: Protease:

The Power of Proteolytic Enzymes and Herbs

In the Biofield Analysis, toxicity is considered to be a dominant cause of disease. More than 85% of all chronic conditions that we encounter in the office are due to this fundamental problem, yet few physicians attempt to deal with it. Most are too busy attempting to control the symptomatic complaints of the patient.

If toxicity could be eliminated, fewer doctors would be needed.

EXOGENOUS TOXINS

Since 1945, over 100,000 new chemicals have entered our local
environment, with 3 new chemicals entering the environment
everyday. Our systems have no ancestral record of exposure to
these chemicals, and most are extremely complex inorganic molecules
that are difficult to break down through the liver detox pathways.
Our food systems have become polluted with cooked oils and fats,
sugars, and artificial ingredients. Now, we even have to contend
with genetically altered food. We consume more calories from
carbohydrates and fats than ever before, without physically working
hard enough to burn it off. The result is large amounts of metabolic
poisonous waste in the blood and extra-cellular fluid (ECF).
Our water systems are polluted with chemicals being dumped into the
earth and being sprayed onto our crops. Heavy metals such as
aluminum are used to ?purify? our municipal water before it enters
our water taps.
Heavy metals fill our mouths, where acid saliva can begin to leach
them into our lymphatic and blood systems. These metals are so toxic
that Germany and Sweden have banned them from use, and several other
countries are considering the same action.
ENDOGENOUS TOXINS
As bad as the environment may be, our internal environments are far
worse! Poor eating habits and poor food combining produce debris in
the system that is unusable as food. This poorly digested mass
damages intestinal tissue, compromising absorption into the blood
stream. As a consequence, our blood streams are polluted with
unusable and partially digested food particles.
Lack of rest and relaxation, poor exercise habits, and high stress
situations contribute to toxicity by concentrating acids in the
extra-cellular fluid (ECF). The ECF is in contact with every cell
in the body, and dominates oxygen release to the mitochondria.
When cellular oxygen dwindles, degeneration and cancer potentials
increase.
To some extent, even aging can compromise cellular function. By
the time a person reaches 50 years of age, his production of HCl,
pepsin and pancreatic enzymes is 50% less that it was when he
was 18 years of age. His kidney elimination functions have dwindled
by 25%.
?MOSQUITOES DON?T CAUSE SWAMPS?
All of these exogenous and endogenous toxins result in a toxic
?swamp? in the body. From this swamp arise our diseases. Symptoms
are not the cause of diseases, they are the consequence of immune
tactics of the body, desperately attempting to eliminate these
harmful chemical accumulations from the body. Diseases and symptoms
both evolve from a toxic system, and depending on the genetic
potential of each patient, the disease and symptom pattern of each
patient varies accordingly. If we could ?drain? the swamp, there
would be few mosquitoes!
PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES
The purpose of proteolytic enzymes is to break up and drain this
vast swamp we produce within. They are powerful scavengers of the
bloodstream, capable of dissolving apart toxic masses within the
bloodstream and the ECF. By dissolving harmful waste in the body,
proteolytics reduce the potential for inflammation, allergies,
infections, and degeneration.
Proteolytic enzymes refer to a group of enzymes that ?lyse?, or
break down foreign proteins in the system. During normal digestion,
this should be accomplished by various stomach enzymes (pepsins)
and pancreatic\proteases, trypsin, and chymotripsin.
However, due to poor our toxic environments, digestion, tissue
injuries, inflammations, allergies and infections free proteins
can enter the blood stream. These are potentially dangerous to our
health, and the body will implement various immune tactics to clear
them.
Proteolytic enzymes have the capability of removing unfriendly free
proteins form the system, reducing the risk of strong immune
challenges. The main sources for proteolysis are bromelains
(from pineapple), papains (from papaya), and various fungal
proteases that are harvested for specific application.
Proteolytic enzymes have a long history of use. Most were
discovered in the 19th century, and as early as 1904, Dr. John
Beard was reporting successful use of proteolytic enzymes in the
treatment of cancer. Over the years, a considerable body of
evidence has been established to support the use of proteolytics.
Preparations of proteolytic enzymes are well documented for useful
in many physical conditions:
Inflammation & injuries
Post-surgical recovery
Circulatory improvement
Fibrinolysis
Kidney and lung edema sitations
Phagocytosis
Sinus Infections
Skin Debridement
Tumor Necrosis
Food allergies
Atherosclerosis
Hepatitis C
Multiple sclerosis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Auto-immune conditions
Asthma, bronchitis, and COPD
INFLAMMATION
Proteolytics are widely popular in Europe and Japan, where
research has proven them to be useful as powerful anti-inflammatory
agents. They are effective anti-inflammatory agents for conditions
involving:
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sports injuries
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Rheumatism
Burns
Allergies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
By helping the body ?lyse?, or break down foreign protein matter
in the system, proteolytic enzymes minimize the body?s tendency
of resorting to inflammation, allergies, or even infections as
immune tactics to clean the system. Since most symptomatic
complaints of the patient are involved with immune system
activation, the benefits to the patient of using proteolytic
enzymes are dramatic: a marked reduction in inflammation.
Bromelain enzymes are decidedly anti-inflammatory, actually
reducing the inflammatory cascade. They succeed very favorably
when compared against Ibuprofen and Diclofenic in double-blind
crossover studies. There are no serious side effects listed
against bromelain. 5, 6
SPORTS INJURIES
Proteolytics first became popular in treating sports injuries.
They are capable of dissolving down the broken connective tissue
fibers that occur with injuries. This reduces the need for the
body to use inflammation to dissolve down the broken fibers.
Proteolytics perform well when compared to standard NSAD?s,
without the problem of side effects. 8, 9, 10, 11
If applied at the beginning of an injury phase, proteolytics
can greatly reduce the recuperative time of the injured tissue.
They also serve as wonderful anti-inflammatory and prophylactic
formulas for professional athletes. If used on a daily basis
they can prevent serious injuries by reducing athletic
inflammation and cleansing away broken micro-fibers that occur
on a regular basis during athletic training and competition.
FIBRINOLYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT OF CIRCULATION
Two of the most common killers in our society are vascular
diseases of heart attack and stroke. Both involve compromised
blood circulation due to excessive blood coagulation and
clotting. Although many situations can contribute to blood
coagulation and clotting, it is imperative to have a reliable
method of rapidly reducing the clotting factors. Proteolytic
enzymes are ideal for this situation.
Proteolytics rapidly disperse platelet aggregation and severe
clotting by removing excess free proteins from the walls of
the vascular system. These free proteins induce inflammation
and clotting factors as defense postures. Since proteolytics
are also anti-inflammatory in nature, they are effective in
reducing C Reactive Protein (CRP), a diagnostic marker for
cardiovascular inflammation and damage. The result is a
reduction in potentially dangerous thrombus formations that
may lead to heart attack and stroke. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20, 21, 22