Enzymes are important to all your bodily processes. Without the work of enzymes there wouldn’t be any chemical reactions anywhere in your body. Enzymes are likened to the “labor force” available to your body to power every chemical process. Without enzymes there would be no life.

Digestion needs a huge investment in energy from your body in terms of enzyme activity. And our life-long production of enzyme activity is a finite resource since we only inherit a certain enzyme potential when we’re born and it needs to last our whole life. It makes sense to nurture our potential to produce enzymes and add to it with supplements when we can.

Digestive enzyme supplements are especially important because our cooked diet is responsible for robbing us of the enzyme activity that would have been available to us on a diet of raw food. In order to supply our saliva and pancreatic, gastric and intestinal juices with the many enzymes required to digest our diet of cooked food, our bodies need to divert from the supply of enzymes to our brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, muscles and other tissues and organs. According to food enzyme researcher, Dr. Edward Howell, that competition between our digestive tract and the other organ systems in our bodies may directly contribute to the development of several different chronic and incurable diseases.