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Supplement to

The Art of Getting Well

Systemic Enzyme Therapy

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;

major author, if any, is underlined.

John Beard, Herxheimer, Dr. Inderst, Kleine, Dr. Kunz,

Jaeger, Prof. Seifert, Hector E. Solorzano del Rio, M.D., D.Sc,

Ph.D, Prof. Wolf, Dr. Wrba/Responsible editor/writer Anthony di

Fabio. This remarkable doctor sits in the only chair for Alternative

Medicine, in the Second largest university in Mexico, University of

Guadalajara.

for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

AKA The Arthritis Trust of America,

7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062,

Hector E. Solorzano del Rio, M.D., D.Sc, Ph.D

People must know that the correct medical name for the

therapeutic use of natural enzymes is "Systemic Enzyme Therapy."

This means that enzymes flow throughout our body, producing the

desired healing effects.

For an accurate description of Systemic Enzyme Therapy, one

needs to know a little bit about the structure and function of

enzymes, in general.

You must know that without enzymes, there is no possibility of

life, in animals, plants or persons. Enzymes are essential for each

and every reaction in a living organism.

We could even follow the arising of life on earth, if we think of

enzymes that were necessary for the evolution in each stage. Oxygen

from the air arose because certain new enzymes were formed by

single plants that released oxygen. These plants had learned to

produce certain enzymes that separate oxygen from carbon dioxide

in the air. Today, we accurately know how this works. Every second

we change; every second we become a new human being. This is

because more than 2,700 different enzymes act with an incredible

speed to keep our vital functions in order.

Since ancient times it was known by Egyptians and the Arabi-

ans that there was an invisible force which made all living things

shift. It was a mysterious force that transforms one substance into

another; milk became a cheese, grapefruit to wine, etc.

Enzymes are catalysts, or rather we should say, "biocatalysts."

We are dealing with determined substances whose presence causes

the transformation of an organic substance and it also accelerates it,

just as a catalyst would do it. Today we know what these enzymes

are and how they act.

Catalysts produce, with a small effort, a big effect. Nature can

not waste energy. In technical terms, enzymes are albuminoid,

macromolecular bodies, with a complex structure and are active

biocatalytically speaking. These albumins are made of 20 different

amino acids. Each enzyme is specific not only in its substratum (the

place where they react) but also in its effect. In 1930 we only knew

80 enzymes. In 1993 we know more than 2,700 enzymes. However,

we do not know how many are left to be discovered.

Enzymes are necessary for the adequate functioning of our

whole metabolism. In our body, every part of it is related to all the

rest; that is, that even one tiny disturbance, biochemically speaking,

can result in a complete imbalance. Diseases are the consequence of

this disorder.

In biochemistry, when something is designated with the ending

"ase," one can almost be sure that we are talking about an enzyme.

In the early stage of the discovery of the enzymes, they were known

with names that ended usually with an "in," like the well known

pepsin and trypsin.

Enzymes are constantly produced within our body. Described

in a simple way, there are certain organic molecular pieces that in

small quantities are required to form these enzymes. These pieces

are the vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Altogether they are

called "co-enzymes."

The deficiency of any of these co-enzymes will result in a

specific medical condition. For example, vitamin B

deficiency will

elicit "beri-beri." The vitamin B

deficiency causes a special

anemia called "pernicious anemia." The same thing happens with

deficiency of essential minerals and trace elements. Basically, in

these cases, we are speaking of an illness elicited by a disturbance

in the enzymatic balance.

These co-enzymes, in fact, are different from the enzymes. It

was already said that enzymes are made of albumin and the co-

enzymes are not. The enzymes are rather large molecules. On the

other hand, co-enzymes are rather small. Enzymes are not consumed

in the true sense during their activity, while co-enzymes are con-

sumed in it and they must be replaced through our diet.

To act adequately, enzymes must be exposed to certain physi-

cal conditions. Each of them needs a specific temperature and pH,

which causes them to have different speeds of action. To have an

appropriate idea of the speed, you must know that lysozyme (an

enzyme that helps in the elimination of bacteria) produces a change

of approximately 30 molecules of substratum per minute, that is,

every 2 seconds. On the other hand, the fastest degrader among the

enzymes is quite different, it is carboanhydrase, which changes an

incredibly 36 millions of substratum in only one minute.

Some enzymes live only 20 minutes and must be replaced by

new enzymes of the same type, recently produced. Other enzymes

remain active for a period of several weeks before they are elimi-

nated and when they are, they are eliminated because of their age.

At the Program for Studies of Alternative Medicines of the

University of Guadalajara (Mexico), we have researched the

therapeutic value of these natural proteolytic enzymes in the treat-

ment of acute and chronic clinical conditions. We have had the

opportunity of reaffirming that enzymes are catalytically active

polymer compounds made of amino acids. They are involved in

virtually all of the vital metabolic processes. They set metabolic

conversions in track (in train), control energetic processes and

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