What are you going to do?

You should go back to the basics, and restore your health naturally.

As a certified Loomis Digestive Health Specialist, I would like to share the following clinical information from

Dr. Howard F. Loomis Jr., D.C., F.I.A.C.A
(Loomis Institute™ https://www.loomisinstitute.com).

All of the following information is so many years of Dr. Loomis’s clinical work.

Are you experiencing a chronic, long-standing, complicated and even baffling health problem? Perhaps you have consulted several health care practitioners, including prominent medical clinics where many sophisticated and high-priced tests have been performed. If the tests proved to be negative but you are still experiencing symptoms, then rejoice: you are probably not diseased! When the cause has not been identified medically, the problem often lies in the areas of diet and nutrition. That means that we may be able to identify the cause of your stress and help you get rid of those annoying symptoms!

You may be one of the many consumers who have tried to make supplemental vitamins, minerals, and the latest magic-bullet nutraceuticals work for you. Unfortunately, as you may have discovered, over 25,000 such chemical compounds have now been identified1 and even the latest computer technology would be unable to properly analyze specific nutrient imbalances.

However, when all else fails, we have the answer to make nutrition work.

We suggest a simple yet incredibly effective approach:

• Modify the diet
• Improve digestion with food enzyme
• And nutritionally support stressed organs.

MODIFY THE DIET

No diet will be beneficial for everyone. While many different diet plans are offered to the public, I maintain that one diet cannot possibly be right for everybody. Each one of us is a product of our environment and heredity. Roger Williams, Ph.D., said it best in his book You Are Extraordinary2: "There is no average person! We as individuals cannot be averaged with other people. Inborn individuality is a highly significant factor in all our lives -- as inescapable as the fact that we are human." Dr. Williams was professor of biochemistry at University of Texas from 1940 to 1963 and director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical institute, where more vitamins and their variants have been discovered than in any other laboratory in the world.

Nutritional objectivity means that we should not be attempting to apply specific nutritional remedies to the populations as a whole as magic bullets for symptoms. You as an individual should be examined and supplied with specific nutrients to help your body meet increased nutritional demands during periods of stress.

Therefore, think about this: how do you know that you need a diet high in protein and fat but low in carbohydrates? Or that you need a diet high in carbohydrates but low in protein and fat? While both diets have benefits, shouldn’t those diets be matched to your unique needs?

Should you try to eat according to your blood type or to your body type? And what if you can’t figure out exactly what your body type is? Should you eat according to the color of the food? And whatever happened to the "food pyramid?" While each of these systems may make intellectual sense, the diet plans are little help when trying to make an intelligent, healthy decision about eating.

SYMPTOMS OF PROTEIN AND CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENCY

Which, if any, deficiency do you have: protein or carbohydrate? How do you know that you are eating enough of one and not too much of the other? Identifying protein versus carbohydrate deficiencies is very difficult before obvious disease problems present themselves. In addition, there are no laboratory medical tests to differentiate protein versus carbohydrate digestive problems. But there are some symptoms that are present for both protein and carbohydrate deficiency states, and we can use these symptoms are a sign that dietary modification is needed.

These symptoms are listed in the order that your body handles its food intake; namely digestion, elimination, and then specific tissue response.

Now, let’s look at symptoms that can be used to differentiate protein versus carbohydrate deficiency:

SYMPTOMS OF FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY

Lipids are essential dietary ingredients, but the body can make them from protein and carbohydrates. The first sign of a fatty acid deficiency is dry skin3, and we know that essential fatty acids relieve dermatitis4. Males generally need more essentially fatty acid than females, but females have more difficulty digesting fats so suffer from deficiency symptoms more often than males.

The above sings and symptoms can help differentiate dietary imbalances and poor assimilation of nutrients. Also of enormous help is figuring out what foods you carve and what you avoid. In both cases you may have an inability to digest that substance. For example:

• When high protein foods cause distress, many sufferers may turn to a vegetarian diet to alleviate symptoms.
• Those individuals who do not digest fats well crave sugars. Their daily intake of processed, carbohydrate-laden foods is generally high.
• Those individuals who do not tolerate vegetables (and some fruits) are comfortable with fast foods (high fat and sugar).

IMPROVE DIGESTION WITH FOOD ENZYMES

Oddly, the one food supplement that has the capability of performing work is being slowly and systematically being removed from the modern diet: food enzymes. While our foods are fortified with certain nutrients like calcium, folacin (folic acid). Vitamins D and B 12, the food enzymes that were once in the raw forms of the foods are not replaced5.

To put it another way, we are told that we need 5 -7 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables per day to stay healthy and only 20 to 30 % of adults do that on a regular basis. What is it that is in fresh fruits and vegetables that cannot be found in canned fruits and vegetables? The answer: food enzymes.

When it is not possible or practical to determine exactly what enzymes you require for improved digestion and less annoying symptoms like gas and bloating, it is nice to have one product you can rely on to cover all possibilities. Used by doctors for many years. This product will digest a wide range of foods yet is mold enough to be given infants. That formula is DGST™ by Enzyme Formulations, Inc.

NUTRITIONALLY SUPPORT STRESSED ORGANS

Having modified your diet and improved your digestion, we now turn our attention to supporting stressed organs. The optimal word is stress. Stress comes in three packages: mechanical, chemical or nutritional, and emotional. Regardless of the kind of stress the body always reacts in the same way.

In the late 1960s, noted Canadian researcher Hans Selye, M.D., wrote the book, The stress of Life, in which he presented his finding on the effect of stress on the human body. His work earned Dr. Selye the Nobel Prize for medicine and the acclaim of all those in the healing arts. Selye proved that stress is not a vague or indefinable term used to indicate that we are unloved, overworked, or underpaid. Rather, Selye found that the body responds to any kind of stress, be it mechanical, chemical, or emotional, in a very specific and predictable way.

The body has to maintain homeostasis -- the body’s internal balance- regardless of the stress being applied to it. Generally speaking, all organs and tissue have designated responsibilities for maintaining homeostasis: the temperature, pH, volume, and concentration of dissolved substances in the extracellular fluid. The body’s internal environment, in which the cells live, must be maintained within narrow limits in order to function normally. The process that the body uses to maintain the internal environment is call homeostasis. Any deviation from the normal homeostatic value produces symptoms.

Identifying exactly what nutrients are needed for exactly which tissues can be very difficult to ascertain, and it remains for a practitioner to determine exactly what is required in each case. There is a multi- purpose herbal formula available that is designated to nutritionally support your body. The herb are used as a food source and not for some so-called “active ingredient" that can be extracted, concentrated and used pharmaceutically. In other words, protein, carbohydrate, and fats are also active ingredients -- if they can be properly digested and assimilated. We ca enhance their digestion by adding food enzymes to the formula. These enzymes are then activated by the warmth, pH, and moisture in the stomach and can move the nutrients past an incompetent digestive system. An excellent multi- purpose formula from Enzyme Formulations, Inc, is ELXR™.

SUMMARY

Sherlock Holms once said that when you have examined all the logical possibilities and have not found the answer, you should look for the most obvious solution, regardless of how illogical it may be. I like to think that if Dr. Watson were here today he would apply that formula by telling us that when we have used all our “magic bullets" without success, we should look for the obvious:

• Examine and modify the diet
• Improve digestion
• Nourish stressed organs

While many would argue that such a solution is too simplistic and perhaps even unsophisticated, it certainly is obvious and easily be substantiated scientifically.

References:

1 Robert Bazell, NBC Nightly News, “Color your plate,” July 30, 2001

2 Roger Williams, You Are Extraordinary (New York: Pyramid Books, 1974)

3 Gordon M. Wardlaw, Perspective in Nutrition, 3d ed. (St. Louis: Mosby – Year book, Inc 1996) p. 113

4 Maurice E. Shils, James A. Olson, and Moshe Shike, eds., Modern Nutrition in health and disease, 2 vols, 8th ed. (Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1994), p.916

5 Edward Howell, Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept (Wayne, New Jersey: Avery Publishing Group, inc., 1985), pp 97 - 127