The Essentials of Life and Wellness

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The Essentials of Life and Wellness

By: William Wong, N.D., Ph.D.

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For at least the last 40 years most of us have been taking vitamin and

mineral supplements and have been doing and feeling somewhat better. Almost

daily

now there is more and more information on the function of some nutrient and

on its place in the overall scheme of health.

But I've got a question! If these nutrients fill their allotted functions

then why don't they seem to work the same for everyone? In other words, they

seem to help some folks and not to work at all in others! Is there some

underlying thing that allows these nutrient substances to perform their

actions? Are

vitamins, minerals and herbs the do all end all of attaining wellness or,

are they the bricks and cement that must be placed on a solid foundation before

they can take up their tasks solidly?

Let's redefine some terms. In 1913, Dr. Funk discovered nutritional

substances he called " Vital Amines " or Vitamins for short. Without getting

into

biochemistry it turns out that vitamins are not amines but coenzymes,

substances

that help enzymes to work. An enzyme is a huge protein that speeds up

chemical reactions. Without enzymes, chemical reactions would happen so slowly

that

life would not be able to exist at all. The human body has some 3000+

enzymes and over 7000 enzymic reactions.

Most folks think of enzymes as being involved only in digestion. This is

among the last things that enzymes do. Of all the enzymes in the body, the

protein cleaving (or cutting-eating) ones are the most important. These have 4

primary actions, they:

 

1. Reduce inflammation

2. Balance the repair mechanism and prevent fibrosis, (the buildup of scar

tissue)

3. Clean the blood

4. Modulate the immune system

 

Folks who do not experience the beneficial reactions expected from their

coenzymes (vitamins) possibly don't have the enzymes that the coenzyme is

supposed to help! The human body produces a finite amount of enzymes. From the

age

of 27 on, that enzyme production begins to wane. Dr. Max Wolf, an MD with 7

other Ph.D.'s after his name, researched enzymes and hormones at Columbia

University from the 1930's through the 1960's. He found that round about 27

most folks stop making as many enzymes as they used to and that this event

started the cycle of aging. In physiology we are taught that old age begins at

27!

 

The progression of aging goes like this:

 

Round about age 27: Enzyme production drops - 27-35 marks the time when

most of our aches, pains and arthritic changes begin to set in. Fibrosis

begins

building in the organs, blood vessels and muscles. Immune function begins

to lag which is further complicated by high stress lifestyles. Blood begins

to become thicker and harder to circulate.

From 35 to 45 the drop in enzymes and stress of lifestyle causes a reduction

in the all-important sexual hormones of testosterone and progesterone. Sex

drive, mental drive, zest for life, bone density, muscle mass and overall

energy go down significantly.

At 45, we begin to have trouble absorbing the nutrients we need to maintain

the 4 types of tissue we have in our bodies and these tissues begin to break

down and malfunction. Here also from lack of proper eating and exercise

complicated by smoking or air pollution, our blood is as thick as catsup. We

don't have great circulation and oxygen is not getting every where we need to

get

it to! Especially up to our brains.

From 50 through 60, we lose an estimated 10% muscle mass a year so that by

the time we are 60 we are at bare bones minimal muscle mass to move us around

- getting out of bed, off the potty or out of a deep chair becomes a chore.

If the thighs and pelvic muscles, which are the strongest ones in the body

are weak and have trouble getting you up then how are the other muscles doing?

From 60 onward, our internal organs begin to shrink and further malefaction.

That goes as well for the brain. The brain is 60 to 70% cholesterol.

Everything we think with is based on a fat linked to a protein. If we are

lacking

for the good fats needed to produce neurotransmitters and maintain itself,

then the brain begins to shrink and malfunction. If you've ever seen the MRI

picture of an Alzheimer patient's brain, it looks like a dried, shrunken,

cracked jello mold someone left out on the kitchen table under a ceiling fan

for

a week! The last 30 years of the low cholesterol craze has done nothing to

lower the rate of heart disease and everything to increase the rate of the

formerly rare Alzheimer's! Look in any Alzheimer's ward, are there any fat

people there?

How do we stave off these ravages? If we are in the midst of them, how do we

slow their progress down? And how do we make the vitamins and minerals we

are taking work better. We need to go back to the beginning of the degeneration

and replace what we're missing.

Let's touch on again why vitamins, minerals and herbs alone don't work.

Let's look at the lives or deaths rather, of some of the greatest nutritional

teachers and practitioners of our time: Dr. Paul Kellogg - heart attack. Dr.

Bernard Jenkins - prostate cancer. Dr. Carlton Frederick's - lung cancer.

Dr. Pavo Aerola - stroke. Dr. Paul Bragg drowned after being knocked

unconscious in the water by his surfboard at the age of 93! What differentiated

Dr.

Bragg from the rest?

Look at the bodies of some of the better known nutritional teachers and

" natural " doctors now...go ahead think of them. Their faces and pictures are on

books and television constantly. Are they severely overweight? Or, are they

so thin and worn that they look as if they've just stepped out of a Siberian

prison camp? If taking all of these good vitamins, minerals and herbs do it

all then why did Kellogg, Jenkins** (See Note), Fredericks and Aerola get

sick and die. Why are the current gurus of " integrative medicine " overweight

or emaciated, why don't they look like Dr. Bragg did, a handsome, muscular,

vibrant man glowing with energy and power even in his 90's.

Here we go back to Dr. Wolfs' work and we start with, you guessed it,

enzymes. If we maintained a high enzyme intake from our young years then we

held

off the changes that low enzyme levels precipitated. This is what Dr. Bragg

did, through his mainly raw fruit and vegetable diet he replaced or

substituted for many of the enzymes his body lagged in making.

This kept his hormone levels high throughout his life.

Testosterone maintained the size and mass of his bone structure, his muscle

mass and most importantly his brain. In men it has been found that the brain

structure known as the medial amygdala is larger that it is in women. This is

where a mans drive and zest for life come from.

As men age and testosterone levels go down (round about 35 to 45) estrogen

levels go up. This causes the medial amygdala to shrink and with the shrinking

goes a mans mental energy. A man in his 50's has more estrogen than his

wife! High estrogen levels bring depression, anger, weight gain, lack of

libido,

mood swings and decreased erection size. We now know that it is estrogen that

converts to the dreaded hormone Di Hydro testosterone (DHT) that wrecks our

prostate and causes us to lose our hair! (Studies have confirmed this -

swollen prostates and severe hair loss don't happen to testosterone dominant

men

in their teens and 20's).

With gals, the drop in progesterone levels to near 0 before and after

menopause causes much the same effects, i.e. lack of mental drive, depression,

moodiness, loss of bone and muscle mass, weight gain, etc. For decades MD's

have

concentrated on the estrogen after menopause. While it is true that estrogen

levels in these women are lower than they previously were, their

progesterone and testosterone levels are practically nonexistent making them

still

estrogen dominant. Estrogen is the fuel that sparks fibrocystic breast

disease,

breast cancer, uterine fibroids and cervical cancer.

OK, so we did not do what Dr. Bragg did and eat enzymes from a young age.

So, once they are gone, we'll need to replace them. What Next?

Oxygen. We have been 'plagued' by all the nutritional data about

antioxidants for at least 15 years leading most folks to think that oxygenation

is a bad

thing. The strongest antioxidant you can find is to wrap your lips around a

tailpipe! Life is an oxidative process! All disease states arise from, are

fed by or are complicated by a lack of oxygen.

Oxygen not only feeds tissue and is vital to life, oxygen will also; kill

viruses, burn bacteria, singe yeast, and dissolve cancer. Disease states are

anaerobic. All bugs hate oxygen. Cancer cells for example, feed off of

glycogen (anaerobic respiration), and die in the strong presence of oxygen!

Part

of a healthy immune system is to have the circulation, rich red blood cells

and clean thin blood needed to carry oxygen throughout the body to every nook

and cranny thereby killing off anything that may be thinking of festering

there due to the lack of sufficient oxygen.

So we add Oxygen to our mix.

Finally we need to have an efficient outside to efficiently and painlessly

carry our efficient insides around! For this, aerobic training will not do.

All of the jazz exercise, yoga, karate aerobics, and even swimming and walking

simply will not do. For this we have to strength train! Mind you I said

strength training not body building. There is a huge difference I'll get to

explain in a bit.

First let's look at something known as Wolfes' (a different Wolf this time)

physiological law. A physiological law is an uncontested truth. That's the

way it works - no questions about it! Wolfes' law states: " Mineralization

is laid into bone along axial lines of stress " . What that means is that

unless we compress hard, tug hard and yank hard on a bone, it will not fill

well

with minerals or maintain it's mineral mass. Most MD's think Wolfes' law can

be fulfilled by simple weight bearing as in walking,,,they are dead wrong.

For one thing, while walking, what weight bearing do the arms, shoulders and

mid back do?

How can they benefit from the walking? For another, the first principle of

exercise is that a muscle prefers to get its exercise in its primary range of

motion in as great a range of motion as it can safely do. This will stress

the bones sufficiently to produce the adaptive response of mineralizing.

Walking has a mere 13 degrees of range of motion at the hip and knee when the

hip

is capable of 160 degrees of range and the knee 135 degrees. So how much

exercise is 13 degrees? Not much. For walking to be a good exercise in bone

building for the pelvis and lower extremity, you would have to going very fast

up hill both ways....coming and going. Not likely to happen.

Now -- what's this difference between strength training and body building?

A heck of a lot. Body building bloats muscles through a process known as

hypertrophy and does not produce a lot of strength for the size. Real strength

training on the other hand produces dense strong muscle through a process

called hyperplasia. Do any of the lightweight Olympic weight lifting champions

look like bodybuilders do? No. Do the men in the " Worlds Strongest Man "

competitions look like bodybuilders? No. Look at the bantam and lightweight

class

of Olympic lifters. Yet these small men and women are some 3 to 4 times

stronger and more able than the biggest of bodybuilders. We are not going for

kissable beautiful biceps. We are shooting for useable strength for the

Activities of Daily Living (ADL's) and: to keep our circulation up, our bones

strong, and very importantly increase the number of mitochondria in the muscle

cells.

The energy we use for everything in our lives is produced by mitochondria.

It is these furnaces of the cells where Adenosine Tri Phosphate is produced

(ATP). ATP is the sugar everything in our bodies is powered by. Most all of

the ATP in the body is made in the muscles. The brain uses 33% of the

bodies' daily energy, the eyes 33% and the remainder of our body the rest! If

we

have lowered numbers of mitochondria, as in Mononucleosis, Fibromyalgia,

Chronic Fatigue or due to age and loss of muscle, then all of our energy is

significantly reduced and we are in a fog.

The only thing that can significantly increase the number of mitochondria in

our bodies is STRENGTH TRAINING. Period. And yes, I know that for the last

20 years the medical emphasis has been on the aerobic training of the heart.

Again research now shows that couch potatoes are living as long as their

marathon running cousins and, that runners are dying of heart disease anyway

while they sink their immune systems and wreck their joints with all the

aerobic

work! As we age, frame strength becomes more important than heart endurance.

When was the last time you ran after the postman because he forgot to pick

up a letter? But you arise from bed, the toilet and chairs every day.

Strength is important not only in maintaining the circulation to our

extremities

but to perform all of the activities of daily living from blow drying our

hair, to serving the table, to picking the skillet up from that bottom shelf!

Nuff said.

Let's put this all together: When we only take vitamins, minerals and herbs,

as important as they are, we are skirting around the outside of the

essentials for health. If we just take supplements and not replace the enzymes

we

are wasting a good bit of money, expectation and time.

If we don't raise our levels of the sexual hormones, i.e. progesterone and

testosterone, then we cannot stop or reverse the bone and muscle loss; we'll

be depressed, gain fat and have no drive for life.

If we don't have high levels of circulating oxygen, we'll have bugs grow and

fester throughout our bodies and have low energy and shortened life span.

If we don't maintain our frame, we can forget the rest of the program as it

will give out and disease regardless of whatever else we do.

So again the cornerstones of life and wellness are:

 

Enzymes from juicing, raw foods and most importantly from supplementation.

We need the supplements as the most essential enzymes for avoiding or

combating the catastrophic diseases are the enzymes we may no longer make as

much

of. Pancreatin is essential in the prevention and fight against all cancers

and inflammations. Eating raw pancreas and meat is out of the question. So,

we have to find the finest enzyme supplement and take it liberally.

Progesterone and testosterone. With simple saliva tests we can determine

just how low or off we are in our hormone balance and then safely supplement

the loss with topical creams that are natural and without side effects.

Testosterone has gotten a bad rap in the last 20 years as a cancer producer and

aggression maker. The latest research shows the truth. Natural testosterone;

protects the heart from disease, is the greatest antidepressant known,

maintains sex drive, bone mass and muscle mass, lowers cholesterol and levels

of body

fat, protects the prostate and maintains mental drive! Karuna makes the

purest most utilizable progesterone supplement cream on the market today and is

available at www.docsprefer.com. As Andro-Edge is no longer available (read

my article entitled The Real Reason for the Andro Ban) I would recommend

using the Libido Lift and Testosterone Gel from Fountain of Youth Technologies

both of which are also available at _www.docsprefer.com_

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Oxygen. We first clean the blood with the enzymes. Then we make the blood

rich with oxygen carrying red blood cells. We then increase the circulation

by opening up clogged blood vessels with enzymes and then make miles and

miles of new blood vessels through weight training. On top of that, to make

sure we are always oxygen rich to fight off bugs despite air pollution and the

rest we'll supplement with a rich oxygen source. After much disappointment

in the O2 supplement I used to recommend we went searching round for another.

My wife Michele came upon a medical doctor who is in the business of

manufacturing his own stabilized oxygen product. He told us of manufacturing

processes old and new, and how the new processes could boost the strength of

the

product. Most of the stabilized oxygen products on the market are 50,000 ppm or

5% oxygen and may be akin to bleach, this alternative doc has been building

his to be bleach free, professional strength stabilized oxygen at 5 times the

strength (250,000 ppm or 25%). He sells this strength of product only to

health professionals. Guaranteed to kick ass on bacteria, fungus, viruses and

guaranteed to increase tissue oxygen with all of the good benefits that brings.

Exercise. Finally we'll shore up our frames and boost our energy producing

structures with strength training. This will lessen the incidence of injury,

maintain our bone and muscle mass, increase our circulation, lubricate the

joints, feed our brain better and give us the ability to carry ourselves around

for life without being a burden to ourselves and others.

 

Does all that sound reasonable? Well stay tuned. We're in this for Life!

 

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**Note Correction as Sent to Me:

Judy & Dan Hogge

Saturday, September 20, 2003 4:01 PM

 

I want to state for the record.

Dr. Bernard Jensen did not die of Prostate Cancer. He did get it and it was

really bad. His PSA was over 1600 and it was matastic thru out his bones.

After he was told good bye from all his family and co-workers. He wasn't

expected to live thru the weekend.

Michael O'Brein was called in to see if he could be saved. He put him on a

very rigourus Enzyme protocol. In 8 weeks 1 day his cancer was gone. He was

still very sick and weak. But there was no sign of cancer. He broke his back in

a car accident just after being released from the hospital. The Mayo Clininc

told him he would never walk again.

Michael O'Brein was called again. 2 1/2 months he was out of his wheelchair.

He lived for 10 more years. Bernard Jensen died at 96 yrs old that was 2 1/2

years ago in March. He decided he was ready to go home and stopped eating. He

did not die of Cancer.

Michael O'Brein is my teacher and mentor with the Enzymes. He also saved my

life 2 1/2 years ago.