What do Enzymes offer?
A digestive booster
Digestive enzymes are like scissors that cut up the foods we eat into basic building blocks that our body then absorbs and reassembles to build cells, tissues, organs glands and entire body systems. Without enzymes, we could not exist.
Many of the enzyme products on the market today contain enzymes derived from animal organs - hog stomach, bovine pancreas, lamb forestomach etc.
These individual animal enzymes work only in a narrow pH range, and are usually only capable of digesting protein or fat.
Udo’s Choice Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Blend, however, is a broad spectrum plant enzyme supplement that has been derived from actual plants and cultivated on a plant medium.
It has a wide pH range of activity, allowing it to function throughout the entire digestive tract. Plant enzymes begin working in the upper stomach, are temporarily inactive in the lower stomach, and then return to their active state in the intestines, helping to complete the digestive process.
Why Choose Enzymes?
Caffeine, alcohol, illness, pregnancy and stress all take their toll on our enzyme reserves, in addition our bodies also produce fewer enzymes as we age. Today’s diets don’t contain as much enzyme-containing raw foods as they once did, and modern food processing techniques and cooking destroy nearly 100% of these naturally occurring enzymes.
Raw foods may not even contain as many enzymes as they should, due to environmental factors, depleted soil and preservation techniques. All this can lead to incomplete digestion, which can lead to poor nutrient absorption. Sustaining our enzyme levels helps to ensure an efficient digestive system, allowing nutrients to be readily absorbed for utilisation by the body.
The importance of Protein digestion
Udo’s Choice Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Blend is especially rich in protein digesting enzymes. The protease (12,500 HUT of protein digesting enzyme) in Udo's Choice Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Blend has been formulated to be active in the stomach where most digestion occurs. In addition, bromelain (50,000 PU), which prefers the more alkaline pH of the small intestine, has been added to complete the digestive process. These high levels of protease and bromelain, with their ability to be effective at the necessary pH, make Udo’s Choice Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Blend a superior formula.
