Power Plus Vegan Digestive/Healing Enzymes~ 8 oz. Powder

Ingredients: Amylase, Protease, Lipase, Cellulase, Maltase, Lactase, Sucrase, Pectinase, Bromelain, Papain.

Other Ingredients: Mineral co-factors (20 mg) from concentrated land & sea plant sources, in a base of Green Papaya Powder, and Vegetable capsules (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose and purified water).

Food enzymes are naturally present in all raw foods, providing an outside source of digestive enzymes when consumed. But enzymes are more heat sensitive than vitamins and temperatures above 114° will destroy them. Cooked and processed foods are devoid of them.  Adding food enzyme supplements with cooked and processed food greatly increases digestibility and assimilation.

Enzymes are energized protein molecules necessary to life.  They catalyze and regulate nearly all biochemical reactions that occur within the human body. There are three primary groups of enzymes: Food Enzymes, Digestive Enzymes, and Metabolic/Systemic Enzymes.  Digestive enzymes are secreted along the gastrointestinal tract to break down food, so the nutrients can be absorbed into the bloodstream.  Metabolic enzymes are those that catalyze various chemical reactions within cells throughout the body, such as detoxification and energy production.  

Enzymes are involved in every life process in the body.  They are an essential link to stamina, energy level, the ability to utilize vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, as well as contributing to the immune system’s ability to protect our health.

Lack of enzymes contributes to disease and chronic degenerative conditions.  With assimilation impaired, absorption of putrefying matter can occur throughout the body.  Thus, an unhealthy body lacks resistance to germs, which proliferate in this environment.  Enzymes affect the length and quality of life by breaking down old cellular mucous and toxins, then expelling them from the organism.  For example, chronic inflammation, where there is the presence of undigested food substances (usually protein) at the site of an injury, indicates an incomplete digestion of food because of a deficiency of digestive enzymes in the body.  This puts greater stress on the immune system, which is taxed to alleviate the condition.  With the ingestion of supplemental enzymes, inflammation can be reduced while immune system activity is relieved.  Enzymes also help reserve necessary oxygen in the body.

Enzyme therapy is now being used to treat a number of ailments, including allergies, obesity, pancreatic hypertrophy, ulcers, infections, candida, and chronic inflammation.

Enzymes are the most important factor in maintaining radiant health and vitality.  Enzyme needs increase with age, and they are beneficial regardless of one’s diet.  They are the secret to staying young and healthy.