Curious about the claims about dissolving uterine fibroids with an enzyme supplement? Understanding how enzymes work and how to use them is critical to success with this easy, natural approach.
Systemic enzyme therapy is one of the lesser known natural treatment approaches for fibrotic disease. Given that the majority of women in the US are estimated to have fibroid tumors, I hope to raise awareness about systemic enzyme therapy so that women who have to seek treatment have more options.
While many are familiar with taking digestive enzymes at mealtime to improve digestion, systemic enzymes take a different approach. As the name implies, these enzyme formulas are designed to work throughout the body’s system. They are taken in divided doses between meals so that the enzymes that eat proteins (proteolytic enzymes) are not wasted with the task of digesting food and can enter the bloodstream where they travel to all areas of the body, seeking and dissolving old proteins. parasites, bacteria, viruses and dead cells. They reduce systemic inflammation, dissolve arterial plaque, cleanse the blood, and improve circulation.
Systemic enzyme formulas can be highly fibrinolytic, which means that they dissolve fibrin. Fibrin is the material of fibroids and all scar tissue. Specific enzymes such as serrapeptase are responsible for the digestion and shrinkage of fibroids. Most women notice a reduction in the size of their fibroids in the first eight weeks. Two to six months is the common report for the duration of systemic enzyme therapy.
Most alternative and natural approaches to treating fibroids focus on radical changes in diet and lifestyle. They also incorporate multiple herbal and nutritional supplements to slowly balance the body’s hormones, thus stopping the growth of fibroids. However, it is amazing how most of these programs bypass systemic enzyme therapy. While these approaches can remove the excess estrogen that fuels tumor growth, the tumor will shrink and wither like a flower, but it will still remain in the uterus. Fibrinolytic enzymes are the only thing on the planet that can dissolve the fibrin that makes up fibroids and scar tissue.
While most women with very large fibroids (the size of a grapefruit) probably choose to have surgery, women with smaller uterine fibroids can take advantage of the speed of systemic enzymes to shrink fibroids. Generally, the larger the fibroid, the longer the duration of systemic enzyme therapy.
The success of systemic enzyme therapy for uterine fibroid tumors depends on:
1. Select a systemic enzyme formula that is potent, can survive in the gastrointestinal tract, and is high in the fibrinolytic enzyme, serrapeptase as opposed to nattokinase. The latter enzyme has been found to pose a high risk of thinning the blood too much. There are huge differences in systemic enzyme products on the market. Most are practically useless. There are some professional strength products that really work.
2. Consistent and aggressive dosing three times a day. Enzyme formulas that are all plant-based do not stay in the bloodstream for long. Strict dosing schedules must be followed to maintain a therapeutic level of enzymes in the blood. Typically, women who try and fail systemic enzyme therapy for fibroids take only the minimal dose. Most products do not explain the importance of finding a trigger dose. This is done by increasing the dose steadily after the first week of use. For example, some women may remain taking three capsules three times a day as directed on the label when their therapeutic activation may not occur until they have increased the dose to nine capsules three times a day. Activation occurs when bowel activity increases dramatically, warmth is felt at the sites of old wounds or scars, or other less definable but noticeable changes occur in body function. In other words, you begin to realize that something is happening. There are no adverse effects from taking large amounts of enzymes; They are not toxic, they are native to our body and impossible to overdose.
3. Finding systemic enzyme formulas that have the animal enzyme pancreatin (pharmaceutical grade bovine pancreatin) in their formula can be difficult, but it is worth it. The addition of pancreatin multiplies the potency of the formula as a whole. The result is that as little as three tablets a day are required, and rigid dosing schedules are not as critical, as such formulas allow enzyme levels in the blood to linger for more than 18 hours after dosing.
4. Drink large amounts of pure water to help eliminate the large amounts of waste that enzymes remove from the body.