The Enzyme Advantage for Women
HEALTH
CARE
Howard F. Loomis
Arnold Mann
The following is an excerpt from The Enzyme Advantage for Women, a newly published book about the groundbreaking yet common-sense power of enzymes and nutrition in women’s health. This book offers the “clinical gems” of Dr. Howard F. Loomis, Jr., based on decades of clinical experience restoring women’s health. Dr. Loomis is an internationally respected speaker and author who has written regular columns for The American Chiropractor since 1988.
In writing this book, I have revisited my own learning curve.
When I look back at my first 18 years in practice, I see a time when women kept coming to my office with the same problems—the same recurring symptoms—and I wasn’t able to do anything for these women.
First, it started with the young woman arriving at menarche (the beginning of the menstrual function); then all the symptoms associated with PMS and with the birth control pill; followed by the hot flashes, which mark the beginning of the perimenopause years; and finally, the emergence of osteoporosis during the “Golden Years.”
None of the symptoms made any sense.
Not in my mind. Why? Because it all had to do with reproduction, and reproduction is a normal process. So, it follows that there should be no problems, no life-disrupting symptoms associated with it. Why don’t we have problems growing up with other normal processes in the body? Why is reproduction such an overwhelming issue for women throughout most of their lives?
Even when it’s over, when a woman is no longer menstruating, the life-disrupting symptoms that emerged during her reproductive years may continue to plague her for the rest of her life, while other women don't have any of those symptoms, or at least to a far lesser degree.
So what is the problem with what should be a normal biological process?
That’s the question that used to drive me crazy.
From the time I finished school until 1980,1 lived with that unanswerable question, powerless to help my female patients with their “female problems.”
The medical doctor could write a prescription for a medi-
cation targeting this or that symptom, but these medications did nothing to restore normal function. And they all carried a suitcase full of unpleasant side effects.
Nutrition was the key. I was certain of that.
I knew that the vast majority of the women I saw were protein deficient, as well as HC1 (hydrochloride) deficient, which impaired their ability to digest both protein and lipids. My laboratory tests confirmed this fact and more. I spent years giving them supplements to improve their protein assimilation and their biliary function—the aforementioned betaine HC1 and ox bile salts.
And I added pancreatic enzymes to aid in digestion.
But nothing worked.
Then came Dr. Edward Howell with his plant enzymes. Aha! That was the missing link!
And that’s when everything changed. I had the means of diagnosing what each patient’s specific nutritional deficiency was, and now I had the means of delivering that nutrition.
For my patients, I had the lab tests and the physical exam.
Before any of this, however, I took a case history of each patient.
^Enzymes were the key. Using food enzyme supplements, I could deliver key essential nutrients past an incompetent digestive system and relieve these
patients of their symptoms. J J
Before I examined a woman or ran any kind of test, I could tell exactly what her problem was based on her symptoms.
Did she have increased secretions in her mouth, nose, and eyes? Did she have cold hands and feet? Water gain and swelling in her hands and feet? Did she have muscle cramps at night? Pink on her toothbrush? Was she unable to tolerate exercise? Was she stressed out? Was she irritable much of the time? Did she suffer from insomnia, and was she worn out and tired all the time?
The above were all signs of protein deficiency, which was often tied to a calcium deficiency.
Did she have decreased secretions in her mouth, nose, and eyes? Did she have water loss, dry mouth, and skin? Did she have difficulty concentrating? Did she experience muscle cramps and weakness during exercise? Did she startle easily? Did she suffer from loss of energy and fatigue? Was she eating too much sugar?
All of these were signs of carbohydrate deficiency.
Did she have dry skin? Did she suffer from tremors and uncontrollable blood pressure? Was she unable to conceive a child? Was she unable to induce labor? Did she have a history of spontaneous abortion?
This patient was lipid deficient.
The not-so-obvious became obvious.
A woman would be unable to handle stress. She’d be worn out, suffering from insomnia, and unable to conceive, and she would be blaming it all on the stress in her life. It was her husband, her job, her kids, the next-door neighbor. More often than not, however, it was her diet. She was protein deficient, carbohydrate deficient, or lipid deficient.
Enzymes were the key. Using food enzyme supplements, I could deliver key essential nutrients past an incompetent digestive system and relieve these patients of their symptoms.
The nun study was proof positive of this. With essentially no change in diet, just the predigestive action of the food enzyme supplements they were given at each meal, their health
improved. And the improvement in symptoms and increase in overall health and well-being was stunning.
I have come to feel very passionately about the fact that women do not have to go through life with all these problems ever again.
And so this book.
H Arnold Mann has been writing about medicine for 30 years. His cover stories for TIME and USA Weekend Magazine have earned him recognition as one of the nation ’s leading medical journalists. Mr. Mann served as co-author of Dr. Keith Black’s book, Brain Surgeon: A Doctor ’s Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles (Grand Central Publishing, 2010), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award (Best Nonfiction Book). Mr. Mann has also written extensively for publications of the National Institutes of Health. He served as personal writer for the Director of the National Cancer Institute, and he oversaw publication of the Institute ’s Annual Progress Report to Congress. Contact info: [email protected].
Dr. Loomis has an extensive background in enzymes and enzyme supplements. He is the founder and president of the Food Enzyme Institute™. His
extensive knowledge of physiology, biochemistry, and enzymology has made him a sought-after speaker and a prolific writer The Food Enzyme Institute offers seminars to health care practitioners around the country. Dr Loomis published ENZYMES: The Key to Health in 1999, as well as The Enzyme Advantage: For Healthcare Providers and People Who Care About Their Health, also with medical Journalist Arnold Mann, in 2015. Contact info: 6421 Enterprise Lane, Madison, WI 53 719, customerservice(@foodenzymeinstitute.com, 800-662-2630.
