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PROTEINS

A common denominator in all diseases is protein. Your liver needs protein, really amino acids, to make glucose, enzymes, and hormones. You eat protein and often the protein molecules do not get broken apart into single amino acids. So you miss phenylalanine, mithionine, tryptophan, tyrosine, lysine. These amino acids are vital for the liver and also the brain. All foods have protein molecules, in fact the protein molecules in vegetables and fruits are easier to break down. When the liver doesn't receive enough of these amino acids, many things go missing. The liver stimulates the pancreas to make enzymes and insulin. Without this complete amino structure from these five aminos, this cannot be done. The liver sends a message to the brain, I need these aminos, get them for me. The body then takes protein from the weakest place because that is the least resistance. What does it steal, calcium?

Wrinkles - We expect wrinkles in old age but have you ever wondered why some people get wrinkles earlier than others? It's the stealing of the protein from the skin.

Osteoporosis - We think of this condition as calcium loss in the bones. But the matrix of the bones is protein. If the matrix is week or missing, then how can the calcium be deposited into the bone structure. Doctors give us hormones and calcium, when we have osteoporosis, but enzymes and protein is what we need. Protein molecules carry minerals and vitamins through the system. Without amino acids calcium cannot even be moved to the bones, without enzymes the action doesn't happen. Without enzymes the protein molecules do not get broken into single amino acids.

Our blood needs to be at a pH balance of 7.4 which is on the alkaline side. The body must maintain this balance, it is called homeostasis. The body will steal to buffer the acid foods we eat to keep our blood pH balance.

Allergies - asthma - Without protein no minerals. When your body needs to buffer acid levels it has to steal from the least resistant area (the mineral calcium is used). If it is the tissue in the arm, you have skin allergies, steals calcium from the nasal passages, you have sinus or hay fever; steals from the esophagus, you have asthma. Always steals from the weakest area, because it is the easiest to take, no fight. What causes the allergy reaction? When your body steals a piece of structure there is a void and nature can't leave a void, so it fills it in with inflammation. You have a histamine reaction.

PMS - hormone imbalance - What does it take to make hormones, protein. What happens to women three days prior to cycle, calcium goes off the chart. Women have cramps, men have charley horses. Calcium loss, how does that tie into protein? Amino acids transport minerals and vitamin through the blood stream. Manufacturers of calcium know that, they chelate minerals with protein.

Arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis - are deficiency diseases arising from an inability to deal adequately with protein digestion and metabolism. Protein does not digest - amino acids are not totally broken apart. These aminos stuck together enter the blood stream creating an immune reaction. The thymus gland becomes overworked, doesn't receive enough amino acids to rebuild, gets confused and attacks own tissue, you have inflammation, then arthritis. Needs protein digested to rebuild and stop inflammation.
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