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1. When protein isn't completely digested it putrefies in the intestines and can form nitrosamines which are carcinogenic. Digestive enzymes break down food so it can be absorbed more efficiently by the organs and keep undigested byproducts from forming 2. Several integrative cancer specialists recommend taking enzymes with meals as well as between meals on an empty stomach. Digestive enzymes are thought to "digest" the coating of cancer cells, making them more vulnerable to the body's immune system and less likely to metastasize. (1) 3. Enzymes also have anti-inflammatory properties which may affect the cancer process. Michael Schachter, MD, and Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, recommend supplemental enzymes for their cancer patients. Since the body makes many kinds of enzymes starting with the mouth and ending with the bowel, often a combination of digestive enzymes is recommended. The Wobenzyme and Wobe-Mugos brand of enzymes have been used since the 1940s by practitioners but check with your health practitioner for a brand and dosage recommendation. Improving Absorption of Major and Micronutients "Many people diagnosed with cancer have digestion or intestinal tract disorders as well. Impaired digestion will greatly hinder a nutritional approach to treating cancer, if the nutrients can not be released from the food. ... Even raw foods, which contain many digestive enzymes to assist in their digestion, will be more thoroughly digested with less of the body's own resources with the use of digestive enzymes. So, the enzymes taken with meals do not have a direct effect upon a tumor, but assist the body in getting all of the nutrition out of all of the food for healing and restoring the body to normal function." (2) Digestive Enzymes May Break Down Tumor Cell Blocking Factors Digestive enzymes may break down blocking factors around cancer cells and allow NK cells to enter and attack cancer cells. According to Simon Yu, MD, pancreatic enzymes:
cancer cells an easier target for the immune system.
difficult for cancer cells to adhere to the cell wall.
immune system's ability to respond to cancer. Breast Cancer Outcome Supplementing with Digestive Enzymes? Burton Goldberg's The Definitive Guide to Cancer reports that German physician, Dr. Max Wolf began using multi-enzyme formulas in 1949. In reviewing 107 women who had undergone mastectomies and used Wobenzymes, their survival rate was 84% after five years. Those using conventional therapy achieved only 43% -48% survival at five years.
their patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Aggressive nutritional supplements, detox procedures, an organic diet, and large doses of digestive enzymes increased their patients' survival time over what would normally be expected for stages 111-1V pancreatic cancer. 25% survived for one year, and 10% survived for two years at all stages of pancreatic cancer. (3) Digestive Enzymes for Breast Cancer Therapy Side Effects In a German study, breast cancer patients undergoing surgery, radiation, chemo, or hormone therapy were broken into two groups. One group received oral enzymes, and the other group of patients did not receive any enzymes. The objective was to determine whether complementary treatment with oral enzymes can reduce typical disease- or therapy-associated signs and symptoms, such as gastrointestinal symptoms, mental symptoms, tumor pain, etc. Results: For all symptoms, except tumor pain, the improvement in symptom scores was larger in those women who received the oral enzymes than those women who received nothing. Thus, complementary treatment with oral enzymes improved the quality of life by reducing signs and symptoms of the disease and the side effects of the therapies. Also, epidemiological analysis provided evidence that the patients taking enzymes may also gain benefit in the length of survival by prolonging the time to cancer recurrence. (4)
indicates, the effect may be much greater than that, with the potential for direct anti-tumor activity." --Michael Donaldson. 1. Goldberg B., Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer, Alternative Medicine.com Books 1997, p. 930 2. Donaldson M, Nutritional Cancer: A Review of the Evidence for an Anti-Cancer Diet, Nutr J 2004. 3. Gonzalez NJ and Isaacs LL., Evaluation of Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzyme Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas, with Nutritional and Detoxification Support, Nutrition and Cancer 1999. 4. Beuth J et al., Impact of Complementary Oral Enzyme Application on the Postoperative Treatment Results of Breast Cancer Patients - Results of an Epidemiological Multicentre Retrospective Cohort Study, Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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