IS YOUR BODY DEMANDING FOOD ENZYMES? continued
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The bran of wheat, which we now value as necessary food fiber, along
with the valuable wheat embryo or germ, were removed and found their way
into rations for cattle and hogs, proving to serve as excellent nutrition
for these animals.
For over a hundred years, enzymes had a reputation as being important
in the digestion of food, and that was all. Their area of operation was
believed to be limited to the stomach and intestines. It was not realized
until recently that the work enzymes do in the digestive tract is only
a minor part of their complete duties in the bodies of animals and human
beings. Enzymes are the active agents in metabolism - in anabolism and
catabolism. Enzymes are the actors behind the scenes in the immunity processes.
They power your thinking, breathing, sexual activity -- your very life.
Thousands of different enzymes - metabolic enzymes - are involved in everything
going on in the heart, lungs, liver, arteries, blood, muscles -- in all
organs and tissues. Your body is expected to make all of these digestive
and metabolic enzymes.
But while the body is required to produce less than a dozen essential
digestive enzymes, functioning only in the food canal, it must furnish
thousands of metabolic enzymes to service the multitudinous activities
of the entire organism. Metabolic enzymes do work, they are workers. They
take absorbed food products with their minerals and vitamins, and build
them into tissues. They repair the body and aim to keep the organs healthy.
Furthermore, through substrate action, metabolic enzymes remove worn-out
material from the cells, keeping everything in repair. It can be recognized
that this is a far bigger job for enzymes than merely digesting food in
the food canal, part of which should be done by food enzymes, or if need
be, by other exogenous enzymes, meaning supplemental enzymes. So which
are more important in the body, digestive enzymes or metabolic enzymes?
Let us beware about permitting a metabolic enzyme labor shortage to form,
which can induce our problem diseases.
If metabolic enzymes are more important, then why must they play second
fiddle, and have second call, in the allocation of the body's resources?
Why are digestive enzymes kept rich by having first call on the limited
enzyme potential of the organism, while the more important metabolic enzymes
must be satisfied with what is left? I must emphasize that the reader of
this treatise is an owner of the serviceable and precious metabolic enzymes.
Smart owners will not force their digestive enzymes to do work meant for
food enzymes if this extra burden in the digestive enzymes requires the
body to put a strain on producing their multi-functional metabolic enzymes
and not have enough of them to carry on their important functions. If you
were a biological engineer, responsible for efficient operation and health
of human organisms, is it not logical that you would see to it that the
digestive enzymes be given less work by allowing food enzymes, or supplemental
enzymes, if need be, to do more digesting, as evolution, or the God of
nature's laws, ordained?
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