Green Barley Benefits

Return2Health — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:50:59 +0000

Most of our foods are processed, heated or have been in storage, losing vitality and nutritional value. But what ALTERNATIVE is there? GREEN BARLEY is the answer, supplying a balance of essential nutrients and the life – force we require to be well.

Green Barley, Nature’s ideal convenience food, is a concentrate that restores to the average diet minerals, vitamins, amino acids and many other food factors in their organic form. Of special interest are the many enzymes in Green Barley, which render this wonderful product “a living food”. Green Barley can be compared to eating freshly harvested organic green vegetables with the added advantages inherent in the green shoots of barley. Research over many years has shown them to contain the greatest number of essential elements, for human nutrition, of all forms of vegetation.

ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS are comprised of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. For our bodies to be able to repair, and build new cells, antibodies, hormones and enzymes these nutrients must be present in the body at all times.

Green Barley contains these essential nutrients in a form, which is highly acceptable to the body. These nutrients are accompanied by an abundance of enzymes – the LIFE FORCE of food. Without enzymes the treasury of vegetation placed at our disposal here on Earth would be but dead matter. We cannot be expected to build healthy living tissues with dead matter, and nor can we.

Dr Mary Swope, author of Green Leaves of Barley points out that endogenous (originating from within) enzymes are limited at birth, are exhaustible, last longer when conserved by consistent daily consumption of raw foods, and by consuming supplements.

Green Barley Powder contains the spectrum of enzyme activated vitamins in nature’s inimitable balance, and an excellent range of minerals and trace elements in organic form. These vitamins and minerals perform the role of micro – nutrients, which allow the maximum utilisation of macro – nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and fat).

The brilliant green colour inherent in Green Barley is chlorophyll (the substance which allows plants to photosynthesize).

Systemic Enzymes | An Overview

Return2Health — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Without enzymes there would be no life, our bodies rely on enzymes for every bodily function including amongst other things breathing, digestion, reproduction, sense perception, immune function and healing. There are several reasons why our bodies can become depleted in enzymes. This can include the following:

Metal toxicity

Water fluoridation
Excessive cooking
High fat diet
Pasteurisation
Use of hormones in meat products
Use of pesticides and other chemicals
Microwaving or exposure to radiation or electromagnetic fields
Stress or long term illness
Amalgam dental fillings

A systemic enzyme supplement, when taken in conjunction with a healthy diet rich in vegetables and fruits can help readdress enzyme depletion. The benefits of this type of enzyme therapy are varied but include the following:

Support the promotion of a healthy cardiovascular system
Aid the reduction in fibrin or scar tissue which is known to cause inflammation and in extreme cases fibrosis
Aid the reduction of inflammation and help with pain control
Boost the immune system and help fight infection particularly viral infections

What Are Systemic Enzymes and What Do They Do?

Return2Health — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:00:54 +0000

By: William Wong N.D. , Ph.D., Member, World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame.

The word systemic means body wide. Systemic enzymes are those that operate,not just for digestion, but throughout your body in every system and organ.But let’s take first things first, what is an enzyme?

An enzyme is a biocatalyst – something that makes something else work or work faster. Chemical reactions are generally slow things, enzymes speed them up. Without enzymes, the chemical reactions that make up our life would be too slow for life as we know it. (As slow as sap running down a tree in winter). For life to manifest, as we know it, enzymes are essential to speed up the reactions.

We have roughly 3000 enzymes in our bodies and over 7000 enzymatic reactions. Most of these enzymes are derived or created from what we think of as the protein digesting enzymes. But while digestion is an important part of what enzymes do, it’s almost the absolute last function. First and foremost, these body-wide protein-eating enzymes have the following actions:

Natural Anti-Inflammatory.

Enzymes are the first line of defense against inflammation. (1,2,3). Inflammation is a reaction by the immune system to an irritation. Let’s say you have an injured right knee. The immune system, sensing the irritation in the knee, creates a protein chain called a Circulating Immune Complex (CIC for short), tagged specifically for that right knee. (The Nobel Prize in biology was won in 1999 by a scientist who found the tagging mechanism). This CIC floats down to the right knee and causes pain, redness and swelling – the classic earmarks for inflammation. This, at first, is a beneficial reaction; it warns us that a part of ourselves is hurt and needs attention. But, inflammation is self-perpetuating, it creates an irritation that in response, and the body makes CIC’s for!

Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Celebrex, Viox and the rest of the Non Steroidial Anti Inflammatory Drugs all work by keeping the body from making all the CIC’s. This ignores the fact that some CIC’s are vital to life, like those that maintain the lining of the intestine and those that keep the kidneys functioning! Not to mention the fact that they, along with acetaminophen, are highly toxic to the liver. Every year 20,000 Americans die from these over the counter drugs and another 100,000 will wind up in the hospital with liver damage, kidney damage or bleeding intestines from the side effects of these drugs. (4,5).

Systemic enzymes, on the other hand, are perfectly safe and free of dangerous side effects. They have no LD-50, or toxic dose. (6). Best of all, systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the good CIC’s and the bad ones. This is due to the fact that hydrolytic enzymes are lock and key mechanisms and their “teeth” will only fit over the bad CIC’s. So instead of preventing the creation of all CIC’s, systemic enzymes just “eat” the bad ones and in so doing, lower inflammation everywhere. With that, pain is also lowered.

Anti Fibrosis

Enzymes eat scar tissue and fibrosis. (7). Fibrosis is scar tissue and most doctors learn in anatomy that it is fibrosis that eventually kills us all. Let me explain. As we age, which starts at 27, we have a diminishing of the body’s output of enzymes. This is because we make a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime and we use up a good deal of them by the time we are 27. At that point, the body knows that if it keeps up that rate of consumption we’ll run out of enzymes and be dead by the time we reach our 40’s. (Cystic Fibrosis patients who have virtually no enzyme production to speak of, even as children usually don’t make it past their 20’s before they die of the restriction and shrinkage in the lungs from the formation of fibrosis or scar tissue).

So our body begins to dole out our enzymes with an eyedropper instead of with a tablespoon. Result: the repair mechanism of the body goes off balance and has nothing to reduce the over abundance of fibrin it deposits in nearly everything from simple cuts, to the inside of our internal organs and blood vessels. It is then when most women begin to develop things like fibrocystic breast disease, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis. We all grow arterial sclerotic (meaning scar tissue) plaque, and have fibrin begin to spider web its way inside of our internal organs, reducing their size and function over time. This is why as we age our wounds heal with thicker, less pliable, weaker and very visible scars.

If we replace the lost enzymes, we can control and reduce the amount of scar tissue and fibrosis our bodies have. As physicians in the US are now discovering, even old scar tissue can be “eaten away” from surgical wounds, pulmonary fibrosis, kidney fibrosis even keloid years after their formation. Medical doctors in Europe and Asia have known this and used orally administered enzymes for such for over 40 years!

Blood Cleansing.

The blood is not only the river of life; it is also the river through which the cells and organs dispose of their waste. Enzymes improve circulation by eating the excess fibrin that causes blood to sometimes get as thick as catsup or yogurt, creating the perfect environment for the formation of clots. All of this material is supposed to be cleaned off by the liver on “first pass” or the first time it goes through. Given the sluggish and near toxic or toxic states of everyone’s liver these days, that seldom happens. So the waste remains in the blood, waiting for the liver to have enough free working space and enough enzymes to clean it. This can take days or in some people, weeks! (8).

When systemic enzymes are taken, they stand ready in the blood and take the strain off of the liver by;

Cleaning excess fibrin from the blood and reducing the stickiness of blood cells. These two actions minimize the leading causes of stroke and heart attack: blood clots. (8).
Breaking dead material down small enough that it can immediately pass into the bowel. (8).
Cleansing the FC receptors on the white blood cells, improving their function and availability to fight off infection. (9).

And here we come to the only warning we have to give concerning the use of Vitalzym or any other systemic enzyme – don’t use the product if you are a hemophiliac or are on prescription blood thinners like coumadin, heparin and plavix. The enzymes cause the drugs to work better, so there is the possibility of thinning the blood too much.

Immune System Modulating.

Enzymes are adaptogenic, seeking to restore a steady state to the body. (9). When the immune system is running low, we become susceptible to infectious disease. When it’s cranked up too high, then the system creates antibodies that attack it’s own tissues, as are seen in the autoimmune diseases of MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Lupus. Here the Vitalzym will tone down immune function and eat away at the antibodies the immune system is making to attack its bodies own tissue.

When the immune system is run down too low, the enzymes increase immune response, producing more Natural Killer cells, and improving the efficiency of the white blood cells, all leading to improved immunity.

Virus Fighting.

Viruses harm us by replicating in our bodies. To do this, a virus must bond itself to the DNA in our cells through the medium of its exterior protein cell wall. Anything that disrupts that cell wall inhibits the ability of viral replication by rendering individual viruses inert. (10,11). Systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the proteins that are supposed to be in your body and those that are foreign or not supposed to be there (again the enzyme lock and key mechanism). Vitalzym has the strongest protein eating effect of any enzyme due to its Serrapeptase content and can be of help in combating viruses.

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