Most health food stores offer a wide variety of digestive aid products, from hydrochloric acid tablets to substitute enzymes from papaya and pineapple. The Interactive Health Food Store explains everything and demonstrates how each product can be used to improve digestion and absorption. Amylase is produced by the pancreas and saliva glands and is used to break down starches into simple sugars. Bromelain is found in fresh pineapple. It is a used to break down proteins and also has anti-inflammatory properties.
Papain is derived from raw papaya and is also used to break down proteins.
Lipase is a pancreatic enzyme which breaks down fats. Fat soluble vitamins will be insufficiently broken down without adequate lipases. The biochemic theory of the human body rests with the premise that the body is a composition of individual cells and health is achieved and maintained when these cells function normally. If any of these inorganic compounds are lacking the cells will not be able to function properly and disorders will develop. By categorizing the types of cells and the types of compounds it is possible to fully understand the nature of human diseases.