It’s very easy to forget that enzymes are important to more than food processing . As a matter of fact , without enzymes we would have no chemical reactions anywhere in our body. That’s because enzymes are the most important catalyst your body can draw upon to run every simgle chemical reaction. Without enzymes nothing works.
But digesting food takes a considerable investment of energy from the body in terms of enzyme capacity . Since we only inherit a certain enzyme potential when we’re born and we need it to last our entire life, it only makes sense to nurture our capacity to produce enzymes and supplement when possible . One of the reasons that supplementing is necessary, is that our cooked diet is responsible for robbing us of the enzyme intake we would gain from a diet of uncooked and unprocessed food . (And if you “get ” how we are missing our natural enzyme sources from our diet of cooked food, just think of what this means for your dogs and cats !)
In order to supply our saliva and pancreatic, gastric and intestinal juices with the many enzymes required to digest our intake of cooked food, we must divert from the supply of enzymes to our brain, heart , kidneys, lungs , muscles and other tissues and organs . According to food enzyme researcher, Dr. Edward Howell, that trade off between our digestive tract and the remaining organ systems might directly lead to the development of several unique chronic and incurable conditions .
In short , according to this Doctor , who has spent over forty years treating ongoing problems -the depletion of our enzyme ” stocks “, which is directly caused by our diets dominated by cooked – “enzyme dead” food, is a leading contributor to premature aging and early death.
Since few of us will move totally to a raw food diet , there are two simple steps that we can try to address this problem . The first is to make a deliberate effort to eat more raw, vegetables and fruits and substitute some of our cooked meals with simpler fare – like grains, fruits and vegetables.
And the other option – that’s also simple is to start supplementing with quality enzymes . Maximizer enzymes, which is a product available from RGarden is a multi-enzyme supplement. For people with problems like stomach ulcers, an even better choice is Gamma-Zyme another multi enzyme supplement that does not contain Protease ( for proteins) which can upset some stomachs.