Enzymes are able to transfer energy to other molecules.

The extra energy making it easier for more enzymes to be produced and utilized by the body, which in turn makes it more easy for the body to make more enzymes and utilized by the body. This creates a domino effect which speeds up all bodily functions.

Our body contains 1,300 different enzymes that break down nutrients, rebuild cells, and cause the body to function disease-free.

You don’t need, or can, supplement 1,300 enzymes. You supplement key enzymes and get a myriad of enzymes from eating raw foods.

Your body then makes all of the other enzymes it needs from the enzyme raw material you have given it.

Using enzymes in addition to acid and alkali, the digestive system transforms food into energy for the body's use by breaking down complex proteins, fats, and carbohydrates into smaller, simpler, and more usable forms.

The stomach contents are then passed through the pyloric valve into the small intestine where it is mixed with pancreatic juices. These juices are rich in enzymes such as protease (protein), amylase (starch) and lipase (fat digesters).

They continue to digest and prepare food for assimilation.

The alkaline nature of the pancreatic secretions helps to neutralize the stomach acids (which are a must for digestion), and protects the small intestine.

Enzymes—Natural Protection from Illness:
Enzymes have a great effect upon the entire immune function.
White blood cells contain digestive enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase, lipase, protease, amylase and peptidase.
These enzymes are part of the pancreatic juices and only a part of the many enzymes that increase immune function.
The Saga Continues:
If we destroy all the digestive enzymes in our food by cooking, baking, etc. (enzymes are destroyed by heat over 118 F), and eat only dead food, the body has to draw the necessary enzymes to digest this dead food from the body’s organs.
The organs, as a result, would become unbalanced.
All processed foods, just like cooked foods, are devoid of enzymes. Research has shown that eating mostly processed and cooked food is a cause for a lot of degenerative diseases.
Fortunately, eating more raw food and taking enzyme supplements can help to restore health.
As I said earlier —- enzymes assist in the digestion of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
They are extremely important in our diet to properly break down and convert our food into a form that can be absorbed through our intestinal walls into our blood stream for distribution to our cells.
Without enzymes, our life would cease. Our cells would not be receiving any nutrition!
The best choice to obtaining live enzymes is eating raw food.
However, the other two major sources for getting enzymes should not be neglected: the enzymes your gets body makes from eating a healthy diet and taking enzyme supplements.
Enzymes are biological catalysts. This means that they speed up the chemical reactions in living things.
Without enzymes, our guts would take weeks and weeks to digest our food. Our muscles, nerves and bones would not work properly, and so on - we would soon be dead!
In summary, it is apparent that all three sources of enzymes are important.
Furthermore, it is advisable to eat raw foods in abundance, at least 50% of your diet, to provide the optimum level of living enzymes essential to life-sustaining processes in your body.
The practice of taking digestive enzymes that contain betaine hydrochloride with your foods is a very sound one as it usually prevents digestive problems such as acid reflux and indigestion.
Betaine hydrochloride derived from plant is the same as your stomach digestive acid and will improve the digestive process of most people.
Acid reflux and other indigestion attacks are mostly caused by too little acid in your stomach — not too much acid — as the makers of the purple pill and other antacids would have you believe.
To prove what I am saying, the next time you get an attack of indigestion, take two teaspoons of organic apple cider vinegar.
If your indigestion disappears, you know what I am saying is accurate.
If it doesn’t, then you know you actually have a digestive problem.
Also by taking, as a preventative measure, two teaspoons of organic apple cider vinegar after each meal, you will probably see any incidence of indigestion and acid reflux disappear.
I take our GHS Health-Zymes which contains betaine hydrochloride with every meal. I never get indigestion or acid reflux.
Your Cells Hunger For Good Nutrition:

• Good health is heavily dependent upon good digestion.
• Good digestion is totally dependent upon having sufficient enzymes in your body and acid in your stomach.
• Enzyme deficiency speeds up your aging process.
• Research has shown that as you age you loose your ability to make the necessary enzymes and must rely on supplemental sources to properly digest your food.
• Adding to this digestive deficiency, you loose enzymes in your sweat, urine, and fecal matter.
• Most people are enzyme deficient.

Does your body give you any of these warning signs of enzyme deficiency?

• Headaches • Mood Swings • Under Arm Odor
• Fatigue • Constipation • Excess Oil On Skin
• Heartburn • Gas and Bloating • Arthritis or Sinusitis

Enzymes are energized protein molecules that digest all your food and make it small enough to pass through the pores of your intestines into your blood.
Enzymes are the energy used to rebuild your cells, tissues, glands, muscles, nerves, and bones.

Enzymes assist in the storing of nutrients and glucose in your liver and muscles for future energy use.

Without enzymes, life could not exist, especially in human beings.

There are no enzymes in processed foods and in foods cooked above 118° F. 118° F is about the temperature of the hot water in which we wash our hands. Not very hot.

A lack of enzymes will create illness, lower resistance, cause stress of all types, and create physiological environments within your body that can lead to a shortened life span.

By supplementing what you eat with GHS Health-Zymes™, you can stop, or at least slow down, this abnormal and pathological aging process because poorly digested foods detract and lower your immune system.

Your ability to fight disease-causing free radicals, viruses, and bacteria, is diminished.

Important Questions:

Why does poorly digested food have a negative impact on your immune system?

Doesn’t poorly digested food just pass through your colon and out as waste?

The Surprise Answers:

1. When food is NOT properly digested, we create “digestive luekocytosis” in which your white blood cell count increases after a meal. (White blood cell count is increased to counter the undigested food your body views as an invader.)

2. Because these incompletely digested food molecules are unable to be absorbed through the pores of your intestines into your blood stream, the body identifies this particulate matter as foreign objects. Your immune system forms circulating immune complexes around them. (That’s your immune system’s army surrounding the foreign objects in an attempt to destroy them.)

Your immune system is now trying to do a job it is not designed to do — mobilizing white blood cells in an attempt to digest food, thus stressing your body’s energy.

Your immune system is now trying to do, with great difficulty, what enzymes can do very easily and naturally.

Digestion is so energy intensive that it is a fact that you use 80% of your body’s energy to digest food alone.

With food enzymes present to pre-digest the food, digestive luekocytosis does not occur.

Proper digestion now allows your immune system to focus on disease prevention…rather than digestion.

GHS Health-Zymes Supplements Make Digestion Easy

Enzyme supplementation is the present day key to assuring complete digestion, absorption, transportation, and the use of the nutrients you consume, in addition, note that enzymes are also responsible for elimination of waste and toxins.

What Do We Really Mean When We Talk About Digestion?

Digestion is the first step in transforming food into the living tissues of our bodies and into the fuel needed to keep those tissues functioning. It is here we need to pay particular attention. It is impossible to be in perfect health with poor digestion.

Digestion itself refers to the breaking down of food into particles small enough to enter our cells.

Absorption, an integral part of digestion, has to do to with the transferring of these minute food particles into our circulation so that these food nutrients can be carried to the appropriate cells in our body.

Both digestion and absorption are performed by the “digestive system”.

Is Being Overweight Directly Related To Digestion?

Many overweight people have sluggish digestion. Not enough of the food they eat is broken down, absorbed and assimilated.

Bodily cells still hunger for missing nutrients, driving the person to eat even more. “Starving to death on a full stomach” is an expression that applies to far too many people in the Western world.

“Acid” Indigestion and GHS Health-Zymes

Antacid medications are big business. Huge advertising budgets are spent convincing us that the cause of indigestion is too much stomach acid, and that alkalinizing drugs are the solution.

This approach does provide temporary relief, but it is more beneficial to drug company profits than it is to your health. And it is based on a deliberate misconception of having too much acid in your stomach.

Without enough hydrochloric acid, food cannot be digested properly. It stays in the stomach for prolonged periods, fermenting away and producing increasing amounts of gas.
Taking an antacid at this point alkalinizes the stomach contents, causing the food to be dropped into the small intestine prematurely.

There the food continues to ferment, still producing gas. Nothing has happened to improve your digestion.

Antacids Halt Further Digestion!

The drastic measure of taking an antacid halts further normal digestion. This action merely relocates the symptom by exchanging stomach gas for intestinal gas.

Digestive difficulties have actually been made worse because bile and pancreatic enzymes, so vital to your digestion, are only triggered by the acidity of food leaving the stomach, and that no longer occurs since your food has been turned alkaline by the antacid.

Low Levels Of Hydrochloric Levels Can Also Cause Irritation Of Stomach Lining

If hydrochloric acid levels are very low, sometimes the stomach’s emptying time is delayed for so long that bile is regurgitated backward from the duodenum into the stomach.
Bile is caustic, or corrosive, and very irritating to the stomach lining.
Because bile is alkaline, it causes a reflex secretion of stomach acid to neutralize it. At this point the person will likely experience a burning sensation.

Taking an antacid will relieve the burn, of course, but the stomach only becomes acidic after the bile had been regurgitated back into it.

If there had been enough hydrochloric acid when it was needed, no burning sensation would have been experienced later.

Continued Use Of Antacids Is Highly Detrimental To Your Health!

Continued use of antacids causes an already under-active stomach to become even weaker. It becomes more difficult to break down and absorb proteins and minerals.
Your bodily tissues can be starving for these vital proteins and minerals even while consuming large amounts of proteins and minerals.

Additionally, bacterial overgrowth is encouraged in the stomach and small intestine because antacid drugs reduce the acidity that is the bacteria’s natural enemy.

Antacids Contribute To Degenerative Diseases

Antacid’s negative interference with the digestive process contributes to the formation of degenerative diseases.

Indigestion, the reason people take antacids, is a symptom of digestive weakness.

Fortunately, there is a better solution than taking antacids. It makes more sense to strengthen the digestive process and eliminate the cause of indigestion in the first place.

Eating a diet high in raw foods and taking GHS Health-Zymes™ supplementary hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes with meals can correct most cases of indigestion by supplying the stomach with enough acid and enzymes when it is needed.

The only time it is not wise to take supplementary HCI (hydrochloric acid) is when an ulcer is actually present.

If you were to take a supplement containing HCI and you had an ulcer, you would notice a burning sensation behind the tip of the breastbone within minutes of taking such a product. If that happens, a little dolomite or baking soda will neutralize the excess acid to provide relief within a few minutes.

Getting Your Own HCI And Bile To Work

Betaine and Ox Bile in GHS Health-Zymes™ strengthens your digestive process, stimulates your body’s own production of HCI and bile, and provides the necessary digestive enzymes to break down protein, starch, carbohydrates, fat, and fiber, rounding out the digestive process.

Good Digestion Equals Good Health

It is impossible to achieve good health when we have poor digestion. To maximize the effectiveness of any supplements that you are taking, you must have good digestion. One or more enzyme tablets (I take four and my wife takes two) with each meal go a long way in achieving your ultimate goal in slowing and reversing your aging, and in achieving robust good health.

God’s Favorite Spots
Copyright, Mary Rachels

I feel that if God has
two favorite places on earth
it must be on the mountains
or near the sea.