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Enzyme Supplements And Their Absorption
Why We Need to Supplement?
- In a perfect world => raw (organic) unprocessed foods => high in active enzymes
- In our world => most of us
- eat enzyme deficient food (cooking and processing destroy enzymes)
- fail to chew food adequately (saliva contains amylase)
- our bodies must compensate
- the body has to break down all of the dead food in our diets => has to produce large amounts of pancreatic enzymes instead of producing the normal metabolic proteolytic enzymes
- enormous long-term consequences:
- weakened immune system
- thickened blood
- pain and inflammation
- cardiovascular disease
- reduced athletic performance
- difficulty breathing
- supplementing with proteolytic enzymes offsets all this and restores balance
Absorption Of Proteolytic Enzymes By The Body
- many so called experts say that the body can’t absorb proteolytic enzymes because:
- they are broken down by stomach acid (unless in enterically coated capsules)
- their molecules are too big to pass through the walls of the small intestine
- in reality, we know they are absorbed by the body because we can:
- measure their presence in the bloodstream
- quantify the results of supplementation in the body
Proteolytic Enzymes And The Stomach Acids
- for the most part, enzymes can’t be digested => even though they are proteins, they are too big and too complex to be unfolded by the acid in the stomach
- most are rendered temporarily inactive by the high acid environment, and reactivated when they enter the more alkaline environment of the intestinal tract·
- instructions for using most proteolytic enzymes supplements direct us to take them between meals (stomach acid levels low)
- proteolytic enzyme formulas should be made from enzymes that survive the stomach acid environment (non-animal derived enzymes)
- fungal and plant-based enzymes easily survive stomach acid
- enzymes that can survive in the stomach acids are more consistently active and functional as they are transported through the digestive tract
Absorption Of Proteolytic Enzymes
- supplemental enzymes cross the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream (but researchers do not know the mechanism)
- there is evidence that proves that proteolytic enzymes consumed orally are absorbed and impact internal systems in the body:
- empirical
- from peer-reviewed studies· ·
References
- Barron, J (2014, July 21). Systemic, Proteolytic Enzymes. Baseline Of Health Foundation. Retrieved from https://jonbarron.org/article/proteolytic-enzyme-formula
