Dom,
Here's an excerpt from this article (
http://www.drwong.info/drw-training.htm)
The International Olympic Committee banned cortico steroid use in 1975. Most of the Eastern Block countries did not even blink. Their athletes were already off the anti-inflammatory drugs and performing harder, healing faster, staying healthier and maintaining their ranges of motion all through the use of safe Systemic Enzymes. What are Systemic Enzymes? These are a synergistic blend of protein cleaving enzymes that have five primary actions. Systemic Enzymes are:
1. Anti-inflammatory. Hydrolytic enzymes are the primary anti-inflammatory agents of the body.
2. Fight Fibrosis, from scar tissue to fibrotic cysts, the enzymes eat them.
3. Modulate Immune Function. If the immune system is depressed, as happens after hard training, the enzymes boost function, along with creating more Natural Killer Cells and White Blood Cells to kill germs. If the immune system is operating too high, as happens in Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis, the enzymes down shift immune function and eat the Circulating Immune Complexes the system is making to attack the patient's own tissue.
4. Cleans the blood of dead debris the liver can't handle on it's first pass through, leaving the blood freer flowing and better able to carry oxygen and nutrients.
5. Opens clogged circulation. Fibrin forms the matrix for arteriosclerosis. Systemic enzymes eat away at the matrix, dissolve the fat that holds the blockage together and bonds onto the heavy metals that reinforce the clog carrying them to the bowel for deposition. Enzymes have been doing all this without creating dangerous stroke and heart attack causing embolites. European doctors have been using oral Systemic Enzymes for over 40 years without ever having a single patient die or fall ill from using the products!
Here in the US, we have the planets best systemic enzyme in Vitalzym, from World Nutrition. It has replaced Ibuprofen, aspirin and other enzyme products in NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball and NHL training rooms.
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Also, from the dosing article...
To Aid Physical Training:
3 capsules, 2 times a day.
I take them (Vitalzym) 2, sometimes 3x a day.
Hope this helps.
Staxx