Fibrosis, the Enemy of Life
By: William Wong N.D., Ph.D., and Member World Sports Medicine Hall of
Fame
Heavy title!
What is fibrosis? Fibrosis can be found in many forms. In women it can
manifest as the estrogen driven diseases of Fibrocystic Breast Disease,
Uterine Fibroids, Endometriosis and Ovarian Cysts. It can also be found post
operatively in the Lymphedema had after mastectomy as the fibrin clogs the
lymphatic drainage channels and thickens the lymphatic fluid. In both sexes
fibrosis forms the post operative scar tissue that binds the intestines, or
restricts the range of motion of a limb and joint or forms thickened scars
and keloids marring cosmetic surgery.
Fibrosis can develop in the arteries and forms the
framework around which arterial sclerotic plaque builds. In COPD, Emphysema,
Asthmatic and Chronic Bronchitis patients fibrosis creates scar tissue as a
spider web inside the lungs restricting their expansion and clogging
alveolar sacs to prevent O2 transfer to the blood. In men fibrosis grows
inside the micro blood supply and spongy tissues of the penis restricting
blood flow and full expansion during erection. This is the main reason why
erection size diminishes with age.
In another estrogen driven disease, Fibromyalgia,
fibrosis grows on and in-between muscle bundles choking off their blood
supply just as putting rubber bands around your wrist cuts off the blood
supply to the hand. Along with this the microcirculation gets clogged with
fibrin plugs, which further decreases blood supply. After a while without an
adequate oxygen or blood sugar supply the effected tissue develop the
intractable pain of ischemia. Pain meds, even opiates cannot take away
ischemic pain. We know that holds true with heart attack patients and it
also holds true for FMS patients.
In all of us as we age (i.e. after 27). Fibrosis grows
inside of all of our internal organs diminishing their size and with that
shrinkage comes a diminution of function. Med school anatomy teaches that
this lowering of function is what ultimately leads to us dieing as the
organs fail due to weakness.
All of this leads to a question: Why does all this seem
to start after 27? Good thing to ask. At or around 27 our own production of
proteolytic enzymes drops. We make a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime
and use about half of that by 25. (That's the reason why young folks, though
they make cancer cells from the first day of life don't usually develop that
or most any of the other conditions mentioned, they have an adequate supply
of proteolytic enzymes to fight off fibrosis and the fibrin that coats
cancer cells to protect them). It is after our supply of proteolytic enzymes
drops to be spread through the rest of our lifetime that we begin to develop
the fibrosis conditions. (For you docs out there it's my contention that we
can measure a pre morbid state from taking measures of proteolytic enzymes
just as we can predict death within 3 days by measuring the levels of
Dopamine. Useful diagnostic tool maybe. Nifty research tool certainly). So
if we can deal with the laying down of fibrosis as efficiently as we did as
youngsters, then we would avoid or reduce much of what is trying to shorten
our lives or at least make us sick or less able. (Remember how well wounds
healed then with thin, strong, pliable "un bumpy" scars when you were
a kid)?
Those who have read my article "The Essentials of Life
and Wellness" on my totalityofbeing.com website know where I'm going to
from here: The most important thing to put back into an aging body are not
vitamins and minerals, not herbs, not the growth hormones but enzymes, the
proteolytic enzymes. Vitamins and minerals are more properly named co
enzymes and co factors in other words they are things that help enzymes to
work. If the enzymes aren't there to begin with, then the vitamins and
minerals have little to work on and little action. That's the reason why
vitamin / mineral supplementation works so well for some and does not do
squat for others, they have little of the enzymes they need to work on.
If we put in some of the primary protein eating enzymes
then the body will cause the "enzyme cascade" creating thousands of
new enzymes from the original 4 or 5. Everything else we do in regards to
nutrition and exercise works better once we put the enzymes back into our
bodies in significant amounts.
Now as regards fibrin, all proteolytic enzymes eat away
at fibrin (fibrinolysis) to some degree but some are considerably stronger
at that than others. If the proteolytic enzymes you put back are also very
highly fibrinolytic then the scar tissue your body has been creating WILL be
taken away. (This is a secret that plastic surgeons, internists and
pulmonologists i.e. lung doctors, are learning about systemic enzymes). The
fibrin that is supposed to be there is marked by the body as an endogenous
protein, in other words something that is supposed to be part of your
structure, but excesses in fibrin, though deposited by the body, are marked
as exogenous proteins - or as something not belonging in the body. Remember
excesses in fibrin equal:
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