Enzymes – Their Relationship To Skin Problems & Other Diseases
What Are Enzymes? What Do They Do?
According to the late enzyme research pioneer, Dr. Edward Howell M.D.. there are three different types of enzymes:
- those that occur in our food;
- those that are made in the body for the digestion of food, and;
- the metabolic enzymes produced by the body that are made to run the biochemical reactions occurring in the body: all our organs, tissues, and cells.
Food enzymes are destroyed when the food is cooked (destroyed in the temperature 48°C. similar to the temperature of warm water). Canning, pasteurizing, microwaving, or genetically engineered for a longer shelf-life, also destroy enzymes in food. To replace enzymes that are lost in the cooked and processed food, your body needs to create more digestive enzymes to break down the foods into usable molecules. Decreased enzyme levels in the body are found in a number of chronic ailments, such as allergies, skin disease, and even more serious diseases like diabetes and cancer. For example, as far back as in 1934, an Austrian researcher. Dr. E. Freund, found that cancer patients did not have the “solubilizing” tumour-destroying enzymes in their blood that normal healthy people have.
What is Pancreatic Insufficiency?
The pancreas secretes lipases, proteases, and amylases which are enzymes responsible for the breakdown of food in normal digestion. Enzymes are very specific to what they will break down or digest. For example, protease-the enzyme that breaks down protein-will only work on protein, not carbohydrate.
Insufficient secretion of these enzymes results in poorly or partially digested foods. These undigested foods began to ferment and putrefy, throwing back into the body toxins and gas. These toxins compromise the integrity of the gut causing intestinal permeability, adding to food sensitivity problems, and allowing the undigested foods (toxic by-products) to cross the intestinal wall into the body. When absorbed into the bloodstream, some of these large food molecules (undigested food) are seen by the body’s immune system as foreign, and an immune response is triggered, causing hosts of problems to our body:
SKIN DISEASES
- Psoriasis
- Eczema
- Dermatitis
- Hives
- Skin rash
OTHER DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
- Autism
- Asthma
- Chronic bloating
- Chronic fatigue
- Excessive mood swings
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Attention Deficit Syndrome
- Bed wedding
- Chronic diarrhoea
- Chronic swollen glands
- Puffiness under the yes
- Dark circles under the eys (allergic shiners)
- Autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, AIDS, mutiple sclerosis, cancer etc.
How would enzyme supplement help?
Enzyme supplements can give the body the digestive support it needs to make up for the lack of enzymes in the cooked and processed food. They spare exhausting the enzyme pool in our body and thus lessen the work the body has to do. Enzymes absorbed into the bloodstream help to break up immune complexes, expose tumours to immune attack, and assist in cell differentiation.
