What are digestive enzymes?

The human body makes and uses more than 3000 kinds of enzymes that speeds up chemical reactions and save energy. Without enzymes, our bodies’ reaction would be too slow for life to be possible. Digestive enzymes in particular are like scissors that cut up the foods we eat into basic building blocks that our body can then absorb and reassemble to build cells, tissues, organs, glands and the entire body.

While the body manufactures a supply of enzymes, it also needs to ontain them from food. All raw and sprouted foods contain the plant enzymes needed to help digest their particular components. However, enzymes are heat sensitive and cooking and processing can destroy 100% of naturally occurring enzymes. Therefore, cooked, canned, microwaved or pasturized foods contain no ACTIVE digestive enzymes.

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