About gall stones

Please excuse this brief diversion from Conversations with Alok, but I’ve been
waiting a while to share this “new” information that I think is very important
to
every single person here.
Recently I discovered that they knew back in the 1930’s that LOW enzyme
levels coexists with gallbladder disease. Whether it is causal or derivative
differs from case to case, but there is a direct correlation; when the liver and
GB get better the amylase levels in duodenal secretions and blood serum go
UP, likewise, the further the enzyme levels go DOWN, the more ill you
become.
I’m quoting here from a dozen or so of the 400+ medical studies presented in
the classic book FOOD ENZYMES FOR HEALTH AND LONGIVITY by Dr.
Edward Howell. This book was written in 1946. Later editions are still in print
and you should try to get one with the 1980 Interview of Dr. Howell.
They also knew way back then that one common cardinal sin of creating

digestive havoc was to take ANTACIDS, a self-medicating habit apparently
as common then as now (this is also the #1 Rx drug in the US now). Just
think how many commercials TV watchers see every day for popping
antacids. Tums are at every food or gasoline sales counter. Doctors and
researchers of the day unraveled the mystery and came to understand that
takiing alkali causes the stomach to respond by secreting more HCl and
pepsin. This works for a while but the body can only compensate for so long
and then enzyme depletion occurs. A “vicious cycle of events” follow,
including cholecycstitis and gallstones.
I recommend that everyone who eats read this CLASSIC cover to cover. We
GB people should also keep it handy for quick reference. The material is as
relevant as any book written today. The main body of the book elucidates why
food enzyme levels have fallen so low, what destroys enzymes (mostly
cooking), and how enzyme depletion is the cause of all old age death, all
aging, senility, degeneration and all chronic illness. Enzymes = physical LIFE
itself.
Even though this book is far from the crypto-advertising self-help health
books of today (which are mostly catalogs for the author’s products) this book
explains clearly how food enzymes can be taken (and absorbed intact!!) into
the body orally in pill, powder or capsule form and how this can reverse and
prevent most illness. Incidentally, many companies (swansonvitamins.com is
the one I use) now sell Dr. Howell’s original enzyme product, it’s called
N’ZIMES. I’m convinced it’s been a major component of my recovery and
current good health.
Will in Minnesota