Enzymes and Your Health, Why Take Them

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 113996 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.

Why would you want an enzyme product as a nutritional dietary supplement?

There are many reasons for wanting and seeking an enzyme supplement. These include restoration ofrepparttar 113997 proper enzyme balance in our “gut” to ensure proper digestion, vitamin and mineral supplement for our health, and insuring proper nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Proper and complete digestion is essential for good health. Digestive enzymes, used properly, can provide a substantial benefit to most everyone, especially those consuming a great deal of cooked or processed food. Enzymes may ease bloating, gas and heaviness with meals. Proteases may be beneficial between meals if you have an autoimmune condition or are recovering from an injury or illness. Enzyme-based products are one ofrepparttar 113998 least utilized dietary aids, despiterepparttar 113999 fact that their use dates back thousands of years.

Many manufacturers may avoidrepparttar 114000 use of enzyme products because their mode of action can be complex, and requires specific scientific knowledge and expertise. Such is actuallyrepparttar 114001 case inrepparttar 114002 manufacture of Bio88+ (Plus), produced in a government controlled laboratory, under stringent conditions, and using a “double fermentation” process that takes four months from start to finished product. There are other considerations in your enzyme supplement including (see below) whether or not it contains enzymes made from animal sources.

If I can just eat raw foods to replenish my stomach enzymes, why would I want to take an enzyme supplement?

You could, except that raw food diets are difficult to maintain. Eating raw meat, withrepparttar 114003 danger of bacterial toxins, is not advisable as a means of obtaining food enzymes. Also,repparttar 114004 amount of enzymes present in raw food is such that it would take many hours to adequately digestrepparttar 114005 food, and raw food does not necessarily contain allrepparttar 114006 enzymes needed. Enzyme supplements are a concentrated form of food enzymes that you may add to any diet so breakdown of food will occur at a faster rate.

Protein: Common or Missing Link?

Written by Protica Research


Most of us equaterepparttar word diet with calorie reduction. This is understandable, since most diet marketing is relentlessly focused on offering consumers low-calorie options.

Unfortunately, this way of thinking is categorically wrong. The simple fact that any nutritionist will verify is that everyone is on a diet. Even those who do not wish, or do not need, to lose weight are on a diet, as are those who are increasing their weight. Dieting has nothing to do with calorie reduction, and everything to do with calories choices. The foods you ‘choose’ to eat determinerepparttar 113995 type of diet you are on.

Indeed, torepparttar 113996 digestive system andrepparttar 113997 intestines, a candy bar and a stalk of celery are neither seen as junk food nor diet food. They are both seen as simply food. The candy bar leads to a rapid glycemic reaction andrepparttar 113998 production of fat cells. The celery does not. Still,repparttar 113999 body does not label one as junk andrepparttar 114000 other as diet food. In fact, everything thatrepparttar 114001 body ingests, it tries to use inrepparttar 114002 best way that it can.

However, outsiderepparttar 114003 neutral intelligent internal body systems,repparttar 114004 term diet persists in our often rather misguided external world of advertising, marketing, and diet plans. As such, we can group diets into two categories: deliberate and accidental.

Deliberate diets are designed with specific requirements, such as those engineered to lose weight, to gain weight, and to maintain weight. Deliberate diets are typically what people refer to when they userepparttar 114005 catchall term ‘diet’. This is in contrast torepparttar 114006 other kind of diet that is calledrepparttar 114007 ‘accidental diet’. Accidental diets have no requirements, and march to a simple chant: eat whatever, whenever, andrepparttar 114008 body will take care of itself.

However, despiterepparttar 114009 fact that there are two terms for diets – deliberate and accidental – there is a denominator that unifies them both: protein. All diets, even those that are accidental, require protein.

Protein, andrepparttar 114010 amino acids that comprise protein, are essential for life itself. Every system withinrepparttar 114011 body depends, directly or indirectly, on protein. In fact, because protein regulates hormones, some cases of depression or anxiety are actually instigated and perpetuated by either a lack of protein, orrepparttar 114012 body’s inability to fortify its neurological system with this critical macronutrient.

Yet for those on a diet -- and that includes everyone --repparttar 114013 importance of protein is more pragmatic. Many deliberate diets such asrepparttar 114014 Atkins™ diet andrepparttar 114015 South Beach Diet™ restrict carbohydrates, while other restrict fats. That leaves protein. Protein isrepparttar 114016 common link between all nutritionally-sound diets. But is it alsorepparttar 114017 missing link? Or, is protein readily accessible and readily present inrepparttar 114018 foods we eat?

Oddly, most American meals and snacks are protein deficient. Indeed, complete protein is absent from 6 ofrepparttar 114019 top 10 foods eaten inrepparttar 114020 US, and absent from all 10 ofrepparttar 114021 most popular snacks (see chart at end of article). This shortage of protein inrepparttar 114022 American diet refers both torepparttar 114023 absolute amount of protein, which is recommended to be a minimum of 50 grams per day, andrepparttar 114024 kind of protein as well. The healthiest protein is a “complete protein”, which includes all 19 amino acids. However, even people who are ingesting 50 grams of protein may not be eating complete protein. As such, these people are sometimes unwittingly suffering from some form of protein malnourishment, and experience symptoms that include drowsiness, digestive problems, emotional disorders, and other adverse physiological effects.

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