A complete and balance nutrition intake into the body would not necessary mean you have a healthy body. Good nutrition is not merely dependent on what is ingested but it is very much associated with the entire digestive and adsorption processes.
Your body derives no benefit from even the most complete diet if it does not breakdown properly and be absorbed into the blood system. Most physical problems and diseases can be retraced to its underlying root problem of improper food digestion which allows undigested food particles leaking back into the bloodstream from the colon and create further toxicity and health challenges.
Digestive enzymes are part and parcel of your nutritional delivery system where digestive enzymes aid in the breakdown and unleash the nutrients. Pancreatic enzymes are responsible for the proper digestion and absorption of your food. Pancreatic juices are transported to the small intestines make it possible for you to utilize the life-giving nutrients found in the food you eat. There are three basic categories of digestive enzymes namely amylases which break down starch, lipases which breakdown fats and proteases which account for the breakdown of proteins. A lack of these enzymes can result in mal-absorption. The breakdown of proteins to amino acids is import. Any deficiency in proteases exists, bits of undigested protein stay in the body and are responsible for the development of allergies, autoimmune diseases and auto intoxication. Proteases also protect the intestines from parasites and other organisms from weakening the intestinal system. More and more suggests that certain individuals have increased permeability of the digestive tracts allowing macro “bit” to pass through the walls of the stomach and subsequently end up in the blood stream. Thus it is vital that you should not overlook symptoms of indigestion as unimportant. Anyone suffering from gas bloating, heartburns, or constipation should add digestive enzymes to their meals. Pancreatin, bromelain and papain are common and can be combined with other enzymatic compounds to promote better food breakdown.
Digestive Enzymes and Benefits
Enzymes are energized protein molecules essential for the digestion of food, brain stimulation, tissue, cell and organ repairing and generating cellular energy. As a catalyst for many biochemical reactions, they do not take part, change or get consumed in the process but merely assist in such biochemical reactions. Two of the three types of enzymes; metabolic, digestive and food are dealt with here.
- Digestive
Digestive enzymes are secreted along the gastrointestinal tract and break down the food in the body so that the nutrients can be absorbed. Enzymes are present in the food you eat which is why there is great importance placed upon having plenty of raw foods in the diet. The enzymes in raw food help start the process of digestion which reduces the body’s need to secret digestive enzymes.
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Many of you would have thought that any mention of enzymes would be related to food digestion. Your first thought, when you experienced, say constipation, might be a general feeling that “Something I might have eaten wrongly”.
It is common to be inclined to such thinking as most of you may not have full knowledge of what enzymes are, what and how they are made of, what do they do in your body and most of all without them what would the effect they have on your body.
Are enzymes that important? Yes, they are. As described by K. Miehlke, they are the fountain of life. Enzymes are so vital to our health that any lack or malfunction of an enzyme can have catastrophe unto your health. What roles do enzymes play in your life? Are they, without it, the missing link to healthy living and nutrition?
In order to divide, grow and perform their normal functions, living cells and tissues require basic nutrients and essential substances which are synthesized from components of ingested food, water, and other nutritional supplements, or from breakdown products of tissues. The synthesization of the basic elements required by living cells involves biochemical reactions which depends on a steady supply of energy from the oxidation of food components or from the energy released during such biochemical reactions.
During times of stress or disease, there is an increased demand for the nutrients and essential supplies required by cells. Without enzymes, it would be impossible for the cells and tissues to perform all the essential biochemical reactions required fast enough to meet the basic needs of the body. Enzymes are very specific proteins catalyst that initiate, accelerate and terminate every biochemical reaction in your body.
To start off in understanding the importance of enzymes, you need to understand firstly the role of nutrition in your health. Nutrition is the body’s ability to use and metabolize food. For the body to function properly, specific amounts of the 45 types of known essential nutrients is necessary which are not synthesized by your body. Nutrients are derived from carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, 13 types of vitamins and 20 types of minerals for proper metabolic function.
Upon its consumption, food containing nutrients must be digested to a state that the nutrients can be absorbed into and transported by the blood stream to all parts of the body. Through the process of metabolism, your body cells are programmed to direct each nutrient to combine and interact with other nutrients and chemicals to create other chemicals and compounds which, in turn, are used to build and repair the body’s cells, bones, tissue, and organs. Each metabolic reaction is initiated, controlled, and terminated by enzymes. Without enzymes, no metabolic activity will occur. A body that does not consistently and efficiently metabolize the essential food nutrients necessary for life will fare poorly, and many diseases are the result of a dietary problem that causes toxemia inside of the body.
Enzymes are specialized protein molecules facilitating most of our body metabolic processes, like supplying energy, digesting foods, purifying the blood and ridding the body of waste products. (more…)
