Enzyme Loss: The High Cost of 'Shelf Life'




I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead.
Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
~ Filmmaker, Woody Allen




Natural foods contain the enzymes needed to digest them. Unfortunately, they are removed or de-activated by manufacturers and processors to extend shelf life.

The result: too many people walking around with exhausted pancreases, poor digestion and weakened immune systems. If I see a patient who is allergic to a multitude of different foods, I can bet that they are low in hydrochloric acid or enzymes.

Many patients suffering from indigestion, acid reflux, gastritis and other abdominal distress also could use to supplement the diet with high quality digestive aid products. This is easy for us to determine during the course of a normal office visit. Let me know when we get together: I'm interested! Don't listen to Woody Allen (or his equivalent) when it comes to dietary advice!

Using Whole Food Supplements to Heal

The Standard Process Company and its founders, along with generations of succesful clinicians have left us a tremendous legacy. I am currently digesting many decades of research about how to best use these powerful food-based supplements to help patients deal with chronic health issues. If only there were an enzyme that I could take to make me learn the huge volume of literature more quickly!

After taking my first NRT (Nutrition Response Testing) seminar, I started preparing to bring this advanced knowledge back to my practice. There are thousands of facts to learn. Did you know that spending many hours in front of a computer can deplete a person's RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) stores? I didn't either. Now I can perform a quick test to determine whether someone has become too low in this critical chemical, and supply it if the test indicates a need.

Why am I putting new emphasis on nutrition in my pracitice? Life has gotten more complicated. The majority of my patients have been around long enough to be exposed to many chemical toxins. Also, because of digestive and other issues, other toxins may have accumulated. When the body is toxic, it serves as a breeding ground for micro-organisms that keep the body unhealthy, even if there isn't an obvious acute infection going on. Even if a person has good dietary habits now, the heavy use of sugar and artificial sweeteners, flavors and colors in the past may have already set them up for trouble that needs to be--and still can be--eliminated now. Even the silver fillings in your mouth may tend to release mercury vapors that complicate things for you. Mercury in the body makes it easy to have problems with candida and other common energy-depleting organisms. The only way to know what you have going on is to be tested. Then we can do something to help you.

How to Get Started Working with me on Nutrition

Thank you to those of you who wrote back to me indicating an interest in working with me on improving nutrition to stay youthful and energetic. Some of the people I have started working with have already experienced decreases in pain, blood pressure and weight, along with increases in flexibility and improvements in sleep quantiy and quality. If you wrote to me, and I have not yet answered you, I hope that the following will address your questions. If not, please write back again or call.

I've purchased a cabinet and a good starter supply of many of the most commonly used Standard Process supplements. I am also carrying a super-high quality Arctic fish oil supplement from Nordic Naturals to help people who want to keep their levels of Omegas high. These are NOT available in Health Food Stores!

If, during the course of a normal office visit, a "no-brainer" supplement comes up for me to test for you, I'll see if it would help, and you can take it home with you (if I have it in stock.) If it seems as though you have a more complex issue that requires more complex testing, I'll recommend that you book a thirty-minute appointment, which will count as a double visit. Package visits can be used for this purpose. During this intensive examination, we'll be very busy seeing what you need. Structural work will have to wait for another time and will not be included as part of this session.

Sometimes, I will have run out of a product you need. In this case, unless I already have ordered a supply of it, I'll need to ask you to pay for it in advance. This will save you shipping costs, and will also help me to not "get stuck" with excess inventory. Some supplements come in a range of bottle sizes. If you can save money by ordering a larger bottle of something you may need to take for a few months, I will be glad to let you know so we can get it for you if it is a size we don't usually stock. (Remember how small my office is?!)

For All Prostate Owners, and Those Who Care About Them

Prostate trouble is something that many men don't like to talk about. An old but youthful friend of mine had prostate surgery a few months back. His prostate cancer story, fortunately, had a happy ending. Looking back on his experiences, he wishes that he had known how to prevent the prostate trouble that tends to plague males in their middle years and beyond.

My own father never developed prostate cancer, but did suffer with prostate-related symptoms, including lower back pain, urgency, and other urinary symptoms. Statistics show that one in two men will suffer from a prostate ailment at least once in their lifetime. Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) and prostatitis can also lead to pain above the pubic bone, in the testicles, lower back, hips and rectum. They can also cause urinary leaking, dribbling and a weak urine stream.

According to Dr. Larry Clapp, The prostate is the vital center from which men derive their vitality, creative energy, and sexual drive. Without it, quality of life, overall health and sex drive is severely diminished. That's why it's important to start taking care of it now, before trouble begins."

One of my natural health care contacts shared with me news of an inexpensive device that can be used at home to provide "no-hands" prostate massage. I've read some impressive studies showing it's effectiveness. For more information about the Pro-State massager and other innovative self-help tools that can help men and women, please visit http://www.drstuart.net/recommends/HelpForYourProstate. You can also view published recommendations and feedback from users who can now get a good night's sleep because they aren't getting up all night long to go to the bathroom. Talking about prostate health now is better than being confronted with a crisis.

Lost and Found

Sometime in the last couple of months, a patient left a lady's green plaid Cristina jacket in my office. Please call 713-831-6875 and leave me a voice mail if it belongs to you.

Do What I Do for Stress

Regular Bio Cranial Corrections help keep me mellow and relaxed. I do not like to run out of gasoline in my car. I do not like to wait for bill collectors to call me. I don't like spoiled food in my fridge. I especially don't like to wait for pain or fatigue to prompt me to get a Bio Cranial correction! Better than Prozac, Advil or Starbucks. Call 713-831-6875 between 8:30 and 5:00 Monday through Friday to set an appointment for the best "health insurance" you can ever find.

Be well, and stay out of hurricanes!
Stuart C. Marmorstein, D.C., D.B.C.S.

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