There is hardly a center that doesn’t use enzymatic therapy. Enzymes are
needed for every chemical process in our bodies and are highly specialized.
Dr Balch points out in Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing that
overloading the system by making it produce digestive enzymes detracts from
our ability to make other enzymes for metabolic and/or immune system
processes.
An article
from Bestways, May 1979, entitled "Dr Edward Howell: A Man With an
Urgent Message," by Ron Rendleman points out that we are a nation with an
enzyme starved diet. Dr Howell is quoted: "Cancer specialists are
discovering certain enzymes are completely lacking in the blood and urine of
[their patients]." He goes on to say that because of our overcooked diets,
our digestion must "steal" enzymes from other organs setting up a
competition for enzymes among various organ systems, "The resulting
metabolic dislocations may be the direct cause of cancer, coronary heart
disease, diabetes and many other chronic incurable diseases." Lack of
digestive enzymes, according to Dr Howell, is responsible for enlarged
pituitary glands (the one that regulates all the others) and enlarged
pancreases.
Dr Howell
also points to toxemia as the final result of our lack of digestive enzymes
combined with our high meat diets, for our foods take longer to pass through
our system, ferment, cause gas, heartburn, headaches and colon problems.
Colon therapists estimate that the average middle-aged American might carry
around 5 to 50 pounds of hard, toxic, fecal matter lodged in their colons.
Adding
digestive enzymes to your system keeps it from getting overloaded. Cancers
of the liver and pancreas demand the supplementation of digestive enzymes
because these are the organs that are supposed to produce them in the first
place.
To protect
your pancreas, pancreatic enzymes are a must. Dr William Kelly in One
Answer to Cancer recommends taking them with your meals and in between
meals, and especially in the afternoon between 2 and 3 when your system is
most alkaline, and at 3:30 in the morning when your system again is most
alkaline. A few references disagree on this point (exactly when your system
is most alkaline) and some recommend taking them upon waking. Again, you
will have to check with your nutritionist for recommendations based on your
particular body chemistry.
Each
vegetable contains the enzymes needed for its own digestion. Eating raw
foods unburdens your system by supplying you with digestive enzymes.
Bananas, mangos and avocados are rich in enzymes, but for the richest
source, you’ll have to eat your sprouts.
See
Zymactive page.
Some
Enzymes and their action:
