When we eat a meal, the requirements for Digestive Enzymes become a high priority. Our body's enzyme making machinery must work overtime and often is unable to produce or meet the demand for all the enzyme requirements demanded by the body. Digestion is the physiological process of rendering the food we eat beneficial to our body. Since digestion always takes precedence over nearly everything else, many body functions requiring metabolic enzymes are often short changed during these times. The result is a lower disease fighting capability and a general weakening of the body's ability to mend itself. Because we use up so much of our enzyme potential over the years digesting foods, our ability to keep up with the production of the digestive enzymes begins to suffer. This deficiency can lead to malabsorption, poor nutrition and many digestive problems such as bloating and gas pains.
Enzymes are delicate lifelike molecules found in all living cells, whether animal or vegetable. Enzymes are energized protein molecules necessary for life. They regulate nearly all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. Enzymes turn the food we eat into energy and unlock this energy for use in the body. They cannot be seen with even the most powerful microscope, but their presence and strength can be determined by improved blood and immune system functions. Digestive enzymes actively breakdown carbohydrates to simple sugars, proteins to amino acids, and triglycerides to fatty acids and glycerol. The mechanical process of disintegration such as mastication, mixing, churning, and grinding facilitates the action of the enzymes. Enzymes contribute also to the delivery of vitamins and minerals.
Most of us eat cooked or processed foods that lack the naturally occurring enzymes of raw food (such as meat, vegetables, fruit, etc.). Those foods we cannot digest cause discomfort, allergic reactions, and compromise our already overworked immune systems. Recently, research has demonstrated that digestive enzymes, such as those found in Digest-ALL™, are capable of "digesting" or breaking down food that we cannot digest naturally.
Digest-ALL™ is a full spectrum plant grade enzyme formulation. It is a powerful combination of proteases, carbohydrases and lipase. This combination is so well formulated that it has a very broad specificity on various proteins, such as milk, soya, meat and other soluble proteins, to make various peptide chains and amino acids. Digest-ALL™ contains 3 proteases from non-animal sources that are active in a wide pH range of 3 to 9 at body temperature and in the presence of moisture. Proteases can hydrolyze protein to various amino acids.
Digest-ALL™ contains a wide range of powerful Carbo-hydrases. Amylase breaks down carbohydrates, starches and sugars that are prevalent in potatoes, fruits, vegetables and snack foods. Lactase aids in the digestion of lactose. Lactase breaks down lactose that is found in milk sugars. It is very useful for individuals suffering from lactose intolerance. Cellulase increases the availability of anthocyanidins, powerful antioxidants from grapes and other berries. Cellulase breaks down fiber, helping to solubilize nutrients from fruits and vegetables. Invertase (Sucrase) Catalyzes the inversion of sucrose (table sugar) to glucose and fructose. Maltase digests maltose, malt and grain sugars. Breaks down complex and simple sugars. HemiLase™ helps breakdown of raffinose, stachyose and melibiose. HemiLase™ helps to prevent gas, bloating and pressure caused by many healthful foods (broccoli, cabbage, carrots, onions, peppers, corn, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, beans, peas and more).
Lipase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes lipids, the ester bonds in triglycerides, to form fatty acids and glycerol. While too much fat in our diet has shown to cause various health complications, some fat is absolutely required. All cell membranes and other structures are made up of lipids, thus an adequate supply of essential fatty acids in the diet are important to ensure healthy cells. Fats require special digestive action before absorption because the end products must be carried in a water medium (blood and lymph) in which fats are not soluble. Lipase is the primary digestive enzyme used to split fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Bile (released from the gall bladder upon the presence of fat) breaks down the large fat molecule to smaller fat molecules, which then provides lipase with an increased surface to work on. Although little actual fat digestion occurs in the stomach, gastric lipase does digest fats that are already emulsified such as in egg yolk and cream.
Performance or strength of enzyme activities are measured in the laboratory using compendial methodologies. Digest-ALL™ provides powerful digestive enzymes to assist in the digestion of 30 potatoes, over 9 ounces protein and 60 grams of fat. Digest-ALL™ promotes optimal digestion and reduces our need to produce digestive enzymes allowing our body to manufacture the metabolic enzymes needed to operate efficiently. Finally, Digest-ALL™ unique proprietary blend of Ginger, Peppermint and Triphala provide a soothing, comfortable and balanced digestion process.