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Enzyme Therapy for Cancer &
Digestive Diseases
Enzymes are natural proteins that stimulate and accelerate biological reactions in the
body. Enzymes, many of which are made in the pancreas, break down food and
help with the absorption of nutrients into the blood. Metabolic enzymes build new
cells and repair damaged ones in the blood, tissues, and organs. Though
the American Cancer Society says that there have been no well-designed studies
showing that enzyme supplements are effective in treating cancer we need look no
further than the benefit that comes from stimulating and accelerating so many
biological reactions.
Most alternative health professionals understand the importance of taking
digestive enzymes. This becomes critical for many people as they age. Most people
think of enzymes (if they think of them at all) as necessary only for those who deal
with digestive problems such as GERD, hiatal hernias, ulcers, etc. Enzymes though
are extremely important for treating cancer and should not be overlooked. Enzymes
allow one substance to be turned into a different substance and support the pancreas,
liver, and immune system’s function.
In the early 1900s Dr. John Beard from England discovered that pancreatic
enzymes destroyed cancer cells. In 1911 he tested pancreatic enzymes for stopping
cancer in mice and it worked. Decades later Dr. William Donald Kelley, a Texas
dentist, read about his work, and cured himself of cancer using pancreatic enzymes
and started treating and curing cancer patients using pancreatic enzymes. Dr.
Nicholas Gonzales, sent to investigate Dr. Kelley, liked what he saw so much that
he, still to this day, treats cancer patients using pancreatic enzymes.
Having cured himself, and with the same therapy, In 1981 Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez,
was a second-year medical student at Cornell University Medical College, when he
had the opportunity to meet Dr. Kelley, who at that stage had for 20 years been
treating cancer patients with complicated nutritional therapy based on Dr. Beard’s
enzyme treatment. Dr. Kelley is known for curing more than 33,000 terminal
patients of all kinds of cancer without surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Dr.
Gonzalez practices in New York City and is one of the authors of the study,
“Pancreatic Enzyme Extract Improves Survival in Murine Pancreatic Cancer”
(Pancreas. 2004 May;28(4):401-12).
Dr. Reza Ghaffurian tells the story of Dr. Gonzalez and his research advisor at
Cornell, Dr. Robert A Good, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York:
Under Dr. Good’s direction, Gonzalez investigated Kelley’s work during his third
and fourth year medical studies. He reviewed almost 10,000 of Kelley’s patient
records and interviewed over 500 patients who had been diagnosed with advanced
cancer and treated by Kelley. This research allowed Gonzalez to organize Dr
Kelley’s findings in an organized manner and pursue this research further for his
fellowship training.
The object of the study was to prove Dr. Kelley’s method worked. It took Dr.
Gonzalez five years to complete the study, which resulted in a 301-page report that
states that the cure rate was 100% for pancreatic cancer and 97% for all other
cancers. The report was suppressed. In 1986, due to unrelenting pressure from discreditors, Dr. Kelley gave up research and patient care and passed away in January
2005.
The cancer cell is coated and protected by a protein lining (or covering). When this
protein covering is removed it leaves the cancer cell exposed and the body’s natural
defense. Leukocytes (white blood cells) comes into effect killing the cancer cells. If
the body is unable to penetrate and break down the protein coating of the cancer
cell then the cells will multiply and spread (metastasize) around the body and
various tumors will form as body attempts to isolate the cells from spreading.
But if you are doing chemo and radiation therapy—life- and enzyme-killing
treatments—then it is almost fruitless to try to push up your life force with enzymes
when all you are doing is destroying your body. The digestive system was designed
to process raw food. Raw food, when it is picked ripe, has enzymes in it that help
break down that food in the upper stomach where it sits for 30-45 minutes. The
enzymes in the food predigest that food. Then the pancreas excretes more enzymes.
With most people’s diets as far away from the raw state as they can get, many
biological processes are drastically impeded because of severe shortages of
enzymes. Add chemo and radiation and we can easily see one reason things turn
out so horribly with orthodox cancer treatments.
Even orthodox oncology is dipping its toes into enzyme therapy when they try to
treat pancreatic tumors, one of the deadliest and most drug-resistant forms of
cancer. Injecting mice with a molecule that melts the tough structure around the
tumor allowed a standard chemotherapy drug to better penetrate and destroy
cancer cells. The strategy is already being tested in people. That’s what enzymes
do—they melt down things that don’t belong there, including cancer cells. Enzymes
are able to touch/ feel/ communicate with the cells they bump against,
distinguishing and differentiating between healthy cells and defective or cancerous
cells.
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The more enzymes present in the body, the greater the chances the immune
defense system will be able to identify individual cancer cells. People with an
increased risk of cancer could reduce their risk by taking enzymes. Enzyme therapy
must be continued indefinitely for the best results. Higher doses of enzymes are
needed for individuals who have cancer. And lower doses are required for regular
maintenance.
Enzymes are proteins that are required for every single chemical action that takes
place in your body. All of your cells, organs, bones, muscles, and tissues are run by
enzymes. Your digestive system, immune system, bloodstream, liver, kidneys,
spleen, and pancreas, as well as your ability to see, think, feel, and breathe, all
depend on enzymes.
All of the minerals and vitamins you eat and all of the hormones your body
produces need enzymes in order to work properly. In fact, every single metabolic
function—your stamina, your energy level, your ability to utilize vitamins and
minerals, your body’s immune system—are all governed by enzymes.
In his book, Enzyme Nutrition, The Food Enzyme Concept, Dr. Edward Howell explains:
When we eat cooked, enzyme-free food, the body is forced to produce enzymes
needed for digestion… This “stealing” of enzymes from other parts of the body sets
up a competition for enzymes among the various organ systems and tissues of the
body. The resulting metabolic dislocations may be the direct cause of cancer,
coronary heart disease, diabetes and many chronic incurable diseases.
A person’s life span is directly related to the exhaustion of their enzyme potential.
And the use of food enzymes decreases that rate of exhaustion, and thus, results in
a longer, healthier, and more vital life.
The Death of Enzymes: Processed & Cooked Food
Processing and cooking food destroys whatever enzymes were originally in the
food. (Man is the only animal that cooks his food.) In fact, any sustained heat of
approximately 118°-129° F destroys virtually all enzymes. And even though there
are some enzymes present in our saliva, the amount used for digesting our food is
minuscule since we only chew our food about 25% as much as we should. The
result is that most of the food we eat enters our stomach seriously devoid of
enzymes.
The food then sits there for an hour, like a heavy lump, with very little predigestion taking place. Even after the stomach acid has done its work, the food
enters the small intestine largely undigested.
At this point, the pancreas and the other organs of the endocrine system are put
under stress with the responsibility of providing the digestive enzymes necessary to
make up for what did not take place in the stomach. They have to draw reserves
from the entire body in order to produce massive amounts of the proper digestive
enzymes.
The less digestion that takes place before food reaches the small intestine the greater
the stress placed on the endocrine systems. Recent studies have shown that virtually
100% of all Americans have an enlarged pancreas by the time they’re 40. And there
is also research showing that enzyme-deficient diets contribute to a pathological
enlargement of the pituitary gland (the gland that regulates all the other glands).
The bottom line: Regular supplementation with digestive enzymes takes stress off
the pancreas (and the entire body) by providing the enzymes required for digestion
and just may be one of the best insurance policies you can give your body so you
can enjoy a long and healthy life.
Immediate Benefits
• Significant reduction in indigestion and heartburn problems resulting from too
much acid in the stomach.
• Relief from gas and bloating since complex carbohydrates are now being
substantially digested before they enter the intestinal tract. (Some people may
actually notice an increase in activity, such as stomach growling, for several days as
their digestive systems come alive.)
•
Improved digestion of dairy products for anyone who deals with lactose
intolerance.
•
Diminished food allergies due to more complete protein digestion.
• You will experience much less flatulence due to more complete carbohydrate
digestion.
• An increase in energy levels within a few days of enzyme supplementation since
the digestion of enzyme-deficient food is an extremely energy-consuming task.
• Relief from hiatal hernias.
• Relief from ulcers. (Digestive enzymes help with ulcers in two ways. First, they
help digest so much of your meal during the 40-60 minutes of pre-digestion that
your body requires less acid in the actual digestion phase. This means that taking
digestive enzymes will help lower the levels of acid in your stomach. Those who
suffer from chronic low levels of acid need not worry. Digestive enzymes
supplements help here too by breaking down so much food in the pre-digestion
phase that less acid is actually required. And over time, decreased demand results
in increased reserve capability.)
Which Enzymes Should You Use?
The fact is you’ll benefit from any good vegetarian-based digestive enzyme
supplement. But look for one that contains:
•
A
variety
of proteases – for
digestion
of
proteins.
• Carbohydrases (including amylase) – for the digestion of starches and
carbohydrates.
• Lipase – to digest fats.
• Cellulase – invaluable in breaking down fiber cellulose into smaller units.
• Lactase – works in the digestion of dairy products.
• Digestion-stimulating herbs – including ginger, gentian, and caraway seed.
•
In addition, a separate formula (often contained in pancreatic enzyme
formulas) should be used containing significant amounts of bromelain – an enzyme
that digests protein. Bromelain, which comes from pineapple, burns 900 times its
weight in fat. And it is amazingly beneficial for the body as a whole once it gets into
the bloodstream, particularly in terms of reducing inflammation and swelling in
joints.
The formula I recommend as a digestive aid is Digase, which is an effective and
complete enzyme supplement formula. Digase contains a full spectrum of digestive
enzymes: proteases (optimized for pHs of 3.0, 4.5, and 6.0), peptidase, lipase, and
carbohydrases, including amylase, glucoamylase, invertase (sucrase), maltase,
alpha-galactosidase, lactase, phytase, cellulase, and hemicellulase. Any person that
has poor digestion, eats lots of cooked foods, is gassy, suffers from irritable bowel
or other intestinal dysbiosis should add enzymes to their supplement program.
Another Vitally Important Reason to Supplement Enzymes
Pancreatic enzymes are part of a substance called pancreatin (or pancreas juice)
produced in the pancreas. This complex includes the enzymes protease, amylase,
and lipase and is released both into the intestines and the bloodstream.
In the intestines, pancreatin works to help digest the proteins, carbohydrates, and
starches of our meals. Supplementation with digestive enzymes along with a meal
helps share the workload of your body’s own pancreatic enzymes and can aid in
digestion (discussed earlier). But what happens if you take enzymes between
meals?
As mentioned earlier, pancreatic enzymes are not only released into the small
intestine, but also directly into the bloodstream. Why?
Protein molecules that are only partially digested in the small intestine are
absorbed into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream, the immune system
treats them as invaders provoking an immune reaction. Antibodies couple with
these foreign protein invaders to form circulating immune complexes (CICs). Now,
in a healthy person, these CICs may be neutralized in the lymphatic system. But if
the immune system is in any way compromised, CICs accumulate in the blood
where they initiate an “allergic” reaction. As the number of CICs builds, the kidneys
max out and can no longer excrete all of the CICs, so they begin to accumulate in
the body’s soft tissues, causing inflammation.
It is here that the pancreatic enzymes in our bloodstream come into play.
Pancreatic enzymes are able to break down CICs so that they can pass through the
kidneys for excretion.
So if enzymes are taken between meals, the body doesn’t need the enzymes for
digesting food, so they make their way directly into the bloodstream to aid in the
elimination of CICs.
Because of their ability to digest foreign proteins, pancreatic enzymes (both those
produced in the body and those absorbed into the bloodstream from taking
supplemental digestive enzymes) work to clear out infecting organisms such as
viruses, scar tissue, and the products of inflammation. For this reason, pancreatic
enzymes are frequently used by Naturopaths to treat a variety of conditions,
including lung infections, tooth infections, bone fractures, and as a body
strengthener before surgery. Specifically, pancreatic enzymes have been used by
many healers to aid in a variety of disease conditions, including inflammation, viral
disease, multiple sclerosis, and, of course, cancer.
Note: A dedicated proteolytic enzyme (high-protease) formula will be even more
effective in this regard than a digestive enzyme formula forced to do double duty.
Ideally, you should use a dedicated digestive enzyme formula with your meals and
a dedicated high-protease formula between meals.
I recommend the use of the Prolyt formula as the formula to use inbetween meals
for cancer patients and anyone else facing serious chronic disorders. Prolyt
contains the proteolytic enzymes bromelain, trypsin (pancreatic enzyme), and
chymotrypsin (pancreatic enzyme), and the bioflavonoids turmeric extract (95%
curcuminoids), quercetin and oligomeric proanthocyanidins from grape seed
extract in a vegetarian capsule.
For cancer treatments we recommend taking the Prolyt formula between meals so
that it gets into the body and doesn’t just work on the digestion of foods. We
recommend 12-20 capsules daily in dosages of 4 caps/ serving taken 3-5 times
daily. Larger amounts can be taken as needed.
On Dr. Hank Lears’ (developer of this formula) site there were these two
testimonials I thought were very helpful to read to get some reference point for the
far-ranging uses of this type of enzyme formula. “One of my clients told me the
story about two old men who loved to play golf but could hardly walk due to
arthritis. He said once a week these men would buy a bottle of Prolyt, take a
handful of the capsules, and proceed to the golf course out of pain long enough to
play golf for the day. A German health practitioner friend of mine told a client of
his who was having all of his wisdom teeth removed to take 100 capsules of Prolyt
daily after the surgery. His client did it and he found that he not only controlled his
pain, but he healed rapidly in less than a week.”
A Note on Ulcers
Digestive enzymes help with ulcers in two ways.
• First, they help digest so much of your meal during the 40-60 minutes of predigestion that your body requires less acid in the actual digestion phase. This
means that taking digestive enzymes will help lower the levels of acid in your
stomach. (Those who suffer from chronic low levels of acid need not worry.
Digestive enzyme supplements help here too by breaking down so much food in the
pre-digestion phase that less acid is actually required. And over time, decreased
demand results in increased reserve capability.)
• Second, protease will begin breaking down the protective coating of the H.
Pylori bacteria responsible for so many ulcers. In other words, it will actually begin
to digest it. This is the prime reason digestive enzyme supplements are so helpful
for those who have ulcers.
A cautionary note: There is one concern when using digestive enzymes with
ulcers—and that’s if you have a severe existing ulcer. What could happen is that the
protease would actually begin to digest severely damaged stomach lining tissue.
This can cause noticeable discomfort for several days. To avoid this discomfort, if
you have a severe ulcer, start with small amounts of the supplement with your
meals and build up slowly.
Conclusion
A person’s life span, in great part, is directly related to the exhaustion of their
enzyme-producing potential. The use of food enzymes decreases that rate of
exhaustion, and thus, results in a longer, healthier, and more vital
life.Magnesium plays are large role in enzyme function and production. "While it
was estimated in 1968 that magnesium was a required cofactor for over 300
enzyme systems, that number is now more reliably estimated at 700 to 800,”
wroteDr. Andrea Rosanoff. Intense magnesium therapy, when combined with enzyme
therapy will give the body strong energies to move forward with healing of a broad
range of disorders.
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