Medicines for the digestive system are the number one selling class of drugs. As we age, we lose the ability to produce adequate hydrochloric acid while 35 percent of people over 65 produce none at all. While the digestive system is deteriorating, the enzyme activity throughout the rest of your body is also in decline. This decline is a fundamental cause of aging as well as many of the diseases associated with aging. This is because we get little or no enzymes from our food.
All raw foods contain the enzymes needed for the digestion of their own nutrients.
These include the proteolytic, amylolytic, and lipolytic enzymes our body works so hard to produce. Man is the only animal that cooks virtually everything he eats. All animals in the wild eat everything raw and get the enzymes in the food they need and are free of degenerative diseases such as heart disease and cancer. This is actually the way nature intended for us to eat all our food. Biologically, we are animals and have the same requirements for enzymes.