Tired of gas, bloating, and digestion problems? Our Digestive Enzymes formula is the best health supplement for optimizing digestive health and nutrient absorption.
Why Digestive Enzymes for Digestive Health:
- Most effective balanced digestive enzyme formula for a typical diet of vegetables, meat, dairy, and cooked foods
- Cooking foods kills enzymes, taxing your body – digestive enzymes replace them to enhance your enzyme potential
- Improves digestion, nutrient absorption, and reduces stomach acid
- All vegetarian sourced digestive enzymes
| Supplement Facts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Serving Size - Vegetarian Capsules | 1 | |
| All vegetarian formula | ||
| Container Size | 90 capsules | |
| Click on ingredients below for more information | Amount Per Serving | % Daily Value |
| Protease | 40000 HUT | N/A* |
| Acid Stable Protease | 1500 SAPU | N/A* |
| Lipase | 1400 SAPU | N/A* |
| Amylase | 16000 SAPU | N/A* |
| Malt Diastase | 600 DP | N/A* |
| Invertase | 200 SU | N/A* |
| Alpha Galactosidase | 150 GALU | N/A* |
| Glucoamylase | 30 AG | N/A* |
| Lactase | 2500 LACU | N/A* |
| Cellulase | 750 CU | N/A* |
| Hemicellulase | 200 HCU | N/A* |
| Pectinase | 100 AJDU | N/A* |
| Ionic Minerals | 10mg | N/A* |
| Stearic Acid, Vegicaps | ||
* Daily value not established |
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Many people think that designing a digestive enzyme health supplement is as simple as racking up big numbers in the key enzymes such as protease and lipase. If only it were that simple. The fact is that good digestive enzymes need to work with real world diets. The simple truth is that too many formulas on the market put in far more protease than is required by a typical diet (simply to show a big number on the label) – and far too little amylase or lactase. In the end, it's not the numbers, it's the real world application.
*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Instructions
Take 1-2 Digestive Enzymes capsules with each meal.
If you have any discomfort when starting (excess gas, constipation, diarrhea, etc.), cut back to 1/2 or 1/4 capsule. Allow several days for your body to adjust. Then slowly increase to 1-2 capsules with each meal.
Digestive Enzymes Frequently Asked Questions
I would like to know if taking Digestive Enzymes long-term will cause the body to shut down its own ability to produce digestive enzymes.
If that were a problem, then eating uncooked foods would shut down the body's ability to produce enzymes since all raw food is packed with digestive enzymes. The bottom line is that you need to use digestive enzymes only to balance out the fact that you are eating dead food that drains your body's enzyme reserves. Also, when you supplement with enzymes, your body doesn't stop producing enzymes, it just redirects its energy to producing more useful metabolic enzymes.
Can children take digestive enzymes? If yes, what kind of dosage?
Although none of our health supplements are specifically recommended for children without a pediatrician's approval, many people do use the digestive enzymes with their children with good results. One capsule per meal should be enough in most cases. The dosage for digestive enzymes isn't really age dependent or size dependent; it's meal size dependent. The more food you eat at one sitting, the more help you need. Since children eat less per meal, they need less of the digestive enzymes per meal. As always, check with your pediatrician before using.
What is the difference between Digestive Enzymes and Proteolytic Enzymes? Do I need them both?
Yes, you need both Digestive and Proteolytic Enzymes. Digestive Enzymes are for digesting the food you eat. Proteolytic Enzymes are for cleansing the blood. You can read more about their differences at baselinenutritionals.com. Go to Catalog/Shop and click on the name of the product you are interested in. An ingredient list will pop up. Click on each ingredient name for more information. Scroll down for directions and a Barron Report.
What does 1,400 FIP equal in LU in the Digestive Enzymes mean?
The short answer to your question is that the ratio is about 1:10, which means if expressed in LU, the formula on the website would read Lipase 14,000 LU.
The long answer is that FIP and LU are both attempts to accurately assay enzyme activity. Assay accuracy and reproducibility are the most stringent requirements for the determination of enzyme potencies in nutraceutical formulations. Weight measures such as mgs tell you nothing about enzyme activity. You could have 5,000 mg of an enzyme that had been cooked at high temperature and have 0 activity left. FIP (an acronym for Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique/International Pharmaceutical Federation) is a more accurate standard than LU (an acronym for Lipase Units). Over the last 20 years, FIP has emerged as the overwhelming choice over LU for measuring enzyme activity in fats because it produces more accurate and consistent results.
Enzyme activity is determined by the quantity of substrate (fats, proteins, carbohydrates -- whatever substance the enzyme is working on) broken down by the enzyme per unit of time. Accuracy in determining activity becomes a problem because the reaction rate that is measured depends on a number of experimental conditions such as temperature, pH, ionic strength, and the presence or absence of inhibitors or activators. It is only under the conditions specified in the prescribed assay procedure that enzyme units are defined. This is where different standards produce different accuracy.
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Product Ingredients
Below you will find a list and description of all of the ingredients featured in this health supplement.
Protease Enzymes
Protease enzymes digests protein. Taking protease enzymes with meals spares the natural pool of protease enzymes circulating in the blood so that they can continue to breakdown and get rid of unwanted microorganisms in the bloodstream.
Fungal protease and Fungal pancreatin are names for particular strains of protease enzymes that are optimized for different pH levels. This is important as pH levels change as you move through the digestive tract. By using strains optimized for different pH's, you are assured that the proteolytic process is optimized through the entire digestive process for better digestive health.
Lipase Enzymes
Vegetarian sourced.
Lipase enzymes contribute to carbohydrate and fat digestive action. When added to a meal as a health supplement, lipase digests dietary fat, relieving the gallbladder, liver and the pancreas, which would otherwise need to produce the required enzymes. Protein absorption from fatty foods such as fish or seeds can be improved by incorporating supplemental lipase enzymes in the diet.
Amylase Enzymes
Amylase enzymes helps your body break down and assimilate starches and carbohydrates. Supplemental amylase can also help reduce stress.
Acid Stable Protease Enzymes
Digests protein. Taking protease enzymes with meals spares the natural pool of protease enzymes circulating in the blood so that they can continue to breakdown and destroy unwanted microorganisms in the bloodstream.
Acid stable protease remains active even in the presence of stomach acids.
Malt Diastase Enzymes
Malt diastase, or maltase, digests complex and simple sugars. Maltase also breaks down unused glycogen in muscle tissue. Glycogen is a thick, sticky substance that is converted from sugars and starches and is stored in your muscle cells for future use. If stored glycogen continues to build up in the muscle tissues, it leads to progressive muscle weakness and degeneration.
Invertase Enzymes
Invertase works to break down sucrose products like refined table sugar into glucose and fructose. The abundance of processed and highly refined foods in the average diet means that we consume a great amount of this type of sugar which can contribute to undue digestion problems. It is theorized that unrecognized sucrose intolerance is a contributing factor in many allergies. Supplemental Invertase enzymes can increase the assimilation and utilization of this sugar.
Alpha Galactosidase
Helps minimize gas, bloating, and flatulence caused by certain foods. Alpha galactosidase hydrolyzes the 1-6 nun-reducing galactocide residues from poly and oligosaccharides in an exo-fashion. These polysaccharides (primarily raffinose, stacchiose, and melibiose) are typically found in legumes and are not digestible in the small intestine. As these sugars are not absorbed, they pass into the large intestine. In the large intestine, these sugars are fermented by native microbial flora and produce gas resulting in bloating, pain and general discomfort. The use of supplemental alpha galactosidase minimizes this problem for enhanced digestive health.
Glucoamylase Enzymes
Glucoamylase is added to digestive enzyme formulas to assure the breakdown of maltose into glucose molecules. Like amylase, the action of Glucoamylase terminates in the release of glucose from the hydrolysis of starch. However, Glucoamylase hydrolyzes terminal linkages whereas amylase breaks interior bonds.
Lactase Enzymes
Lactase enzymes digest milk sugar. Lactase deficiency is the most common and well-known form of carbohydrate intolerance. Lactase digests lactose milk sugar into glucose and galactose. Most mammals, including humans, have high intestinal lactase activity at birth. But, in many cases, this activity declines to low levels during childhood and remains low in adulthood. The low lactase levels cause incomplete digestion of milk and other foods containing lactose. It is estimated that approximately 70% of the world's population is deficient in intestinal lactase with more than one-third of the U.S. population presumed to be lactose intolerant and unable to digest dairy products, causing sometimes severe digestion problems. Supplemental lactase enzymes have been found to decrease the symptoms of lactose intolerance associated with the consumption of dairy foods.
Cellulase Enzymes
Cellulase digests cellulose (fiber). Cellulase, which is not found in the human system, breaks the bonds found in fiber. By disrupting the structure of the fiber matrices or cell walls which envelop most of the nutrients in plants, cellulase increases the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables.
Hemicellulase Enzymes
Hemicellulase hydrolyzes the interior glucosidic bonds of galactomannoglucans yielding polysaccharides of lower molecular weight. Hemicellulase breaks down hemicellulose. Bottom line: hemicellulase helps break down fiber components in the intestinal tract.
Pectinase Enzymes
Research indicates that pectin found in fruits may coat proteins eaten in the same meal, thereby inhibiting their complete digestion. Pectinase breaks down the pectin coating the proteins, thus allowing for the complete digestion of proteins – and thus reducing the possibility of food allergies.
Ionic Minerals
Ionic minerals are added to many formulas to increase the bio-electric activity level of the ingredients in the formula and sustain their activity for a significantly longer period of time.
Ionic merely means that the minerals are broken down to their absolutely smallest form.
*The above statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This ingredient is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
