Enzymes
An important issue that I always focus on in the world of health and wellness is enzymes and how they affect our bodies. Enzymes are made up of amino acids, similar to proteins but less complex. All living proteins come with their own enzymes to digest them. Enzymes are present in every living thing, including fruits and meats we eat everyday. If you have a carrot and you leave it alone in an environment it will start decomposing itself. This is the enzymes at work. It’s the enzymes that are causing it to decompose. Everything in nature is designed to decay after a while. To preserve something present in nature you have to kill off the enzymes. The problem is, when you kill enzymes in food, you make it indigestible. If you have a peach you either have to eat it before it starts to decompose or you have to slow the enzymes down by refrigerating the peach because cold temperatures stop the processes the enzymes initiate.
If a food is decayed, the body can’t digest it. It’s important to supplement the enzymes externally or have your pancreas or liver supply the enzymes to break down the food. Enzymes are the method the body uses to snip individual proteins into amino acids. If you eat a chicken, you can’t digest it any other way than to break it down into tiny pieces, called amino acids, and reassemble it back into your own image.
Refrigeration kills enzymes; cooking destroys them through heat. When your food doesn’t give the body the enzymes it needs, the body has to work very hard to compensate in order to digest the food you ingest. This extra work by the body is detrimental to healthy living. Supplementing with enzymes is one way of counteracting the problems you create by cooking and refrigerating your food.
