Without taking digestive enzymes, you can’t digest food properly, especially when the food is cooked.  Because the enzymes in the food have been killed by the processing and cooking.  Even fresh fruits and vegetables, unless they are organically grown, are usually irradiated, which kills the enzymes in them.

This destruction of the enzymes in food, causes or makes worse, virtually every digestive disorder there is.  Gas, indigestion, acid reflux, you name it. And is an underlying cause of many different types of health problems throughout your body,  as you will shortly learn.

This happens because the human digestive system developed on a diet of raw foods containing live enzymes.  Your body isn’t equipped to handle a diet of mostly cooked food. It causes us to age quicker and fall ill more often.

Low levels of enzymes are found in diabetes, heart disease and most every degenerative disease. These low levels result from the lack of live digestive enzymes in your diet.

Digestive System Basics

When your food is poorly digested, you absorb nutrients that aren’t fully broken down or usable, which causes many problems.

Because your immune system will attack and defend your body against partially digested foods that get into the bloodstream.  The immune system doesn’t recognize it as food.  It sees a toxic invader, and destroys the food.  When this happens you don’t get the benefit of that food, and you weaken your immune system by using it in a role it shouldn’t be involved in.

In other words, you are using the immune system and enzymes daily to clean the bloodstream of undigested food particles, instead of having their full strength used to protect and repair your body.

According to the father of enzyme research, Dr. Edward Howell, the digestive system is designed to break down approximately half of the food we eat.

Dr. Howell was one of America’s pioneering enzyme researchers and in his classic book “Enzyme Nutrition” he explains how the digestive system is designed to work.  Before fire was discovered, man and animals alike could only eat raw food, like raw meat, plants or fruits and vegetables.

He explained how raw foods have a 40/60 ratio of enzymes.  Raw food like an apple has live food enzymes within the apple which break down and digest 40 to 60 percent of that apple.

This leaves the remaining 40 to 60% of the apple to be broken down by the digestive system.

Raw foods are enzymatically alive.  These foods have live enzymes within them to help digest 40 to 60% of that particular food.  Cooked and processed foods are enzymatically dead.  There are no live enzymes within that food to help digestion.

These dead foods stress the digestive system, the pancreas, the immune system, and your whole body.

Before genetic engineering and irradiation, our raw foods had the proper 40/60 ratio.  Today many raw foods are genetically altered or they have been irradiated for longer shelf life, killing the enzymes in the food. 

On top of this, we are already asking the human body to break down 100% of the cooked and processed foods and supplements we eat, and now, possibly 80% or more of the raw foods we eat.  This stresses your body, every single day!

The digestive process works like this:

First, you chew your food, and it mixes with the saliva in the mouth. The saliva has an enzyme called amylase which starts the predigestion of carbohydrates. The more you chew, the better.

Then, the food is swallowed and goes down the esophagus into the upper portion of the stomach.  The food stays here for about 45 to 60 minutes to predigest. That is, it will predigest if you are eating foods containing live enzymes because the body does not supply any enzymes at this stage of digestion.

The food then  goes into the lower part of the stomach where trypsin, pepsin and hydrochloric acid break it down further.  Next, the food moves into the small intestines where the pancreas produces digestive enzymes to complete digestion.

The nutrients pass through the intestinal wall and into the blood stream,  where metabolic enzymes utilize these nutrients in all parts of the body,  and in every living cell.

Ways To Improve Your Digestion

The first way is in the predigestive stage, which lasts approximately 45 to 60 minutes in the upper part of the stomach.  Dr. Howell calls this the enzyme stomach because this is where the live enzymes within a raw food start predigestion of that food.

You can improve your digestion by adding a digestive enzyme to break down the food as it sits in the upper stomach.

It can then predigest completely, which improves the entire digestive process, and your health.

This is very important because this helps conserve your body’s enzyme supply.

Lack of digestive enzymes affects the pancreas. Remember, the digestive system is designed to break down approximately half of the food.  When we eat cooked and processed foods, we’re asking the digestive system to break down 100% of the food we’ve eaten. This means every time we eat these foods, the pancreas must produce twice as many enzymes and the pancreas is working double time. Doing this year after year puts a tremendous strain on the pancreas. And eventually stresses our immune system and reduces our metabolic enzyme supply.

Autopsies have been done on people that eat mostly cooked and processed foods.  The results show the pancreas is dangerously enlarged, poorly functioning and quite often on the verge of breaking down.

When your enzyme supplies runs low, you die.  There are three ways to conserve your enzyme supply so that it doesn’t run low.

Eating organically grown raw food is one way.  The second way is to take digestive enzymes every time you eat, and the third way is to take digestive enzymes on an empty stomach.

Dr. Howell said, “If we don’t replenish our enzyme supply, we run the risk of ill health.”

Another way of saying this…

The faster your enzyme supply depletes, the faster you age and the more likely you will get disease.  On the other hand, when you conserve and even increase your enzyme supplies, you increase the odds you’ll live longer and healthier.

Dr. Howell stated that the underlying cause of almost all degenerative diseases is the depletion of the enzyme supply caused by eating cooked foods.

Which ends up causing premature aging and early death.

Dr. Howell said, “We know that decreased enzyme levels are found in a number of chronic ailments, such as allergies, skin disease and even serious diseases like diabetes and other severe diseases.” If your enzyme supply is low, you’ll have problems. If your enzyme supply is high, you’ll be healthy.

Some problems show up in the long term while others show up in the short term. The cold and flu season is a very good example of problems showing up in the short term.  During the months of November, December and January more colds and flues are reported than the other nine months combined.  We have many holidays… Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.

During this time most of us eat a tremendous amount of cooked and processed foods, additional sweets, drinks, pies, cakes. This puts a burden on your body because your white blood cells must clean up more undigested food in the bloodstream.  This is caused by the increased consumption of cooked and processed food, which lowers the effectiveness of the immune system so we catch a cold or get the flu.

Fat And Enzymes

Fat in its raw form is the best source of energy.  But when fat is cooked or processed, it no longer has the 40/60 ratio and quite often gets stored in the body… and is a reason why many people are overweight.

Dr. Howell’s research has also shown that a diet of cooked foods causes rapid, premature death in mice.  In fact, rats on a cooked and processed food diet live about two years. The rats that eat raw food live about three years. The rats eating raw food live 50% longer.  Dr. Howell also noted that the brain weight of rats eating cooked food went down and their body weight went up.

Another study took two groups of hogs.  The first group ate cooked potatoes and gained weight rapidly.  While the second group ate raw potatoes and didn’t get fat. Dr. Howell stated, based on his work in a sanitarium, “It is impossible to get people fat on raw foods… regardless of the calorie intake.”

At the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago experiments were done on two groups of people. The first group was 21 to 31 years old.  The second group was 69 to 100 years old.  They found the younger people had 30 times more amylase in their saliva than the older people.  This is why when we’re young, we can handle a diet of bread, pasta, pastries and cooked foods without much problem. This type of diet can cause rapid aging and depletion of our enzyme supplies.

The Pottinger Cat Study lasted for ten years, with three generations of cats being studied.  Approximately 900 cats were involved.  Dr. Francis Pottinger took 2 sets of cats and fed them only raw milk and raw meat.  He took 3 more sets of cats and fed them cooked meat and pasteurized milk.  This study was specifically designed to show the difference between eating raw foods versus cooked and processed foods over a long period of time.

The cats eating the raw food were disease free and healthy generation after generation after generation.

The cats eating the cooked and processed foods suffered.  By the end of the 1st generation the cats started to develop the same degenerative diseases we get, and became quite lazy.  By the end of the 2nd generation the cats had developed degenerative diseases by mid-life.  By the 3rd generation the cats eating the cooked foods had developed degenerative diseases very early in life.  Some were born blind and weak, and had a much shorter life span.  Many of the third generation cats couldn’t produce offspring.

Let’s review what we have learned from these studies. We’ve learned that every time raw foods were only consumed, good things happened, and every time cooked foods were consumed, bad things happened.

Eskimos ate only raw fat and raw meat before they adopted our cooked diet.  There were live enzymes within these foods, and they lived a long and healthy life.   Now that they are eating packaged, processed sugary foods, they have one of the highest rates of diabetes in the nation.

In the colon undigested proteins putrefy, undigested carbohydrates ferment, and undigested fats turn rancid.  This causes toxicity.  These toxins can seep through the intestinal wall and get into the blood stream, (leaky gut syndrome) which can lead to even more health problems.

When you eat cooked and processed foods… the pituitary, thyroid and pancreas all must donate enzymes to help digest that food.  This slows your body’s metabolism, and weight will probably be gained.

Obese people have very low levels of lipase in their body, and lipase brakes down fat.  When digestion is bad, the body craves more energy, and some people eat and eat to try to satisfy that hunger.  The food they’re eating isn’t being fully broken down and digested, and the nutrients within the food aren’t being released and delivered to the cells to satisfy the hunger.

If fat is not properly digested, it can cause many cardiovascular problems.

I hope you’re starting to understand that the human body must have its food and supplements in their correct forms so that every one of the trillions of cells in the human body can benefit from those nutrients.

To turn this totally negative situation into a positive one,  start taking   digestive enzymes with  food and even between meals.

What you accomplish by taking digestive enzymes is this: You make absolutely sure the nutrients are fully broken down into the smallest possible size so that every cell in the human body can benefit. You also relieve the burden on the digestive system and free up the immune system and metabolic enzymes so they can protect and repair the human body.

Until you do this, taking a step toward better health is very hard to do because the human body totally depends on fully digested foods to function properly.

Cooked Food Increases Numbers Of White Blood Cells…which indicates that the immune system is trying to get rid of incompletely digested food.

According to Dr. Paul Kautchakoff, the major cause of leukocytosis is eating cooked foods. Dr. Kautchakoff divided his findings into four classifications.

1st – Raw foods produced no increase in the white blood cell count.

2nd – Commonly cooked food caused leukocytosis. (Which is an increased white blood cell count.)

3rd – Pressure cooked food caused even greater leukocytosis.

4th – Man-made, processed and refined foods, such as carbonated beverages, alcohol, vinegar, white sugar, flour and other foods, caused severe leukocytosis… and listen to this… eating cooked, smoked and salted meats brought on violent leukocytosis consistent with ingesting poison.

Every single day our body reacts this severely to cooked and processed foods, and we abuse our body’s protective and repair systems by getting them involved in digestion.

You can take all the immune enhancers or immune boosters you want, but how much can they possibly help… until this problem is corrected by supplementing with a good digestive enzyme product.

Taking Digestive Enzymes Between Meals

Looking at live blood samples under a dark field microscope, you can actually see what’s going on inside the blood. Here are some of the unhealthy conditions seen even in people who think they’re healthy:

Red blood cells sticking together (which can be caused by very sticky undigested proteins). This condition can lead to poor circulation, migraine headaches and chronic fatigue.

Cholesterol and uric acid crystals (which can lead to arthritis or gout).

Plaque, caused by undigested fats and undigested proteins, which can lead to arteriosclerosis.

The before and after blood tests prove:

When taken digestive enzymes between meals or on an empty stomach, they will go directly into the blood stream and clean up the blood.

Including fat and protein deposits left in the body from years of past poor eating habits.

Plaque is partially caused by undigested fats and undigested proteins that build up on the walls of the arteries. If it builds up enough, you’ve got clogged arteries.  Taken on an empty stomach digestive enzymes will help clean up the arteries.

Taking them with each meal helps digest the food you’re eating. which means less sludge in your bloodstream and less sludge in the intestinal track and colon…

And if you take three enzyme capsules every day on an empty stomach, the additional benefits are so numerous they would be a shame to miss.

Most people don’t know that indigestion can be a sign of enzyme deficiency.  Digestive enzymes can help prevent acid reflux, heartburn, gas and acid indigestion and make your life a lot more comfortable.

They free up the metabolic enzymes and immune system from cleaning up undigested particles so they can go back to repairing and protecting your body.

The main function of metabolic enzymes is to build, rejuvenate and repair the cells in your body. Metabolic enzymes also are capable of digesting nutrients that haven’t been fully broken down to their smallest possible ionic size.

When the metabolic enzymes get involved in digesting these undigested particles, repairing the body becomes secondary.

Another important note; metabolic enzymes produce metabolic enzymes, which produce more metabolic enzymes, which produce more metabolic enzymes… This means we’re directly affecting our bodies potential to repair itself. If you take digestive enzymes with your meals for one full year, you’d have many more metabolic enzymes in your body.

Metabolic enzymes build, rejuvenate and repair the entire human body. Because the human body places a higher priority on digestion than it does on repair, you need to take digestive enzymes to make sure the metabolic enzymes don’t divert their attention away from cell repair and cell reproduction.

Other Benefits of Digestive Enzymes

Most parasites, bacteria and fungi are made of protein, and some viruses are covered by a protein film.  Taking protease on an empty stomach can help digest and get rid of these pathogens in the bloodstream, and spare the immune system from doing this job.

Raw butter contains large amounts of lipase and in 1930’s researchers found they could treat psoriasis by having their patients eat large portions of butter to get the benefits of the lipase.

Lipase breaks down fat and many people that gain weight easily are low on lipase.

Lipase can also digest the cell wall of some viruses… composed of cells surrounded by fat.

Another major benefit is that lipase that isn’t used up in the role of digestion, can be stored in the liver for future use and thus replenish the lipase supply in our body.

Dr. Howell felt that the biggest problem in human health started when man discovered fire and changed the form of our food. Which created enzyme deficiencies.

More than 25 million people in Europe and Japan have been given enzyme supplementation or therapy with enormous success… all with no important side effects! Enzymes are food… not drugs!

Enzymes are a key piece in the puzzle of life, because they make the other pieces work.  Enzymes are the very life force that activates vitamins, minerals, proteins and other physical components within our body.  Vitamins, minerals, proteins or hormones can’t do their work without enzymes.

Enzymes are the most important supplement you can give your body.  Vitamins do not deliver energy by themselves… they require enzymes for energy. Enzymes unlock the energy in food, and make it possible for the human body to function properly.

Clinical Proof

It’s been clinically proven… the more enzymes you take, the quicker your body can restore, repair and strengthen itself.

Here are some examples: A double blind study with karate fighters found that karate fighters on enzymes recovered from injury in 7 days.  The karate fighters on placebos took 16 days to recover.

Dr. Max Wolf, a former Fordham University Professor of Medicine, tested 347 patients with circulatory disorders.  His findings showed 87% completely free or almost free of any symptoms after taking enzymes.

Another study in Germany on patients suffering from circulatory disorders were given enzymes.  Ninety four percent were completely recovered or had significant improvement.

If you take enzymes with your meals and on an empty stomach, you’re going to help your immune system build, rejuvenate and repair the entire human body. You’ll give the metabolic enzymes time to reproduce and create more metabolic enzymes.  This alone can improve your health and strength.

Take enzymes and improved digestion will be experienced.  Energy levels can improve, vitality can be restored, and health problems may even disappear. There is no doubt, enzymes are at least, if not more important than any vitamins, minerals or any other nutrient, because enzymes are the work force and life-force of the human body.

You will take the burden off the pancreas, thyroid, pituitary gland, liver, immune system, metabolic enzymes and so much more.

If you truly value your health… you need Digestive Enzymes.