To better understand how enzymes work, let's fantasize. One beautiful day in June, you found yourself in an apple orchard. You want an apple, but they're still green and hiding in the leaves, not easy to see, and they don't smell yet. You return to the orchard in July and see huge delicious smelling red apples. It's like they're saying, "See me, smell me, eat me." You are imbued with the notion that from the perspective of the apple being eaten by an animal or a human being is an extension of life. You reach out and pluck a large red apple. You start eating it. The apple is full of enzymes. While you savor its flavor, the enzymes (which resemble artisans with suitcases full of magical healing tools) get to work. As you walk through the garden, the enzymes work like a healing team to repair your body. You feel great and full of energy because apple carries enzymes that help digestion. Your body doesn't have to put extra effort into digesting that apple. Later, the apple leaves your body as fertilizer and continues to live on. In this way, you participate in the circular cycle of life. Everything moves in a circle. It's the law of the universe. A week later, you return to the orchard and pick a full basket of apples. You bring apples home to bake them in the oven like your grandmother used to do. You pour the caramel over them, sprinkle them with cinnamon and put them in the oven. The baked apples look just like the picture and smell amazing. They seem as nutritious as that apple you picked and ate a week ago. But it isn't. While these apples were baking in the oven, all the enzymes broke down.
You take a bite of the sweet baked apple, the caramel and cinnamon stimulate your taste buds, creating a sense of pleasure. You finished eating and decided to lie down. You feel lethargic and tired. Inside your body, your own enzymes have to give up their job of liver cleaning, tumor protection, or waste evacuation for the sake of helping you digest that baked apple with no enzymes left in it. When that apple finally leaves your body, its digested form is full of your own enzymes. These enzymes are lost to you forever. Cooked food contains no live enzymes and therefore takes enzymes from your body to digest. And so with each meal of cooked food, you have less and less of your own enzymes left in you.
Dr. Edward Hovell, a leading nutritionist, estimates that the average American at age 40 has only 30% of their supply of all enzymes left. In doing so, we continue to walk, talk and think, but when we only have 30% of the enzymes left in our bodies and 75% of them have to spend their energy cleaning our bodies, we become more indifferent not only to others but also to ourselves. We can survive physically, but not spiritually.
But not all is lost - even with the remaining 30% of enzymes, we can live the rest of our lives to the fullest if we switch to raw foodism and allow our bodies to cleanse themselves.
The scope of action of enzymes is still poorly understood by most. Many nutritionists don't realize the importance of enzymes in our eating process. If you want to follow a healthy diet, you need to have a clear understanding of how enzymes work. For example, let's look at the difference between raw and cooked fats. What are fats for? We all need fats to moisturize our eyes so we can see. For the skin to be soft. To lubricate the joints when we move. For the hair, for the brain, etc. д. We can't get live fats from pasteurized milk, butter, sour cream, or roasted nuts because all of these have received high temperature processing. All fat people suffer from a lack of real fats. Our bodies desperately need raw live fats. The best sources of live fats are avocados, young kokoi, olives, seeds, and unrefined pressed olive oil.
I think back to a time when I was very full. I weighed 120 pounds (55 kg) more than I weigh now. When I switched to raw food, I had a terrible craving for avocados. I was eating six avocados a day. Before that, though, they reminded me of soap. When I started eating avocados my weight began to lose at a great rate because the lipase enzymes in avocado fat penetrated my fat deposits, breaking them down into smaller particles and eliminating them from my body. My weight began to decrease noticeably. Isn't that amazing?
Let's take another example - calcium. When we lack calcium, we are advised by doctors to drink pasteurized milk. You've all seen the television commercials where they ask you, "Did you buy milk?" I mean, when we need calcium the more correct question would be, "Did you buy sprouted wheatgrass juice?" or "Do you have sesame milk?". Cow's milk is not meant for human consumption; yes, it has calcium, but it also has very concentrated protein, in addition, milk produces a lot of mucus in your body. In addition, pasteurized milk was treated with high temperature and all enzyme activity stopped. When enzymes are destroyed - life stops. Drinking milk gives you empty lifeless calcium molecules.
Cow gets calcium from grass, and the juice from the greens of sprouted wheat is easily digested by your body, t.к. the chlorophyll molecule and the human blood molecule are almost identical in structure. Sesame seeds are the most rich in calcium of all other seeds and nuts. Sesame milk is delicious and will easily replace your cow's milk. You'll find a recipe for it at the end of this article.
As mentioned above, enzymes carry life and energy. We are not only human beings, but we are spiritual beings as well. We need energy to keep us moving and working and loving, communicating, empathizing and sharing with each other. Every time we eat cooked food, we lose enzymes. In our cooked-food-filled bodies, enzymes have a lot of hard work to do. Since there are no enzymes in cooked foods, our bodies don't need them. Therefore, the body sees cooked food as a toxin and tries to digest as little of it as possible.
Can lost enzymes be restored? There are different opinions on this question. Dr. Hovell writes that all living things have a limited supply of enzymes, and it is not replenished. Very often people ask if they can replenish their enzyme supply by taking sapliments. I believe they can't. Enzyme pills sold in drugstores are nothing but dried raw food. For example, the sapliment, which helps digest beef langetto, is made from dried beef liver. As I understand it, roast beef linguette has a different chemical composition than raw beef liver.
If we eat large quantities of apples, can we make an enzyme reserve? I believe that we cannot store enzymes taken from apples in our body. Once in our body, they do their job, but then they don't stay there. This is my personal opinion based on my personal experience and information taken from the literature, but no one really still knows if you can replenish enzymes. In other words, I believe I have restored my health not by enzymes taken from the outside, but by preserving my own by stopping eating cooked foods. The enzymes in my body are not overworked from digesting cooked food, and I am full of health and energy. I also believe that if we follow the call of our heart and walk the path of service to humanity, we become more open spiritually and Nature gives us an extra supply of energy.
Milk from nuts or seeds
1 cup of any nuts or seeds soaked from the evening
2 cups of water
1 tbsp. spoonful of honey or 2-3 dates (seedless) 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
Mix all ingredients in a mixer. Strain through gauze or a sieve. Pour it into the jar. Designed for 4 people.
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