Digestive enzymes have become a popular supplement recently. Why would anyone need to supplement their digestive system with digestive enzymes? The answer is in the interaction of how the digestive system works and changes we have made to our lifestyle. Historically, people would source food through hunting, foraging, scavenging, or grocery shopping. We would drag the food back to the cave or the house and cook it. We would see the food and our mouth would start watering. We would smell the food being prepared and our stomach would start rumbling. The added saliva and stomach rumbling is our body preparing to digest food that is soon to come. The digestive system starts with the saliva in our mouth introducing enzymes into our food and breaking down sugars and starches. The stomach allows the food to continue to digest and adjusts the pH (acid – alkaline balance) of the food. The pancreas then introduces additional enzymes by injecting bile into the lower stomach/intestines. This allows the proteins to be digested.
Today, we tend to eat more fast foods and highly processed foods. This does not give our body the same opportunity to prepare to digest our food. This prevents our food from being as well digested as it should be, robbing our body of the nutrition it needs from our food. By supplementing our diet with digestive enzymes we allow the body to more completely digest our food and pull all the nutrition we can from the food we eat. Good nutrition through less food brings you more energy, improved health, and less weight.
Lactose intolerant? Try taking digestive enzymes with Lactase before you eat food with lactose the next time . This may allow you to be more efficient at digesting lactose and tolerate it better. This is why we fortify EnvyGreens with digestive enzymes and sell digestive enzyme supplements at HealthyEnvy.com.