Digestive System Enzymes

Learn About The Importance of Digestive Enzymes!

• Amylase breaks down carbohydrates
• Protease helps to digest protein
• Lipase aids in fat digestion

Note: There is one digestive enzyme (needed to break down fiber) which your body can’t manufacture - cellulase - you need to get it through raw foods or supplements.

Speaking of raw foods, I mentioned above that ‘food’ enzymes were one category of enzymes. So while your body manufactures a supply of enzymes it can get an additional source of them from food - so that’s good. But food enzymes must come from the raw food you eat. Notice I said "raw" food?

The cooking and processing of food destroys its enzymes (they are extremely sensitive to heat – 118 °F and above kills most of them).

This is a problem since a large percentage of the population eats most of their food cooked or processed – that’s bad. So it’s up to your body to produce the majority of digestive enzymes itself.

Now this links to the problems I mentioned above.



“Of the tens of thousands of enzymes needed, the body uses more of its enzyme-producing potential to produce the two dozen enzymes that control the breakdown and utilization of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates than it uses to create the hundreds of metabolic enzymes…” (2)



So here’s the crux – if you can supply additional digestive system enzymes into your body by way of supplements (or a lot of raw food) or both – then your body will switch to producing more metabolic enzymes.

This is great for your health because metabolic enzymes are super important little fellows. They speed up the chemical reactions within your cells for detoxification and energy production. The activities of all your body’s organs, tissues, and cells are governed by metabolic enzymes.

Digestion supplements help prevent depletions of your body’s enzyme levels. This is especially important as you age because your body starts producing less and less of its own enzymes. This leads to mal-absorption of nutrients, tissue breakdown and chronic disease.

Supplements containing digestive system enzymes reduce stress on your body by conserving the supply of its own enzymes.

• Unripe pineapples
• Bananas
• Avocados
• Unripe papayas
• Mangoes
• Sprouts (are the best source)

Raw meats contain lipase, to break down fats.

• Experiments on animals have shown reduction in tumor growth and metastasis
• Prevention of radon-induced lung caner in miners
• Improved 5 year survival rate in breast cancer patients
• Bromelain (enzyme from pineapple) inhibits leukemic cell growth. It also induces human leukemia cells in culture to revert back to normal (cytodifferentiation)
• Reduced cancer complications such as cachexia, pain in joints and depression
• Reduced the secondary infections that follow certain chemo and radiation methods
• Possibly helps induce apoptosis (suicide) in cancer cells
• Enhance immune system
• Improve digestive problems (e.g. heartburn, constipation)
• Reduce food allergies

There has also been a significant amount of research done on the benefits of enzymes in circulatory and cardiovascular health.

Medical scientists from Harvard Medical School, long involved with the Physicians' Health Study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that curbing inflammation may be at the "heart" of a sensible cardiovascular health program. They said...

"Substances that down-regulate the inflammation of blood and coronary vessels can help to prevent heart disease. Both aspirin and enzymes work extremely well, but enzymes have far fewer complications with long-term use".

These findings tie in with many clinical trials and experimental studies that have found enzymes to safely lower the specific types of inflammation closely linked to heart disease much the same way as aspirin but with none of the negative side effects.

They are sourced from aspergillus - a type of fungus – and grown in a laboratory. Enzymes cannot be manufactured synthetically.

Protease, lipase, amylase and cellulase account for the largest majority of the digestive system enzyme market.

Any supplement containing enzymes should contain all 3 major enzyme groups – amylases, protease, and lipases.

Due to their ability to treat other health conditions enzymes should be part of a multi nutrient health supplement aimed at your overall health – digestion is just one part of this.



Very importantly, enzymes must only be included in an enteric coated tablet to avoid contact with the stomach acid which will destroy most of them.



Enzymes can react with other nutrients (e.g. vitamin C in doses of 250 g or above) in the presence of stomach acid to create free radicals – this is something you don’t want. We all have too many free radicals floating around inside us as it is!

Be sure to use a multi nutrient supplement aimed specifically at women (or at men if you’re a male). The digestive system enzymes in each should be different. This is because of the slightly different metabolic pathways between men and women that need to be addressed with different enzymes.

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Digestive System Enzymes – Sources:

1. Balch, PA. Prescription for Nutritional Healing. 2000. 1:59 redigestive system enzymes
2. Ibid (1)

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