Enzymes and Your Health, Where do Enzymes Come FromWritten 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 is author’s personal knowledge and experience, book “Enzymes for Autism and other Nurological Conditions” and 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, amylase converts raw starch of 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 facilitate 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 is basis for ‘canning’ of vegetables – heat destroys enzymes and this preserves food. Food enzymes can survive pH of stomach (about 4.5 to 5.5) for some time and so can contribute to digestion of food while in stomach. Animals, including humans, produce enzymes they need from amino acids. The more raw food you eat, 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 and body uses component amino acids for other purposes. They may also be excreted.
| | Enzymes and Your Health, IntroductionWritten 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 is author’s personal knowledge and experience and 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 all right foods but our bodies cannot absorb nutrition we're giving it, we're literally starving ourselves to death. If our "gut" does not contain proper proportion of "good" enzymes to insure we get 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 since 1950's. The air we breathe is being polluted by not only industry but by infernal combustion engine to point where very air we breathe, which sustains life, became so polluted that pollution was detected at peak of Mount Everest in 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 into ocean that surrounds and sustains it.
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