And keeping a healthy barrier against disease starts with properly digesting our foods. If our food is not broken down well, we don't get the full nutrition from it. And the harmful organisms love undigested food. So we need to maximize digestion. Anyone who has ever had antibiotics, or eats foods that may contain antibiotics, should consider taking digestive enzymes with meals.
Digestive enzymes can be helpful beyond the digestive and immune systems.
Arthritis, cancer and kidney disease among many other diseases affects the digestive system. And almost any illness can be helped by making the nutrients in our foods more available to us, and to encourage our digestive tracts to do their proper jobs. First, they are not as affected by the acid in the stomach as plain pancreatic enzymes are. Second, they have a broader range of activity. They break foods down into the building blocks which make absorption easy.