Eating healthy food in combination with enzymes that aid digestion helps release our energy and direct it in the right direction. A balanced diet not only charitable effect on the appearance of a person, it is able to prevent many diseases, including cancer. In order for the body to function fully, it needs vitamins, proteins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, water, as well as digestive enzymes daily if the body does not have enough.
Digestive enzymes and their action
The most important role in the process of chemical processing of food belongs to a variety of enzymes that are produced in the stomach, salivary glands, pancreas and intestines. All digestive enzymes have some common properties. They are characterized by special specificity, namely, each enzyme exists to catalyze only one separate reaction and acts on only one type of bond. Each of them is active at a certain pH value (active reaction of the medium) and acts in a narrow temperature range - 36-37 ° . Beyond these limits, their activity is critically reduced, which provokes a violation of the digestive process.
Digestive enzymes are highly active and break down a huge number of organic substances, such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats, this contributes to the high-quality assimilation of food. Due to the high specificity of the influence of enzymes, there is a fine regulation and organization of the vital processes of cells and the body as a whole. There are three groups of these substances:
- Lipase - which is part of the gastric juice and is produced by the pancreas. These enzymes are needed for the body to absorb fat.
- Protease - digestive enzymes that help break down proteins and normalize the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. The proteases include chymosin and pepsin of the stomach, chymotrypsin, trypsin, erepsin of sap juice, pancreatic carboxypeptidase.
- Amylase - is used for the processing of carbohydrates, under its influence they are easily destroyed and penetrate into the blood. Amylases include pancreatic juice lactase, saliva amylase and maltase.
In addition to substances produced in the body, products containing their own enzymes are able to improve digestion: pineapple, banana, mango, germinated grains of various types of grains. Some digestive enzymes not only facilitate the digestion of food, they can relieve inflammatory processes.
Digestion process
The digestive enzymes secreted by the pancreas are in pancreatic juice; they are inactive. In the duodenum, they are activated for digestion under the influence of bile and enterocytes (enzymes produced by cells in the intestinal mucosa).
Depending on the volume and nature of the food you consume, the pancreas is able to produce the right amount of the right enzymes for digestion. For example, if a large amount of carbohydrate food enters the body , your pancreas will synthesize primarily an enzyme for the breakdown of carbohydrates (amylase), and there are fewer other substances. But a constant imbalance in the production of enzymes can lead to acute and / or chronic pancreatic disease.
Therefore, the main rule to achieve a healthy balance in the formation of digestive enzymes and the highest quality work of the pancreas, as well as its long healthy state: the body must consume food at the same time, in sufficient but not excessive quantities, balanced in the content of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. After all, the process of synthesis of enzymes is very complex, it can easily be violated when the pancreas is overloaded.