Part 3: Immune System In my first two articles, I emphasized the importance of diet and the body's ability to properly predigest, absorb, and assimilate the nutrition and eliminate the waste from the foods you eat. These steps are essential for restoring normal function and maintaining the health of your patients. Once you take a bite of food, chew, and swallow, you have made your choice. Now your body has to respond to that choice. What is the connection between digestion, the immune system, and your patients' overall health? Enzymes are the workers in the body. They simply get work done. Food enzyme supplementation enhances your digestion and can deliver important nutrients past an incompetent digestive system. What does this look like in your practice when you are talking to your patients? Mrs. Jones is responding slower to her chiropractic care than your doctor expected. She started getting better after she started chiropractic care, but then hit a plateau and has not progressed since. She cannot tolerate physical exercise and responds poorly to your doctor's manual adjusting and/or rehab program. We all have experienced such cases in our offices. My point is that you need to be aware of patients like Mrs. Jones, especially when they talk to you about symptoms often attributed to poor immune response or chronic degeneration. They need to know there is a simple two-minute exam that your doctor can do to screen patients for food enzyme deficiencies. Ask if they want to be screened by your doctor. What can enzymes do in your practice? Enzymes are great for acute injuries, tired muscles, cramps, spasms, strained muscles, and joint pain, to name a few. Food enzymes are also good choices for boosting your patients' immune systems to support their bodies' needs during the flu, a common cold, or allergies. Since food enzymes are essential nutrients that help improve digestion, they are also important for children and delivering the nutrients needed for growth and repair. Most patients mistakenly believe that if they eat healthy food, their cells and organs receive the full benefit of that nutrition. They assume that the food they eat is automatically 100% digested, absorbed, and utilized by their cells and organs. If that were the case, then your patients wouldn't be suffering from a health condition. Here are a few common symptoms of weakened immune system: Fatigued, tired most of the time Low resistance (e.g., frequent colds/infections) Joint pain in spine, hips, knees, feet, or hands Loss of appetite or loss of taste for meat Dark circles under eyes By supporting your patients' care plans with food enzymes, you can improve your results with them and help to grow your practice. Here are some simple ways to begin a conversation about food enzymes and nutrition in your office: "If you are tired, you may need extra nutrition right now. Dr. Smith has an exam that can determine what specific nutrition you may need." "You can't seem to shake that cold! Did you know that the right nutrition can help you get better faster?" "Enzymes help deliver good nutrition to your body, which can give you more energy. Would you like to chat with Dr. Smith about this so he can find the right program for your body?" How the system works: By supplementing food enzymes, you are helping replace enzymes lost when food is cooked or processed. This relieves the body of the burden to create more digestive enzymes. The body then is able to produce enzymes required for other vital bodily functions. Dr. Howard F. Loomis, Jr. has developed specific, scientific ways of determining how well a patient digests proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. He has formulated digestive enzymes to meet the specific nutritional need of the patient, taking into consideration how well the patient digests food, as well as looking at the patient's diet to see if there is an excess or deficiency of a particular food group and adjusting the diet accordingly. Digestive supplements offered by Enzyme Formulations® Inc., if suggested by a knowledgeable practitioner, are extremely effective because they are weighted to predigest proteins, carbohydrates, and/or fats, depending on specific nutritional needs. For more information about food enzyme nutrition, chiropractors may call the Loomis Institute at 800-662- 2630 to set up an account. See the Loomis Institute's ad to order the "REAL" Test Kit, which teaches chiropractors the screening exam mentioned in this article. Chiropractors have access to the Loomis Institute's director of clinical sciences, who is available to answer questions as they incorporate enzyme nutrition into practice. Dr. Keith Giaqiiinto has over 11 years of clinical experience as a Chiropractor and Internal Health Specialist. He frequently lectures to companies and groups in his community on topics of health and wellness. He has created a new patient lecture system for grow ing your practice through lecturing. You can contact him at www.YourDigestionDoctor.com
