Plant Digestive Enzymes: The Missing Key to Healing?

I strongly believe that plant digestive enzymes are one of the most important and the most overlooked key to healing and the proper working of the digestive system.

Why is it that humans and their pets are plagued by so many thousands of diseases?

Have you heard of a lion in the wild with cancer or a gorilla with heart trouble?

What surprises me is that as a culture we are far more sick than ever and yet all the research goes to finding the magic "pill".

In the early 1900's Dr. Edward Howell did his pioneering study of enzymes...

...And their crucial role as the workers of the body.

His book "Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept" demonstrates in study after study what he discovered about the digestive system:

That in nature roughly half the digestive enzymes come from the food itself.

Only humans have so altered the food that we actually eat whole meals without any enzymes. Digestive enzymes and their role in the digestive system are covered in more detail in this Article.

So what happens when we eat food without enzymes?

The biological enzymes related to digestion are used up and the body is forced to borrow metabolic enzymes from the organs.

Although there are many different types of enzymes, they generally fall into 2 categories: biological enzymes for digestion and metabolic enzymes.

There are 2 things you can do to make sure you are restocking rather than draining your enzyme account:

• Take an enzyme supplement made from plants (and make sure you get the best quality, some are processed just like the food).
• You must also add organic vegetables and fruit to your diet. This way you get the plant digestive enzymes directly and begin to rebuild the "account" of biological enzymes in your bod

So add foods the way nature intended them to be eaten, raw and unprocessed.

Raw nuts and seeds also contain their own digestive enzymes. However, with them you have to take an extra step.

You see, enzyme inhibitors are present that keep you from activating these enzymes.

By soaking the nuts or seeds overnight (then rinse well), you remove the enzyme inhibitors.

You can eat them directly, make various nut milks, or you can dry them in a food dehydrator.

They will be crunchier than they were even before you soaked them, and very tasty.

Just be sure that your food dehydrator is set no higher than 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything above this temperature will kill the digestive enzymes.

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