Dr. Dean McGee

What are enzymes?
Enzymes run the biochemical reactions in all living things: humans, animals and raw foods. If it grows or ripens, it has enzymes. According to the late enzyme research pioneer, Dr. Edward Howell, there are three different types of enzymes: those that occur in our food, those that are made in the body for the digestion of food, and the metabolic enzymes produced by the body that are made to run the biochemical reactions occurring in the body. Food enzymes are destroyed or removed anytime the food is cooked, processed, or genetically engineered for a longer shelf-life. Your body needs these essential nutrients to aid in the digestive process, so the body does not have to produce all of the enzymes for the digestion of food. In processed food enzymes and nutrients are removed from the food. Once processed, nutrients such as vitamins and minerals are replaced or fortified back in to the food, Enzymes however, are not.

Enzyme therapy is a system designed to identify stress to the body. To begin, let us define stress…

Stress

Dr. Hans Selye is unquestionably one of the great pioneers of medicine. He has authored 40 books, written over 1700 technical articles for scientific journals and has won many prestigious awards including several nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. He spent over 30 years researching stress and its affects on the human body. His conclusion in all of his decades of research is this, “Stress is a specific entity and is the only disease we have to fight as humans.” Did you know that stress comes in three forms? Stress is expressed within these categories: Mechanical, Emotional, and Nutritional. What this means according to Selye is that there are literally only three causes of the majority of the diseases that we face. Selye’s research also discovered that regardless which source the stress comes from, the body fights these three forms of stress in exactly the same manner. Physiologically, the body simply burns more nutrition, creates more waste and uses up your enzymes in the process.

What is mechanical stress?

Mechanical or structural stress is simply a mechanical restriction or imbalance somewhere in the body. A few examples: subluxations in your spine, a rotated pelvis from tight muscles which causes one leg to become shorter than the other, or Morton’s Syndrome (where your second toe is longer than your big toe), just to name a few. Mechanical stress is reduced by the treatments performed at Perrier Kinesiology. See what is A.K.

What is emotional stress?

Who does not have some form of emotional stress? Emotional or energetic stress from the past, present or future can be caused by issues with yourself, your significant other, family, friends, co-workers or just life in general. We loss the ability to handle emotional stress as the body becomes worn down due to an excessive mechanical stress (requiring more energy for us to perform regular duties) or deficaint nutrition status (not giving the body the necessary nutrition to carry out regular duties)

What is a nutritional stress?

You can experience this kind of stress by choosing to consume too much low quality or processed food. Or you might have the inability to digest your food properly. The body runs on three things: protein, fat and carbs. If you cannot digest one, two or a combination of the three, that is a major nutritional stress to your body every time you eat that item. This makes the body work much harder trying to get that undigested food out of your system.

What's involved?

Dr. Perrier utilizes a consultation, a symptom survey, a 24-hour urinalysis test, as well as a pre and post structural and palpatory exam to identify the major sources of stress on the body. Once the stress is identified, it must be reduced or eliminated in order for the body to heal. It is very important to know that if stress is not eliminated the body simply cannot or will not heal. As the stress is reduced or eliminated, oral enzyme supplementation will improve digestion, which will then support your organ system and body processes that may have become exhausted and undernourished. The oral supplements prescribed by your doctor are categorized as whole foods. So you are healing your body with food, imagine that! Each person is unique and enzymes are not formulated based on what will work for the masses, rather they are design to be adaptable to each case. In any case, all that is required is too call and we will gladly assist you.

Enzyme supplementation is only a part of this therapy and is not a cure all. Dr. Perrier will likely advise a particular diet for your condition. This diet however, is not a caloric or fat reduction diet, but recommendations for what foods to eat and what foods to avoid to give your body its best opportunity to alleviate stress upon it. In addition, mechanical stresses must be addressed through soft tissue manipulations and easy to perform at home exercises that will eliminate these stresses.

Your Body

The human body needs stimulation and needs a certain amount of stress every day for it to thrive. But it is the excessive amounts of stress or the stress that is present on your body for long periods of time that wears down your body. When your stress levels are high you do not digest your food well. A common misconception is that the food we eat is automatically digested, absorbed and utilized 100% by our body. Just because you stick food in your mouth, chew and swallow it, does not mean that it is 100% digested, absorbed and utilized by your body. When stress levels are high, digestion is always compromised and it is only a matter of time before the body expresses some type of symptoms. You add even more time to this vicious cycle and you have a disease process that starts to accumulate in your body.

Common symptoms of compromised digestion are:
Constipation, diarrhea, bloating, cramping, food cravings, feeling sleepy after eating, inability to think clearly, fatigue, that extra 20 pounds, blood sugar problems, stiffness, allergies, headaches P.M.S. symptoms, anxiety, depression and insomnia, . ALL of these “symptoms” have ONE thing in common. What is it? They are all symptoms of stress in your body.

For more information including a video about enzymes refer to the link below.
http://www.loomisinstitute.com/media/media.asp
www.loomisinstitue.com
www.enzymestuff.com – this page gives good general information on enzymes and private discussions on how enzymes have helped different people.