ENHANCES DIGESTION AND NUTRIENT ABSORPTION
May provide noticeable relief from uncomfortable digestive symptoms. 100% vegetarian food enzyme supplement.
Our potent digestive enzyme formula contains five of the most important digestive enzymes needed for human nutrition, assisting in breaking down the proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fibre and dairy. With these enzymes, the body can more easily absorb the nutrients from food, resulting in better assimilation. When the stresses of digestion are reduced, more energy is available to other systems of the body which are responsible for overall health and vitality.
Directions for use:
Take two hard capsules with water, three times daily, immediately before meals are consumed. If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Ingredients:
Each vegetable capsule contains: Amylase(from Aspergillus oryzae) 4.5 thousand DUAA Protease (4.5)(from Aspergillus oryzae) 10.8 thousand HUT Tilactase (from Aspergillus oryzae) 5 hundred ALU Cellulase (from Trichoderma reesie) 80 CU Lipase (from Rhizopus oryzae) 100 LipU
No added Gluten, Soy or Dairy.
Available in 90 & 180 capsule bottles.
Supplementation with Amylase allows digestion of carbohydrates to proceed through the digestive system, during the time food is held in the stomach, which is usually about one hour. Amylase breaks down carbohydrates, starches and sugars that are prevalent in potatoes, fruits, vegetables and snack foods. Carbohydrate intolerance is the inability to digest sugars and starches. It occurs when the small intestine isn’t able to secrete sufficient amounts of the appropriate enzyme amylase, which is responsible for breaking down starches.
The Protease in this formula is active in a wide range of pH, ensuring that protein digestion will begin in the stomach continuing through the small intestine. Protease breaks down proteins found in meat, nuts and cheese. The body employs a complex mechanism for exchanging and balancing amino acids to maintain the structure of protein in tissues and organs. If we aren’t getting enough complete protein from our diet, or we aren’t properly digesting it because of an enzyme deficiency, we may not have all the amino acids our bodies need. So if we run low on protease, we probably run low on amino acids as well. To compensate for the deficit, our body begins breaking down the protein it already has, much of it from blood, muscle and organ tissues. People who have trouble digesting dietary protein tend to crave protein-rich foods and are prone to digestive upset immediately after meals.
Tilactase (lactase) digests the disaccharide lactose, ‘milk sugar’ into the simple sugars glucose and galactose. When foods containing lactose are eaten by those without sufficient lactase, the lactose travels to the colon and sits undigested. Lactase deficient individuals suffer symptoms anywhere from fifteen minutes to three hours after consuming milk or milk products.
Lipase is one of the two major components in the fat digesting system of the digestive tract. The other is bile, which brings ingested fat into solution so that lipase may break it down. A shortage of lipase can inhibit the breakdown of essential fatty acids for absorption into the bloodstream and lymphatic system, and from there into tissues and cells. The body’s fat stores are an important source of metabolic energy and without them our body would need to break down the structural protein in tissues and organs for use as an energy source.
Cellulase is the one enzyme that must come from food or supplementation, as the body cannot manufacture it. It breaks the bonds of fibre that encase most of the nutrients in plants, thus enhancing the nutritional value of plant foods.