Interview with Dr Steve Nugent

The body requires digestive enzymes to assimilate nutrients form food, and if it does not have enough of these supplied in the food itself, it has to convert other enzymes to do this, which depletes overall enzyme stores. Is this part of the whole process?

There are a number of different and complicated enzyme processes – or back-up systems. The body has an amazing number of back-up systems and, in my opinion, it is only those systems that keep us going in today’s environment. We rely on those conversion processes and sometimes they do not function properly either. If I were to recommend taking any dietary supplement, first and foremost, the cells that you wish to affect must be glycosylated or it doesn’t matter what supplement you take. This goes for antioxidants or herbal medicines. If a cell won’t perform its basic function then it will not adequately utilize those ingested supplements.

Would you like to add anything else?

Tons of stuff! The second edition of my book contains information that I would like people to see – to see that there are small things that everyone can do, like how much water is wasted when you shave. The experts are telling us that, unless we stop wasting water, in 20 years time we will have no water to drink because current technology is not adequate to clean our water to the way it was just ten years ago. If you look at the data on the chemicals in our current water supply you would not want to drink it.

The current New South Wales government is proposing a desalination plant for Sydney as opposed to recycling water. What is your opinion on this as a method of supplying water?

Because of the amount of solid and chemical waste in water, it cannot be processed with today’s technology beyond a certain point. It is forward thinking of your government to consider this. The caution is that desalinating water is not enough. That water will have to be purified in an extraordinary sense because of the toxic chemicals it contains. It is like eating massive amounts of the toxic fish I mentioned earlier, because of the amount of fluid we need to drink each day. Desalination is a good idea, but only if you have appropriate purification behind it.

What about recycling run-off water?

This depends on the volume in relation to the population’s requirements. May nations are now removing solid waste from their recycled water and using it as farm fertilizer. The trouble with this is that the fertilizer contains parasites, some of which have eggs that can stray alive for many weeks after the waste has been spread on the land. Then the farm animals consume them and humans consume the meat infested with the parasites.

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