Author Of A New Way Of Thinking Shares Information On Nutritional And Enzymatic Deficiencies

Author Of A New Way Of Thinking Shares Information On Nutritional And Enzymatic Deficiencies

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at http://www.thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt, Richard DiCenso shares on nutritional and enzymatic deficiencies.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Richard DiCenso, a leading authority on whole person therapy and author of Exploring A New Way of Thinking.

Kevin: So you’re talking about nutritional deficiencies and enzymatic deficiencies, as well. What are some of the most common ones that people encounter or you’ll encounter?

Richard: One of the phenomenon that occurred that contributes to this and I want to preface this with what I call an acid burden on the body. So in other words, the human body is an acid producing machine biochemically. It produces acid in response to everything it comes in contact with. So when you eat a meal and let’s say, you’re digesting normally, the byproducts of that digestion to a large degree are metabolic acids that need to be metabolized, neutralized and eliminated on a 24-hour cycle. So if you create more acid as a result of excessive stresses or an abhorrent diet or just normal processes of overeating, for instance, or even too much exercise, for that matter, then if your body can’t get rid of the acid it produces during the day it has to store it. In order to store it has to be neutralized, because it’s a very corrosive acid with the pH of about 2.5, which is very acidic. So this corrosive acid has to be put in storage and buffered with one of two substances, really. The first buffered attempt or a low-grade accumulation of acid is oxygen and obviously oxygen is important for a lot of other things in the body and so the supply is limited to what you can breathe in. Now, if the acid burden increases and the oxygen supplies diminish, then the body has to revert to minerals and those minerals come from the diet. So obviously, if the minerals aren’t in the diet or aren’t in the food or you’re not able to access them or the demand for them is the greater than the supply available, the body reverts to extracting calcium and phosphorus from bone, which then ultimately will lead to the diagnosis of a disease called osteoporosis, which is a symptom of what I just described.

Kevin: Wow.

Richard: So then what happens is this acid burden that is a buffered – so in other words, something’s either going to be acidic or alkaline and when the body starts buffering these huge acid stores, then it does that by elevating the pH, so it becomes very alkaline in order to neutralize this very harsh acid. So the more alkaline that the stored waste product becomes, the less efficient the digestive system becomes. It turns off the enzymes. It impairs the ability of the enzymes to function in that environment, because they require a very specific range of pH in order to have an optimal effect on the digestive system.

Now, the other thing that turns up with enzymes is there are two different classes of enzymes. One is digestive and one is metabolic and as the digestive enzymes are depleted, because of having funky diets or overeating or just not having genetically sufficient enzymes to perform the functions that they’re designed to perform, which is break down food, digest and absorb it and take it to the metabolic enzymes, whose job it is to take those nutrients and restructure them into regenerated tissues and rejuvenation on a cellular level and repair and rehabilitation of the impaired systems of the body and the production and distribution of hormones, then these things can’t happen efficiently.

So if you’re not digesting these digestive enzymes efficiently, then the body has to draw from the metabolic stores of enzymes and the metabolic stores of enzymes then become depleted and they’re finite. You can’t create those anymore. So once they’re gone, they’re gone. So if those supplies are being diverted to digestion, then the job that they’re designed to do, which is regeneration and rejuvenation and rehabilitation, is not going to happen and the body begins to age at an accelerated rate, which causes premature aging and early death, to be honest with you.

Kevin: So you can’t regenerate those metabolic enzymes at all?

Richard: No.

Kevin: Okay. So what would be the solution to making sure those don’t get depleted?

Richard: Take the burden off of them by identifying what the cause of the enzyme impairment is, the digestive enzyme impairment.

Kevin: Okay.

Richard: So in a high percentage of cases it’s going to amount to taking digestive enzymes.

Kevin: Okay. So what are some of the other things that our bodies are doing that might not be optimal?

Richard: Well, to take the acid story a step

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