Enzymes are all complex molecules, that support every chemical reaction happening in the body. Metabolic and digestive are the two majors categories of enzymes. The Metabolic enzymes support you body functions. Digestive enzymes breakdown large food molecules into smaller , more easily absorbed components. Food originally has the enzymes needed to support digestion so that your body doesn’t need to do so much work. But when we process, refine, heat, or microwave food, too many of the enzymes are destroyed.

Our digestive system’s role is to extract and absorb the necessary nutrients contained in our food. However, a diet of cooked food means that our body needs to draw enzymes from our liver and pancreas to help with our digestion and over time this can lead to a weakened immune response and it can slow down our metabolism.

Enzyme-deficient food sits in the upper part of your stomach putrefying instead of being predigested . Which is what the enzymes are designed to do. When that happens your white blood cell count increases because your immune system reacts to your undigested food as a foreign substance. Additionally , we put more strain on ourselves to produce extra digestive enzymes when it could have been making metabolic enzymes for cellular activity. If stomach acids don’t complete their work before the food moves into the small intestine, it’s possible for food particles to enter your blood system undigested!

This rotten material can cover the walls of the intestines , hurting your ability to absorb necessary nutrients and interfering with the ejection of toxins through the intestinal wall. In this environment, bacteria and viruses can get out of control and make you susceptible to infection, fatigue, and degenerative disease.

Not many people are going to eat a raw food diet and are therefore living on enzyme deficient food, but you can supplement with digestive enzymes like Protease ( for proteins), Lipase ( for fats) or Amylase (for carbohydrates) from RGarden.
Another choice would be Maximizer enzymes – a multi enzyme blend from RGarden

We who are familiar with and used to thinking about the importance of digestive enzymes can easily forget that enzymes are important to more than the digestive system . As a matter of fact , if we didn’t have enzymes we would have no chemical reactions anywhere in our body, because enzymes are a master catalyst available to your body to power every simgle chemical reaction. Without enzymes nothing works .

But food digestion uses a considerable investment in energy from the body in terms of enzyme activity . Since we only have a limited enzyme potential when we’re born and we need it to last our entire life, it seems sensible to nurture our capacity to produce enzymes and take supplements when we can . One of the reasons that supplementing is necessary, is that our cooked diet is responsible for robbing us of the enzyme activity that would have been available to us from a diet of uncooked and unprocessed foods . (And if you “get ” how we are shortchanged of our natural enzyme sources from our diets of cooked food, just think of the implications for your dogs and cats !)

To supply our saliva and pancreatic, gastric and intestinal juices with the myriad of enzymes needed to process our diet of cooked food, we need to divert from the supply of enzymes to our brain, heart , kidneys, lungs , muscles and other tissues and organs . According to food enzyme researcher, Dr. Edward Howell, the competition between our digestive tract and our remaining organ systems may directly lead to the development of a few unique chronic and irreversable conditions .

In short , according to this Doctor , who has spent over 40 years treating chronic problems -the depletion of our enzyme “bank “, which is the direct result of our diets dominated by cooked – “enzyme dead” food, is a leading contributor to premature aging and early death.

Since it is not likely that we are going to move completely to a diet of raw foods , there are 2 simple actions that we can try to address this problem . The first is to make a conscious effort to eat more raw, vegetables and fruits and substitute some of our cooked foods with simpler fare – like grains, fruits and vegetables.

And the other option – that’s also simple is to start supplementing with quality digestive enzymes . Maximizer enzymes, which is a product available from RGarden is a multi-enzyme supplement. For people with problems like stomach ulcers, an even better choice is Gamma-Zyme another multi enzyme supplement that does not contain Protease ( for proteins) which can upset some stomachs.
Anothe popular choice is Lipase which helps to process fats.

A perplexed Doctor determined his patient required a transplant. He transplanted some of her husband’s bacteria . Before the procedure , they observed , her intestinal bacteria population was almost non existant . “The normal bacteria just couldn’t be found in her,” said Dr. Khoruts. “She was colonized by all sorts of misfits.” Two weeks after the procedure , the donated microbes were dominant . “That population was able to function and arrested her disease faster than anyone anticipated” .

To say that the scientific community was shocked with the outcome is something of an understatement. It shouldn’t be. Scientists are frequently amazed by the complexity , power , and sheer number of microbes that populate our systems . We have more than 10 times more microbes than cells.

We end up with populations composed of different species, but they usually carry out the same essential chemistry that we need to be healthy . One of those tasks is breaking down complex plant molecules. We have a pathetic number of enzymes encoded in the human genome, so we must have extra microbes . In addition to helping us digest , the bacteria helps us in a variety of other ways. The bacteria in our nose , for example, make antibiotics that fight off the dangerous pathogens we sniff .

In order to co-exist with our internal flora own bacteria population , our immune system has to be able to tolerate myriad of harmless species , while attacking pathogens . Researchers are seeing that the microbiome itself guides the immune system to the proper balance. One way the immune system fights pathogens is with inflammation. Too much inflammation can be damaging , so we also have immune cells that produce inflammation-reducing signals. With their ability to contain unrestrained free radicals, antioxidant populations also support an inflammation fighting function.

Scientists are uncovering new links between our inner flora and our health. They’re also finding that many illnesses are accompanied by significant changes in the makeup of our inner ecosystems. For example people with asthma have a different population of microbes in their lungs than healthy people. Obese people also have a different set of species in their digestive tracts than people with normal weight.

Some surveys suggest that babies delivered by Caesarian section are more likely to get skin infections because they possibly lack the defensive covering of microbes from their mother’s birth canal. Caesarean sections have also been linked to an increase in asthma and allergies in children . So have the high use of antibiotics in the U.S. and other developed countries. Farm children — can pick up healthy exposure to microbes from the soil — are less prone to getting autoimmune disorders than their peers who grow up in cities.

We consistently underestimate the importance of microbes and bacteria to our health and our medical profession has been too quick to take out their pads of paper and write up prescriptions for antibiotics and synthetic drugs. Plant-based enzymes, healthy bacteria and natural support for our immune systems might be a more thoughtful route to take in the future if we want to change this trend.

Enzymes are all complex molecules, that feed every chemical reaction that happens in your body. Metabolic and digestive are the two main groups of enzymes. The Metabolic enzymes fuel you body functions. Digestive enzymes break too large food molecules into small enough , more easily used components. Food originally has the enzymes necessary to help the digestive process so that your body doesn’t need to do as much work. But when we refine, heat or microwave food, too many of the enzymes are destroyed.

Our digestive system’s job is to extract and absorb the critical nutrients contained in our food. When we eat cooked foods it means that our body needs to use enzymes from our pancreas, liver and other organs to help with our digestion and eventually this can contribute to a weakened immune response and it can slow down our metabolism.

Enzyme-deficient food sits in the upper part of your stomach putrefying instead of starting to digest . Which is what the enzymes are supposed to do. When that happens your white blood cell count increases since your immune system reacts to your undigested food as a foreign substance. Additionally , it strains our systems to provide extra digestive enzymes when it could have been making metabolic enzymes for cellular activity. If stomach acids cannot complete their job before the food moves into the small intestine, it’s possible for food particles to enter your blood system undigested!

This rotten material can cover the walls of the intestines , harming your ability to absorb needed nutrients and interfering with the ejection of toxins through the intestinal wall. In this environment, bacteria and viruses can get out of control and make you susceptible to infection, fatigue, and degenerative disease.

Very few people will ever eat a raw food diet so we’re living on enzyme deficient food, but you can supplement with digestive enzymes like enzyme Blends like Maximizer, Gamma-Zyme or Quadra-Zyme Plus from RGarden.