It?s Friday again and I am focusing on one important subject that probably is the
cause of today?s prostate diseases in Ghanaian men.
causes prostate cancer or prostate disease; it is a spectrum of disease. The food we eat plays a
significant role on our health, especially on our prostate health. The prostate gland
is our powerhouse as men and our legacy.
Today, most of the health conditions Ghanaian face is as a result of low enzymes
level. So what are these enzymes? Enzymes are protein molecules that are
manufactured by all plant and animal cells. All cells require enzymes to survive
and function.
Enzymes are catalysts, meaning that they make chemical reactions go faster, but
are not changed by the reaction. For example, digestive enzymes cause food that
we eat to be broken down much faster than would occur without them, but
enzymes are not broken down in the reaction they are speeding up.
Studies has shown that people who have a chronic disease or have low energy
levels also have lower enzyme content in their blood, urine, and tissues. While
there is clearly a direct relationship between disease states and a person’s enzyme
levels, only recently has the nature of that relationship been better understood.
Investigators began to inquiry if a person’s enzyme levels were low because they
were sick or were they sick because their enzyme levels were low. The
investigators found something astonishing.
They realized that a person may not have low enzyme content because he is sick or
old, but instead, the reason a person may be sick or old is because of low enzyme
content.
As a result, the “old concept” of “I am sick, therefore my enzyme levels are low”
has recently been replaced by a “new concept” which is “my enzyme levels are low,
therefore I am sick.”
Probably you may be wondering whether enzymes are significant in our daily
lives. Yes, Enzymes are one of the most vital elements in our body. Enzymes are
as significant as the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Why
is this? Our body required enzymes to function correctly because without enzymes
we wouldn?t be able to breathe, swallow, drink, eat, or digest our food. So in
doing all these things, our body needs some help. We must have enzymes to help
perform these tasks. Enzymes are an absolute necessity to live.
Enzymes are our body’s workers. They are accountable for constructing,
synthesizing, carrying, dispensing, delivering, and eliminating the many
ingredients and chemicals our body uses in its daily business of living. Our body
makes enzymes. When we were young, we had a plentiful supply of enzymes. We
felt great. Our energy level seemed never ending. We had “enzymes to burn”
which kept us in a row at tip top competence.
As the days goes by, we slowly begin to lose this effectiveness. For years we don’t
even notice the changes. But then we are less able to eat the spicy foods we love or
less able to recover as quickly from the aches and pains of weekend sports. This
reduced vitality and stamina can signal a weakened and compromised body.
Because of our bad dietary habit and crippled farms with chemicals it deprive us of
the right nutrients and as the day goes by we?re running low on the enzymes we
need to fuel our life. The process of depleting our enzymes is a slow one just like
the story of the boil frog in a pot of water I told you, and most likely we didn’t
notice our energy and vitality keeps on failing until one day something we once
loved to do was unexpectedly becomes too much work. We aren’t getting too old
to enjoy life but finally conventional practitioners blame our prostate diseases on
aging population but it is not; we are running out of enzymes that would ensure us
the energy we need to enjoy life just like the Okinawan?s , Hunzas et al who live to
145years without suffering from any of the prostate disease we are suffering from.
We simply need to restore our enzyme potential with our food. Our foods have
become so toxic and finally disease is the body attack.
So could something be happening to our digestive enzymes in Ghana? The reason
we are running out of digestive enzymes is a lifestyle challenges. Our poor
dietary habits, fast food obsessions, and excessive intake of fat and sugars, all
require excessive amounts of enzymes to digest our foods. Stress kills and damages
cells, resulting in our enzyme-making equipment having to work overtime to help
rebuild and replace them. Our environment is much polluted and causes cellular
damage requiring ongoing help from enzymes just to maintain a healthy immune
system. And time is a big factor to the Ghanaian especially men. Time and the
process of living uses up enzymes that must be replaced if we expect to retain the
healthy active lifestyle we have grown familiar to. Every one of these factors
diminishes our body’s capacity to act, to do, to feel the way we want to feel; and, as
many reputable scientists will tell you, these factors may even shorten your life.
ENZYMES are necessary, but our enzyme potential is plummeting. Many
researchers now view the aging procedure and death itself as zero more than an
enzyme potential which has decreased to a level where the living organism can no
longer be repaired and maintained in its existing environment.
We may slow down this trend by invigorating our body with supplemental
digestive enzymes. We can help minimize this inevitable downward twisting in our
body’s efficiency, a twisting created by a growing shortage of available enzymes.
I know you may be wondering how you can maintain our enzyme potential.
There is much we can do as men if we want to fight prostate diseases or maintain
our health and live long to combat our declining enzyme potential. We must be
proactive and start soon, the earlier we begin to restore and extend the vitality we
once had. But if you still you have no problem concerning your enzyme level, and
then you might be astonished what you have ever so slowly lost without knowing it
until you get it back. And, if you’re young enough not yet to have lost it, then here’s
a way to keep it.
Supplemental digestive enzymes are win-win for all ages. The research is clear that
enzymes can help you maintain good health.
But do you know that our cells need a good nutrition? We have no choice but to
live in our present environment. Our bodies are affronted daily by excessive
production of free radicals caused by our polluted environment, stressful lifestyles,
and over-medicated society. Though we can certainly reduce the amount of free
radicals our bodies produce by: not smoking, decreasing stress levels, and avoiding
toxic chemicals, most of our bodies are still unable to fight the overwhelming daily
attack on the natural defense system. Remember balance is the key–we need
enough antioxidants available to neutralize the free radicals produced.
A medical doctor authored a book title? What your doctor doesn?t know about
nutritional medicine may be killing you? he gave an account of how he, been a
conventional train medical practitioner have no idea on nutritional medicine but
after he found that nutritional medicine is key in healing diseases he has no other
choice but to practice nutritional medicine. Nutritional medicine was the only
remedy to heal, the doctor?s wife after suffering from a medical condition call
fibromyalgia that presents with lot of muscles pain.
Nutrition is plays a significant role for a good health. Over the past 50 years,
nutritional medicine and supplementation has focused on replenishing a nutritional
deficiency. Our cells need good nutrition so stay healthy because your prostate
health matters. May you leave long and may there never be a disharmony any
where in the prostate gland. We must rise up us men and fight for our prostate
health because it is our heart beat and legacy as men otherwise we are in doom
with bad sex life. See you next week as I write also on an important subject-
Oxidative stress and your prostate health.
By Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu
Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu is a registered alternative medical practitioner who specializes in
prostate cancer. He studied the Masters program in prostate cancer-Sheffield Hallam
University, UK. He is a PhD candidate in prostate cancer and alternative medicine, Indian
Board of Alternative Medicines Academy, Kolkata, India and the founder of Men?s Health
Foundation Ghana and De Men?s clinic and Prostate Research Lab in Dodowa, Akoto House.
Tel: 0541090045, 0500106570. E.mail:[email protected].
