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The digestive enzyme PROTEASE
Responsible for digesting proteins in your food, which is probably one of the most difficult substances to metabolize. Because of this, protease is considered to be one of the most important enzymes that we have.
If the digestive process is incomplete, undigested protein can wind up in your circulatory system, as well as in other parts of your body.
When you take protease in higher quantities, it can help to clean up your body by removing the unwanted protein from your circulatory system. This will help to clean up your blood stream, and restore your energy and balance.
One of the tricks of an invading organism is to wrap itself in a large protein shell that the body would view as being “normal”. Large amounts of protease can help to remove this protein shell, and allow the body’s defense mechanisms can go into action. With the protective barrier down, your immune system can step in and destroy the invading organism.
Additional amounts of protease are also helpful in fighting such things as colds, flu’s, and cancerous tumor growths. Protease helps in the healing and recovery from cancer by dissolving the fibrin coating on cancer cells, and thereby giving your immune system a chance to do its job.
It can effectively shrink these tumors by helping to remove the dead and abnormal tissues, and by stimulating healthy tissue growth.[/quote]
Protease as in any enzyme that breaks down proteins into simpler substances.
Pepsin breaks peptide bonds between amino acids that make up proteins. Long fragments of amino acids are called proteoses and short fragments are called peptones.
Rennin helps solidify casein which is held so in stomach long enough for pepsin to break it down.
This is why after eating a meal high in protein you fell full for longer period.
Escaping protein is digested in the small intestine. Enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin digest proteins into proteoses and peptones and break them into dipeptides and some of the dipeptides into single amino acids. The enzyme carboxypeptidase reduces digested proteins to amino acids. Remaining dipeptides are reduced to amino acids by the enzyme group called erepsin. Proteins are used for various purposes in the body as a structural component.
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The digestive enzyme AMYLASE
The second most important enzyme that we have, amylase is responsible for digesting carbohydrates in food. Because of this, it could be considered a natural antihistamine. Incomplete
digestion of carbohydrates has been linked to blood sugar imbalances, allergies, and asthma.
Amylase is also very effective in helping to relieve the symptoms of allergic reactions to such things as insect bites, pollen irritation, or contact with poison oak, poison ivy, or sumac.
A possible reason why some people appear to be more immune to these poisons is because of a higher amount of amylase within their bodies.[/quote]
Some carbs are first digested in the mouth by an enzyme salivary amylase which breaks down polysaccharides called dextrins into monosaccharides.
In the small intestine dextrins are broken down to disaccharide maltose by the enzyme pancreatic amylaze. Sucrose is reduced into a molecule of fructose and a molecule of glucose by the enzyme sucrase. Lactose is reduced to a molecule of glucose and a molecule of galactose by the enzyme lactase. And maltose is broken down into two molecules of glucose by the enzyme maltase.
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The digestive enzyme LIPASE
Responsible for digesting fats in food. When taken in higher quantities it will also find its way into the blood stream and help to remove excess fatty deposits from the inside of your veins and arteries. When this occurs, the arteries and veins are more open and allow the blood to flow more smoothly throughout your body.
It is well understood that clogged arteries cause a rise in blood pressure, and that this in turn leads to heart problems. Using extra lipase during the pre-digestive phase can help with overall fat control both in the stomach and in the arteries of your body.
Additional lipase can also be helpful in a weight management program, because it converts fat to energy instead of allowing it to be stored in your body.[/quote]
The enzyme pancreatic lipase hydrolyzes each fat molecule into fatty acids, glyserol and glyserides. The break down of fats is also controlled by hormones from the lymphatic and circulatory systems.
Fat molecules are later protein coated with cholesterol and phospholipids. (You talked about invading organisms being protein coated.)
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The digestive enzyme CELLULASE
Responsible for breaking down fiber. It is also an excellent antioxidant because it binds to heavy metals and other toxins and carries them out of your body.
We generally consume a combination of soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber is effective in binding to excess cholesterol and toxic material and removing them from the body. Cellulase helps with this process because it breaks down the soluble fiber and allows it to be more efficient.
Insoluble fiber provides the necessary bulk to keep the intestinal tract properly inflated, and acts as a “push broom” to keep the walls of both the small and large intestines clean.[/quote]
Cellulase is something that humans don’t produce in their bodies and it is used for energy production in fungi and bacteria.
Fiber in general goes through our gastrointestinal tract untouched only to form stool and help maintain regularity in the large intestine. High amounts of fiber are known to prevent the absorption of vitamins in the large intestine. So overeating fiber is not good. Processed food has no fiber in it so favor natural sources.