What do you think?
Rate this book
Enzymes & Enzyme Therapy: How to Jump-Start Your Way to Lifelong Good Health
Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 04 of Pages: 320 in Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Enzymes-living substances that regulate health-work with certain minerals in our bodies. To form an antioxidant system that fights corrosive free radicals. This fully updated second edition explains how to make the most of this amazing natural partnership to speed recovery from injury and lessen the effects of back pain. multiple sclerosis. viruses. and fatigue.Anthony J. Cichoke. DC. is an internationally known physician. writer. researcher. and lecturer.
320 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1994
26 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
August 29, 2017
You’re not what you eat, but what you absorb.
Picked up this book for use in general research on enzyme supplement regimes. While it didn’t disappoint, at times the actual scientific research played second fiddle to banalities and platitudes preaching health and wellness.
Reading only the first paragraph, the trite, hokey language, which seems like it might be better suited to a self-help manual, or daytime tv programming, is immediately noticeable, and off-putting.
A perfect example:
As we careen merrily through life, with its ups and downs, curves and dips, we may ask ourselves, ‘Can we slow the car carrying us to the last stop of old age and, finally, death?’ Science believes so. Excited? Then read on!
It sounds so much like a sales pitch, that I could be watching Billy Maize sell Oxyclean. The book also includes significant mention of ‘positive thinking,’ and ‘improved mental attitude.’ Goes so far as to suggest empowerment seminars. (None of these are necessarily bad things, but does this really belong in a book primarily describing scientific research?)
Language was generally too casual for my taste. It didn’t think it was well-suited to the genre. For goodness sake, Cichoke repeatedly calls macrophage, ‘the Pacman of the body.’ He suggests you might, ‘jump start your day the enzyme way!’
Compared to other books I’ve read recently on enzymes and enzyme supplements, (see: Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes), I found the language here to be casual almost to the point of condescension...But ironically, I felt as if it contained a more scientific extrapolation on the function of enzymes in the body. And, in addition, this book provided explanations on other important biochemistry responsible for a variety of processes in your body, from the lymphatic system to blood circulation and autoimmune disorders. Helpful if you don’t already have a firm grasp of biochemistry and the human body.
So read if you want to understand what is happening in your body from a biochemical perspective, especially if you would like a better understanding of enzyme activity, otherwise, do not expect much.
Picked up this book for use in general research on enzyme supplement regimes. While it didn’t disappoint, at times the actual scientific research played second fiddle to banalities and platitudes preaching health and wellness.
Reading only the first paragraph, the trite, hokey language, which seems like it might be better suited to a self-help manual, or daytime tv programming, is immediately noticeable, and off-putting.
A perfect example:
As we careen merrily through life, with its ups and downs, curves and dips, we may ask ourselves, ‘Can we slow the car carrying us to the last stop of old age and, finally, death?’ Science believes so. Excited? Then read on!
It sounds so much like a sales pitch, that I could be watching Billy Maize sell Oxyclean. The book also includes significant mention of ‘positive thinking,’ and ‘improved mental attitude.’ Goes so far as to suggest empowerment seminars. (None of these are necessarily bad things, but does this really belong in a book primarily describing scientific research?)
Language was generally too casual for my taste. It didn’t think it was well-suited to the genre. For goodness sake, Cichoke repeatedly calls macrophage, ‘the Pacman of the body.’ He suggests you might, ‘jump start your day the enzyme way!’
Compared to other books I’ve read recently on enzymes and enzyme supplements, (see: Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes), I found the language here to be casual almost to the point of condescension...But ironically, I felt as if it contained a more scientific extrapolation on the function of enzymes in the body. And, in addition, this book provided explanations on other important biochemistry responsible for a variety of processes in your body, from the lymphatic system to blood circulation and autoimmune disorders. Helpful if you don’t already have a firm grasp of biochemistry and the human body.
So read if you want to understand what is happening in your body from a biochemical perspective, especially if you would like a better understanding of enzyme activity, otherwise, do not expect much.
January 1, 2015
Just not enough about enzymes as I would have liked. More of a self-help book than a real source of education if you already have a basic knowledge of the human body and biochemistry.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews