When the body's ability to compensate for deficiencies is exhausted, it must alter normal function to sustain itself. To reverse this process, the body must be supplied with the necessary nutrients needed to restore health. Enzymes help digest food. Without enzymes, food can putrefy and ferment resulting in a toxic bowel. The brain makes chemicals called neurotransmitters directly from the food we eat.
Enzymes affect the neurotransmitters of the brain.
In the dystonias, scientists suspect a defect in the body's ability to process a group of chemicals called neurotransmitters that help cells in the brain communicate with each other. In my disorder, spasmodic torticollis, it is my understanding that my body is producing too much of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine released at nerve endings causing sustained muscle contractions. From my research, I learned that choline increases the accumulation of acetylcholine within the brain. Lecithin consists mostly of choline. Most foods or supplements that contain proteins, choline or lecithin have a very negative effect on my muscles causing my disorder to worsen.