Hey Look, Everyone! Our First Contest at The Bolt.
Woo! Contest time at The Bolt! The very first one since Liz and I took over. Don’tcha feel like crying with excitement? Um, okay. Maybe that’s just me.
Anyhoo, here’s the scoop: We’re giving away a spiffy hardcover copy of the newly-released Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes, by Tom Bohager. Whether you’re hip to the benefits of enzymes or not, this book will clue you in.
Written in a very friendly and relatable style, Mr. Bohager addresses the world of enzymes and their presence in our food sources and dietary supplements. Their primary role, Bohager suggests, is to relieve the digestive system of otherwise tedious activity, freeing up energy for our body to address the rest of its needs.
The book is written with digestible (yep, pun intended) convenience, offering quick-reference, easy-to-understand graphs and tips as it explores:
- The role of enzymes as catalysts of life
- The link between enzymes and digestive health
- The way enzymes help defend against and overcome various health issues
- Simple ways to incorporate enzymes into your life for a fast and effective path to better health
- A 100-page alphabetical guide of how enzymes can benefit health conditions ranging from Age Spots to Autism to Sinusitis and more.
This book is exciting and inspiring, instilling hope that your body can meet its needs naturally and wholly. For those of you who are interested in learning how to improve your digestion, strengthen your immune system, restore your energy levels, slow down the aging process or treat common illnesses, here’s what you need to do:
1. Leave us a comment in this post telling us which malady you hope can be treated with enzyme therapy and why.
2. Leave your name or ID when you comment, and be sure to include a valid email address (which will be kept confidential).
3. Enter as much as once per day. Each daily comment will result in one entry. At the end of the contest period, one random entry will be selected the old fashioned way - from a hat. Obviously, the more you comment, the more chances you have to win.
4. Leave all entry comments by Friday, March 28, 2008. The winner will be announced (and notified via email) on or before April 1st, 2008.
5. Though we totally love our foreign readers, at this point the contest is available only to U.S. and Canadian residents.
Any questions, email me (Liberty) by clicking on the email link next to my name in the right sidebar.
Thanks to all and good luck!
More information about the book and author.
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13 opinions for Hey Look, Everyone! Our First Contest at The Bolt.
marscity9
Mar 18, 2008 at 12:13 am
I hope insomnia can be treated by enzyme therapy because sleep is useful (or so I’ve heard).
Liz
Mar 18, 2008 at 2:11 am
Hi Liberty, sounds like a really interesting book…
Good luck to all that enter the contest.
Liz
melody rose sproule
Mar 18, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hoping diabetes can be treated!
Crimson
Mar 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm
This is odd. I was doing research on this very subject this morning.
I have celiac disease.
Kenzi
Mar 18, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I would love it if it could help with acid reflux and gas. Seems the older I get the more foods I have to avoid because of these problems. Waaaah!
Jack
Mar 18, 2008 at 5:45 pm
This does sound interesting. I’m interested in therapies that could help my wife’s fibromyalgia and my father’s diabetes.
The Natural Health Guy
Mar 19, 2008 at 12:10 am
Great article. Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes by Tom Bohager is a fantastic book, a must have for anyone interested in their health. I was thinking about doing an article about on enzyme on my website.
Suzanne Phillps
Mar 19, 2008 at 9:03 am
I would love to find an enzyme treatment for migraines. It is amazing to me that so many women get migraines and yet there is still so much uncertainty about what to do to prevent them.
Liberty
Mar 20, 2008 at 10:48 am
You all are in luck. Every single ailment mentioned here (celiac disease, diabetes, fibromyalgia, flatulence, insomnia and migraines) are all receptive to enzyme therapy. Good luck with your entries!
Natural Health Guy, thanks for your opinion on the book. Fascinating, isn’t it? If you do write that enzyme article for your website, email me the link so I can check it out, won’t you? Thanks.
Anna
Mar 27, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Lactose intolerance is a pain. Help me!
Jon Drucker
Mar 27, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I hope enzymes can help with my arthritis, especially since it’s in the early stages. My mother has had severe arthritis in her hands since her late 40s, as did her mother, so I’m expecting my genetic legacy to kick in someday soon
Aaron
Mar 28, 2008 at 11:55 am
I’m a long time healthbolt reader and really appreciate the work you folks do in rounding up interesting health & technology related information.
I am a biochemist at a research university and involved in structural biology work - we investigate the structure, function and physical properties of several proteins and characterize their enzymatic activity. I’m not a specialist in nutrition and I can’t speak to everything mentioned in this posting or book, but please realize much of what is suggested here is not factually accurate and does not appear to be supported by empirical evidence.
Significant alteration of diet does help relieve the symptoms of several diseases - but it is not necessarily through the action of enzymes. In the case of coeliac, fibromyalgia, and diabetes - the alleviation of symptoms through diet has nothing to do with ingestion of enzymes. The best effective treatment of Coeliac’s disease is to avoid gluten, thereby avoiding the immune response to gliadin - a wheat protein. MSG has been noted to reduce the symptoms of fibromyalgia, and we’re all familiar how monitoring of blood sugars is a critical part of controlling diabetes. In the case of type 2 diabetes, though a largely unknown mechanism excess fat cells reduce the body’s sensitivity to insulin - critical in signaling the body’s response to blood glucose levels. Any dietary strategy here is going to be targetted at helping maintain stable levels of blood glucose.
Most proteins are extremely sensitive to changes in environment and become denatured when entering our body. Enzymes (which are just catalytically active proteins) often require specific conditions to function properly and most are extremely sensitive biomolecules. Variations in temperature, pH levels, ion levels (just to name a few), will influence their function - digestion of most protein and enzyme results in their breakdown to amino acids - little (if any) remains catalytically active. The difficulty here is in quantitating how much from a dietary source makes it into an organism - i’m not familiar with how the author and his company have measured this, but it wasn’t readily apparent from a glance at his company’s website.
I apologize for my criticism/skepticism, but a quick glance at pubmed (an electronic database of journal articles run by the Us. national library of medicine and the National Institute of Health) returned no articles published by Bohager or his company. Diet does play a significant role in our health and ensuring we are eating responsibly is critical to staying healthy.
Sorry for the little rant! You guys are great, keep up the good work.
A'Llyn
Mar 28, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I second the person who hopes to treat insomnia. I too would like to be able to sleep!
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