Back pain and the role of systemic enzymes in the treatment of fibromylgia

Back pain and the role of systemic enzymes in the treatment of fibromylgia

Approximately 5 million people in the United States suffer from a debilitating pain condition called fibromyalgia. Conventional medicine has no idea what causes or cures this painful, tiring and stressful condition. Most people with fibromyalgia, 90% of whom are women, are unable to sleep at night due to pain and discomfort.

On the other hand, alternative practitioners who have a clue are missing the other aspect of the cause or contribution of fibromyalgia: the fibrosis part. You see, fibromyalgia is an acronym for two words: fibro and myalgia. Fibro is short for fibrosis, while myalgia simply means muscle pain. Fibromyalgia could also be classified as part of myofascial pain syndrome. By the way, a syndrome is a collection of clinical signs and symptoms of a disease that does not fit into a clinical pattern or true diagnosis. Fibromyalgia falls into this definition.

Now everyone is talking about the muscle pain and its trigger points, which is the myalgia part; and no one talks about the first part or the fibrosis that creates and provokes the pain in the first place.

If we borrow a leaf from cellular injury and repair, we know that 95% of the time there is almost always inflammation wherever there is pain. Therefore, anything that relieves pain must first kill inflammation. Acute inflammation is characterized by pain, swelling, redness and fibrin deposits. However, we are talking about a chronic, low-grade inflammatory disease that represents the seedbed for all pain. The pain is triggered by the generation of free radicals, which in turn leads to oxidative stress, which leads to acute and chronic inflammation. Inflammation of any kind leads to fibrosis, which is a type of repair mechanism that passes the time of injury. Systemic enzymes break this cycle by eating away the fibrin, which creates fibrosis, which is responsible for the pain of fibromyalgia.

First, any insult or stress releases circulating immune complexes also known as prostaglandins. Because of checks and balances, there are good (anti-inflammatory) and bad (anti-inflammatory) prostaglandins. COX inhibitors (such as aspirin, ibuprofen, Cerebrex) tend to stop the proinflammatory prostaglandins and reduce pain. The problem is the side effect of inhibiting prostaglandins, which are responsible for regeneration of the intestinal lining, repair of the kidneys and liver. This is why these drugs have nasty side effects like gastric erosion, ulcers, gastritis, kidney and liver compromise, apart from unusual bleeding as they deplete the platelets (a type of white blood cell) that stop bleeding.

The safe and effective alternative to these painkillers (NSAIDs) are systemic enzymes such as nattokinase and serrapeptase, which are newer ones. The older ones are bromelain and papain. Systemic enzymes are so called because they act in all organs and systems of the body. apart from local work of food and toxin digestion. Systemic enzymes are proteolytic or protein-eating enzymes that enter the systemic circulation where they fight inflammation, eat away fibrin (which causes fibrosis in fibromyalgia), and cleanse the blood of immune system contamination.

Remember that the muscles and their covering fascia get their oxygen and nutrient supply from the bloodstream. So systemic enzymes address the root cause of the imbalance in fibromyalgia, as fibrosis cuts off microcirculation in the muscle and also causes starvation, stagnation and ischemic pain. Because these enzymes are proteolytic (protein-eating enzymes), they eat away the fibrin (which causes fibrosis) and pain in fibromyalgia. Once the root cause of the pain is addressed, the symptoms of fibromyalgia improve.

Systemic enzymes also treat another symptom of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, by cleansing the polluted bloodstream, eliminating toxins, and protecting the mitochondria, the cell's powerhouse that produces cellular energy. Remember, toxins use up energy by clogging up the immune system and uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation, which is responsible for the electron transport chain. When electrons are not transferred, the body cannot produce enough ATP, which provides energy for cell metabolism. On a side note, CoQ10 plays an important role in the electron transport chain and energy production and is also needed in fibromyalgia to combat fatigue.

Remember that the immune system drives the train that initiates tissue repair in the body. Driving this train is the enzyme system, whose proteolytic enzymes like nattokinase are a synergist that makes other enzymes, vitamins and minerals work. In fact, vitamins and minerals don't work as well without systemic enzymes. That's why vitamins are called coenzymes and trace elements such as zinc or magnesium are called co-factors. By the way, magnesium is also very important for fibromyalgia to combat inflammation and pain

Now see why herbs, vitamins, amino acids and vital nutrients used to cure fibromyalgia work partially or not at all because of a lack of enzymes, especially proteolytic enzymes. Most problems in humans are caused by allergic proteins called antigens because they produce an immune response in which autoinflammation and autoimmunity are the rule rather than the exceptions. The list of natural therapies for fibromyalgia such as Chinese skullcap, acacia, SAMe, MSM, melatonin, D-ribose, tryptophan and vitamin D provide only partial relief in the absence of systemic enzymes.

The systemic enzyme blend is therefore the missing link in the pain management of fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndromes and other forms of back pain triggers.

Inspired by Uzo Onukwugha