Digestive System

Enzymes Secretors

"What makes a glass of freshest orange juice gazillion times tastier than its processed counterparts? - Enzyme."

Oh yes, digestive system enzymes play a role to make your daily toilet routine pleasant.

What is Enzyme?

Just look at me. Drinking cow's milk makes my tummy awfully sick because my body lacks a protein compound to digest milk. Digestion is a chemical reaction where complex food substances are changed into simpler organic molecules. Not every chemical reaction sizzles the second they meet each other as the firework display you see when potassium meets water. On the opposite extreme, chemical reactions of digestion take a lonnng time. Thankfully our body is smart enough to produce natural catalysts, to speed up digestion, and that's enzyme.

There are many types of enzymes and each has a specific task. Enzymes help to complete digestion hence encourage bowel movements and alleviate constipation. Out of curiosity, I tried an enzyme drink for a month. The daily dosage is about two yummy tablespoons. My verdict is absolute bowel bliss, it was the cursed high price tag that prevents me from continuing taking it. Sales people are very eager to convince you that our body and modern life style cannot provide the perfect quality and quantity of enzymes. As much as I fall in love with enzyme drink because my demanding job does not allow me much leisure time to shop, wash and cut fresh fruits and vegetables often ; at least this experience helps me to see the great effect of enzyme.

So you better love your salivary glands, gastric glands, pancreas and intestinal glands. As you grow older, these digestive glands will produce less enzymes, one of the reasons why many older people suffer constipation.

Click on the links to read more about the wonder free enzymes from your digestive glands. Meanwhile, make yourself a glass of fresh juice.

*Although liver is the largest digestive gland, it is not discuss here because it contributes bile and not enzyme to the digestion process.

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