Perhaps you have just come from reading the article by David Hinkson regarding water soluble minerals and how important they are for the Human body or from one of the other articles. A little known fact is that most of those minerals, and they must be water soluble, need the body to have its enzymes for them to work properly. There are over 55,000 enzymes in the body, if you completely lose even one of them you die. Our best source of replacing enzymes is raw food, and raw food extracts. Enzymes are vary similar to water - soluble minerals, the body will store as much of a mineral, of an enzyme, as it can, then it throws it off by using it as a "cleaning" agent, or a hormone exciter at the moment. What enzymes? The following will give you an idea as to what enzymes are and what they do for the Human body and how essential they are for vital health.

Types of Enzymes	Description
DIGESTIVE ENZYMES	DIGESTIVE ENZYMES are made by our body's organs. Digestive enzymes are secreted by the Salivary Glands, Stomach, Pancreas, and the Small Intestine. Digestive enzymes and food enzymes basically serve the same function, that is to digest our food so it can be absorbed through the walls of the small intestine into the blood stream. From this viewpoint the only real difference between food enzymes and digestive enzymes is where they came from, from inside our body or from the food we eat.
FOOD ENZYMES	FOOD ENZYMES are already present WITHIN the food we eat. Food enzymes exist naturally in raw food. If the food is cooked, however, the high temperature involved in the cooking process will destroy the enzymes.
METABOLIC ENZYMES	METABOLIC ENZYMES run the body. They exist throughout the body; in the organs, the bones, the blood, and inside the cells themselves. These Enzymes are instrumental in the growth of new cells and the maintenance of all tissue. Every organ and tissue has its own group of specialized enzymes. They are trained to run and maintain their host. When these enzymes are healthy, robust, and present in adequate numbers, they do an excellent job carrying out their mission. Metabolic enzymes are left to run all other parts of our body and are internally generated.

Most food, when it is uncooked contains enough natural food enzymes to digest that food, but no more. When you cook the food the enzymes are inactivated (denatured) and can no longer assist in the digestive (breaking down) process. Eating raw food in some cases is totally acceptable and quite unacceptable in others. We eat raw fruit and many raw vegetables, but less often do we eat raw meat, raw fish (not withstanding sushi), or raw pork. So, obviously we cook our food.

Here's where the problem occurs. Cooked food contains no enzymes because they have been destroyed. If you eat a meal consisting of a salad, a steak and baked potato, there is enough food enzymes contained in the salad to digest it (break it down so your body can use its nutrients). But, there are no extra enzymes available to help digest the steak or the baked potato. Because the steak and potato is cooked, there are no FOOD ENZYMES available to digest them, our body must take over and internally create the needed amount of DIGESTIVE ENZYMES to handle the digestive task.

The more we depend on our internally generated DIGESTIVE ENZYMES the more stress we put on our body's systems and organs and the less time these systems and organs have for rebuilding and replacing worn out and damaged cells and tissue and keeping our immune system strong. It has often been said that eating too much will kill you. The fact is there is a lot of truth in this statement. Your body is programmed to try to be a survivor. Its top priority is making sure it has enough nutrients to run its own systems. This means digesting food and converting it into nutrients. There is no activity more important to the body than this. This takes a lot of energy and enzymes, particularly if the body must make most or all of these enzymes. Remember, no food can be digested without digestive enzymes.

Most illness, pain and suffering is the result of a digestive malfunction in or causing toxemia inside of the body. This malfunction is the direct result of not enough DIGESTIVE ENZYMES to properly digest and metabolize our nutrients. Significant short and long term health problems develop when these nutrients are not digested.

A couple of examples of people who are eating the "right way" in our opinion and who are greatly benefiting from maintaining the proper levels of minerals and enzymes:

"Louie and Tom are both in their 80s, and look like they're about 40. But they follow the total regime for health, rarely deviate from it. The one thing that the mineral papers don't tell you is to keep up the enzyme supply. The enzymes are more important than minerals. One thing I am wanting to do, part of the reason we are moving, is to raise a garden to build A---- and my enzyme supply back to normal. There are Italians in this town in the 80s and 90s, who look younger than their children. A---- and I are very good friends with one of these couples, B---- and L---. They eat about a 1/3 to 1/2 of the food from their garden. Their garden is raised in soil that has dinosaur dung put in it, and humus from worm beds that have dinosaur dung put into it. The garden is supplying their minerals and enzymes. Believe it or not, the AMA will admit, we do not die of a disease, we die of lack of enzymes. Having a healthy intake of minerals will allow the body to make enzymes, but you eventually exhaust your organs and glands this way. So, minerals and enzymes are the key."

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