Re: Enzymes vs. Cholecystitis-Gallstones

[Guest guest]

Will-

Your post got my attention because the need for good enzymes is so

great, always looking for those with good results, for my

patients.

However, looking at the Swanson site, the emphasis for nzyme is to

digest dairy, which is totally avoided in my program, anyway, as

are antacids.

Is your experience with nzyme independent of or related to

consumption of dairy?

Thank You!

Larry

Larry Clapp, PhD, JD

www.prostate90.com

For a strong, healthy prostate and sex life.

-----Original Message-----

From: Will Winter [mailto:holistic@...]

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:43 AM

gallstones

Subject: Enzymes vs. Cholecystitis-Gallstones

Please excuse this brief diversion from Conversations with Alok,

but I've been

waiting a while to share this " new " information that I think is

very important to

every single person here.

Recently I discovered that they knew back in the 1930's that LOW

enzyme

levels coexists with gallbladder disease. Whether it is causal or

derivative

differs from case to case, but there is a direct correlation; when

the liver and

GB get better the amylase levels in duodenal secretions and blood

serum go

UP, likewise, the further the enzyme levels go DOWN, the more ill

you

become.

I'm quoting here from a dozen or so of the 400+ medical studies

presented in

the classic book FOOD ENZYMES FOR HEALTH AND LONGIVITY by Dr.

Howell. This book was written in 1946. Later editions are

still in print

and you should try to get one with the 1980 Interview of Dr.

Howell.

They also knew way back then that one common cardinal sin of

creating

digestive havoc was to take ANTACIDS, a self-medicating habit

apparently

as common then as now (this is also the #1 Rx drug in the US now).

Just

think how many commercials TV watchers see every day for popping

antacids. Tums are at every food or gasoline sales counter.

Doctors and

researchers of the day unraveled the mystery and came to

understand that

takiing alkali causes the stomach to respond by secreting more HCl

and

pepsin. This works for a while but the body can only compensate

for so long

and then enzyme depletion occurs. A " vicious cycle of events "

follow,

including cholecycstitis and gallstones.

I recommend that everyone who eats read this CLASSIC cover to

cover. We

GB people should also keep it handy for quick reference. The

material is as

relevant as any book written today. The main body of the book

elucidates why

food enzyme levels have fallen so low, what destroys enzymes

(mostly

cooking), and how enzyme depletion is the cause of all old age

death, all

aging, senility, degeneration and all chronic illness. Enzymes =

physical LIFE

itself.

Even though this book is far from the crypto-advertising self-help

health

books of today (which are mostly catalogs for the author's

products) this book

explains clearly how food enzymes can be taken (and absorbed

intact!!) into

the body orally in pill, powder or capsule form and how this can

reverse and

prevent most illness. Incidentally, many companies

(swansonvitamins.com is

the one I use) now sell Dr. Howell's original enzyme product, it's

called

N'ZIMES. I'm convinced it's been a major component of my recovery

and

current good health.

Will in Minnesota

[Guest guest]

Will, Yes, I agree with the need for enzymes...whether

or not you have trouble with the Gallbladder, but it

certainly helps the gallbladder situation. I was

taking a capsule form of enzyme with each meal and

sometimes inbetween for a few years that helped, and

have recently switched over to a liquid form that also

contains a probiotic and seems to work even better. I

drink it along with my meals, it isn't a large amount,

a certain amount of powder mixed with given amount of

water. But yes, for years have been aware of the

importance of enzymes, good that you brought it up!

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L. Meydrech, CN

http://nutritionist.bravehost.com

" A cheerful heart is good medicine " Prov. 17:22a

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