Hey, it's good to be back again.
It's Eric Bakker from New Zealand.
We're talking about enzyme deficiency.
We're talking about enzymes.
What they are, what they do, how to recognize deficiencies, all this kind of stuff.
Now, we're going to talk about how to test for enzyme deficiency.
How the heck would you know if you've got it?
Well remember, go back and watch my videos on signs and symptoms.
That's a very important one.
If you get a feel for this and really think that you've got a mishmash of these kind of
symptoms, especially if your skin's not looking good, your hair's not got that nice shine
about it, your nails aren't [flash], and you've got problems with burping, bloating, farting,
and all these kind of issues, a bit like a car backfiring, then you may want to actually
think about testing for enzyme deficiency or just supplementing to see if that fixes
up the problem.
But remember, I'll say it again, stress is the leading cause.
How would you know?
Well, there are multiple tests you can do.
I've talked previously about the baking soda test for the stomach to see how flat you are.
Getting a teaspoon of baking soda and a glass of water on an empty stomach, stirring it,
and then drinking that.
Make sure you haven't had any fries and burgers and stuff before that, all right?
No food in the tummy.
Empty tummy.
I wouldn't recommend you do it as soon as you wake up but probably maybe between breakfast
and lunch is a good time to do it.
You can do it, but I found that some people get quite sick on an empty stomach first thing.
You should burp relatively quick, I believe within 30 seconds.
I might do that on video actually one day, show you guys how quickly I burp on the baking
soda.
I burp within about 10 seconds with this stuff.
I've got a very keen stomach that works well.
If you don't burp for a long time on the baking soda, it can often that you're not producing
enough enzymes in the stomach because it's not really neutralizing those ions in the
soda bicarb.
That can be a key indicator.
Hang on, another drink.
The other thing is called a Heidelberg test.
It's really a fancy and involves swallowing a capsule with a radio transmitter.
You swallow this capsule.
It's sending a signal constantly back to the doctor.
It's a bit funny, isn't it?
Sounds a bit like big brother stuff.
And then the doctor will get you to drink sodium bicarb and, of course, as you're drinking
the bicarb, that should be neutralizing the stomach acid and then sending a signal back
through the transmitter to the computer so the doctor can monitor that.
Now, this is considered the gold standard.
But you don't need to do junk like that.
The sodium bicarb test with the glass and the water, in my opinion, works for most people.
It works very well, and most people come back and go oh my goodness!
It took me three minutes to burp!
Think about if you burp eating certain foods, okay?
If I eat, for example, a Granny Smith apple or Golden Delicious apple, I'll have this
huge burp probably about a minute after that.
Certain foods make me burp because they effect my stomach acid.
Does that happen with you?
A test in my mind for what I ask patients for, what is your appetite like?
Do you get hungry at defined times?
Do you get really hungry and really want that food and can feel saliva building up in your
mouth when you smell or think about that food?
That's a sign of good enzyme control in the body.
When you eat that feed, do you chew it properly and relish it and feel satisfied after and
don't crash?
Because we spoke about the blood sugar problem.
Does the food energize you for many hours or does it just give you a temporary bit of
an energy drive?
These are all key indicators.
It's the subtle things.
If you can learn to read the subtle things in life, it will get you a long way.
Not the major things.
It's the small things like that.
You can also try the tummy tolerance test, and that involves taking usually an enzyme,
betaine hydrochloride and pepsin, for example.
You take a capsule with a meal, and with each meal following you increase by one capsule
by one capsule until you hit your ceiling, your threshold, your deadline, your [phun].
When you think wow, man.
I got this pain behind the chest or I'm burping and I feel a lot of digestive discomfort,
you've hit the top.
Okay?
I need to know how many capsules does it take for you to elicit that response?
One?
Two?
Or twenty five?
I've seen some people take 30 capsules at a meal before they felt anything there at
all.
If I take two betaine Hcl on an empty stomach, I literally throw up.
I get sick.
It just exceeds my capacity because I've got a well-functioning stomach.
That's the tummy tolerance test.
You can also do a stool test for PE1, pancreatic elastase one, okay?
That particular marker, actually, is produced by the pancreas as it passes through the GI
tract it doesn't digest, so we can tell by the quantity how well functioning that pancreas
is.
Now, the pancreas is the most difficult digestive organ to diagnose.
As I mentioned in previous videos, you can't really scope it.
You can't come in from the top or the tail to see it.
You can only image it with ultrasonography or a CT scan, and most specialists are hopeless
when it comes to imagine the pancreas.
The only way you're going to be able do that effectively is a pancreatic elastase one.
Now, that should be greater than 500, the reading for a healthy person.
I've seen them as low as 15 with some people.
It's really, really sad, and I can't tell you people how many cases I've seen I've seen
of people with very low PE1 levels whose entire life changed once they start to supplement
with pancreatic enzyme.
It changed everything.
They went from a skinny mini or really large person.
Their body size normalized, their energy quadrupled, their whole life changed.
It was like literally winning first division lotto for that person.
All of a sudden, they had a 50 million U.S. in their bank account.
Okay?
Their whole life changed by a simple thing like that.
If you've got a problem, go and see your doctor.
Don't see me because I've stopped practicing.
I'm only working with existing clients, so please don't ask me if I will see you as a
patient.
I'm not taking on new cases.
This is why I'm doing these videos because I want to educate people and leave a legacy
behind of information that hopefully will stay for a long time.
Common sense people.
It's all about common sense.
It's the simple things when they're fixed give you the most profound effects long term.
See you in the next video.