Enzymes and Your Health, Where do Enzymes Come From

Written by Loring A. Windblad


This compilation of information is Copyright 2005 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. The references for this series of articles isrepparttar author’s personal knowledge and experience,repparttar 113994 book “Enzymes for Autism and other Nurological Conditions” andrepparttar 113995 web site enzymestuff dot com. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including this header, intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

Where to enzymes come from?

Enzymes exist in all raw food. All raw foods, including meats, have some enzyme activity. For example, green bananas have amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch to glucose. In a number of days,repparttar 113996 amylase convertsrepparttar 113997 raw starch ofrepparttar 113998 banana to sugar, which is why darkened bananas are so much sweeter tasting. Kiwis have an abundance of a protease known as actinidin, which is why you cannot make jello with fresh kiwis. The protease degrades gelatin protein such that it cannot ‘harden’ or set.

Keep in mind that we need to have up to four (4) pounds of enzymes, in at least a ratio of 3:1 (good to bad), in our “guts” in order to facilitaterepparttar 113999 proper breakdown of food as it passes through our system.

Where do enzymes go – what happens to them?

Cooking or other types of processing destroys enzyme activity. This isrepparttar 114000 basis for ‘canning’ of vegetables –repparttar 114001 heat destroysrepparttar 114002 enzymes and this preservesrepparttar 114003 food. Food enzymes can surviverepparttar 114004 pH ofrepparttar 114005 stomach (about 4.5 to 5.5) for some time and so can contribute torepparttar 114006 digestion of food while inrepparttar 114007 stomach. Animals, including humans, producerepparttar 114008 enzymes they need from amino acids. The more raw food you eat,repparttar 114009 less digestive enzymes your body needs to produce. You can also take enzyme supplements, which come from animals, plants or microorganisms. Your body may recycle digestive enzymes from any source until they wear out. Enzymes in circulation perform many other tasks that assist in restoring and maintaining good health. Eventually, when these enzymes wear out, other enzymes break them down andrepparttar 114010 body usesrepparttar 114011 component amino acids for other purposes. They may also be excreted.

Enzymes and Your Health, Introduction

Written by Loring A. Windblad


This compilation of information is Copyright 2005 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. The references for this series of articles isrepparttar author’s personal knowledge and experience andrepparttar 113993 book “Enzymes for Autism and other Nurological Conditions. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including this header, intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

Nutrition is important stuff. Nutrition is where its all at. Proper nutrition insures our overall health. If we're eating allrepparttar 113994 right foods but our bodies cannot absorbrepparttar 113995 nutrition we're giving it, we're literally starving ourselves to death. If our "gut" does not containrepparttar 113996 proper proportion of "good" enzymes to insure we getrepparttar 113997 nutrition we need, we'll become sickly and die.

Proper nutrition in this day and age of GMOs and widespread air, water and land pollution, is tricky at best. Just in my lifetime we have gone from a near pristine world to one where pollution runs rampant.

The Mediterranean Sea, once abundant with life, has been dead sincerepparttar 113998 1950's. The air we breathe is being polluted by not only industry but byrepparttar 113999 infernal combustion engine torepparttar 114000 point whererepparttar 114001 very air we breathe, which sustains life, became so polluted that pollution was detected atrepparttar 114002 peak of Mount Everest inrepparttar 114003 1950's.

Major world cities, even in this modern age of enlightenment regarding pollution, such as Victoria, BC (yes, there are many more, mostly in Asia and Africa), pump both raw and nearly untreated sewage directly intorepparttar 114004 ocean that surrounds and sustains it.

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