From Publishers Weekly
A bestseller in Shinya's native Japan, where it was published in 2005, this title introduces his theory of a "source enzyme" to American readers. Shinya came to New York in 1963 as a medical resident and later pioneered the use of a colonoscope to remove polyps from the colon without abdominal incisions. Now a professor of surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and head of the Endoscopic Center of Beth Israel Hospital in New York, he runs private clinics in New York and Japan. Here, he identifies a precursor enzyme that the body converts to specific types of enzymes as they are needed to support, maintain or repair the body and its functions. Shinya broadly discusses how enzymes work and are exhausted by poor lifestyle habits, medications, environmental pollution, electromagnetic waves and daily stress, and provides simple directives for holistically accessing the power of enzymes, including supplements. Myriad observations from his years of practice include that humans should not eat meat from animals with a higher body temperature than their own; the strength of Americans' digestive systems contributes to illness and obesity; drinking pasteurized milk from cows is lethal to the body; and anticancer drugs do not cure cancer. The real message of Shinya's book is that lifestyle is essential to health. To help readers develop one in tune with nature, he describes his own ascetic daily routine. While some readers may find Shinya's ideas unusual, others may welcome his unorthodox approach.
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Book Description
Translated into English for the first time is the book that has taken Japan by storm, selling 100,000 copies every month for the past year. In "The Enzyme Factor", Dr. Hiromi Shinya presents his research, grounded in his 45 years of medical practice in the United States and Japan. This research supports the idea of a miracle enzyme out of which all the enzymes the body needs are produced. He suggests cancer and other diseases occur when this key enzyme is depleted and cannot properly do its job. In this book he clearly shows how what we eat affects that key. Dr. Shinya's science is clearly explained and easy to understand. The suggestions for diet and lifestyle based on this science are simple and easy to follow. Even those who think they know everything about how to eat right will be surprised when they discover what is really healthy.
This simple health regime has led hundreds of his patients, many suffering from cancer and other life-threatening diseases, to perfect health.
Inside "The Enzyme Factor" you will discover:
* How to look younger and delay aging * How to live strengthen your body's natural defenses. * Why there has been no relapse of cancer when patients follow the Shinya Diet & Health Regimen. * How to become a healthy 100 year old * Misconceptions with many dietary trends * What your intestinal traits can teach you about your health * Why drinking milk will cause osteoporosis * How your body will become oxidized if you eat oxidized foods * Why eating the meat of animals that have a higher body temperature than humans pollutes the blood
* The inseparable relationship between the human body and the land * How love activates the immune system
This is a new, important and affordable approach to health care in America by the world's leading gastroenterologist, and inventor of colonoscopic surgery, who has spent his life in empirical research on the subject of human digestion. If we follow Dr. Shinya's health prescription we will lose weight, be fit, save money and enjoy a long and healthy life.
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edition.