Dr. Howell: enzymes and life expectancy

Dr. Edward Houell, who studied food enzymes, argued that enzymes can play a major role in preventing chronic disease and increase life expectancy.

Dr. Howell was born in 1898 in Chicago. In 1930 he founded a private clinic, which treated a chronic disease of diet and exercise. In 1970 he retired and became the only work 3 times a week. The rest of the time he devoted to various studies.

Howell was the first researcher who discovered the importance of enzymes in the human diet. In 1946 he wrote the book "The value of food enzymes for digestion and metabolism» (The Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism.) His other book is called «Enzym Diet». It contains materials about the enzyme theories which Dr. Howell brings together under the title "the concept of food enzymes».

Excerpts from itervyu with Dr. Houellom. Meaning of enzymes in the diet.



What are enzymes?

Enzymes - a substance that makes life possible. They are essential in any chemical reaction occurring in the body. Without enzymes in general there would be no vigorous activity of the organism.

Think about enzymes is "labor force" that builds your body just as the builders are building houses. You can have all the necessary building materials, but to build a house, you will need workers who are vital elements. And just as you can have all the nutrients - vitamins, proteins, minerals, etc. - But you still need the enzymes vital elements to maintain the viability of the organism

. Then the enzymes are essentially chemical catalysts that speed up various reactions?

No. Enzymes more than catalysts. Catalysts - it simply inert substances. They do not have the vital energy that we see in enzymes. For example, in the action of the enzyme provide a certain light, which is not true of catalysts. In addition, although enzymes contain protein (and some contain vitamins), the enzyme activity was never sintetizirovana.

Moreover, there is no combination of proteins or any combination of amino acids or other substances which would energy endowed enzyme. The enzymes have the proteins but they serve as carriers of the enzyme activity factor. Thus, it can be argued that enzymes consist of protein transporters, charged with energy, as well as a battery consists of metallic plates charged with electrical energy.

How our body takes enzymes?

It seems that we inherit a certain enzyme potential at birth. This limited supply of energy is targeted for life. This is the same as inherit a certain amount of money. If we move in the same direction - only expense and no income - you will go broke. In the same way, the faster you spend energy enzymes, the sooner you exhale. Experiments in different Universita showed that prestavitelya regardless of species, the higher the degree of metabolism, the shorter the life expectancy.

Under the same circumstances, it can be argued that you live as long as your body has enzyme activity factors, of which it produces new enzymes. When you reach the point where your body is no longer able to produce enzymes, your life ends.

Make Do people something that makes them limited supply of enzymes be wasted?

Yes. Almost everyone eats mostly cooked food on the fire. Remember that when the food is cooked at 100 degrees, the enzymes in it are 100% destroyed. If the enzymes present in the food we eat, they would have themselves carried out a significant part of the work on the digestion of food. But if you eat cooked food devoid of enzymes, the body is forced itself to produce enzymes for digestion. This much reduces the limited enzyme capacity.

How serious is it caused by eating boiled load on our enzyme "bank»?

I think this is one of the main causes of premature aging and early death. I also believe that this is the main cause of many diseases. Let's start with the fact that if the body is overloaded due to the fact that should deliver a lot of enzymes in the saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice and intestinal juice, then it should reduce the production of enzymes for other purposes.

How, then, at the same time the body can produce enough enzyme to the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs and other organs and tissues?

This "stealing" of enzymes from other parts of the body to the digestive tract leads to a struggle for enzymes among the different organs and tissues. Such metabolic dislocations may be the main cause of cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes and many other chronic incurable diseases. This state of enzyme deficiency characteristic of the power of the majority of people following the civilized way of eating, devoid of enzymes.

Human disease appeared when people began to cook?

It is at this point to the facts. For example, the Neanderthals 50,000 years ago, is actively used fire for cooking. They lived in caves and ate mostly grilled meat, using a constant fire that warmed their home. These statements are accompanied by scientific evidence in my published and unpublished works. Through fossils we know that Neanderthals were suffering from advanced arthritis.

Maybe they were sick as diabetes or cancer or have had kidney problems, etc. This, however, we will never know since all soft tissues have disappeared without a trace.

By the way, another inhabitant of the caves was the cave bear. This animal is protected from the Neanderthal cave tiger, who also sought shelter from the bad weather in the caves. This bear, in accordance with these paleontologists, was partially domesticated and most likely that he also ate roasted meat cooked person. Like the cave man, the bear was suffering from chronic arthritis.

Is it possible that Neanderthals arthritis was caused by cold weather, not cooked food?

No. I do not think the weather has to do with it. For example, take the primitive Eskimo. They also live in a cold environment. However, the Eskimo never suffered from arthritis and did not suffer from other chronic illnesses. But the Eskimos ate raw food in large quantities. The meat they ate was only slightly heated, and inside was raw. Therefore, the Eskimos received enzymes with every meal. In fact, the word "Eskimo" itself comes from the Indian phrase "he who eats it raw." By the way the Eskimos do not have medicine, and in North American tribes who ate a lot of processed foods, healer held a prominent position in the tribe.

How can you prove that the person is suffering from a lack of enzymes in food?

The evidence is so much that I can only make a brief overview of a small part of them. Over the past 40 years, I have collected thousands of scientific documents in support of his theory.

Let's start with the fact that of all the animals in a person's blood, the lowest level of enzymes that digest starch. We also have the highest levels of these enzymes in the urine. This means that they are spent quickly.

There is one more proof that the low level of enzyme is not related to the physiological characteristics of the human species. Rather, it is because we eat huge amounts of starch, which is cooked food. We also know that the lower the level of enzymes can be found in a number of chronic diseases such as allergies, skin diseases, and even in such serious diseases as diabetes and cancer.

In addition, there is one more proof revealing: cooked food without enzymes is partly a cause of abnormal increase in the pituitary gland, which regulates the glands. Moreover, studies have shown that almost 100% of people aged over 50 years, dying at random circumstances found to be defective pituitary.

Further, I think that the lack of enzymes is nowadays a cause of precocious puberty children and adolescents, as well as the cause of overweight in many children and adults.

Numerous animal studies have shown that poor nutrition enzyme leads to an accelerated maturation of the organism. Animals that are fed cooked food, much heavier than their counterparts who adhere to a raw diet.

There is another fact: the farmers to grow more fat pigs for sale, feed them boiled potatoes. They found that pigs on boiled potatoes fatten faster and it becomes economically advantageous.

This fact indicates that the difference between the "boiled" and "raw" essential calories. In fact, when many years ago I worked in the health center, I realized that it is simply impossible to get fat on raw foods, regardless of the number of calories eaten.

By the way, due to a lack of enzymes brain size decreases. Furthermore, increased thyroid even when sufficient iodine. This has been proven on many wildlife species. Of course, it is impossible to conduct such experiments over a man. However, this fact makes you wonder.

Is there still any facts proving harm cooked food?

Of course. Imagine that our pancreas is loaded with work for the production of enzymes is much greater than that of the animals that are eaten raw. If uchtyvat proportions, the human pancreas is twice as heavy cowhide. Man eats mostly cooked food on the fire, while cows eat raw grass.

It was found that rats fed cooked meal, the pancreas two times greater than that of crude counterparts on diet. Moreover, evidence suggests that the human pancreas is the largest of all animal life (given the weight proportions).

Increasing the pancreas is as dangerous - and possibly more - as the enlargement of the heart, thyroid, etc. The overproduction of enzymes in humans is a pathological adaptation to a poor diet with enzymes.

The pancreas is not the only organ that peretruzhdaetsya when allocates enzymes. The salivary glands are also doing a extra work, which can not be found in animals on a natural diet. In fact, some animals do not have enzymes in saliva. Cows and sheep salivation, but no enzymes in saliva. In dogs, for example, they are also not in the saliva, but if you start to feed the dog heat treated products, within 10 days of the salivary glands begin to secrete enzymes that digest starch.

There is no evidence that the enzymes in saliva are pathology, rather than the norm, a lot. Let's start with the fact that the enzymes in saliva can not digest raw starch. This I was able to demonstrate in the laboratory. The enzymes attack only boiled starch. Thus, we see that the body sends its limited supply of enzymes in the saliva only when forced to do so.

By the way, I have examined the animals in the lab a few years ago. One group of rats was fed I cooked food, another made it possible to follow the natural way of life, to see which of them will live longer. The first group received raw meat, raw vegetables, and grains. The second - all the same, but boiled, therefore, devoid of enzymes. I watched the rats until they died. It took about 3 years. When the experiment came to an end, the results surprised me. It turned out that the large difference in life expectancy between the rats of the two groups was not.

Later, I discovered the reason. It was found that rats still got enzymes, but from an unexpected source. They were eating their own feces that contain enzymes derived from their organisms. All feces, including human, contain enzymes that organism used. My rat repeatedly used their enzymes. And that is why they lived as long as their counterparts on a natural diet.

Incidentally, the practice of eating their own feces observed in all animals in the laboratory. Despite the fact that these animals are fed with products that contain all known vitamins and minerals, they instinctively know they need enzymes. Therefore, they eat their own feces.

In fact, animals that are thrown on the "scientific diet", developed most of the inherent human chronic diseases. This confirms the fact that only vitamins and minerals is not enough for health.

Why do you believe that people would be useful to receive additional enzymes?

For me, the most vpechalyayuschim evidence that people need enzymes is fasting. As you know, I worked for several years in the wellness center, offering different patsietam fasting program.

When a person is hungry, immediately suspended production of digestive enzymes.

The amount of enzymes in saliva, gastric and pancreatic juice decreases, becomes poor. During fasting enzymes in the body are released and work on recovery and purification of diseased tissue.

Civilized man eats a huge amount of heat-treated foods, the enzymes only and are busy digesting it. As a result, not enough enzyme to maintain healthy tissue. The majority of the hungry are the so-called healing crisis. Patients may feel nausea and dizziness. At this time, enzymes are trying to change the unhealthy structure of the organism, they attack and destroy the abnormal tissue undigested and unprocessed substances, and they in turn are output via the intestine, vomiting or through the skin.

Does gastric acid enzymes are destroyed when we get them from food? And if they lose because of it all its value?

This is not true. While many nutritionists claim that enzymes coming from the food are destroyed in the stomach, they overlooked two important facts.

First of all, during a meal minimally acid secretion for at least 30 minutes. While food goes down the esophagus, it drops on the top of the stomach. It is called cardiac (heart) part as it is located closer to the heart. The remaining part of the stomach remains flat and closed while a portion of the heart is opened to place a food. For some time the food is in the upper part, while the body releases a small amount of acid and enzymes.

Enzymes in food begin to digest themselves. The more self-digestion, the less work will then body. When this segment is 30 - 45 minutes is completed, open the lower part of the stomach and the body starts to produce acid and enzymes. Even at this time food enzymes are still active as long as the level of acid will not become critical.

You see, food enzymes can survive in more acidic chemical environment, and not only in neutral.

Animals, too, have a special part of the stomach, where the food is digested itself?

Of course have. In fact, some animals have what I call a food enzyme stomach. Cheek pouch in monkeys and rodents, the crop of many species of birds, the first stomach whales, dolphins and porpoises. When, for example, birds ingest seeds or grains, the latter remain in the crop for 8-12 hours. They absorb moisture, swell and begin to germinate. During germination enzymes are produced that they perevrivayut.

The whales and dolphins first stomach does not produce the enzymes. For example, whales swallow large amounts of food without chewing. The food simply decomposes itself digested. Fish and other marine animals that eat whales, contain the enzyme cathepsin. As soon as a fish dies, it begins to decompose it. In fact, this enzyme has almost all animals. After extraction whale itself acquired liquid state, it passes through a small hole in the second stomach. Scientists puzzled by this fact - like a huge whale catch can pass into the second stomach through a small hole

. Most, if not all, eat cooked foods every day. Is it possible to make up for any loss of enzymes?

No. Cooked foods are so deplete our supply of enzymes that it is impossible to fill by simply adding raw. Besides vegetables and fruits contain a large number of enzymes. As the fruits ripen, they contain enzymes responsible for ripening. But when maturation has expired, some enzymes returned to the stem, and seeds. Например, когда на производстве хотят получить фермент папайи, то используют неспелый сок этого тропического фрукта. В спелой папайе коцентрация ферментов невелика.

Есть ли продукты с особенно высоким содержанием ферментов?

Хорошими источниками ферментов являются бананы, авокадо, манго. Вобщем, вся высококаллорийная еда богата ферментами.

Вы советуете в качестве источника ферментов употреблять все сырые продукты?

No. Некоторые продукты, а именно семена и орехи, содержат вещества, которые называются ферментные ингибиторы (вещества, угнетающие активность ферментов). Их предназначение — защищать семя. Природа не хочет, чтобы семя проросло ранее определённого срока и потеряло жизнеспособность. Она хочет убедиться, что семечко в почве обеспечено достаточной влажностью для того, чтобы прорасти и продолжить род. Поэтому, когда вы едите сырые семечки или орехи, вы нейтрализуете некоторые ферменты, которые выделяет организм. На самом деле, если в пище присутствуют ферментные ингибиторы, они приводят к увеличению поджелудочной железы.

Все орехи и семена содержат эти ингибиторы. Особенно много их в сыром арахисе. Ростки сырой пшеницы тоже богаты ими. Ингибиторы содержатся также в горохе, бобах, чечевице. Сырой картофель тоже является семенем, соответственно в нем присутствуют вещества, угнетающие активность ферментов. В яйцах (а это тоже семя) ингибиторы присутствуют в основном в белке.

Общее правило гласит: ингибиторы сосредоточены в семенной части растения. Например, в глазках картофеля. Их нет в мякоти фруктов, в листьях и стеблях овощей.

Есть два способа разрушить ферментные ингибиторы: первый, приготовить еду, но в этом случае разрушатся также ферменты, второй, более предпочтительный, это проращивание. Оно разрушает ингибиторы и повышает количество ферментов в два раза.