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Many aging people face digestive enzymes depletion in their bodiesWhat are enzymes and why do we need them? Also find on this page: Our ancient ancestors used “given” to them by nature food, containing all the required nutrients. They were using only unpolluted clean water. No matter how perfect is a diet we manage to follow, we can’t expect it to do anything good for us if our digestive system is not supported by healthy digestive flora and sufficient amount of digestive enzymes – either delivered from the food or secreted by organs in our body. We need to remember that a healthy digestive system is the basis of having a healthy immunity and good overall health. Every cell of our bodies needs to be nourished by nutrients, which can be delivered to every cell of our body only by a healthy stomach and intestine’s chemistry and probiotics systems. We are living in the modern world and are constantly exposed to various man-made toxins, pollutants and chemical additives, which expand shelf life of our food products, “improve” their taste, make food production more profitable, but not allowing our digestive systems to do its best for us. If nothing else, these chemical additives are often very unfriendly to our digestive functions, not supplying required nutrients and damaging probiotics in our bodies. When food is reaching our stomach, various body organs are supposed to start supplying required digestive enzymes for proper processing this food and preparing it for returning nutrients to all body organs with the help of digestive flora in our intestines and colon. Types of Enzymes our digestive system needs to do its job We need various types of nutritional support for the digestive system to succeed in this process. Among them are digestive enzymes, which are specialized proteins, with each designed to break apart a specific type of molecules in our food. The primary types are: * Lipases - to break down fat Knowing that allows us to note what kinds of foods create a discomfort for us and use specifically directed enzymatic supplements. If we have any digestive problems we should consider the following possible reasons for that, like - * Often use of processed, man-maid foods. “If man made it – don’t eat it” is a good approach and we should use it as often as our busy life allows. * Poor eating habits – not chewing thoroughly enough even good foods before swallowing. We need to plan our eating events allowing sufficient time to do it right and enjoy. * Not balancing our food. Some of us decide to limit or remove some kind of foods in our diets, either trying to solve any existing digestive problems or moral reasons. For example accepting and following a vegetarian diet. Not eating meat, which is practically the only source of CoQ10, deficiency of which links to cardiovascular and many other health disorders. Meat obviously is a primary source of strength and energy for every cell and bone in a human body. All history of our existence is a proof of that. Meat also provides many vitamins and minerals to us, in addition to being a major source of digestive enzymes, especially during our aging process. Many aging people face a general nutrients depletion in their bodies. Obviously, the more we ignore reasons for digestive problems during our younger age, the more often we need to deal with them during our later years. This is in addition to natural slowing down of many major functions in an aging body. Even if we already adapted a healthy diet and lifestyle, we need to know that eating meat and vegetables, supporting our need for digestive nutrients is not always enough. We need to know and follow some additional rules. Very Important - we should not overcook our food. Many very important for our digestive health nutrients are destroyed at temperatures around 120º Fahrenheit. Even if we prefer a well done meat and vegetables, especially when eating out, the above considerations should be involved and our taste hopefully adapted accordingly. If we can't adapt, supplementation is the only answer. We need to remember that all pasteurized foods don’t have many “survived” the heating process nutrients, as well as probiotics in them. Buying our food from local, NOT commercialized suppliers is much better for us and avoids many existing or future digestive disorders. Our typical Standard American Diet (SAD) does exactly the opposite to what our bodies need to perform as the Mother Nature intended. Eyes opening scientific studies on a role of raw food and enzymes Scientists have studied what a diet of cooked foods can do to animals, and the results are quite frightening for us - humans. Dr. Edward Howell, one of the pioneers of raw diet therapy, found that rats fed a diet of raw foods lived about 50% longer than those fed a diet of cooked and processed foods. It gets even worse - the rats on the cooked diet had lower brain weight and higher body weight. The cooked food diet contributed to obesity and loss of mental function in rats. This might be exactly what is happening to humans? You can read Dr. Howell's book named Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity We have a dramatic increase in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease statistics during last decades, when we all became addicted to conveniences of the SAD - Standard American Diet. Dr. Francis Pottinger found the same results in a ten-year study of cats involving more than 900 animals. Cats fed a raw meat and un-pasteurized milk lived longer and were healthier than those fed cooked meat and pasteurized milk. Dr. Pottinger discovered something else that’s really scary: Each succeeding generation of cats fed cooked foods was sicker than the previous one. The second-generation cats developed the degenerative mid-life diseases at an earlier age than their parents. The third-generation cats actually developed them in youth and young adulthood. The grandchildren of the subjected to this experiment cats were more likely to be born blind and weak and to die young. Some third generation cats were sterile and the fourth generation was even less healthy. The ever-growing medical problems included - * heart diseases Even more, many of these “degenerate” cats had a bad disposition! They were too mean for their keepers to handle them. Don’t results of this study at least remotely remind what our latest health statistics are reporting about similar areas of human health during last decades? In fact they do! Meanwhile, the cats fed raw meat and un-pasteurized milk enjoyed excellent health - generation after generation. Additional information sources on what this nutrient does for us Karen DeFelice - a trained scientist and author of Enzymes for Digestive Health and Nutritional Wealth: The Practical Guide for Digestive Enzymes You can follow the link above to learn more about connection between these nutrients and various health disorders in children, like migraines, autism and others by buying and reading the book. For more information on this nutrient used for treating such diseases as cancer and heart disease you can follow Enzymes & Enzyme Therapy: How to Jump-Start Your Way to Lifelong Good Health For information on treating various other diseases you can either review or buy this book:The Complete Book of Enzyme Therapy: A Complete and Up-to-Date Reference to Effective Remedies Some other studies presented no evidence that supplementing with these nutrients over long periods of time is harmful. On the other hand there’s a lot of evidence that a long-term lack of them can be VERY harmful. The only conceivable worry is for people who have an ulcer or who already take blood-thinning medications, because these nutrients are natural blood thinners. We need to consult with our doctors in such situations. Our own body makes more than 3,000 enzymes, and they are present naturally in every food we eat. But, only if the food is uncooked - raw!. This supplements are completely safe. Even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies them as food. All of us can safely take them as supplements if a raw food diet is not an option for any reasons. If we are supplementing our diet with vitamins and minerals we should certainly consider above information. We can find find these supplements in many good Health Food or online stores. Enzymes deficiency and immune system Some researches say that it’s a wonder that we are as healthy as we are, while eating what we usually eat. And there’s a reason for that. Our bodies produce their own enzymes, and our immune system has to get involved, instead of paying full attention to other areas of our health. It has to make up for what is missing. If our diet, supplementation and own production don’t supply a sufficient amount of enzymes to process all the food we deliver to our stomach, then white blood cells need to take over the task, break down the food into individual nutrients and help to absorb them. We all can agree that this shouldn't be the primary purpose our immune system and its white blood cells were designed for by Mother Nature. We expect our immune system fighting diseases and performing other health protecting functions, keeping us in a good shape, instead of digesting our food. We want to provide enough nutrients from our diet and supplementation, so our bodies don’t have to use their other resources and involve the immune system, destructing it from maintaining and repairing itself. But there’s a limit to what our bodies can do without our help. We wear ourselves and our immunity out trying to provide what the nature gives us for free if we let it by supplementing and/or adapting the raw food diet as much as we can. Anti-Aging-Diet Page Loading
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