We only get a limited supply of enzymes at birth to take care of us and give us life. The moment we run out is the moment we die. Enzymes are the workers of the body; they protect us from the pathogens in the air we breathe to recovering us from the injuries we get throughout our lives.
If we used those enzymes to also digest our food versus using the enzymes in food to digest the food, we quickly spend the reserves we are given at birth and arrive at the final destination of death sooner. Could destroying the enzymes through the process of cooking (burning) lead us to the end of our life sooner?Enzymes wear out! Dr. Edward Howell states, “Boiled down, these definitions of life means that each child is born with a definite amount of enzyme potential. It can be either saved or wasted; used up rapidly by living a fast tempo, or used sparingly at a slower pace. The enzyme potential can be made to last longer when outside enzyme reinforcements (supplements or raw foods) are taken in.”
“In the animal kingdom enzymes reinforcements are coming in continuously through the food. But in man, the trillions of cells in the whole body are called upon to supply the entire enzyme requirements, since our enzyme intake is practically nil. This is because almost no uncooked food that is high in calories is used. Foods low in calories, such as raw salad, vegetables, and juicy fruits, are also low in enzymes content… Let us say that a certain diet has a value of 2,500 calories each day. If it included a lettuce salad, an apple, and an orange, that would break down into about 200 calories of raw food that supplies enzymes. The calories in the salad dressing must be counted amongst the cooked calories. The result: 2,300 cooked calories that have had all of their enzymes taken from them, and only 200 calories supplying some enzymes. But I doubt that very many people take in as much as 200 raw calories a day. Ready-made orange juice would count with cooked calories.
It should not be hard to see how the enzyme bank account of the body can get out of balance; heavy withdrawals, skimpy deposits… if people spend their enzymes rapidly, their life does not last as long as it would if they used enzymes more frugally. Like an indulgent parent who caters unstintingly to demanding offspring, the body responds generously to calls for digestive enzymes. The remarkable thing about the eventual bankruptcy of the enzyme account is that it can proceed quite painlessly, without immediate symptoms.
Digestion of food takes a high priority and acts as a powerful stimulus in the demand for enzymes. If this function takes more than its rightful share, the other organs and tissues must try to get along with the remaining capacity. The only warning maybe a belated malfunction or breakdown in some organ far removed from the digestive tract. But the diagnostician unaware of the importance of enzyme nutrition would have difficulty in connecting such a referred process to the true, underlying cause. This is how an assortment of human ailments may get started.
What does this mean? Shortened lifespan, inferior health of the organs, and nagging illnesses; and all due to an enzyme-deficient diet.”
Professor Pearl, of Johns Hopkins University, states, “In general, duration of life varies inversely with the rate of energy expenditure during its continuance. In short, the length of life depends inversely on the rate of living.”
MacArthur and Baille of the University of Toronto states, “The organism appears to receive a specific sum total of vitality” rather than a definite allotment of days. Life runs out its course to its natural term with a velocity directly proportional to the catabolic rate, or, as commonly expressed, according to rapidity of “wear and tear.”
The conclusion and solution must be for us to eat raw, low-fat, easily digested food, and live as long as we were designed to.
In addition, getting sick is a sign of an unbalanced body. The only way any animal (The human included) gets sick is if the pH is not balanced, and this only occurs if the body has more toxins and acid versus nutrition, enzymes included, to keep us well and balanced. Being sick is not normal, unless we include obesity, cancer, disease to also be normal, and a sign for us to make changes because the message is clear: we are not acting the way we are designed to. Listen to your body when it sends you messages. The messages become clearer when you are clean inside. If you are still not completely healthy in your journey to successful health, you are not doing something right. Only the animals in captivity under human supervision become ill; the wild animals in nature do not.
Source: 101healthsteps.com
Ref.: Dr. Edward Howell: Enzyme Nutrition (1985)
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