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Why Food Enzymes Are Important: Howard F. Loomis JR., D.C

Plant enzymes can digest food before the body's digestive process begins, enhancing digestion and nutrient delivery even with compromised digestion. While proper nutrition is crucial, most practitioners overlook digestion as the cause of nutritional disorders. Enzymes are essential components of all biochemical reactions and the only substance that can break down food for absorption. Food enzymes begin digesting in the stomach for at least an hour before the body's enzymes act. Dr. Howell found plant enzymes have a different function than digestive enzymes, starting the breakdown of food. He isolated and concentrated plant enzymes and saw raw food intake slowed degenerative diseases.

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Why Food Enzymes Are Important: Howard F. Loomis JR., D.C

Plant enzymes can digest food before the body's digestive process begins, enhancing digestion and nutrient delivery even with compromised digestion. While proper nutrition is crucial, most practitioners overlook digestion as the cause of nutritional disorders. Enzymes are essential components of all biochemical reactions and the only substance that can break down food for absorption. Food enzymes begin digesting in the stomach for at least an hour before the body's enzymes act. Dr. Howell found plant enzymes have a different function than digestive enzymes, starting the breakdown of food. He isolated and concentrated plant enzymes and saw raw food intake slowed degenerative diseases.

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Why Food Enzymes are Important

by Howard F. Loomis Jr., D.C.

Plant enzymes are important because they are capable of digesting food before the body’s
own digestive process begins. In other words, plant enzymes can enhance the digestion of
food and the delivery of nutrients to the blood even if you have a compromised digestive
system. The same cannot be said of animal enzymes such as pancreatin.

Everyone agrees that proper nutrition is crucial to the maintenance of a healthy body.
However, most healthcare practitioners overlook the true cause of many nutritional
disorders. It is assumed, quite mistakenly, that digestion occurs automatically and the
correction of a nutritional disorder simply requires matching the right nutritional
supplement to the condition. For example, vitamin C for colds, vitamin A for viruses and
herbal laxatives for constipation. While this treatment may relieve patient symptoms, the
relief is only temporary because the underlying problem of faulty digestion is ignored.
Healthcare practitioners who want to effectively manage health problems that are related
to nutritional imbalances must consider each person’s ability to digest food.
Unfortunately, most clinicians give little or no thought to the role of enzymes in digestion,
despite overwhelming evidence of their importance. Enzymes are present in all living
animal and plant cells. They are the primary motivators of all natural biochemical
processes. Life cannot exist without enzymes because they are essential components of
every chemical reaction in the body. For example, they are the only substance that can
digest food and make it small enough to pass through the gastrointestinal mucosa into the
bloodstream. Three very broad classifications of enzymes are:

1. Food enzymes - occur in raw food and, when present in the diet, begin the process
of digestion
2. Digestive enzymes - produced by the body to break food into particles small
enough to be carried across the gut wall
3. Metabolic enzymes - produced by the body to perform various complex
biochemical reactions

In the 1930s, Edward Howell, MD, the food enzyme pioneer, found that there is a
difference between plant enzymes and those that are produced by the body. He was
convinced that plant enzymes in food and supplements have a different function in
human digestion than that of the body’s own digestive enzymes. With this theory, he
began isolating and concentrating plant enzymes from their sources. He found the
difference is that food enzymes begin digesting food in the stomach and will work for at
least one hour before the body’s digestive system begins to work. For this reason,
enzymes should be considered essential nutrients. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and
food manufacturers are removing them from food to gain shelf-life.

Dr. Howell was particularly impressed by the way the ingestion of raw food slowed the
progress of chronic degenerative diseases and spent his professional life postulating and
then validating his theories.

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