Health Supplement Overview: Digestive Enzymes

Hey everybody, right now I am going to talk about digestive enzymes. Enzymes are incredibly essential to the body and have a really long range of benefits to us as human beings, but I am going to primarily discuss why the are important to someone that is trying to stay fit. To get to the basics, enzymes break down different nutrients into a form that our body is able to utilize, so for example, if you consume a sum of protein, but you don't have enough enzymes to alter that protein into a usable form for your muscles, it is useless and the body will dispose of it. Therefore, it is quite obvious that you need enzymes to survive, but the question is, are you getting enough of them?

       Nowadays, our foods are all processed, which eliminates any enzymes. If we all just ate raw, healthy food we wouldn't have this problem. For example, every vegetable contains all of the enzymes needed to completely digest the vegetable you're about to eat. Although that's the way it should be, if you were to eat something such as chips, there would be almost no enzymes present to digest all of the carbs, fat, and protein. In this case, your body must use it's reserves (which get depleted as you age) to digest anything you eat.

       Enzymes are everywhere in your body and begin their work as soon as you start eating through the saliva which contains the enzyme amylase (which breaks down carbohydrates), there are several types of digestive enzymes available to assist your body, a few being:

• Lactase - Processes lactose (great for the lactose intolerant)
• Sucrase - Digests most sugars and starches
• Lipase - Breaks down fats
• Pepsin - Breaks down different forms of protein

      That is just to name a few forms of enzymes and what they do. This is the reason why enzymes are so important as all the other supplements that contain your various needs supply the nutrient, but they will never be broken down into a usable form without digestive enzymes. It is impossible to argue against the importance of enzymes which is why I see them as an extremely important supplement to add to your stack since supplements usually contain every single important enzyme. That is all on the basics of digestive enzymes, thank you and be sure to read some other posts!

Raw foods almost always contain all of the enzymes needed to digest them fully