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Q11-What happens to our body when we exhaust our enzyme reserves?
Research done on rats and chickens that were fed cooked foods revealed that the pancreas gland enlarged to handle the extra burden of the enzyme-deficient diet, and the animals got sick and failed to grow. The pancreas is responsible for making and secreting many digestive enzymes. Our pancreas will enlarge when called upon to process more enzymes to digest cooked food. Ruminant animals such as cattle, goats, deer, and sheep get along on their raw food diet with a pancreas about a third as large as ours. However, when these animals were fed heat-processed, enzyme-free food, their pancreas hypertrophied (enlarged) up to three times the normal size than when they were fed on a raw plant diet.
The tremendous impact of the wastage of our body's enzymes due to eating only cooked (therefore enzymeless) foods has been demonstrated by research done on dogs at Washington University. Researchers drained all the pancreatic juice enzymes from the dogs, and despite being fed all the food and water they wanted, all the animals died within a week. Clearly, exhausting our enzymes in our pancreas can lead to death. |
