Enzymes don't help slow aging?

[Curleedst]

Does anyone agree with this?

Here is a little personal bio if you are curious....

I DO NOT recommend juicers. I don't own a juicer nor would I waste my
time with one. I actually think the juicer is one of the biggest scams ever invented. "Juicing" fruits and vegetables actually accelerates the aging process. The juicer is excellent if you want more vitamins,
minerals, and enzymes. But, this doesn't prevent the body from getting older. To prevent aging and chronic disease we need phytochemicals. When you use a juicer you don't get the anti-aging nutrients at all.

[paleogirl]

I'm not a scientist so I can't say whether I agree with that or not. However... I do know that what I get from my juicer (30oz green juice every morning) is in ADDITION to the regular amounts of whole veg and fruit I consume, not instead of. So to me it's worth it even if just for the extra vitamins and enzymes, and to keep calories up. If I didn't juice, I would probably not be able to consume nearly as much green veg as I do right now.

Although one might get less phytochemicals from the items juiced than one would get if they were eaten whole, if one is adding extra vitamins and enzymes to the diet (via juicing) that wouldn't otherwise be there, how can that *cause* aging? :confused:

[Sunshine9]

I wouldn't know. I haven't personally experienced being "elderly" and having been 100% raw for most of my life.

The research that I have looked into all points to depletion of enzymes being one factor in slowing aging, but like most things there are many factors.

Also-- I personally am in favor of having green leafy vegetable juice as part of a healthy raw diet. While we certainly need the fiber and it's necessary to eat both blended and whole vegetables, I think juice is essential for most people starting out. Our digestive tracts are not strong enough from years of cooked food to break down the dense fiber in dark leafy greens, and juicing gives our bodies the minerals, educates the body on how to properly digest them whole, and also provides adequate organic sodium to increase intestinal function. Who DOESN'T need more minerals, vitamins, and enzymes? I think not getting enough vitamins and minerals and taxing our bodies by continually having to digest food is one of the biggest contributors to the aging process. Isn't juicing the most direct way to get phytonutrients into our bloodstreams?

I would say from what I have read, fasting and minimal eating is the most beneficial thing to slow and reverse aging.

Great topic, thanks for bringing it up. I am curious what your response will be.

:)

[cactus]

HI There

I wish I could tell you on a scientific basis that I disagree, I cant, but on a personal experience level I can, I juice everyday, and I can actually feel the difference, when I have a breakfast of fruit, I feel good, but when I make my green juice I feel fantastic, there is a complete and massive difference in my whole body, I don't feel sluggish and I feel invigorated, scientific basis for things is only one way to prove things, but even those findings change as they get better and better ways of discovering things, and people, although slowly, are seeing that raw fruit and vegetables can have a big effect on your health, having said that, for me, the proof of something cant always be measured by science or statistics, sometimes its just about how it makes you feel inside and out, and with out doubt, my juicer is the best investment in my health Ive ever made. :)

[vgloveforlife]

I won't get a juicer either. It seems so unatural to take the juice and leave the rest. It is not complete.

[RawNut]

Does anyone agree with this?

Here is a little personal bio if you are curious....

I DO NOT recommend juicers. I don't own a juicer nor would I waste my
time with one. I actually think the juicer is one of the biggest scams ever invented. "Juicing" fruits and vegetables actually accelerates the aging process. The juicer is excellent if you want more vitamins,
minerals, and enzymes. But, this doesn't prevent the body from getting older. To prevent aging and chronic disease we need phytochemicals. When you use a juicer you don't get the anti-aging nutrients at all.

I thought the phytochemicals were what gave the color to plants. When we juice, the color and just about everything but the fiber is in the juice. Where did you hear that the phytos are lost by juicing? By the way, I don't juice much any more. Making green smoothies is much quicker and easier for me.

RawNut

[vgloveforlife]

Smoothies are definitly the way to go!

[Brianna]

I am a huge advocate of green juice. I can tell what a huge major difference it makes in my life. I wouldn't be able to get enough greens without it. I have seen it majorly change other people's lives too. And as far as anti-aging, look at Norman Walker who was HEAVILY into juicing. He lived healthfully to over 100 years old. Some say he was 108 and some say he was 118, but we definitely know he was over 100.

[cornvalley]

Does anyone agree with this? To prevent aging and chronic disease we need phytochemicals. When you use a juicer you don't get the anti-aging nutrients at all.

Well, not really.
Juicing fruits and veggies, while not the method nature intended for us to receive them, are taken and used quite easily by the digestive system. A Whole Foods Machine is probably going to benefit in the areas where juicing is lacking, but to say that juicing should not be part of a total health program in regards to aging and long life on the grounds stated, does not offer compelling reasoning.

The aging mechanisms in the body, as I have gathered, are regulated by factors not having to do with errors of inconsequential dietary omissions.
In regards to an over abundance of nutrients and phytochemicals ('over abundance' ... now there's a new concept), the body uses a certain amount of these things and can store enough for long fasting states, health recovery after a sickness, and the eventual decline of digestive functions altogether in old age.

Certain behaviors garner certain results, or most likely they will. Avoidance of harmful influences being the most important thing in our immediate control that affect our overall health, present and future.

Genetic inclinations coupled with dietary restriction are what appears give an organism a long and disease free life. We have little control over our hereditary beginings so what's left is dietary restriction. Whole foods and a variety of them would insure optimum nutrient availability for your body to build the best 'you' it can to take you to the finish line in good health.

Hey... LET'S PARTY!!!! Gotta lighten it up.