Digestive Health*

OK.  So you eat well. You don't over-consume junk food and you even eat organic where possible.  Do you know that you may still suffer from deficiencies? Hard to believe isn't it? 

The problem is really not all that uncommon though.

The fact is that digestion starts in our mouth.  Digestive enzymes are found in our saliva (and made in our salivary glands).  The point of enzymes is to help us break down our food for digestion.  Our teeth also serve this function.  In order for people to be able to use more complex substances for nutrition, they have to be broken down into simpler, soluble and diffusable (spreadable) forms before the body can use them.  In fact, this is so important that we produce enzymes in the mouth, the stomach, the small intestine, and the pancreas.  All living things contain enzymes.  Despite the fact that they don't appear on the list of US Recommended Daily Allowances, they are essesntial nutrients.  The enzymes found in food are responsible for those reactions that bring plants to ripeness, and the enzymes that we find in all raw foods are responsible for the benefits we derive from vitamins and minerals, which are called co-enzymes and don't have the capacity to do the work that enzymes perform.

So, what's the problem?  Enzymes are systematically removed from our food so that they can sit on the shelf longer!  Otherwise, they would spoil.  This prolongs shelf life, but it's not exactly what nature had in mind for our health.

Combine these factors with the fact that due to oral changes and tooth-loss many people can't chew their food well, and we have the beginnings of a much more serious problem:  difficulties breaking down proteins, fats and carbohydrates. 

Co-enzyme (vitamin and mineral) deficiencies produce acute and generally more obvious symptoms, while food enzyme deficiencies are more subtle.  They produce chronic degenerative changes we more often associate with aging.  It takes 30 to 60 minutes for the stomach to concentrate enough stomach acid to reduce the resting pH of the stomach from 5.0 and 6.0 down to 3.0.  Studies show that most older patients are unable to do this at all!  For this segment of the population, food enzyme predigestion would appear to be essential. 

Unfortunately, the problem of poor digestion is not limited to the elderly.  Society has come to cover up these problems with antacids, products to relieve the discomfort of abdominal gas, laxatives, and products to relieve diarrhea.  Not much is done to prevent these problems, however. 

What happens if you don't digest your food well?  First of all those particles not digested sufficiently pass across the gut wall, down your alimentary canal, where they  putrefy and form toxins that are absorbed into your blood.  The food particles that are digested well enough to pass throught the gut wall and into the blood, however, are not reduced to particles that are small enough to be used for energy production.

While a great deal more can stated on the subject, suffice it to say digestive enzymes are important.  Click below to learn more about digestive products that may help you have more energy while gaining the intended benefits of digestion.

Select the "Products" tab, next the #2 "Energize" tab, then click on the fourth bottle labeled "SBGZymes^®"

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.