Reply #50: Enzymes & healing crisis aka herxheimer reaction

[Shallah Kali]

This was another thing I was skeptical of when I first read about enzymes. Some say that enzymes can help kill germs such as candida yeast and even viruses and as they die off the body can get overwhelmed trying to deal with all the debris from the broken dead bits of the foreign invader. I ended up having a day or two each week for nearly a month where I did feel like I might be getting the flu. I would go from increase energy and alertness to waking up the next day more tired and sluggish than usual. When unpleasant I took this as a good sign indicating the enzymes really were doing what people claim they do. Now from what I read some take the slow and steady approace to begining enzymes while others take the view that if you react it's time to increase the dosage. Me I am a wimp. I do not enjoy feeling ill which is why i tried enzymes to begin with so I stuck with the slow approace starting with one dose per day and slowly working up. When I had a sluggish day I would reduce the dose for a day or two to give my body a chance to clean house instead of shaking loose even more debris to muck things up.

I am sorry I did not include this in my first post but I was so happy to be doing so well I forgot about the sluggish days. I just wanted everyone to know that this *might* happen and to suggest you may want to go slow if you *do* end up reacting.

Enzyme Stuff has a nice section on enzymes and herxheimer reactions due to die off of yeast, parasites, etc here:
http://www.enzymestuff.com/conditionbacteria.htm