Posted by Larry Hoover on December 5, 2002, at 15:02:01
In reply to Re: GLA as a fourth prong?, posted by Larry Hoover on December 5, 2002, at 14:25:54
> Some food faddists argue that we need to eat raw foods to allow us to absorb the natural enzymes, but your stomach digests proteins. It is unlikely that natural enzymes make it past the stomach, let alone have any activity in our body. (My opinion.) Perhaps that is a source of some confusion?
Time to eat my words (I wonder how that affects enzyme activity?).
Bromelain is apparently absorbed in appreciable amounts in its intact state.
Bromelain is actually a mixture of similar enzymes and other unidentified compounds, all deriving from pineapple stems. There seems to be some evidence that bromelain blocks arichidonic-type (type 2 prostaglandin) pro-inflammatory effects, without affecting COX activity. Probable mechanisms involve bradykinin and interleukin inhibition, but that's probably not the important message. It seems that bromelain would be complementary to other anti-inflammatory supplements, rather than duplicating the actions of others previously mentioned.
Lar
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