Digestive enzymes are secreted by the digestive system and they break down the food and nutritional supplements into smaller absorbable units. Because the body's capacity to produce digestive acids and enzymes varies from person to person and declines with age, it is helpful to supplement the daily diet with them, but simple substitution of dietary source enzymes for the body's production of enzymes can lead to dependency, actually reducing the body's digestive capacity. Herbal bitters and homeopathic enzymes stimulate the body's production of digestive juices. This is the approach taken in my homeopathic formulation Digestzymes.
Live foods contain active enzymes. Cooked and processed foods don't, unless they are fermented, like yogurt or sauerkraut, bringing them back to life. When Pottenger experimented with cats, giving them only cooked food, he could never produce more than three generations. Beyond that they were so sick they were completely sterile.
Protease
Protease, found in the stomach, pancreatic and intestinal juices, helps to digest proteins.
Amylase
Amylase, found in saliva, pancreatic and intestinal juices, helps digest starchy carbohydrates.
Betaine HCL
Betaine HCL (Hydrochloric acid), produced in the stomach, is essential for proper digestion of proteins.
Bromelain
Extracted from unripe pineapples, it also helps in the digestion of proteins. When eating pineapples, the white variety is much preferred due to its lower acidity, leaving the mouth happier than the common yellow variety. Be sure to save the green top of the pineapple for planting. Just remove all the smaller leaves to give more room for the stem to root, and then place in water or moist dirt to root.
Cellulase
Cellulase helps in the breakdown of cellulose, a non-digestible carbohydrates found in fruits, vegetables, beans, and grains.
Lipase and Ox Bile
These two ingredients, one an enzyme the other an animal extract, help in the digestion of fats and oils.
Papain
Extracted from unripe papayas, papain helps in the digestion of proteins. If a papaya still shows some green color, when you cut it you will see the white latex bead up on the cut surface. This is the sap that contains papain. Green papaya salad is a popular food in paradise...
Pepsin
Pepsin, found in the gastric juice, works with hydrochloric acid to release B12 and other nutrients from food and also digests proteins.
Digestzymes
Digestzymes is a 4 ounce liquid homeopathic complex for the stimulation and normalization of digestive functions and System 3 organs.
Digestzymes homeopathy complex components:
Amylase
Ananas comosus
Berberis vulgaris
Bromelain
Chymotrypsin
Cinnamomum
Coriandrum sativum
Eugenia caryophyllata
Herbal Bitters
Large Intestine sarcode
Lipase
Liver sarcode
Mentha piperita
Pancreas sarcode
Pancreatinum
Papain
Parotid sarcode
Protease
Small Intestine sarcode
Solar Plexus sarcode
Stomach sarcode
Trypsin
Vagus Nerve sarcode
Other Crucial Enzymes
Nattokinase
Nattokinase is the highly effective clot-busting enzyme produced by the spore-forming symbiotic bacterium Bacillus subtilis, typically grown on a substrate of soy beans, producing the traditional Japanese health food natto, which is I suppose a potentially aquired taste, but one of the two Japanese foods I never acquired a taste for in my two years living in Tokyo. The other was raw squid, which seems to resist all attempts at chewing into pieces small enough to swallow. Fortunately, Nattokinase is available as a nutritional supplement. And even better news is that it also contains PQQ produced by our symbiotic friend, subtilis. PQQ is the only supplement that stimulates mitochondria to regenerate. Bacillus subtilis itself can also be supplemented to potentially produce an ongoing supply of Nattokinase and PQQ in the body. Subtilis is also widely use as a fungicide. Bacillus subtilis is found in Primal Defense, FiveLac Probiotic, and as Utilin H and Pleo UT from Sanum.
Serrapeptase
Produced by the silk worm, Serrapeptase is a proteolytic enzyme that dissolves scar tissue when taken orally. It is synergistic with MSM and Unique E in its action.
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