What are Enzymes?

Friday, October 9, 2009

In short enzymes are proteins that break down food into useable nutrients as energy and fresh cell material. They help control the metabolic process by speeding up the chemical processes that would otherwise take a very long time if at all. Enzymes do this by bonding with substrates and converting into useable products at a rate of ten times per second. Without enzymes substrates chemical reactions are called reactants and can take hundreds of years to convert into a useable product if at all.

Digestive Enzymes are what break down the food into nutrients and waste. The enzymes responsible for this are ptyalin, pepsin, trypsin, lipase, protease, and amylase. Pepsin and trypsin break down proteins into amino acids, lipases break split fats into glycerol and fatty acids, and amylases break down starch into simple sugars.

Metabolic Enzymes are responsible for energy production and detoxification by speeding up the chemical processes within the cells. This allows us to feel, think, hear, see and move. These enzymes are produced in the liver, gallbladder, pancreas and other organs and all organs and tissues rely on these metabolic enzymes for their reaction and energy factors.

Here is why it is important to take supplemental enzymes. Raw foods contain enough enzymes to help with the breakdown of that particular food. An excess amount of enzymes are not able to be stored in the body for later use. When you cook food, as is most of the food that we eat, you destroy the enzymes within the food and have to rely on the body’s production of enzymes and chemical reactions to break down the food which may not be enough to fully break down the food into the adequate amount of nutrients needed for the body to function. The rest of the food builds up in the intestines which can cause other health problems later in life as it continually builds up.

This is why supplementation of enzymes is important so that they can aid in fully breaking down the food and utilizing all of the nutrients available. A supplement that I highly recommend is an all natural and organic product and it is called FLO and you can find it at www.mikesbodysculpting.com on the home page or you can go to mikeburns.onebode.com. This product will fully break down the food and is an all natural product with zero synthetics. Full details of this product are available on the site I just mentioned.