porcine enzymes...

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Well if enzymes do not work, then we should perhaps bury the hundreds that got

well eating raw pork pancreas with Dr. Dy-Liacco here in the Philippines alone?

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Role of Pancreatic Enzymes

There is considerable evidence to suggest that taking digestive enzymes may be

an important part of an overall anticancer program. This is the approach taken

by J. , MD, of New York City, whose pancreatic enzyme-based

anticancer regimen is currently being studied by the US National Institutes of

Health (NIH). The actual clinical trial of his regimen languishes for want of

support by the oncology community (Chowka 2002). But there was encouraging news

this May from the University of Nebraska. An animal study co-authored by Dr.

and published in the peer-reviewed journal Pancreas showed that the

orally administered enzymes developed by Dr. and his colleagues had

profound health-promoting and anticancer effects.

In this study, pancreatic cancer was first grafted into nude mice, rodents whose

lack of a functioning immune system allows them to serve as living laboratories

for the study of cancer. The mice were then treated with porcine pancreatic

enzyme extracts (PPE) that were included in their drinking water. A control

group received no enzyme supplements.

Treated mice " survived significantly longer than the control group, " according

to Murat Saruc, MD, and colleagues at the Eppley Institute for Research in

Cancer and Allied Diseases in Omaha. Additionally, tumors in the PPE-treated

group " were significantly smaller than in the control group. " All mice in the

control group showed abnormalities of metabolism in the early stages of tumor

growth, " whereas only a few in the treated group showed some of these

abnormalities at the final stage. " The authors concluded that treatment with

pancreatic enzymes " significantly prolongs the survival of mice .... and slows

the tumor growth " (Saruc, 2004).

Similar claims about pancreatic enzymes have been made for nearly a century..

However this was a rigorously conducted scientific study that was peer-reviewed

and published in the official journal of the American Pancreatic Association and

the Japan Pancreas Society.

For years opponents of alternative medicine have argued that enzymes taken by

mouth would be broken down in the stomach and inactivated before being able to

do much good at all. This point of view was thoroughly refuted in 2002 by three

physiologists at the University of California-San Francisco. They showed that

digestive enzymes can be absorbed into blood, reabsorbed by the pancreas, and

neutilized, instead of being reduced to their constituent amino acids in the

intestines. This is called the enteropancreatic circulation of digestive enzymes

(Rothman 2002). But clearly news of this established fact hasn't reached the

implacable opponents of complementary medicine.