Enzymes for good health and bowel finction

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Benefits

Supplements body’s enzyme supply

Aids digestion

Improves assimilation and utilization of food

Increases energy

Features

Specially made for high-sugar, high-fat diets commonly found in

" industrialized " countries

Contains cultured enzymes

Unique formula contains 50 mg of alpine wild garlic and 40 mg of papaya leaf

100-count bottles

Digestive problems comprise the number one health problem in North America.

These concerns, encompassing everything from hemorrhoids to colon cancer,

result in more time lost—at work, school, and play—than any other health

problem. They also appear to be occurring with much more frequency—while many

of them were almost unheard of in our grandparents’ times, they are cropping

up more and more and at an earlier and earlier age.

One way to help maintain digestive health is to be sure you get enough food

and digestive enzymes. Enzymes are an important part of the living well

equation.

Enzymes are the sparks that start the essential chemical reactions our bodies

need to live. They are necessary for digesting food, for stimulating the

brain, for providing cellular energy, and for repairing all tissues, organs,

and cells. Humbart Santillo, B.S., M.H., in his book Food Enzymes, quotes a

ish medical journal that says it well: " Each of us, as with all living

organisms, could be regarded as an orderly, integrated succession of enzyme

reactions. "

There are three types of enzymes: metabolic enzymes, digestive enzymes, and

food enzymes. Metabolic enzymes catalyze, or spark, the reactions within the

cells. The body’s organs, tissues, and cells are run by metabolic enzymes.

Without them, our bodies would not work. Among their chores are helping to

turn phosphorus into bone, attaching iron to our red blood cells, healing

wounds, and seeing that our hearts beat.

Digestive enzymes are secreted by the pancreas and break down foods, allowing

their nutrients to be absorbed into the bloodstream and used in body

functions. They ensure that we get the greatest possible nutritional value

from foods. Digestive enzymes include protease, which digests protein;

amylase, which digests carbohydrates; lipase, which digests fats and oils;

and maltase, which digests malt sugars and grains.

Food enzymes are enzymes supplied to us through the foods we eat. They

include digestive enzymes, but also enzymes unique to the particular foods.

Food enzymes help us " predigest " foods; that is, start breaking down foods

before our bodies’ enzymes begin to do so. According to Santillo, the enzymes

found in raw foods digest 5 to 75 percent of the foods themselves without the

help of other enzymes. This way, our bodies’ digestive enzymes have help in

the digestive process, and we do not use as many of the body’s " in-house "

enzymes.

Dr. Howell, who has written two books on enzymes, theorizes that

humans are given a limited supply of enzyme energy at birth, and that it is

up to us to replenish our supply of enzymes to ensure that their vital jobs

get done. If we don’t replenish our supply, we run the risk of ill health.

In the enzyme nutrition axiom, Howell postulates that " The length of life is

inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of

an organism. The increased use of food enzymes promotes a decreased rate of

exhaustion of the enzyme potential. "

In other words, the more enzymes you get, the longer and healthier you live.