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asked by Dr Howell's original manufacturing facility to formulate a professional line of enzymes. Dr Loomis had become frustrated with the use of nutrition in clinical practice. There seemed to be no rhyme nor reason in administering minerals, vitamins or herbs to those in his care. As he said: "A patient comes in with a cold and you give him vitamin C, and within a week he's feeling better. Another person comes in with a cold and takes nothing. Seven days later, she's fine." Everywhere one looks, the common discussion centres around deficiencies. "Oh, you have this or that mineral or vitamin deficiency: take some of these." Nutrition today is practised much like pharmacology is. For every symptom, there is a corresponding deficiency. The solution, then, is to take more of a particular mineral or vitamin. It is a matching game, much like with pharmaceutical drugs. And while it is true that in certain cases a deficiency can relate to a symptom, it is not rock-solid evidence of a deficiency. "I have a deficiency in relation to what—another mineral or vitamin? Isn't it possible I have an excessive amount of something?" asked by Dr Howell's original manufacturing facility to formulate a similar to hypoglycaemia and vitamin B12 deficiency. professional line of enzymes. Dr Loomis had become frustrated When it comes to immune system function, protein is the most with the use of nutrition in clinical practice. There seemed to beno _ essential nutrient. White blood cells, cellular complements and rhyme nor reason in administering minerals, vitamins or herbs to many other aspects of this system are dependent upon protein. those in his care. As he said: "A patient comes in with a cold and Enzymes themselves are composed of protein and minerals. you give him vitamin C, and within a week he's feeling better. Additionally, Dr Howell reminds us of this "vital force" inherent in Another person comes in with a cold and takes nothing. Seven days enzymes. These microscopic entities we are dependent upon have later, she's fine." Everywhere one looks, the common discussion something of an almost mysterious nature. Various white blood centres around deficiencies. "Oh, you have this or that mineral or cells use enzymes literally to digest what they come up against in vitamin deficiency: take some of these." our bodies. These processes are known as pinocytosis and phagocy - Nutrition today is practised much like pharmacology is. Forevery tosis. After engulfing an offending pathogen or allergen, white symptom, there is a corresponding deficiency. The solution, then, is blood cells secrete enzymes that destroy and digest it. If the majori- to take more of a particular mineral or vitamin. It is a matching ty of enzymes from the immune system are being redirected to game, much like with pharmaceutical drugs. And while it is true digest food, how is it possible to maintain healthy immune system that in certain cases a deficiency can relate to a symptom, it is not functions? rock-solid evidence of a deficiency. "I have a deficiency in relation As the 1990s progressed, patients were told they must have an to what—another mineral or vitamin? Isn't it possible I have an environmentally induced illness, which could include allergies and excessive amount of something?" hypersensitivities. Patients were told to avoid everything they were allergic to and take enormous amounts of supplements. Usually this Making Sense of Decades of Misdiagnoses resulted in extremely limited diets and very expensive bills. New The progression of differing diagnoses over the last few decades _— "energy" techniques were developed supposedly to remove blocked is an example of how symptoms alone can be misleading when it energy and rewire the nervous system to allow for accepting the comes to finding root causative factors in disease. allergen into the body without the overt reaction. In the 1960s, one of the common diagnoses in Western societies If we look at allergies from an enzyme point of view, it becomes was hypoglycaemia or low blood-sugar apparent why so many of these techniques levels. Blood sugar is composed of work only temporarily. Allergies are the glucose which is metabolised from body's reaction to something entering protein by the liver. Doctors told their via the blood, skin, nasal cavity or other patients simply to eat more protein. . source. When something enters the And while it is true that low blood sugar Allergies are the body's body in a healthy person, the immune inake, noone ever snpecteditcoula be | T@@CtiON to something entering Bere. siersen wubsance fom the the result of an inability to digest protein via the blood, skin, nasal body. This happens without any notice. : letely, i.e., a tein digesti H Because there a h s enzyme deficiency. So even if you cavity or other source. available in a healthy person, the aller increase the patient's protein intake, gen can be cleared unobtrusively. In what good is it doing if they cannot someone with an allergic response to the digest it adequately? Was it a protein same substance, the immune system is deficiency or a protease deficiency called to do the same work but finds it which caused the low levels of protein cannot handle the request. In a person leading to hypoglycaemia? who exhibits an allergic response, there are not enough enzymes In the 1970s, vitamin B12 deficiency was a popular diagnosis. available for the white blood cells to break down the allergen and rid Many of the symptoms of B12 deficiency match those of hypogly- _ the body of it. They then experience the typical histamine response, caemia. These include fatigue, inability to concentrate, irritability, including reddening of the eyes or local tissue, heat, runny nose and headaches, confusion, tremors and even cold sweats. Patients were pain. given vitamin B12 shots to alleviate the symptoms. A major con- People with allergies of an airborne source are typically those with cern with vegetarianism is the high incidence of vitamin B12 defi- a history of excessive sugar and simple carbohydrate intake. ciency that's been documented. Someone with this problem has depleted their reserves of the One of the functions of protein in the blood is that of a "universal enzyme amylase. Amylase is an IgG histamine blocker. Like carrier". Protein transports vitamins, minerals, enzymes and hor- bioflavonoids, amylase stabilises the mast cells and basophiles that mones throughout the body. Not having enough blood protein to release histamine as a reaction to the damaged area. Antihistamines transport these substances would lead a doctor to diagnose a patient —_ are what these types of patients get from their doctors. with a particular imbalance or illness. The underlying assumption in Finally, in the last five years or so, patients were tested for some- the medical world is that patients' digestions are working fine— thing called "Syndrome X", which happens to bear a striking resem- unless, of course, they complain to the contrary. Nevertheless, if blance to type II diabetes. Syndrome X patients exhibit excess patients have inadequate protein levels, even though blood tes' weight, cardiovascular issues, lightheadedness and elevated glucose within reference range, they still may not be transporting or utilising levels, among other symptoms. If this is actually another name for vitamin B12. diabetes II, it should be apparent how symptoms are only one aspect Moving into the 1980s, most everyone had become infested with of proper diagnostics. yeast/fungal organisms and/or parasites. Normally, various micro- What the examples above point to are signs and symptoms of dis- organisms inhabit the digestive tract and are kept in balance by tress in the body. Looking more deeply, one finds the same phe- "friendly" micro-organisms like Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. nomenon exhibited in Pottenger's cat study and Howell's life Many of the symptoms of this new diagnosis were, again, very research: namely, that signs and symptoms of disease are proof of 14 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2003