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The human body is a self-defending, self-repairing, self-replicating vessel - virtually every cell of the 750 trillion cells in the body is replaced every seven years.

While you are sleeping, your body builds 300 billion cells every night just to keep up with the task.

If You’re Born Healthy, You Should Die Healthy

 
The study of aging, called Senescence, is revealing that every cell in the body must be replaced every 7 years over your lifetime.Discoveries surrounding aging report a phenomenon, called Apoptosis,
that determines, at the cellular level, when and how many times particular cells of the body are replaced.

Furthermore, DNA, the recipe for a perfect cell, assures that each regeneration of your body can be an exact duplicate of the original - without cellular degradation - if the ingredients called for in the cellular recipe are present.

The entire process happens automatically, it won’t stop until you die except, there is one chink in the process;  this magnificent, automatic process is totally dependant on what you choose to put in your mouth.

It All Depends on YOU

•  If the food you are consuming contains the minimum quantity of the basic cellular building blocks, called the threshold, the quality of all the cells produced that day are exact duplicates to the
  ones that are being replaced.  Your health will remain constant.
• If you consume more than the minimum quantity of the basic cellular building blocks you will benefit in two ways:  the quality of all the cells produced that day are exact duplicates to the ones that are being replaced and your body can save the difference for use when there is a deficiency.   Your health may improve.
• If the food that is being consumed falls below the threshold, it is deficient in basic cellular building blocks thus the quality of all the cells produced that day diminishes - the quality of cells and
  health degenerates.
• The speed at which health declines is proportional to the number of days, weeks or years that the body is forced to produce substandard cells.  That’s why it is called degenerative disease.

Ingest:  The balanced diet recommends the quantity and type of food your body needs to stay healthy, youthful and vibrant.   Meeting or exceeding these thresholds through diet or a combination of diet and dietary supplements pays you dividends - supporting your health, length of life and quality of life.   YOU control this process.

Digest:  The body uses  enzymes, caustic acid, neutralizing fluids and relies on friendly microbes to convert the food you eat into the nutrition your body requires to stay healthy, vibrant and youthful.

Assimilate:  Nutrients are delivered where they are needed over an arterial highway where they pass through the cellular membranes into the cells.  The old saying “You are what you eat.” should be “You are what you assimilate.”

Eliminate:  The body accumulates cellular wastes, toxins and undigested debrisover the course of the day.   The timely, efficient and complete elimination of waste, shortly after each meal, stops the
drowning on cellular waste, lessens the impact of environmental toxins, parasites and other infective organisms

 Sustain: The body depends on a minimum level of nutrients, called the threshold, to stay healthy.  If you stay at or above this threshold, you reduce the risk of experiencing chronic disease or declining health.

Mend: Millions of cells wear out each and every day; others are damaged through the process of living.  If you stay at or above this threshold, the body has all of the components it needs to renew itself at optimal levels keeping you healthy, vibrant and youthful.

Defend: The body is constantly under attack from the environment, microbes, parasites and other forces.  Staying at or above the threshold provides needed protection from the ravages of everyday living.

Energize: The body depends on fuel (glucose) and trace minerals from your diet for mental clarity, endurance and energy.
 

Experts and nutritionists agree: “There is a direct relationship between staying healthy and consuming 7 servings of colorful vegetables and fruits each day.”

Everyday, people choose to eat the food that contributes to their decline in health.  Fast, sweet and convenient are the dietary guidelines for the day.
People eat whatever they feel like eating—whenever they feel like it.

Children are developing the very same diseases as their parents because as children, they are putting their feet under the same dining table as their
parents. 

A great first step is to examine the habits that contribute to declining health and lead to sickness, then begin changing them.

Be honest! Could you do better if you tried?  Do the best you can.  And, don’t despair if you can’t eat everything you need to become and stay healthy.  Simply fill the gap in your diet with a well crafted nutraceutical supplement, system or program to address your particular need or the gap in your diet.

Remember, it is not what you do occasionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday. Eat whole foods, drink clean water and use nutraceutical supplements to sustain your healthy body.

After all, who wants to die sick?

Self - Care

Self-care is taking responsibility for your health - it is health care.  Self-care is founded in the belief that no one has more to gain, when you support your health, or lose if you do not.

Health Care is not Sick Care

When you are threatened with the loss of your most important asset, your health, physicians may play an important part in helping you recover by diagnosing your symptoms, prescribing appropriate medications and following your progress until you have recovered.

Recovery is More Than Controlling Symptoms

Sick-care has a beginning and an end.  Once your body has been stabilized, your progress is the result of your body’s ability to heal itself.

The old adage, “It’s not the bullet that kills, it is the body’s inability to react to the sudden change in circumstance” sums up the body’s ability to heal itself. If a person is shot, the personnel in the emergency room stabilize the body and wait for the body to heal itself. 

Few people give their health a second thought

Granted, every-day-living leaves little time for anything else.  They believe they will avoid the likelihood they, like millions of others, will suffer from the most insidious of conditions – declining health.  Or, when it is their turn, and most people will have to take their turn, there will be some wondrous something – man made or naturally occurring - that will fix what has broken.

Why Me?

The most frequently asked question, from people who have lost their health is “Why me?” 

When you consider what happens when health starts to decline: the seemingly endless visits to physicians and specialists, the ever-increasing number of prescriptions, the ongoing calls to the insurance company and the loss of quality of life, it easy to understand the frustration.

Choices and Consequences

For the most part, declining health is the consequence of neglecting the responsibility to care for the needs of the body - for years.  Declining health is the consequence of historic choices in four areas:  lifestyle, exercise, rest and diet.  

The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control report: “Today, chronic diseases—such as cardiovascular disease (primarily heart disease and stroke), cancer, and diabetes—are among the most prevalent, costly, and preventable of all health problems.  . . . The prolonged course of illness and disability from such chronic diseases as diabetes and arthritis results in extended pain and suffering and decreased quality of life for millions of Americans. Chronic, disabling conditions cause major limitations in activity for more than one of every 10 Americans . . . .” 

The CDE further reports: “ . . .  Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly health problems, they are also among the most preventable. Adopting healthy behaviors such as eating nutritious foods, being physically active, and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or control the devastating effects of these diseases.”

Self-Care is Health Care

Self-Care is the ounce of prevention that is worth a pound of cure.  It is making informed decisions regarding your health before you are forced to make decisions about sick care.  

• Be Decisive:  decide how you will invest in health.
• Be Dedicated:  make the time to invest in health.
• Be Disciplined:  do the things it takes to stay healthy, lifestyle choices, moderate exercise, rest, eat a healthy diet that feeds your body.

The growing market for natural supplements to promote and maintain health points to an ever-increasing interest in self-care. Using dietary supplements is a choice to invest in health, not because the supplements are natural magic bullets, but because a well crafted dietary supplement can help fill the gap in your diet between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to stay healthy.

Choices and Consequences

Regardless of your state of health, whether you are considering, old-fashioned dietary supplements, state of the art nutraceutical supplements or pharmaceuticals, it is important to make informed, cautious decisions, because after all, no one has more to gain, or lose, than you.

To Change The Way Things Are, You Must Change The Things You Do

It is not what you do occassionally that damages your health, it is what you do everyday.  Eat whole foods, Drink clean water, and use a dietary supplement to sustain your healthy body.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CASTLE ROCK, CO. – June 2, 2009 – NUPRO nutraceutical and supplements announced the availability of their innovative weight management supplement, Day Time Body Management.

Although it may seem simple, creating a synergistic nutraceutical formula to help support all of the different areas that promote fast, lasting, meaningful weight loss wasn’t easy.

NUPRO used a multi functional approach as the backbone for developing the criteria for their weight management formulation.

• Manage appetite and cravings 
• Promote metabolism and energy expenditure 
•  Activate fat burning tissue 
• Manage fat producing hormones

NUPRO President, Frank Lucas reports,  “There has been a void in the weight management market since the FDA banned Ma Huang.  At the time of the ban, we elected to do more research rather than producing a standard diet pill.  It took 4 years, but we think this weight loss supplement was worth the wait.” 

There is a difference between burning fat and burning calories.

NUPRO Day Time Body Management combines specific herbs, amino acids, vitamins and minerals to produce a remarkable, proprietary formula to support the key areas that help people achieve meaningful weight loss.

NUPRO also offers a companion nutraceutical supplement, Nighttime Body Management, to support nighttime metabolism helping promote a toned, firm, more sculpted body.  Together, Daytime and Nighttime Body Management provides the consumer with an around the clock weight management system to help achieve their weight management objectives even faster.

While NUPRO weight management supplements can be an important tool to help people reach their weight loss objectives, adding moderate exercise and making better, more moderate dietary choices can help the consumer realize their weight loss goals quickly.  NUPRO provides consumers guidance to support long-term weight management using diet pills.

About NUPRO

Nutraceutical Products Company (NUPRO) was established in 1994.  NUPRO is a privately held corporation originally organized to formulate and market health and wellness products to professionals.  These unique nutraceutical supplements have become the cornerstone for professional tactics and strategies to promote and maintain health and healing for people in need.

Today, NUPRO professional nutraceutical supplements are available to the public.  These professional quality NUPRO nutraceutical supplements are helping professionals and consumers achieve their health and healing objectives – naturally. 

For more information on the product, visit www.nupro.net .

Media contact:
Frank Lucas

frank@nupro.net

Phone: 303.660.0562

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The job of the immune system is to defend the body against millions of pathogens: environment bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites, that are waiting to invade the body.  The term pathogen is derived from the Greek “that which produces suffering. A pathogen is: a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host.

The immune system protects the body from pathogens in three different ways:

• First, It has a barrier to keep pathogen from entering the body – the skin.
• Second, if the pathogen does get into the body, it detects and eliminate it before it can make itself at home and reproduce with which it has experience with the innate immune system.
• Finally, if the pathogen is able to get past the body’s 2^nd line of defense, it springs into action to identify the invader and create anti bodies to wipe out the invading agent with the adaptive immune system.

Your skin is an important part of the immune system.

It acts as a primary boundary between the body and the environment. The skin also secretes antibiotic substances so that most germs (bacteria, virus and spores) that land on the skin die quickly. These substances explain why you don’t wake up in the morning with a layer of mold growing on your skin.

The outer skin, approximately 9 square feet in size.

It is tough and generally impermeable to environment (air, water, heat, cold and sun), toxins, microbes and organisms. It also contains special cells called Langerhans cells that are an important early-warning component in the immune system.

The inner skin covers approximately 10,000 square feet.

Your nose, eyes and mouth (including the intestinal tract) are obvious entry points for pathogens.

• Tears and the lining of the inner skin (mucus) contain an enzyme, lysozyme, that breaks down the cell wall of many germs to kill them outright.
• The nasal passage and lungs are coated in mucus.  Many germs, not killed immediately, are trapped in the mucus linings, swallowed, then killed by stomach acid and digestive juices. Saliva is also anti-bacterial.
• Likewise, the intestines have a similar coating that is reinforced by an army of microbes (numbering in the billions) that, in addition to supporting the conversion of food to nutrition, create anti-pathogenic substances from which we benefit as well.

Specialized cells called Mast Cells, lining the nasal passages, throat, lungs and skin, are part of the innate immune system. Any pathogen attempting to gain entry to your body must first make it past these defenses.

White blood cells, created inside your bones, are part of your body’s immune response. The white blood cells are probably the most important part of your immune system. The term “white blood cells” are actually a whole collection of different cells, produced on demand, that work together to destroy germs.

The Lymph System

The lymph system is a familiar term to many people because doctors and mothers often check for “swollen lymph nodes” in the neck for an indication of an infection. Lymph nodes are just one part of a whole system that extends throughout your body in much the same way as your blood vessels.

Lymph nodes contain filtering tissue and a large number of lymph cells that, when fighting infections, swell with bacteria and the cells fighting the bacteria.

Lymph, also called blood plasma, is an almost clear liquid that fills the space between cells that make up tissue.  It is circulated by body and muscle motion bathing the cells with water, oxygen and nutrients. Blood transfers these substances to the lymph through the capillary walls; the lymph then carries it to the cells.

On the return trip, the lymph then absorbs cellular waste and any pathogens that may enter the body. Small lymph vessels collect the returning liquid and move it toward larger vessels so that the fluid finally arrives at the lymph nodes for processing.
 
The number of cells that are created and then sacrificed, every day, in the process of protecting your body is enormous. Short changing your body of the essential nutrients that are required to replace this army leads to:

• diminished immune system protection,
• diminished health
• in some cases, a confusion in purpose where this power army of cells and substances turns against the body often referred to as an autoimmune disorder.

Filling the gap between what you consume and what you should be eating with professional quality nutraceutical supplements is an essential protocol to promote and maintain immune system function.

Remember:  It is not what you do occasionally that will help or harm you . . .  it is what you do everyday.

Sick Care

The top five causes of death are:
Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke, Chronic Respiratory Disease and Diabetes.

Countless millions of people will endure seemingly endless years of suffering before they succumb to these killers. Almost everyone who receives the bad news, the diagnosis that they have “it”, will spring into action.

• They seek out the “best medical attention money can buy”, to fight the good fight;
• And, when their insurance runs out, they mortgage themselves, to the hilt, so they can keep on fighting;
• And, if they are lucky enough to survive the ordeal, must have their condition managed to prevent its return, which in and of itself is another costly affair.
• And, all of this suffering and expense may be preventable.

At this point, 99% of you will stop reading because you think it won’t happen to you.
So . . . Good luck.
But, when it does, just remember, you won’t be able to say you weren’t warned.

For the rest of you .  .  .

To Change the Way Things Are, You Must Change the Things You Do

Our love affair with packaged and processed convenience food is killing us.
Your body does not benefit when you consume flavor enhancing chemicals, salt, sugar and preservatives. When you add in the generous amount of fast food that people consume everyday, it is easy to understand why there is an explosion of these chronic diseases.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the the U.S. National Cancer Institute report Americans are failing to get the vegetable and fruit nutrition needed for optimal health. They point out: … more than 60% of Americans fail to reach the minimum recommendation of 5 servings of differently colored vegetables/fruit per day - let alone the preferred recommendation – eating the 9 to 13 servings per day that it takes to promote optimum health.

The Journal of the American Dietetic Association (September, 2006) reports that the dietary habits of certain studied groups were especially bad.

• Boys 14-18: less than 1% reached the 5-a-day minimum target
• Women 51-70: the number was 17%.
• Other groups faired poorly prompting researchers to comment: “A large portion of the U.S. population needs to increase their vegetable and fruit intake if the minimum recommendations are to be met.

Don’t Wait to Close the Barn Door Until After the Horse Runs Away.
The formula is simple:

• Poor nutrition equals poor health with a greater likelihood you will suffer with and die from one of these chronic diseases.
• Good nutrition equals good health with a greater likelihood you can avoid these chronic diseases.

Health Care

The top 6 factors contributing to declining health are:
Poor Diet, Obesity, Constipation,Digestion, Parasites and Toxins.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Heart Association, the U.S. National Cancer Institute and most major health authorities agree that a whole food diet is one our best weapons in the fight against chronic disease.

• Whole foods contain the powerful protector nutrients that are our best weapons in the fight against chronic disease.
• Eating a variety of vegetables and fruit help you control your weight and your blood pressure.
• The fiber in whole grain foods can help lower your blood cholesterol and help you feel full, which may help you manage your weight.
• Vegetables, fruit and grains contain a number of nutrients, to help reduce the risk of cancer.
• Eating non-starchy vegetables (those that grow above the ground) of different color and variety can help prevent diabetes.
• Eating fish containing omega-3 fatty acids, (salmon, trout, and herring) twice a week, may help lower your risk of death from coronary artery disease.

One Final Thought
In a perfect world, our food would be our medicine. You could consume everything your body needs to grow old while enjoying the benefits of good health. Our world isn’t perfect, so do the best you can.

• Moderate your consumption of convenience and fast food
• Eat more vegetables that grow above ground and fruit for between meal snacks.
• Drink more water (at least 8 – eight ounce glasses) - less soda, coffee and tea.
• Then, consider using well-crafted nutraceutical supplements to fill the gap in your diet between what you are eating and what you should be consuming to promote and maintain your health.

If you feel that your body is less than healthy, it is likely that one or more of the usual culprits could be stealing your health.  Consider using a specific nutraceutical supplement to restore your well being.
Poor Diet, Obesity, Constipation, Digestion, Parasites and Toxins.

It is, after all, better to invest in health than it is to pay for sickness.

NuPro Podcast

 

There seems to be a variety of opinions regarding the value of diet pills.  There are as many people who have experienced meaningful weight loss from using diet pills as those who have been disappointed.  The simple fact is:  diet pills are not magic bullets.  But, they can be a useful weapon in your personal battle of the bulge.

Regardless of your position,  one of the most popular segments of the dietary supplement industry is weight loss, commonly sold as diet pills, to help people burn fat and lose weight. It is easy to understand why diet pills are so popular with consumers.

Americans are a growing population.
Unfortunately, it is growing wider and wider. Airline seats are becoming too small for the passengers; beds aren’t strong enough to hold the occupants; cars, that used to seat 6 people comfortably, do so for 4 people. Clothing manufacturers are even changing the cut of their clothes. Size 12 isn’t a 12 anymore – it is relaxed fit.

Prior to 2003, most of the diet pills contained an herb called Ma Huang. It has a stimulating action and, when mixed with a natural caffeine source and a natural aspirin, initiates thermogenesis: a process that creates heat by burning calories in the form of stored fat. Users experience increased energy and in most cases, measurable weight loss.

The active ingredient, Ephedra, was banned by F.D.A. in 2003.
The F.D.A. felt these ephedra-based products were dangerous and banned all supplements containing Ma Huang and any other herb that contained this particular plant compound generally referred to as Ephedra. Rightly or wrongly, people lost a valuable tool for weight loss because a few people, who were using the product, refused to follow label instructions.

What are People Doing?
People still want diet pills to help them lose weight. The industry offers a host of diet products that contain stimulants from various sources. Recently, the F.D.A. evaluated weight loss products. After the evaluation, more than 70 of them were recalled because the products were adulterated with unauthorized stimulants. The list is available on Consumer Alert website of the F.D.A.

There are better choices.
There are diet pills on the market that do not rely on over-stimulating the body to help consumers lose weight. But, because they lack the “pop” that was the hallmark of the ephedra-based diet products, they are often overlooked by consumers. In fact, many of these products can be very helpful for achieving meaningful weight loss.

People should expect three things from a diet pill:

1. A quick, experiential change of energy. It isn’t that jittery feeling - it is a sensation that people often refer to as an awakening.
2. A sustained, heightened level of energy and focus that, when taken in the morning, carries the consumer through the typical mid-morning doldrums. You can expect a similar experience if you use the weight loss supplement at lunch.
3. Appetite and cravings management to help avoid snacking between meals.

Can diet pills help you lose weight without feeling jittery?
You bet. Diet pills can help you lose weight. But, you should know that there is a difference between burning calories and burning fat. And, you can lose weight even faster if you add moderate exercise and avoid eating products made with white flour, milk and milk products, starches and table sugar. And, don’t forget fruit sugar in juices!

Whether you choose to begin your weight loss program for health reasons or appearance, you don’t have to feel like you could jump out of your skin to lose weight. All you really need is your good judgment, well-crafted diet pills and a little time.

NuPro Podcast

 

Parasites are a topic most people do not want to consider.

People believe that intestinal parasites are are limited to Third World countries and that they are uncommon in the U.S.

Nothing could be further from the truth ! Recent studies it has been estimate that 85% of the North American adult population has at least one form of intestinal parasite or organ parasite living in their bodies. Some authorities feel this figure may be as high as 95%.

How can we possibly get infected in the United States?

Here are just a few of the ways:

• increased international business and tourist travel,
• armed forces returning home,
• immigration,
• contaminated water supplies,
• swimming in contaminated lakes and streams,
• your pets or other peoples pets,
• food supplies, such as pork, processed meats, uncooked meats, chicken, lamb, and even fish may contain human intestinal parasites and organ parasites - to name a few.

The lack of treatment for intestinal and organ parasites is the #1 contributing factor in the prevalence of colon parasites, intestinal parasites and organ parasites in people -  and it is solely responsible for infesting other people with the same unwelcome guests.

Like it or not, everyone is affected by parasites.

Parasites are organisms that derive nutrition and shelter by living in or on another organism – living and dying in the host (your body), reproducing, along the way, to assure that there are future generations to live and die in their host – producing others to be passed on to another unsuspecting host.  Just about any part of your body is vulnerable to infestation: the lungs, liver, esophagus, brain, blood, muscles, joints, skin…and even your eyes!

Parasites may do any or all of six things:

1. Intestinal parasites and organ parasites cause physical damage to the body by perforating the intestines, circulatory system, lungs, liver, other organs and tissue essentially making Swiss cheese of them. Food allergies, for example, may be one of the indications of a parasitic condition of the intestine which allows food to leak into the lymph system, causing an immune response to the leaked material.
2. Weaken, damage or block certain organs just with their presence.
3. Lump together into a mass. Parasites may exist in the brain, heart, lungs, other organs, structures and tissue of your body.
4. Weaken the host by robbing the host of essential nutrients, taking a portion of the nutrients on which the host depends.
5. Poison the host with their wastes. In the best case, the host does double duty disposing of its waste and that of the parasites. Worse, when the host has difficulty disposing of the parasite’s wastes, a poisoning occurs called verminous intoxication.
6. Fool the host’s immune system into believing the parasite is part of its body.  The parasitic population is allowed grow unaffected by any of the body’s normal defense mechanisms.

Symptoms of intestinal parasites, colon parasites and organ parasites may include:

Constipation: due to worms actually blocking the intestine.
Diarrhea: certain parasites release a hormone like substances that can lead to a watery stool.
Gas and Bloating: Some human parasites that live in the small intestine causing inflammation that produces gas and bloating.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Human parasites can irritate, inflame and coat the lining of the intestines causing symptoms of this disease.
Joint and Muscle Aches and Pains: Parasites can migrate and become enclosed in a sac in joint fluids, worms can do this in muscles as well.
Anemia: Some intestinal worms attach themselves to the lining of the intestines;  feeding on the vital nutrients of the host.
Allergies: Parasites can penetrate the intestinal lining allowing large undigested food particles into the body which can create the immune system response that is often assumed to be an allergy.
Skin Conditions: Intestinal worms can cause hives, rashes, weeping eczema and a whole host of other skin conditions.
Nervousness: Human parasites create wastes and toxic substances that can be severe irritants to the central nervous system. Restlessness or anxiety are often the symptoms associated with these parasitic wastes.
Sleep Disturbances: Multiple awakenings at night between the hours of 2 and 3 AM are possibly caused by the liver attempts to flush toxic wastes, produced by parasitic infestations, out of the body.
Tooth Grinding and Clenching: This has been observed in patients with known cases of human parasitic infestations.
Chronic  Tiredness: fatigue, flu like complaints, apathy, impaired concentration, depression, and memory problems. The human parasites are simply stealing your food and nutrients and overwhelming your body with their wastes.
Immune System Dysfunctions: Human parasites depress the immune system by the continued stimulation of the immune system which over time exhausts your defense system.
Excess Weight, Acne and Others: These can be telltale signs of parasitic invasion including, excessive hunger, asthma, bad taste in the mouth and bad breath, epilepsy, migraines and even heart disease and other degenerative disease.

Everyone can be affected by intestinal parasites, colon parasites and even organ parasites; robbing you of essential nutrition, living, reproducing, dying, weakening and damaging your body, creating wastes that burden or even poison your body, repeating the cycle over and over with each new generation, in increasingly larger numbers.

Nothing New
Humans have been using natural means to treat parasites since the beginning of recorded history.

• They dealt with parasites in the spring, after a long winter of close contact with other humans,
• in the fall, after a summer of contamination from the environment, water, food and soil or
• anytime they felt their energy and vitality slipping away.

Classic herbal methods for managing intestinal parasites, colon parasites and organ parasites include: Wormwood, Clove and Black Walnut.  More modern Nutraceutical formulations have given rise to even more efficient natural means for dealing with parasites.

Why wait? The benefits of dealing with parasites, interrupting their life cycles and protecting yourself from further invasion are obvious.   Learn how you can deal with parasites.

Except, to be totally accurate, the statement should be You are what you can absorb from the food you eat. The digestive tract converts the food you eat into nutrition to sustain the body.

The processes involved in the conversion of food to nutrition are fully dependent on the interplay of enzymes (both from your food and digestive enzymes produced by the body), stomach acids and microbes.

Enzymes Are the Currency of Life.

Dr. Edward Howell, (Enzyme Nutrition, Avery Publishing, WaWe NJ., 1985) identifies three types of enzymes:

1. metabolic enzymes,
2. digestive enzymes and
3. food enzymes which exist in raw, unprocessed, uncooked food.

Dr. Howell writes: “Enzymes are protein molecules that catalyze chemical reactions. All living things depend on the swift completion of thousands of biochemical, enzyme reactions every hour.”  We are completely dependent on these metabolic enzymes for virtually every body function:

• energy,
• alertness,
• memory,
• thought and
• hundreds of other activities are totally dependent on enzymes.

“Organs, in the body, secrete digestive enzymes to break down the food we eat, but many of these enzymes are damaged or excreted during the process of digestion, absorption and elimination and are not recycled.”

We depend on food enzymes to replace these damaged and lost enzymes. Enzymes, while very powerful, are fragile. Cooking and processing foods destroys the raw food enzymes.

Dr. Howell writes “ … a diet composed of cooked and processed food, in which the natural enzymes are destroyed, leads to enzymes insufficiency and stresses the organs which secrete enzymes. A lifetime of eating “dead foods” is a contributing factor …” in the decline from radiant health.
Digestion is more complex than it may seem since more than 80 million Americans are paying the price for failures along the digestive tract.

Most people would rather not think or talk about matters of digestion:  the pain, gas, bloating, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea.   They choose to suffer the consequences of neglecting this aspect of their health – quietly.  Too bad – doing nothing only compounds the situation.

The short version is: if your diet consists of cooked, packaged, processed and preserved foods, Dr. Howell advocates supplementing your diet with enzymes.