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Q12-What is some other evidence that we waste our enzymes?
Only humans can live a long time on enzyme-free food. All wild animals get their enzymes from raw food. Wild animals using raw food do not have the rich concentrations of enzyme activity in their digestive juices that humans do. For example, wild animals (deer, elephants, and other ruminants) have no enzymes at all in their saliva. When we examine human saliva, we find high concentrations of ptyalin (an amylase enzyme that digests starch). When dogs and cats eat their natural raw, carnivorous diet, there are no enzymes in the saliva. However, when dogs are fed on a high carbohydrate, heat-treated diet, enzymes show up in the saliva within about a week. This indicates that we waste our enzymes to digest cooked food. Our body has to adapt and start making more digestive enzymes thus reducing the availability of many of the other metabolic enzymes needed to run and maintain our body's systems and cells.
Other evidence that suggests we may be wasting our reserves of enzymes is the fact that, with relation to total body size, a wild animal has a smaller pancreas in comparison to the human pancreas. This suggests that wild animals get along with far less pancreatic enzymes than humans |
