vegetables, and beans." Joel Fuhrman.,
MD, is a board-certified family physician specializng in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural
methods.
While deficiency of vitamins manifest as
acute diseases, enzyme deficiency often results in chronic degenerative diseases. Vitamins, nutrients, food and supplements
are virtually useless without enzymatic activity to activate their utilization and assimilation by the body
By activating
and facilitating biochemical processes in the body, enzymes are referred to as food processors. Like food processors enzymes
process facilitate the digestion of food and the ability of the white blood cells to digest foreign particles. We optimize
our enzyme requirements with fresh unprocessed botanicals. Most people eat food that is enzyme deficient so their bodies must
compensate. The body is forced to divert its production of enzymes away from proteolytic enzymes, which govern metabolic functions,
into digestive enzymes designed to break down dead proteins in our diets. This can lead to weakened immune system, thickened
blood, pain and fatigue associated with degenerative diseases like cancer .Humans are the only animal that cooks their food
or eats enzyme deficient processed foods. Cooking and food processing kills enzymes. Any sustained heat of approximately 118'
F destroys virtually all enzymes. Consequently most of the food entering our bodies are enzyme deficient.
Enzymes
are proteins that speed up or catalyze chemical reactions in living organisms. They are necessary for chemical action that
takes place in the body. Enzymes run all of the cells, organs, bones, muscles, and tissues. Processed foods have longer shelf
life because manufactures intentionally remove the enzymes(the spoil factor) in them to reduce the insect load. Enzymes
allow many chemical reactions to occur within the constraints (temperature, oxygen levels, acid/alkaline balance, etc.) of
a living system. As organic catalysts, they are involved in, but not changed by, chemical reactions; and they do not alter
the equilibrium of those reactions.
By bringing the reactants closer together, enzymes can help make chemical
bonds weaker, thus helping reactions proceed faster than without the catalyst; making reaction many millions of times faster.
This is important since these "reactions" govern every function in your body including the destruction of microbes
and cancerous cells.
Without enzymes, metabolism would progress through the same steps, but would go too slowly
to serve the needs of the cell processes. After each enzyme process, the end products are used as raw materials
or substrate for another enzymatic activity.
There are basically two groups of enzymes namely the digestive enzymes
derived from botanicals and systemic/metabolic proteolytic enzymes derived mainly from animal products. Digestive enzymes
work on speeding up the breakdown of the food in the stomach while proteolytic enzymes help purity the blood, and they can
also travel to tissues throughout the body to assist with healing. They are referred to as proteases, or proteolytic enzymes.
Commercially
available proteolytic enzymes are referred to as pancreatin. Proteolytic enzymes specifically facilitate the chemical breakdown
of proteins by breaking the bonds between the amino acids that make up those proteins. Most of what makes us sick are either
of proteins as their building blocks or are protected by a protein coat hence they therefore subject to control by enzymes.
Proteolytic enzymes help dissolve the hard coat around foreign particles, cancer cells and microbes and make them venerable
to attacks from the immune system and external anti cancer, antigenic and anti microbial remedies. The white blood cells (macrophages
and the neutrophiles) need proteolytic enzymes to engulf, digest and neutralize bacteria and toxins. Similarly all cells in
the body contain lysosomes in the cell membranes. These lysosomes contain hydrolytic enzymes which the white blood cells use
for digestion during phagocytosis and destruction of toxins.
The Wobenzym Story by Aftab Ahmed, Ph.D. Approximately 50 years ago, Drs. Max Wolf and Helen Benitez began a journey to find a natural,
wholesome, alternative treatment for cancer that would be gentler and less traumatic to the body’s systems than chemotherapy
and radiation. When dealing with disease, the human body produces proteins that can be dangerous and further enhance poor
health. However, one of the most beneficial classes of enzymes is called proteolytic enzymes and they have the ability to
break down proteins into smaller chains of amino acids.
Drs. Wolf and Benitez theorized that the
use of proteolytic enzymes might help to eat up the dangerous proteins being produced when some is struggling with disease
and improve the persons overall health while fighting off that disease. While the doctors were hopeful for success in finding
a natural “cure” for cancer, they could not have known all the numerous health benefits they would reveal during
their study of enzymes.
Drs. Wolf and Benitez, along with another researcher from Germany named Dr. Karl Ransberger,
evaluated a large number of enzymes derived from plant and animal sources. The researchers began inspecting the interaction
of different enzymes combined to see what beneficial effects could be achieved with different combinations. Finally, a combination
of systemic enzymes coordinated to produce a variety of health applications and Wobenzym was born. The Wobenzyme is a brand
of formulated proteolytic enzymes
Dr Ransberger decided to develop his systemic enzyme solution into a product
that could serve the health needs of people around the world. He joined with his mentor, Dr. Wolf, to create a business partnership
and the two moved back to Germany to continue their work in enzyme research and product development. This special enzyme preparation
was named, WoBeEnzym, in recognition of Dr. Wolf and Dr. Benitez’ earlier work with systemic enzymes. Wobenzym is a
product of MUCOS Pharma and has become recognized worldwide due to the company’s subsidiaries in the United States,
Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Czech Republic, India, Pakistan, Korea, and New Zealand. Dr. Ransberger worked tirelessly to develop
manufacturing processes that would preserve the enzymes’ full biological activity. He worked with MUCOS Pharma to patent
innovative technology that would not only allow proper extraction of the enzymes, but also the stabilized manufacturing into
tablet form of the enzymes in a way that maintained maximum benefits and purity.
Wobenzym is a state-of-the-art preparation
of proteolytic enzymes that is specifically designed to offer ultimate health benefits and promote the enhanced function of
the body’s organs, cells, tissues, and chemical reactions.
As mentioned earlier, the enzymes in Wobenzym
work to support healthy function of the entire human body. Every chemical reaction and digestive process relies on a healthy
supply of enzymes. Specifically, Wobenzym works so effectively to promote health because it contains proteolytic enzymes,
which cling to other proteins and can break them down when necessary. The proteolytic enzymes found in Wobenzym help the body
maintain homeostasis when healthy, but also helps to fight damaging proteins when diseased.
There are multiple clinical
trials that have indicated Wobenzym’s ability to minify harmful immune complexes that can lead to autoimmune disorders.
In conjunction, immune complexes can precipitate a multitude of diseases because they have been identified for their role
in thickening blood. Even though Drs. Wolf, Benitez, and Ransberger did not find the unequivocal cure for cancer at this point,
the proteolytic enzymes in Wobenzym have been found to be very effective in helping to treat some cancers.
The
sister product, Wobe-Mugos, to Wobenzym by MUCOS is under consideration by the FDA for Orphan Drug status as a contributory
treatment for patients with the cancer involving B cells in the blood called multiple myeloma. There is also research being
performed to show that proteolytic enzymes found in Wobenzym can aid in the management of pancreatic cancer. Research is continuously
being performed concerning proteolytic enzymes and Wobenzym as therapy options for certain cancers. A proteolytic enzyme
should contain at minimum the following ingridents Pancreatin* – 56,000 USP units protease (pancreas) Sus scrofa
300 mg Papain* – 492 FIP-unit** Carica papaya 180 mg Bromelain* - 675 FIP-unit** Ananus
comosus 135 mg Trypsin* – 2160 FIP-unit** (pancreas) Sus scrofa 72 mg Chymotrypsin* – 900
FIP-unit** (pancreas) Bos Taurus 3 mg
The suggested adult usage for proteolytic enzymes is three tablets,
two times daily. Wobenzym should be taken at least 45 minutes before meals. For those who have had health problems or are
on any other medication, it would be wise to start with smaller doses of proteolytic enzymes to ensure there is
no harmful reaction. You should always consult with your naturopathic doctor before taking any supplements or medication.
This handbook will suit anybody whose preoccupations include offering or receiving nutritional advice. It clearly outlined
and defined the basic principles of enzymology: focussing on both their nature and their clinical applications. Without delving
into the complex kinetics aasociated with catalytic reactions, "Enzymes: The Key to Health" did shed light on the
biochemical and physiological pathways connected with each enzyme it discussed.It also did a good job in describing the multicomponent
forms of these globular proteins. The same could be said concerning the way it classified each enzyme group.This is an interesting
book to read, if you want to get a good understanding of enzymology with little or no biochemistry hassles. It was written
in such a way that non-scientists could understand. It provides a steady flow of simplified enzymology gists. Moore
According
to Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, from Australia ‘The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our
own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you
something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well
you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize
your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some
things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things
better, evolve and grow.”
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