Although I’m not done reading it yet, I’ve really enjoyed Ellen Cutler’s new book MicroMiracles: Discover the Healing Power of Enzymes.
There are a lot of new things I’m learning. One of the most powerful is this concept. What you eat is not nearly as important as what you digest.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the book that I think does a good job of explaining the importance of enzymes:
When foods contain sufficient amounts of enzymes, digestion begins with your very first bite. Chewing and mixing with saliva activates some enzymes so they can do their job. Unfortunately, cooking destroys most of them. Consider milk, which is subjected to high temperatures in order to kill any microbes. This process—known as pasteurization—also destroys phytase, an enzyme that enables the body to absorb and use the calcium from milk. In other words, the bioavailability of the calcium declines dramatically.
With foods depleted of their enzyme supplies, your body must manufacture its own to support the digestive process. This is an expensive proposition, as enzyme production conusmes a lot of energy, among other invaluable resources. If your body is responsible for supplying the enzymes in saliva and in gastric, pancreatic, and intestinal fluids, it must curtail production for other purposes. Thus, other tissues and organs—including the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and muscles—don’t get all the enzymes they need. This enzyme “relocation” and the resulting deficiency may set the stage for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many other chronic health problems.
This may not sound so bad, except for everybody is born with a predetermined “enzyme potential.” In other words, you can only produce so many enzymes in your life before your body wears out.
Edward Howell, MD, says in his book Enzyme Nutrition: “The length of life is in direct proportion to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism.”
This is why eating foods that are rich in enzymes can help to extend your life. Foods rich in enzymes don’t tax your body as much… because your body doesn’t have to produce as many enzymes to aid in digestion.
This is why Ellen concludes: “The ideal diet would consist of organically grown, pesticide-free foods, with substantial amounts of raw foods in at least two meals per day, since only raw foods contain active enzymes.”
There’s a ton more I’d love to share, but then this post would become outrageously long. If you’re looking for a new health book to read, I highly recommend MicroMiracles.
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Thank you for the wonderful endorsement of MicroMiracles. I also have a blog, so if you would like to link to it, here it is:
Again thank you so very much. Natural health care is my life’s work.
Warmly,
Dr. Ellen Cutler
http://drellencutler.wordpress.com/
Thanks so much for dropping by my blog, Ellen.
I’m happy to give a link to your site.
Ryan
With substantial amounts of raw foods in at least two meals per day, since only raw foods contain active enzymes.
Even those who consider themselves healthy find that enzymes support improved energy and vitality, increased stamina, and resistance to infection-indeed, radiant health.
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