The Miracle of Enzymes - What are Enzymes?

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What happens when you are lipase deficient?
LIPASE DEFICIENCY CONDITIONS: Since lipase digests fat and fat-soluble vitamins, lipase deficient people can be expected to have a tendency towards high cholesterol, high triglycerides, difficulty losing weight and diabetes or a tendency towards glucosuria (sugar in the urine without symptoms of diabetes). The down-the-road outcome of these tendencies is heart disease.

What cures can enzymes help?
Many people are familiar with enzymes as digestive aids, but enzymes can also be used to treat a wide variety of conditions though systemic enzyme therapy. These conditions include: premature aging, arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, circulatory problems, gynecological problems, herpes,: injuries, multiple sclerosis, skin problems, lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune diseases, viruses and weight problems.

Purchasing enzymes, prescription needed?
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified enzymes as a food. Therefore, they can be purchased without a prescription. However, insurance coverage is usually dependent upon the therapy resulting from a doctor’s orders.

Enzyme Supplement:
Using supplemental enzymes to promote digestion reduces our need to produce digestive enzymes allowing our body to produce the metabolic enzymes needed to operate efficiently.

• Enzyme supplements are not destroyed by stomach acid. (It was thought and taught that enzyme supplements could not be useful because they were destroyed in the hostile environment of the stomach).
• Anyone who eats cooked or processed food requires supplementation to assist digestion.
• So far as science has been able to discover, the only function any vitamin has is the role it plays in supporting enzymes.
• Vitamins and minerals are co-enzymes meaning they require an enzyme to work.
• Continue to supplement with vitamins, ionic mineral and any additional nutrients you believe are very good building materials.
• When you add digestive enzymes to your supplementation, your vitamins will work better, the ionic minerals will work better and you'll get a lot more out of the nutrients you're taking.
• Enzymes are just as important as vitamins, minerals or any other nutrient, because enzymes are the workforce and life-force of the human body.

The best way to achieve optimal health is by having enzyme levels in the body and conserving the body's enzyme levels. When the body has an abundance of enzymes, it can protect itself and repair damage from virtually all degenerative disease disorders!

The importance of enzymes cannot be overemphasized. If the enzymes can cause disease, then adding enzymes to the diet, through supplementation and proper food intake will prevent premature aging and break down of the body.

At the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago experiments were performed on two groups of people. The people in the first group were 21-31 year old. Those in the second group were 69-100 year old. The researchers found that younger people had 30 times more amylase, (the enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates), in their saliva then the older.

As we age, enzyme production slows. Combine this with the fact that our diets now include many processed foods that contain little or no enzymes. Raw foods are plentiful and enzymes laden, but enzymes are sensitive to heat. Cook a meal and you lose the valuable enzymes that were there. If you consume a diet that is largely processed or cooked then you are missing a vital piece of the nutrition puzzle.

This happens because the cooked food won’t digest properly and travels, undigested, into the small intestine. (Once we cook food at high temperatures of 118 degree F. or more, enzymes are destroyed and no longer work.) It’s the beginning of the oxemia cycle (undigested food putrefying in the tract that continues to poison the blood), which is the root of all disease.

Coenzyme:
Micronutrients are the nutrients needed by the body in small amounts as compared with macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrate and fats). They include vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids (EFAs). Vitamins and minerals serve as structural components of tissues. Both function as coenzymes that facilitate thousands of biochemical reactions in the body.

Vitamins serve as co-enzymes, producing many reactions which promote digestion and other functions in the body. Vitamin A aids the respiratory system. The skin, and the glands. It is found in organic foods like greens and sweet potatoes. The B complex vitamin (B2, B6, and B12) have as many as eleven different functions including correcting eye and nervous disorders and swollen parts of the body. These vitamins, in conjunction with the enzymes, also give energy to the brain.

Energy factor:
The energy factor is the energy that triggers or starts the chemical reactions between enzymes and other substances in the body. This energy factor is separate and distinct from the chemical makeup of the enzyme itself. A good example of this energy factor can be observed by placing a raw bean into a pot of boiling water. The cooked bean will fail to sprout. Its life force (energy factor) has been removed.

Science tells us that only living organisms can make enzymes with this energy factor. Chemicals that serve as catalysts work by chemical action only, while enzymes function by both biological and chemical action. Catalysts do not contain the energy factor which is measured as a kind of radiant energy emitted by enzymes. The energy factor of enzymes has never been synthesized. Simply stated: The energy factor is the electricity that makes the light bulb (the enzyme) work.

Nutrition the body's ability to consume the forty - five known nutrients in their proper amounts, digest these nutrients, absorb them, carry them into the cells, metabolize these nutrients, and eliminate the waste without getting fat. The following is a list of the forty-five known nutrients:

• Carbohydrate
• Lipids (fats)
• Protein
• Water
• 9 Amino Acids
• 13 Vitamins
• 19 Minerals

Eating these foods, (which includes ingesting their enzymes) in their proper amounts, will normally ensure good nutrition. Enzymes are responsible for digestion, absorption, transporting, metabolizing, and eliminating the waste from these nutrients. Again, every organ, every tissue, and all of the one hundred trillion cells in our body depend upon the reactions of enzymes and their energy factor.

Insulin The pancreatic hormone that regulates the transport of glucose-blood sugar into the cells.

Refined Carbohydrates: They are foods such as white flour, cornstarch or white rice. The enzymes have been destroyed by the refining process. These refined carbohydrates are processed by the body the same as any other food, and yet they contain no vitamins or minerals. If we eat them, we must draw upon our own store of nutrients normally used in metabolism, thus depleting them. Some people say they do not eat refined sugar, but if you eat flour, cornstarch, white rice, potato starch, bread, crackers, or pasta- you eat sugar! Milk, yogurt, and other daily products contain sugar in the from of lactose. In fruit and juices, the sugar is glucose and fructose. Learn to recognize these different forms of sugar when you are reading labels at the supermarket.

Enzyme Characteristics:

• Lower the energy of activation.
• Form reversible complex with substrate.
• Not consumed in the reaction therefore they are effect in small amounts.
• Very specific - (Induced fit hypothesis) react with only a single substrate.
• Many need cofactors, such as certain vitamins, to be activated.
• 2000+ enzymes per cell, different cells have different enzymes.
• Enzymes are produced by genes.
• Genetic disorders are the result of faulty enzymes.
• Operate best in optimum conditions of pH, temperature, etc.
• Are controlled by feedback mechanisms.
• Allosteric Modulation.
• Can be "fooled" by inhibitors - Useful in chemotherapy.

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