An Introduction to Enzymes
Nutrition is important stuff. Nutrition is where its all at. Proper nutrition insures our overall health. If we're eating all the right foods but our bodies cannot absorb the nutrition we're giving it, we're literally starving ourselves to death. If our "gut" does not contain the proper proportion of "good" enzymes to insure we get the nutrition we need, we'll become sickly and die.
Proper nutrition in this day and age of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and widespread air, water and land pollution, is tricky at best. Just in my lifetime we have gone from a near pristine world to one where pollution runs rampant.
The Mediterranean Sea, once abundant with life, has been dead since the 1950's. The air we breathe is being polluted by not only industry but by the infernal combustion engine to the point where the very air we breathe, which sustains life, became so polluted that pollution was detected at the peak of Mount Everest in the 1950's.
Major world cities, even in this 21st century "age of enlightenment" regarding our environment, such as Victoria, BC (yes, there are many more, mostly in Asia and Africa), pump both raw and nearly untreated sewage directly into the ocean that surrounds and sustains it.
With land, air and water pollution, and GMO's, rampant worldwide, an increasing world population competing for the little bit of nutrition we can provide, we need to be prepared to supplement our diets with the proper enzymes in order to insure maximum absorption of nutrients and good health because our bodies are getting the nutrition we need to maintain that health.
The producers of Bio88+ (Plus) use only the very finest “certified” organic food components in the making of their highly nutritious food product. In itself it provides virtually all of the added nutrition, in the form of vitamins and minerals, that you need in your diet in order to maintain excellent health. Bio88+ (Plus) is produced in a government supervised laboratory using an ancient Native North American fermentation process. Feel free to contact the author by email for additional information.
First, we need to have an understanding of just exactly what enzymes are and what they do for us.
Enzymes are proteins made by cells in our bodies and by all living organisms. They are specialized proteins that do work, such as synthesizing chemicals, rearranging molecules, adding elements to compounds, and breaking down compounds. Enzymes are protein catalysts. They cause biological reactions to occur under conditions that sustain life. Many types of enzymes exist and each type does one specific function. For an enzyme to work, the material it works upon must be present. If no such material is available to the enzyme, the enzyme performs no function. There are also metabolic enzymes in our body, but this discussion is limited to the digestive enzymes that help break down food.
We see in this description of enzymes that they break down compounds. In our gut – stomach and intestines – they help to break down food into basic nutritional bits our bodies can use for nourishment. Without this enzymic activity our bodies could not extract nutrition from food and we would wither and die. Let’s see exactly how enzymes work.
In general, enzymes work as catalysts of biochemical reactions. A catalyst increases or accelerates the rate of a reaction. The thousands of chemical reactions that occur in our body every second could not happen without enzymes to speed up these reactions. For example, a protein can be broken down into amino acids in the lab without the use of an enzyme, but to do so requires extreme temperatures, high pressure, or very strong acids; conditions not compatible with life. Even with these conditions, it often requires hours to complete the reaction in the lab. Enzymes, in this case a mixture of proteases, can complete this reaction within minutes in water at normal temperatures. Another unique aspect of enzymes is that they facilitate the reaction without being destroyed or changed in the process. Because of this, one enzyme molecule could theoretically change an infinite amount of substrate if given an infinite amount of time. Increasing the amount of enzyme decreases the time required for completing the process. If you double the number of enzyme molecules, you decrease the time for the reaction by half.
It is said that we need to have up to four (4) pounds of enzymes, in at least a ratio of 3:1 (good to bad), in our “guts” in order to facilitate the proper breakdown of food as it passes through our stomach, small intestine and large intestine, and provides nourishment to our bodies.
Natural “greens” products are created to supplement that process, the process of breaking down food into the basic nutritional units to provide our bodies with essential nourishment. One of those supplements is Bio88+ (Plus), a pure enzyme product designed specifically to aid in digestion.
The producers of Bio88+ (Plus) use only the very finest “certified” organic components in the making of their highly nutritious food product. In itself it provides virtually all of the added nutrition, in the form of vitamins and minerals, that you need in your diet in order to maintain excellent health. Bio88+ (Plus) is produced in a government supervised laboratory using an ancient Native North American fermentation process. Feel free to contact the author by email for additional information.
I cannot emphasize too often nor too much this statement: We are all different in the chemical makeup of our bodies. Some of us will react differently to the same treatment for the same problem. This article is intended solely as educational in that there are alternative treatments and alternative remedies available for virtually every condition.
Disclaimer: This article in no way should be taken as “medical advice” on any product, condition or course of action, nor does it constitute in any way “medical advice” endorsing any specific product, specific result, nor any possible cure for any condition or problem. This article is meant as a source of information upon which you may base your decision as to whether or not you should begin using any vitamin, mineral and/or herbal supplement for better health, or begin using a “greens” product as a dietary supplement.
If in doubt, or if you have questions, you should consult your physician and, if possible, consult a second physician for a possible different opinion. The author does not bear any responsibility for your decisions nor for the outcome of your actions based upon those decisions.
Author's Bio:
Loring Windblad has studied nutrition and exercise for more than 40 years, is a published author and freelance writer.
This article is Copyright 2005 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including the Authors Resource Box, intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.
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