Enzymes

The Wonder of Enzymes

There ins't a cell in the body that functions without the help of enzymes. Enzymes are the magic ingredient that makes all of the other ingredients in the body work together. it is estimated that enzymes in the human rating 30 million biochemical reactions in the different body in every minute. There are thousands of different enzymes at work, each with its own individual assignment.

Without the appropriate enzyme to bind to, vitamins are just so much organic matter, minerals are just so must inorganic and even oxygen itself is just another molecule. Enzymes regulate all living matter, plants and animals alike. take away enzymes and you no longer have something that is living.

We can also look at enzymes as the guide that shows the vitamin or mineral or fat the way into the cell, without the introduction of the enzyme, the cell might never know the identity of the nutrient. Enzymes also speed up process which might take much longer without their help, they build proteins that create tissue, remove toxins, help prevent the aging process within cells and change nutrients into useful energy.

The enzymes that we know about are divided by what their purpose is in the body, they are called oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases, lyases, isomerases and ligases. The digetive enzymes are the hydrolases and there are the ones we will examine more closely.

We are born with enzymes already in our bodies and we get some from food. However, enzymes are very sensitive to heat and processing, so they are not found in cooked or processed food. This means you need to get your enzymes from fresh, uncooked food such as raw fruit and vegetables, or from enzyme supplements.

Some enzyme experts believe that factors such as stress, malnutrition, junk food, alcohol and cigarettes destroy and thus deplete enzymes. They theorize that many digestive problems and immune disorders happen when we are deficient in enzymes.