Before ..... and After
Before	Uric Acid and/or Cholesterol Crystal Deposits:  Green-Blue shades with white or clear areas, a high cholesterol count and uric acid crystals may cause gout, painful joints, etc. Cause: Lack or protease and lipase enzymes.  Poor assimilation of fats and proteins. After: The complete break up or shattering of the crystals, when shattered they can be digested and cleansed from the body.  Notice the large active white cell to the left of the shattered crystal, helping to clean up the area.	After
	Rouleau: Red blood cells that are unhealthy and stacked like coins.  The cells are starving for oxygen and movement is slowed.  The white blood cell is the same size or slightly larger than the red blood cells.  The left photo also shows: Erythrocyte Aggregation: Blood sludge with the red blood cells sticking to each other. Cause: High fat and protein in the blood. After: The red blood cells become approximately 1/3 larger.  They are separated, free flowing with much faster movement and a great deal of energy.  The white cell (in the middle) becomes 3 to 5 times larger than the red cells.  Healthy large white cells help us to improve blood cleansing and strengthening of our immune systems.
	Plaque: Fat and platelet aggregation which may have broken off the artery walls. Cause: Excess denatured fat intake, i.e. fried foods, heated oils, animal fats, refined sugars, possibly in this case mixed chemical toxins and fumes from solvents, like gasoline, benzine, carbon monoxide, insecticides, hair spray, etc. After: The complete break up and disintegration of plaque and toxins are taking place. This is allowing the body to start the cleansing process.
	Poikilocytosis (Free Radical Damage = FRD): Red blood cells with dents and dings have FRD. Cause: Ingestion or inhalation of toxins like fumes, tobacco, drugs, smog, pesticides, preservatives, etc. Yeast: Fungus, the clear looking cells. Cause: Undigested food particles. Sugar intake (yeast thrives on sugar/white flour). The bright spot is a small crystal deposit. After: Healthy red blood cells with the yeast deposit completely breaking up. The red blood cells are larger with less Free Radical Damage and greatly accelerated in movement.
Here's what they say about PBF Ultimate Enzymes™

I have often  heard the phrase, "You are what you eat".  And while I agree with it in principle, I think the phrase would be more correct if it read, "You are what you eat, you are what you digest, and your are what you assimilate". This is because your body cannot use the nutrients in the food you eat until they are chemically unlocked and absorbed into the system. What is responsible for this unlocking, digestion, and absorption? The proper combination of enzymes!

"Enzyme" is one of those words that most people know, but if you asked them to explain the function of an enzyme you would probably get a blank stare of maybe a few mumbled words about nutrition. This is because most people think that enzymes are only involved in digesting food.

Over 3,000 different enzymes have been identified as being necessary factors in running the human body. You need enzymes for cell reproduction, breathing, digestion, nerve transmission, disease protection, and thousands of other biochemical reactions that take place within the body. The body has a limited supply of renewable enzymes, and the faster you use the enzyme potential you inherited at birth, the quicker you run out of enzymes.

A hundred years or so ago , I wouldn't need to be talking to you about enzyme supplementation because very few people were enzyme deficient. Many people grew their own food in nutrient rich soil and allowed it to ripen naturally thereby ingesting almost all of the nutrients and enzymes the needed.

Ripe raw fruits and vegetables are an excellent source of natural digestive enzymes. In fact, the enzymes necessary to digest any natural food are contained within any natural  food are contained within that food. When you eat a ripe fruit or vegetable the enzymes it contains can do almost all the necessary digestion with very little help from digestive enzymes secreted by your body.

The key word here is "ripe". Unfortunately, enzymes can only develop and mature in a natural food source because the enzymes develop along with the food. If we were to eat so that we obtained the optimum amount of enzymes from our food we would eat the food just before it became rotten. Discounting mold, fungus, and bacteria factors, a fruit or vegetable that is beginning to rot is really just digesting itself. A nice, tender piece of  "aged" meat is tender and flavorful because it has been pre-digested by its own enzymes. The more natural enzymes a food possesses, the more self-digestion occurs, thereby lessening the amount of digestive work the body has to do.

Sadly, the majority of the food we eat no longer contains enzymes. You will not find any enzymes in food that is boxed, bottled or canned. You will also not find any enzymes in foods that are pasteurized, sterilized, radiated, irradiated, microwaved, treated with preservatives, or cooked above 118 degrees F. You can,t even trust fresh frozen products to have all their enzymes because they are usually dipped in hot water before freezing.

"Wait", you say. "I only buy ripe produce. I can tell it is ripe because it has the color it is supposed to have when it is mature." I say to you, "Smell it. Does it have any smell? Taste it. Does it have any taste? If your can't smell it or taste it, it isn't ripe." Most of the food in our markets are picked green, placed in cold storage or sprayed with an inhibitor so that ripening is delayed. Then, just before they are placed on display they are artificially ripened. This can mean that the product isn't really ripe;  it just has the correct color.

To illustrate this point, have you ever walked into a farmer's market where the produce has just been picked at the peak of its ripeness? Man, the smell of those fruits and vegetables are so thick you almost have to cut your way through it. Now compare that smell with the non-smell you get when you walk into the produce department of your favorite large chain market. Which produce would you rather eat?

So what happens if you do eat a nutritionally deficient, enzyme lacking, chemically impregnated, highly processed, and well preserved meal, which seems to be the favorite of  today's high stress, fast food society?

We already know that this type of  food will be enzyme deficient. Without the correct enzymes present, the food you ingest undergoes incomplete digestion and assimilation and can remain in you intestinal tract in this undigested state for months. It is estimated that by middle age many people have as much as 20 pounds of undigested, putrefying food in their colon.

As this putrefying undigested, unassimilated food builds up in the intestine it begins to produce harmful bacteria and poisonous toxins. These are then absorbed into the bloodstream creating a self-poisoning, toxic condition. This condition weakens the immune system, damages your health, enlarges and inhibits the function of the pancreas, and leaves you wide open for degenerative diseases and colon cancer. I t is estimated that 80% of all disease conditions can be traced back to a malfunctioning intestinal tract and missing enzymes.

A diet that is lacking proper digestive enzymes can also disrupt body functions in another way. As I stated earlier, your body has over 3,000 metabolic enzymes in all the cells, tissues, organs, and fluids of the body that are designed to provide energy, fight disease, and make sure the body processes continue to run efficiently. These metabolic enzymes were not designed to digest food. Here is where I will make the distinction between digestive and metabolic enzymes.

When you eat enzyme deficient food it forces the body to transform metabolic enzymes were needed for digestion. Essentially, you've robbed Peter to pay Paul. This "stealing" of metabolic enzymes from other sources to fulfill the need of the digestive tract sets up a competition for enzymes among the various organs and systems of the body.

As tissues and organs, such as the pancreas, spleen, heart, kidneys, and liver, are depleted of their needed metabolic enzymes, they begin to deteriorate and malfunction. This leads to chronic conditions and degenerative diseases such as allergies, skin conditions, pancreatitis, diabetes, and cancer.

Most of us deplete our natural enzyme level as we ate. A 70 year-old person has about half the enzyme level of a 20 year-old. And, because of our modern enzyme deficient diet, even our 20 year-olds are now showing signs of enzyme deficiency. Doctors are treating children for juvenile arthritis, sugar diabetes, and other degenerative diseases that, until a few years ago, were found only in people in their fifties and older.

It is important to understand that the faster you use up your supply of active enzymes, the quicker you run out. Essentially, you live as long as your supply of enzymes lasts. When the time comes that you can no longer make certain enzymes, then total system shutdown is far away.

Early signs of enzyme deficiency are usually in the form of digestive problems such as heartburn, acid reflux, gas, bloating and belching. If you suffer from any of the following health problems, enzyme deficiency could be a major contributor: Lack of energy and chronic fatigue, aches and pains, lowered immunity, chronic viral or bacterial infections, premature aging, arthritis and rheumatism, swelling of the joints, skin conditions, high blood pressure, poor digestion, obesity, respiratory problems and allergies or loss of memory.

I find it interesting that the most technologically advanced nation in the world is nutritionally starving to death. We and our domesticated pets, are the only animals on earth that try to live without food enzymes in our diet. Fortunately, medical research has shown that taking good plant derived enzyme supplements is an effective way of fighting illness, inhibiting the development of degenerative disease, and even slowing down the effects of aging.

People often tell me, "I don't take digestive supplements because the acid in the stomach destroys them: therefore, taking them is useless." Their information is physiologically faulty because when you eat food, the acid secretion of the stomach is minimal for at least thirty minutes. Also, as the food is swallowed, it doesn't just go down the esophagus and splash into the acid secretions at the bottom of the stomach.

What really happens is that the food is retained in the upper portion of the stomach, called the fundus or cardiac section, for 30 to 45 minutes. In this upper section, very little acid or stomach enzyme action affects what you've eaten. Instead, the enzymes contained in the food begin the process of self-digestion. When self-digestion has progressed far enough, the food is then released into the bottom of the pyloric portion of the stomach to continue the digestive process.

Taking good, plant-derived enzyme supplements, helps the digestive process occurring in the upper stomach. Then the process continues in the lower stomach because good, plant-derived digestive enzymes can function in an acidic environment.

PBF Ultimate Enzymes is one of the most potent enzyme and mineral digestive supplement available on the market today. Its synergistic combination of rare, natural plant derived digestive enzymes along with its ionic trace minerals will help the body: digest processed and cooked foods; digest food proteins reducing allergens; increase blood flow and energy; dissolve cholesterol deposits; increase white blood cell size and activity; increase T-cell activity and production; reduce toxic bacteria growth; reduce problems associated with sickle cell anemia; break up and dissolve uric acid and cholesterol crystals; and reduce blood cell reouleau allowing more oxygen and nutrients to be carried in the blood.

Why is it important to include ionic trace minerals with your supplement enzymes? Think of the food you have eaten as being like a log in the fireplace. Nothing will happen to that log until you provide a heat source such as a match. In you body, your enzymes are your matches. However, the match to burn your log is useless unless you have a surface on which to strike the match. Minerals are the striking surface for you enzymes. In addition, vitamins and minerals are needed to produce coenzymes, which are also essential in order for the enzymes to function correctly.

Ionic minerals must be present to activate the enzymes in order to digest your food. It's a simple formula, No minerals equals no enzyme action, which equals little or no digestion. That is why these essential minerals are included and needed for the enzymes to work correctly.

This mineral and enzyme combination assures that the minerals needed to activate the digestive enzymes in the product are already present. That way the body doesn't have to give up its precious minerals form other tissues and organs during the digestive process.

PBF Ultimate Enzymes should be taken with meals and even at bedtime. When taken with meals, it aids in food digestion and assimilation. Taken at bed time, it's powerful enzymes and ionic minerals are relieved from their digestive duties and are now free to work on removing diseased and dead tissue such as scars, polyps and rough areas in the blood vessels. This unique plant-based digestive enzyme formula can also work to repair damaged or weak tissue anywhere within your body.

In summation, nutritionally speaking, we should be able to receive all the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes we need if we consume ripe, high quality, organically grown, raw or freshly juiced fruits and vegetables. However, our modern eating pre-processed, cooked or preserved, enzyme scarce foods pretty well guarantees that most of us are enzyme deficient causing us to age prematurely.

To prevent enzyme loss from affecting your health, it is absolutely essential to take a high quality digestive enzyme and mineral supplement such as PBF Enzymes. This will assure that there are sufficient enzymes for complete digestion and assimilation of necessary nutrients, That way your body is free to use those nutrients and your metabolic enzymes to keep you healthy and active.

If you have stomach ulcers, your should not take this product until they have healed. Ultimate Aloe is an excellent product for this condition. This will help protect and heal the raw areas in the stomach caused by the ulcers.

PROTEASE, the enzyme that digests proteins, has a very different and powerful function when taken on an empty stomach. It is a tremendous all natural blood enhancer, able to break down protein invaders in the blood supply, so that your natural immune system can destroy them. Parasites, fungal forms, and bacteria are made of proteins. Viruses are nucleic acids covered by a protein film. Since protease can break down undigested protein, cellular debris, and toxins in the blood, it frees up the immune system for the more important work of destroying the unnatural invaders like bacteria.

Protease is responsible for digesting proteins in your food, which is probably one of the most difficult substances to metabolize. Because of this, protease is considered to be one of the most important enzymes that we have. If the digestive process is incomplete, undigested protein can wind up in your circulatory system, as well as in other parts of your body. When you take protease in higher quantities, it can help to clean up your body by removing the unwanted protein from your circulatory system. This will help to clean up your blood stream, and restore your energy and balance.

Amylase is an enzyme that helps the digestive tract digest starches and sugars. When the pancreas is inflamed, the enzyme can escape into the bloodstream. Increased levels of amylase may indicate pancreatitis, pancreatic, lung or ovarian cancer, ectopic pregnancy, mumps or gall bladder problems. Pancreatic cancer can also cause decreased levels; kidney disease can as well. Amylase hydrolyzes starch, glycogen, and dextrin to form in all three instances glucose, maltose, and the limit-dextrins.

Amylase is the digestive enzyme needed to digest carbohydrates. Carbohydrates in food are an important and immediate source of energy for the body. Starch refers to carbohydrates found in plants (grains). Vegetables and fruits are a source of starch and are broken down to sugar or glucose. Carbohydrates are present in at least small quantities in most food, but the chief sources are the sugars and the starches. Sugars include granulated sugar, maple sugar, honey and molasses. Simple sugars are fructose and fruit sugar. Double sugars are sugar cane, sugar beet, maltose or malt sugar, lactose or milk sugar. All ripe fruits and vegetables contain some natural sugars. Starches are present in such foods as rice, wheat and potatoes. Carbohydrates may be stored in the body as glycogen for future use. If they are eaten in excessive amounts, however, the body changes them into fats and stores them in that form.

Lipase is an enzyme capable of degrading lipid molecules. The bulk of dietary lipids are a class called triacylglycerols and are attacked by lipases to yield simple fatty acids and glycerol molecules which can permeate the membranes of the stomach and small intestine for use by the body. Gastric lipase, secreted by the stomach lining, has a pH value for optimal activity around neutrality and would appear, therefore, to be essentially inactive in the strongly acid environment of the stomach. It is suggested that this enzyme is more important for infant digestion since the gastric pH in infancy is much less acid than later in life. Most lipid digestion in the adult occurs in the upper loop of the small intestine and is accomplished by lipase secreted by the pancreas. Lipase is an enzyme that is used by the body to break down dietary fats into an absorbable form. When lipase levels are insufficient to break down dietary fats, greasy, light-colored stools ensue; this condition is called steatorrhea.

Most Americans have crossed-wires when it comes to fats. Fats are the most difficult component of the diet to digest. Fatty foods cause more indigestion than proteins or starches. Because of bulging waistlines, most Americans battle between fat-phobia and fat-craving. The human body is programmed to crave fats. Without essential fats and fatty nutrients animals and humans cease to thrive. Omega-3 and omega-6 fats from cold-water fish were found to be essential for human health by physiologists in the 1930s. The American diet is intentionally laden with saturated fats and hardened hydrogenated fats, leaving about 80% of the population deficient in the essential fats required for the maintenance of the human nervous system, the production of hormones and the control of inflammation. Foods actually taste better when they contain fats. A famous fast-food quarter-pound hamburger actually has a saturated fat content equivalent to 16 pats of butter!   The fast-food engineers really know how to stimulate our taste buds.

It's worth noting here that weight loss is a common finding among individuals with chronic heart failure. It is evident that malabsorption of fats is related to heart failure. In one study subjects with heart disease had 10 times more fat in their stool than heart-healthy individuals. This means those with heart disease weren't absorbing their fats. Yet heart patients are typically placed on low-fat diets! These individuals were leaner, but not healthier.