No probs, Sunny - I hope as a team we can come up with some strategies and ideas to stop you from hitting a brick wall. You desperately need some inspiration and more than anything some fresh hope
Been looking more on the enzyems and found a (to me) fascinating article... skim read the first few paragraphs and bear with it because it covers EVERYTHING about the role and importance of enzymes and why fasting is so effective - it all fitted into place for me.
Extract:
HDN: Do people do anything which causes them to waste their limited enzyme supply?
HOWELL: Yes. Just about every single person eats a diet of mainly cooked foods. Keep in mind that whenever a food is boiled at 212 degrees, the enzymes in it are 100% destroyed.
If enzymes were in the food we eat, they would do some or even a considerable part of the work of digestion by themselves. However, when you eat cooked, enzyme-free food, this forces the body itself to make the enzymes needed for digestion. This depletes the body's limited enzyme capacity.
HDN: How serious is this strain on our enzyme "bank" caused by diets of mostly cooked food?
HOWELL: I believe it's one of the paramount causes of premature aging and early death. I also believe it's the underlying cause of almost all degenerative disease.
This is the bit about fasting - which I never fully understood the mechanics of before:
Extract:
HDN: How do you know that people would benefit from additional enzyme intake?
HOWELL: To me, the most impressive evidence that people need enzymes is what occurs as a result of therapeutic fasting. As you know, I spent some years in a sanitarium working with patients on various fasting programs.
When a person fasts, there is an immediate halt to the production of digestive enzymes. The enzymes in saliva, gastric juice and pancreatic juice dwindle and become scarce. During fasting, the body's enzymes are free to work on repairing and removing diseased tissues.
Civilized people eat such large quantities of cooked foods that their enzyme systems are kept busy digesting food. As a result, the body lacks the enzymes needed to maintain the tissues in good health.
Most people who fast go through what is called a healing crisis. The patients may feel nausea, vomiting and dizziness. What's happening is that the enzymes are working to change the unhealthy structure of the body. The enzymes attack pathological tissues and break down undigested and unprocessed substances; and these then get thrown off through the bowels, through vomiting, or via the skin.
There is lots more compelling evidence in the interview.
Here is the link:
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/enzymes.html Incidentally, everything I am reading is saying that tree nuts are enzyeme inhibitors - which struck a chord because they give you trouble don't they?
