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I want to continue talking about the pancreas and pancreatic insufficiency last program i said that there’s a vitamin that’s very important it’s associated with pancreatic insufficiency i should say deficiencies in this very important vitamin are associated with pancreatic insufficiencies and that is vitamin b12 this stupendously important nutrient plays a key role
In nerve health and brain health and in digestive health there was a article that was published last week in the journal gut that showed that vitamin b12 can be an important nutritional supplement for treating hepatitis c researchers found that positive uh significant is how they put it significant positive effects were especially noticeable in patients whose hep
C was particularly particularly resistant to treatment and considering that a good 60 to 65 even 70 of hep c patients are going to go on to develop chronic hepatitis c we’re talking about a very serious finding vitamin b12 deficiency is one of the most if not the if not the most important micronutrient deficiency in all of micronutrient deficiencies and it truly
Is a major health crisis in the words of sally petrolic and dr jeffrey stewart in their great book could it be vitamin b12 vitamin b12 deficiency is a hidden epidemic and as it turns out pancreatic insufficiency can be a direct cause of vitamin b12 deficiency in a study it was published in the european journal of pediatrics in 1981 researchers found that poor
Vitamin b12 absorption was linked to deficiencies in pancreatic juices and replacing those juices using pancreatin improved the absorption of b12 in all test subjects another article that was published in 1990 in the journal pancreas it was shown that a male absorption of vitamin b-12 occurs in about 30 percent of adult patients with pancreatic insufficiency
Issues considering how hard it is to diagnose pancreatic insufficiency how vague the symptoms can be and how significant and important vitamin b12 deficiency is this is just another reason to make sure that you’re supplementing with pancreatin supplementing with pancreatic containing products supplementing with the ultimate enzymes from longevity i cannot
Stress this enough if you are dealing with any digestive problems or even if you don’t think you have any digestive problems get yourself on those ultimate enzymes the benefits are tremendous and the benefits are diverse including for the pancreas and now including for the absorption of vitamin b12 you can find out all about the ultimate enzymes on our shopping
Cart at brightsidebend.com another important function of the pancreas involves the production of plain old baking soda sodium bicarbonate the pancreas pumps out sodium bicarbonate and this sodium bicarb is very important for the absorption of nutrients from food when food leaves the stomach and enters into the intestine signals are sent from the intestine of the
Pancreas and a big squirt of sodium bicarb as well as other pancreatic juices trypsin and chemotrypsin and the other enzymes we’ve been talking about a big squirt of this stuff comes out of the pancreas goes into the intestine where it helps the improve the digestion of fats of carbohydrates and of protein and this is the point at which raw foods that contain
Live enzymes can be very beneficial according to dr howe who wrote the book enzyme nutrition the pancreas can conserve it can save some of its enzyme power if the foods that we’re eating contain enzymes if they’re pre-loaded with enzymes eating raw saves the pancreatic enzymes it conserves the pancreatic enzymes and this is why you want to make sure at least
A certain portion of your foods are raw foods especially raw fruits and vegetables chewing your food really well can also help support pancreatic enzyme activity it can also help conserve pancreatic enzymes if you’re dealing with pancreatitis if you’re dealing with digestive problems if you have diabetes using enzyme-rich food using raw fruits raw veggies and
Chewing your food can help reduce the load on the pancreas the saliva actually contains enzymes many of which are similar to the enzymes that are secreted from the pancreas so just chewing your food can have a huge huge impact on digestive wellness once again demonstrating how easy and simple it can be to stay healthy and well nutrited without resorting to the
Medical model without needing drugs and without needing insurance companies and without needing doctors if pancreatic insufficiency is a risk factor for malabsorption of nutrients pancreatitis certain forms of diabetes even pancreatic cancers being serious serious problems anything we can do to support pancreatic health can be very very important for health and
For longevity chewing your food well allowing it to contact saliva for as long as possible ideally you want your food to swallow itself you want to just just slip down your throat eating lightly cooked and raw veggies these are all inexpensive ways to keep yourself healthy and keep yourself out of the doctor’s office and if you’re already dealing with pancreatic
Issues it becomes extra important to use some of these enzyme conserving pancreas protecting strategies all right so the sodium bicarb and the pancreatic juices enter the into the intestine they enter into the intestine after the food leaves the stomach think of a car wash as your car passes through the car wash tunnel different liquids are squirted on the car and
Different brushes are activated and one step kind of leads into the next step one step triggers the rest of the steps the digestive system is the same way as food leaves the stomach pancreatic juices are squirted onto the food the sodium bicarb and the pancreatic juices are highly alkaline they have a high ph the food that’s leaving the stomach is highly acidic it
Has a low ph and this acid-base combination has a huge impact when it comes to digestive wellness which i’ll talk about when we come back from our break i’m pharmacist ben all right continuing on with the pancreas and bicarb bicarb sodium bicarbonate that comes out of the pancreas has a high ph it’s alkaline and the food that’s coming out of the stomach has an
Acid ph it’s like an acid mat not acid mash this soupy acid mash called chyme which is kind of like a acid liquid that leaves the stomach when it contacts the alkaline juices from the pancreas you get this little acid base reaction it’s kind of like the reaction that happens when you drop an alka-seltzer into a glass of water you get this fizzing and this fizzing
This fizzing reaction between the pancreatic sodium bicarbonate and the acid containing food that comes out of the stomach helps improve the breakdown of nutrients from food it’s kind of like an acid-base reaction that is used by high-tech carpet cleaners where pre-conditioners tend to be alkaline and then your post-cleaning rinse is acid when something acid or
Something alkaline hits something acid you get a fizzy kind of reaction and that fizzy kind of reaction acts to chemically and mechanically remove nutrients from food in the same way that it acts to clean carpets if the pancreas is stressed from making too much insulin if there’s pancreatic insufficiency you’re not going to be making the sodium bicarb that means
Less fizzy reaction and that means less absorption of nutrients from food this whole bicarbonate connection to health and wellness is something that is not really focused on even unfortunately by healthcare practitioners and certainly medical doctors don’t focus on pancreatic wellness as much as they might without sufficient bicarbonate the entire acid-base
Balance of the body can suffer too the liquids in the body have to have a slightly alkaline ph and that alkaline ph that high ph is at least partially maintained by pancreatic bicarbonate very this ph balance in the blood is very very very important in the blood and other fluids as well and pancreatic insufficiency can compromise ph throughout the body not just
In the digestive system pancreatic issues can potentially disrupt every system in the body even cancer the emperor of all maladies can be related to a disruption an acid-base balance that could be secondary to pancreatic issues in terms of the digestive system if the pancreas is not making enough bicarb not making enough sodium bicarbonate not only will you not
Be able to neutralize this acid-drenched food that’s leaving the stomach but even more critically you’re not going to be able to activate pancreatic digestive enzymes trypsin and chemotrips and those really important protein dissolving enzymes that we talked about last week depend on an alkaline ph and that alkaline ph is maintained by sodium bicarbonate from the
Pancreas if you have any kind of pancreatic issues now you’re not going to be able to activate these important enzymes and you run the risk of protein malabsorption the same way that enzymes for the stomach are dependent on low ph for activation enzymes from the pancreas are dependent on high ph and it’s not just trypsin and chemotrips in these protein dissolving
Enzymes lipase also depends on alkaline ph from the pancreas lipase is a very very important fat dissolving enzyme we’ve talked about that in the past and if you’re not making enough sodium bicarb or you have pancreatic issues you’re not going to be able to activate that lipase you’re not going to be able to activate your sugar metabolizing enzymes either so you
Can see how this whole sodium bicarbonate and pancreatic connection to wellness is really really important in the case of stomach enzymes there’s another thing that you want to keep in mind stomach enzymes require an acid ph and pancreatic enzymes require an alkaline ph if your pancreas isn’t making enough bicarb bicarb sodium bicarb basically baking soda then
You’re going to have a problem activating not only uh activating your digestive enzymes from the pancreas but this whole this bicarb deficiency can gum up the entire digestive works when food enters into the intestine it’s going to sit around until there’s enough bicarb that has contacted it and neutralized its acidity so you have acid enzymes in the stomach
Low ph acid food leaves the stomach that low ph acid food is supposed to get neutralized by pancreatic secretions pancreatic juices like sodium bicarbonate and then that food gets to move through the digestive tract if you’re not if you’re dealing with pancreatic insufficiency and you’re not making enough bicarb and the bicarb isn’t getting into the intestine
Your food is just going to sit there it’s going to be waiting for sodium bicarbonate to neutralize it food that’s sitting in the digestive tract is never ever a good thing food that’s sitting around in the digestive tract can become stagnant in the digestive tract food is supposed to be moving through the digestive tract assimilated into the blood quickly and
Efficiently and when food hangs out too long it becomes a wonderful growth medium for bacteria so get this this is very very important food it leaves the stomach it’s acidic that’s because of the enzymes and the juices from the stomach as that food leaves the stomach that acid food that acid drenched food it gets neutralized by sodium bicarbonate and that moves
It through the digestive tract if there’s not enough sodium bicarb the food is just going to sit there awaiting more sodium bicarbonate for neutralization food that is just sitting in the in the digestive tract becomes a perfect growth medium for bacteria now use your imagination here folks and picture food sitting in the intestine while it’s waiting for its
Enzyme and bicarb bath from the pancreas this food is being fed on by bacteria and it’s basically rotting and fermenting can you picture this in your mind’s eye rotting and fermenting and putrefying food in the intestine secondary to deficiencies and pancreatic juices what do you think the health implications of this unsavory scenario are going to be rotting
Fermenting putrefying food sitting the intestine well this the health implications are not good bacteria overgrowing on static food is basically the beginnings of every single degenerative disease process you can name and i’m talking about rosacea i’m talking about psoriasis i’m talking about autoimmune diseases i’m talking about heart disease i’m talking
Hypertension i’m talking diabetes i’m talking cancer pretty much anything that can go wrong in the body can go wrong secondary to this rotting putrifying food that’s sitting around in the stomach first of all the bacteria overgrowing are going to activate an immune response the immune response that’s your body’s defensive response if you have an immune response
A defensive response in the digestive tract that can mean irritable bowel syndrome for example that can mean ulcerative colitis that can mean leaky gut syndrome where food actually leaks into the blood through holes that develop in the intestine more immune response this time in the blood and on and on and on it can spiral out of control you
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Pharmacist Ben Fuchs, Pancreatic Health, Enzymes, Vitamin B12, Youngevity Australia By dougalass1111
