Bill Sardi
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 This is why enzyme therapy is valuable. Oral enzyme therapy can effectively break up clots, averting the development of metastatic tumors. In 1988, the Journal of Cancer Research Clinical Oncology published a report that documented the ability of bromelain, a pineapple enzyme, to prevent metastasis. [Journal Cancer Research Clinical Oncology 114: 507-08, 1988]
Even doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York reported favorably on bromelain enzyme treatment for patients suffering from inflammatory disease. |
Tom Bohager
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 Use this table as a reference as you determine how you will incorporate enzyme therapy into your life.
ENZYMES ANDTHEIR USES
Enzyme
Category
Purpose
Unit of Measurement
Alpha-galactosidase
Carbohydrase žBreaks down carbohydrates, such as raffinose and stachyose
?Especially helpful with digestion of raw vegetables and beans
Galactosidase units (GALU)
Amylase
Carbohydrase žBreaks down carbohydrates, such as starch and glycogen
?Regulates histamine when taken on an empty stomach
?Reduces food cravings
?Increases blood sugar
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| In part 2, I offer enzyme therapy recommendations for treating specific illnesses and ailments, covering everything from acne and athlete's foot to thyroid imbalance and viral infections.
Enzymes have changed the lives of millions of people, and they can change yours too. Whether you're in good health now, you have a few health complaints, or you've been living with pain or discomfort for a long time, the information and programs recommended in this book can help you improve your quality of life and feel better than you may have ever believed possible. |
| Following are diet, exercise, and enzyme therapy recommendations for each type of enzyme deficiency identified in the test. These recommendations are for primary deficiencies. If you have a primary and a secondary deficiency, consider the information provided for the secondary deficiency as an addition to the primary program where it does not conflict. You should consult a qualified medical professional before making dramatic changes to your diet or exercise regimen.
TYPE A: AMYLASE DEFICIENT žDiet: Amylase is the enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates. |
| FIVE SIMPLE PROGRAMS FOR ALMOST ANYBODY
The following five enzyme therapy programs address the common needs of many people. They include immune, nutrient, and energy support, with the additions of a cleansing program and a rebuilding program. Not mentioned in each recommendation, but not to be overlooked, are the needs for a good multivitamin or greens product, essential fats (flax oil or fish oil), and plenty of purified water daily.
The enzyme formulas I recommend you use as part of these programs are not specific to a particular product or manufacturer. |
| Enzymes: A high potency digestive supplement with meals (no less than 70,000 HUT) and a high potency protease supplement with high protein meals and between meals for maintenance is the best enzyme therapy for people who are protease deficient.
TYPE C: COMBINATION DEFICIENT žDiet: A combination deficiency is a deficiency in the enzymes that break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Moderation and balance when eating carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are important. Protein is best consumed in the morning, and rotating food groups is beneficial. |
| When treating anemia, it is critical to support the digestive and immune systems and restore energy through improving the absorption of vital minerals and vitamins, particularly iron. enzyme therapy supports all of these goals and can also be used to help the body maintain a correct pH balance. |
Bill Sardi
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| Wien Med Wochenschr 146: 67-72, 1996]
In conclusion, enzyme therapy is considered safe, may improve the absorption of anti-cancer drugs, may elevate the immune response, does not interfere with chemotherapy and is absorbed orally despite claims to the contrary. [Cell Mol Life Science 58: 1234-45, 2001]
Calcium D-glucarate: Detoxifying cancer
Everything that enters the gastric tract is subject to the detoxification process. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Enzyme therapy is showing promise in the fields of surgery, vascular disorders, sports injuries; and immunotherapy.
Enzyme Delta-6-Desaturase missing in Atopic Eczema and itching allergy syndrome, and Autoimmune T-Cell production, is inhibited by transfatty acids, and catecholamine hormones released by the adrenals during stress. Enzyme Delta-6 is derived from Alpha Linolenic oil, in soy and linseed oils. Helps against herpes zoster; H.I.V. |
Paula Begoun
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 Alterna's major philosophy, which is unique and of course is used heavily in their marketing and the claims for all of their products, is their belief in enzyme therapy for the hair follicle. Alterna believes that adding enzymes (as well as other ingredients) to hair-care products allows the nutrients in the products to absorb better into the hair follicle (where hair growth takes place) and into the hair shaft. Once in (and on) the hair, these enzymes supposedly serve as the catalyst that allows hair to use ingredients such as fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals in a completely new way. |
| Alterna wants to sell you on its belief in enzyme therapy as hair's saving grace, but enzymes are of little use to hair because hair is not living protein. Therefore, enzymes in hair-care products do not serve as an "activated" ingredient to enhance the penetration of nutrients and conditioning agents into the hair. It's an enticing hook, but nothing to take seriously when comparison-shopping between hair-care lines. Hard Hold Styling Gel has a sticky after-feel, but the hair can still be brushed through. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 The literature (largely) shows that proteolytic enzyme therapy extends survival (from months to years) in patients with both bloodborne and hard tumors (NewsEdge 2000).
Dr. Gonzalez accepts postchemotherapy patients, but the nutritional/metabolic program is not implemented in tandem with other treatments. For further information or to determine eligibility for a trial, contact Michelle Gabay, R.N., at (212) 305-9468 or visit the Gonzalez Web site at http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/. (Dr. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 Advocates contended that this failure was due to a lack of standards in manufacturing enzyme preparations. enzyme therapy continued to develop, but slowly.
The most popular form of enzyme therapy has been the German Wobe Mugos (Mucos, GmbH, Gruenwald, Germany). These consist of protein-digesting extracts from the pancreas, calf thymus, peas, lentils and papaya.
Today, enzymes are incorporated into many unorthodox treatment modalities, often along with vitamins and other substances. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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 Gonzalez currently practices in New York City where he employs enzyme therapy for his cancer patients; he is also conducting a research study of enzyme therapy and cancer sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
Proteolytic enzymes are safe to take over long periods of time and have no reported side effects. Bromelain can increase antibiotic concentration, and may increase an antibiotic's effect when they are taken together. This may make the antibiotic more effective, as in cases of staphylococcus infections. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| Step Six: Pancreatic enzyme therapy Rationale:
A pilot study published in June 1999 indicated that aggtessive nutritional therapy dramatically prolonged survival of pancreatic cancer patients. This approach is currently being evaluated in a large-scale study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine with collaboration from the National Cancet Institute. A key component of this program is the ingestion of large quantities of potk pancreas enzymes throughout the day.
How To Implement:
You can enroll as a patient of Dr. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 The effect of systemic enzyme therapy on cancer cells and the immune system. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients Nov 1995: 30-32 [review].
9. Wolf M, Ransberger K. enzyme therapy. New York: Vantage Press 1972: 135-220 [review].
10. Kleine MW, Stauder GM, Beese EW. The intestinal absorption of orally administered hydrolytic enzymes and their effects in the treatment of acute herpes zoster as compared with those of oral acyclovir therapy. Phytomedicine 1995; 2: 7-15.
11. Gullo L. Indication for pancreatic enzyme treatment in non-pancreatic digestive diseases. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Chinese medicine, the use of chi gong, cranial-sacral therapy, high-dose nutritional therapy, chelation, ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, energetic rebalancing, radionics, thought field therapy, ayurvedic medicine, rainforest medicine, and the hundreds if not thousands of other technologies and therapies used by doctors around the world with miraculous results!
M.D.s have the arrogance to believe that the two things they are trained in, drugs and surgery, are the only things on planet earth that are successful in the prevention, treatment, and curing of disease. How wrong they are. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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 Anaphylactic reaction in enzyme therapy of multiple sclerosis], [Article in German], Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 1987; 55:385-386.
Klein G, Kullich W. [Reducing pain by oral enzyme therapy in rheumatic diseases]. [Article in German]. Wien Med Wochenschr. 1999; 149:577-580.
Rowan AD, Buttle DJ, Barrett AJ. The cysteine proteinases of the pineapple plant. Biochem J. 1990; 266:869-875.
Stauder G, Ransberger K, Streichhan P, et al. The use of hydrolytic enzymes as adjuvant therapy in AIDS/ARC/LAS patients. Biomed Pharmacother. 1988: 42:31-34.
Steffen C, Menzel J. |
J. E. Williams, O.M.D.
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| Gonzalez currently practices in New York City where he employs enzyme therapy for his cancer patients; he is also conducting a research study of enzyme therapy and cancer sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
Proteolytic enzymes are safe to take over long periods of time and have no reported side effects. Bromelain can increase antibiotic concentration, and may increase an antibiotic's effect when they are taken together. This may make the antibiotic more effective, as in cases of staphylococcus infections. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| John Beard, who published The Enzyme Theory of Cancer in 1911. enzyme therapy was largely forgotten after his death in 1923, except by a few alternative therapists. While in medical school, Dr. Gonzalez met Dr. William Donald Kelley, a Texas dentist who had been treating cancer patients with enzymes for more than 20 years. After reviewing his medical records, Dr. Gonzalez found many cases that had followed Dr. Kelley's program and lived far beyond what would be expected with this disease. |
| Under medical supervision, Howell suggests large doses of enzyme therapy to treat certain diseases.
Few would disagree with the old adage that "we are what we eat," but it is not quite that simple. Enzymes make the digestion of food possible. This means we must make maximum use of enzyme activity, both internal enzymes and those consumed either in food or as supplements.
Benefits of Artichoke for Digestive Disorders
The artichoke plant is best known for its heart, the bottom part of its spiky flower bud that many of us have learned to appreciate as both a delicacy and a nutritious vegetable. |
| In spite of these favorable findings, digestive enzyme therapy has been reserved for diseases that directly result in a pathological deficiency of pancteas-derived digestive enzymes.
According to Schneider et al. (1985), common digestive disorders may benefit from enzyme replacement. Oral intake of exocrine pancreatic enzymes is of key importance in the treatment of maldigestion in chronic pancreatitis with pancreatic insufficiency. |
| For much of the 20th century, European oncologists have included enzyme therapy as a natural, nontoxic therapy against cancer, and almost all leading alternative cancer specialists treating Americans prescribe both food enzymes and concentrated enzyme supplements as primary or adjuvant cancer therapies. A New York City cancer specialist, Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D., uses very high doses of supplemental pancreatic enzymes as a primary antitumor therapy. His clinical successes have led conventional drug companies to seek to duplicate these natural therapies and offer them as adjuvant drug therapies. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 Beard published a book as early as 1911 that described his proposed method of treating cancer under the title, The enzyme therapy of Cancer.
Years later, a retired Yale University professor named Dr. Howard Beard (who was, strangely enough, not related to Dr. Beard of Scotland), further advanced the understanding of how pancreatic enzymes affect cancer by discovering that the two most important cancer-controlling enzymes of pancreatin are "trypsin" and "chymotrypsin. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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 Proponents of enzyme therapy recommend increasing the amount of enzymes above the level produced by the body.
Research Evidence to Date
Aside from personal reports printed and promoted by manufacturers of enzyme supplements, there is no scientific evidence to substantiate proponent claims for enzyme therapy. Enzyme products have been reviewed by consumer groups and by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In 1985, Consumer Reports published an article entitled "Foods, Drugs, or Frauds? |
| They consist of enzymes extracted from plants and from animal organs, including protease (which digests protein), amylase (which digests carbohydrates), lipase (for fats), and
No Scientific Support
The lack of consistency between enzyme therapy and scientific understanding of digestion and enzyme activity has not deterred the continuing promotion and use of enzyme therapy to maintain general well-being and to treat many types of illnesses.
Pancreatic enzymes were first applied as cancer treatment in 1902 by John Beard, an English embryolo-gist. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| Kelley's enzyme therapy showed it to be significantly better than conventional methods for pancreatic cancer.
?Studies on Burzynski's antineoplaston therapy showed it to be significantly better than conventional methods for numerous types of cancer.
?In vitro studies done by the NCI on Jim Sheridan's formula now called Protocel showed results that were much better than chemotherapy results for a variety of different cancer cell lines.
Generally, the public is not aware that these studies have been done and have shown significant positive results for alternative cancer treatments. |
| For example, the Gonzalez-Isaacs enzyme therapy requires an extremely high number of pills to be taken every day
(possibly up to 150). This can also be difficult for young children or the elderly. There may be ways to work around this, such as opening the pills up and putting the powdered contents into a drink, but it is certainly a factor to consider when prioritizing one's treatment options. |
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