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Three
years ago I was working with a fibromyalgia /
lower back patient restoring her strength and
ability. She had been debilitated by
fibromyalgia for some 5 years prior and had
strained her back while attempting to cope with
life in a weakened state. For the 20 years
prior, this 40 something woman had been an
executive for a well-known cosmetics company.
Along with the rehab and general strengthening
exercises we were doing, I had her start taking
Systemic Enzymes as a natural, no side effect
way to relieve the inflammation causing her back
pain and, to eat away at the fibrosis of her
Fibromyalgia. (Fibrosis is the actual cause of
the ischemic muscle pain of fibromyalgia).
Three
months went by with this determined woman
exercising hard, getting stronger, raising her
energy levels and improving her ability to do
the all-important Activities of Daily Living
(ADL's). One day she bounced into the office and
announced that not only is her back and
Fibromyalgia pain mostly gone, but a great many
of her SV had disappeared and her
varicose veins no longer hurt! She insisted that
it had to be something we were doing, either the
exercise or the enzymes because nothing else was
different in her life or daily routine!
After
a bit of head scratching and research diving, we
discovered it was mostly the enzymes that were
doing the trick. Yes, large range of motion
resistance exercise pushes the pooled blood out
of the stretched blood vessels and can
temporarily drain them. Yet, in all the decades
of exercise research, no one has ever found a
way of making SV go away. Nor have
they found a way of reducing the flaccidly of
veins that are already fully stretched out
(varicosed) using exercise of any sort.
So
what are enzymes? Enzymes are
"bio-catalysts" they cause chemical
reactions to happen. We have some 3000 enzymes
and over 7000 enzymatic reactions in our bodies.
Without enzymes we would be stone cold dead!
Moreover enzymes are essential for vitamins and
minerals to work. Everyone has experienced the
fact that even thought a certain vitamin or
mineral is supposed to do a particular thing, it
does not work for everyone the same way all the
time. Most of us take supplements and really
can't tell whether they are working or not. One
person might feel great and another not feel any
good effect at all.
Vitamins
and minerals are misnamed, they are really
co-enzymes and co-factors. In other words, they
are things that make enzymes work better; but
what if you don't have much of the enzymes to
begin with? Then the co-enzymes won't work! In
our youth we made a slew of enzymes, that's what
kept us young, strong, without pain, healing
quickly and frankly looking good. After the age
of 27 Physiology teaches that we enter "old
age"! That's right 27! From 27 to 35 we
have the fastest and steepest drop in our
health, looks and ability we'll ever have in
less than a decade. Why?
Enzymes
or the lack of them are the trigger to aging.
Dr. Max Wolf MD and Ph.D. x 7 is the man who
discovered the enzyme / aging relationship while
he was doing research at Columbia University in
the 1930's and 40's. He found that the body
makes a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime.
We use up a good many of them in our youth and
so at about 27 the body slows down the release
of it's protein cutting enzymes (the most
important ones), and then begins to dole them
out with an eyedropper instead of a tablespoon
as it did before. Further, every year it
produces less and less enzymes in order to
stretch life out a little longer. What happens
as this depletion progresses? The hydrolytic /
proteolytic (protein cutting) enzymes are
responsible for hundreds of things but their
most important actions are:
- They
are the bodies' first line of defense
against inflammation. Think of when you were
a kid, you walked off or shrugged off
injuries that now would lay you up for a
week. Enzymes.
- Enzymes
control the rate and accuracy of healing.
They speed healing without allowing the
build up of scar tissue. Think of the wounds
you healed as a kid, with their thin,
strong, plyable, almost invisible scar. Now
think of your wounds lately, thicker, knotty
with scar tissue, not as strong and
certainly not invisible!
- Though
the development of fibrosis conditions such
as Fibro Cystic Breast Disease, Uterine
Fibroids and Endometriosis are all linked
with being Estrogen Dominant, fibrosis
conditions of all types cannot happen or are
dramatically lessened if there are enough
strong protein cutting enzymes present in
the body. Here the enzymes eat away at the
fibrosis the body does not need!
- They
also clean the protein coating that
connective tissue builds up
(polymerization). Why is that important?
Well if the connective tissue is under the
skin and holding it up, when it develops a
coating of protein, it won't hold water any
more and collapses - bingo you've got a
wrinkle. Restore the water holding ability
of the connective tissue and the wrinkle is
gone or eased considerably.
- Enzymes
regulate immune function. If the system is
too run down the enzymes will increase the
cleaning / killing action of the white blood
cells on bacteria and viruses and increase
the bodies production of good things called
Natural Killer cells. If the immune system
is running to high and creating auto immune
conditions such as MS, Lupus or Rheumatoid
Arthritis, then the enzymes will down shift
the immune system, control inflammation and
eat the antibodies the immune system is
creating to attack it's own tissue!
- Protein
cutting enzymes clean the blood of all the
debris the liver can't manage to clear out
of the blood on "first pass" or
the first time the debris goes thought the
liver in the blood. This purifies the blood
and makes it flow easier. Not only do they
clean the blood, the enzymes also strengthen
blood vessel walls and open micro
circulation passages clogged with fibrin,
improving circulation overall.
Even
if they didn't make SV disappear, all
those actions listed above are enough of a
reason to go and supplement enzymes for the rest
of your life.
The Systemic Enzymes effect on SV was
discovered when patients in Europe, where
doctors prescribe systemic enzymes, reported the
clearing up of SV and easing of
varicose vein discomfort. Studies done afterward
on the effect of oral enzymes in circulatory
diseases confirmed the casual findings.
On
another closely related subject to SV - scar tissue. I had my wife Michele on a load
of a leading systemic enzyme to prevent the
formation of scar tissue after the emergency
c-section birth of our son. To my astonishment
almost a year afterward, her scar tissue
development was extensive. It ran from the
incision to just under her ribs, and wound into
the abdomen threatening to choke off her
intestines! (That danger usually requires
surgery to free the bowels). Her
"bubble" of spider web like scar
tissue was palpable (touchable) from the outside
and was even restricting her being able to lean
back. I changed her to the new Vitalzym product
and in 6 weeks the scar tissue was completely
and totally gone - eaten away safely and
painlessly! It was astounding. Since then we've
heard from MD's, DC's and DO's all over the
country reporting formally unheard of decreases
in fibrosis and scar tissue in difficult to
treat patients, all from the Vitalzym!
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