It is said that there's only one real disease - intestinal toxemia. Sounds foreboding, doesn't it? This is perhaps the most misunderstood and least talked about cornerstone for wellness, yet it's such a simple concept.

Intestinal toxemia simply means that the intestines are toxic. Food is not processed properly, and literally rots in your intestines. This creates a state of toxicity in the body which manifests as illness.

Generally, intestinal toxemia manifests itself as one or more of the following: fatigue, nervousness, gastro-intestinal conditions, endocrine disturbances, neuro-circulatory abnormalities and headaches, arthritis, sciatica and low back pain, allergy, asthma, eye ear nose and throat disease, cardiac irregularities, and pathological breast changes.

Intestinal toxemia is further implicated in high blood pressure; thyroid gland disorders; nervous system disorders; mental symptoms including mental sluggishness, dullness, stupidity, loss of concentration and/or memory, and lack of mental coordination; lack of confidence; irritability; excessive useless worry; exaggerated introspection; hypochondria and phobias; depression and melancholy; hallucination; suicidal tendencies; obsessions and delusions; delirium; and stupor.

What are amino acids?

Pepsin reacts with five amino acids, of which four are essential amino acids that the body cannot produce and must be supplied by various foods.

The four essential amino acids are: Tyrosine, Tryptophan, Phenylalanine, which are neuron-transmitting amino acids, and Methonine, which is a sulfur-barring amino acid essential for the transport of oxygen. All four are essential to your body.

What happens with improper digestion?

If you do not have the peptide-polypeptide conversion with these four amino acids in the lower curve of the stomach, protein is not converted to useable peptides and it goes, unconverted and acidic, into the alkaline environment of the small intestine. It becomes toxic, so you cannot experience any benefits from the essential amino acids.

Once in your intestinal tract, specific toxins are formed from each unconverted amino acid. The intestinal toxin Indole is formed from Tryptophan by protolytic bacteria; the toxin Phenol is formed from Tyrosine; the toxin Skatole is formed from Tryptophan; the toxins Putrescine and Cadaverine are formed from Tryptophan; and the toxin Tyramine is a putrefactive product of Tyrosine.

All these bacteria are acting on the undigested amino acids. This is where all intestinal and bowel toxemia comes from.

What is the solution?

Enzymes are the catalyst for every chemical reaction in your body. They create digestion, which is a breakdown of amino acids into an alkaline state. In order to process the amino acids in food, your body requires proper digestion for health. Without proper digestion, you create the ONE and only REAL disease - intestinal toxemia.