> > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Monett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 5:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: CS>Enzyme depletion? > > It works both ways. A quick google on 'enzyme depletion' shows many > hits, but most of them seem to be selling products to add enzymes to > your diet. The question is do they really work?
You are not going to find this information on most Internet sites since they are trying to sell a product not educate the public beyond convincing them to purchase their "superior" product or proprietary blend. The few sites that are presenting information to educate are not easy to find as they do not generally rank highly in the search engines -- whose going to go through all ten pages of links looking for the three have that have real information on them? Get a good medical dictionary and start searching the scientific journal data bases. Go to the medical library or request pertinent articles from interlibrary loan, generally free and start reading the journal articles. Look for review articles that tend to be published every ten years or so by an expert in that field as editor. The point is to summarize the literature and try and draw some conclusions. This makes review articles very helpful and they contain a complete bibliography of all pertinent or reviewed articles so that the reader can read the original work. The short answer is that yes they do work under the right conditions and where there is not an adequate endogenous (produced in the body) source. Even Barrett admits Lactase works and that is the one statement that blows the rest of his Quack Watch article against enzyme supplementation. He is inconsistent and contradictory in his article. He also seems unable to detect this in his own writing or he simply knows that the average Quack Watch reader will find confirmation of their fears in something that he says and does not have the critical thinking ability to analyze the lack of logic in Barret's assertions, there by debunking the debunker. > > I know some people abhor quackwatch, but personally I look for the > truth wherever I can find it. Here is an article pointing out that > enzymes are proteins, and are simply digested just like every other > protein. So the enzyme supplements don't have any effect: > > http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/mp.html If this were true, that enzymes being protiecs are simply digested then none of our digestive enzymes would work whether we produce them or we obtain them from an exogenous (produced outside the body) source. > > Some of his arguments are hard to refute. Can you offer any? Most of his arguments are very easy to refute. Unfortunately I lack the time to pick apart his lack of logic or fact. Suffice it to say that he is doing exactly what he accuses the enzyme sales man of doing. Nothing new under the sun. Garnet -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
