Human Digestive Enzymes: What do They Mean to Me?

Human digestive enzymes are secreted by the pancreas.

Because foods in their natural state already contain the enzymes needed for their digestion (food digestive enzymes), the human body naturally creates about half the enzymes needed.

These food digestive enzymes are found in plants , nuts and seeds in their raw, unaltered state.

But what happens in today's lifestyle of consuming processed and cooked food; enzyme-less food?

The body comes up short, a lot more enzymes are needed to perform the digestive process.

The pancreas puts out a call to borrow any systemic enzymes it can and convert them into digestive ones.

The systemic enzymes, also known as metabolic enzymes are found throughout the system (thus systemic). They are the blue-collar workers that perform all the needed bodily functions: cleaning, repair, transport, building...

...So what does this all mean to you?

The body is so amazing that it does what it has to do to continue on. Still, it's very hard on the body as you'll see:

1. The entire digestive process takes a lot more energy leaving you tired after a meal and throughout the day.
2. And what about the systemic enzymes that were borrowed from the organs?

   Well, less workers are left to carry on the repairs and cleaning of the blood.

3. With less workers, the remaining enzymes break down more quickly and cannot complete the tasks.
4. Even so, food is not fully digested and starch and protein particles pass into the blood causing havoc - these are sometimes referred to as free radicals.

Nature never intended humans to live on a diet of processed foods and sugar as we do today.

According to Dr. Edward Howell, the pioneer in Enzyme studies, humans have limited enzymes for their lifetime.

He also says that because they are the life energy...

...Longevity and Health is inversely proportional to how quickly we use up the enzymes.

So if we want to live long and healthy lives, we have to address the enzyme bankruptcy in our bodies.

Human digestive enzymes need to be supplemented by:

1. Adding fresh organic, untreated raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds to our diet.

   Because heat above 108 degrees Fahrenheit kills the enzymes, it has to be raw and unprocessed.

   Many people have found a new raw food health by living primarily on these raw veggies. You can read their stories or contribute your own in raw food health stories.

   On this site, you'll find a lot of information about doing a colon cleanse and the diet that goes with it.

   The best colon cleanse diet turns out to be the same as the one with all the food digestive enzymes so you can rebuild the balance of your human digestive enzymes:

   Again, it's raw food health that comes from organic, untreated plant-food.



Taking high quality plant based enzyme supplements is a necessity these days. Even if you change your diet to 90% raw plant food, you still need to rebuild the enzyme count in your body.

Eliminating or cutting way back on enzyme-less foods.

They cause the body to work very hard trying to extract nutrients when most of these foods dont' contain any.

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