Fully Extract Nutrients From Your Food
And Ease Digestion
A strong blend of digestive enzymes including cellulase to more fully extract the nutrients from food, and ease your digestive process. No other digestive enzyme product is as potent or complete in its action as the Digestive Mini's!
"Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into smaller components that can be absorbed into a blood stream, for instance. Digestion is a form of catabolism: a breakdown of larger food molecules to smaller ones.
In mammals, food enters the mouth, being chewed by teeth, with chemical processing beginning with chemicals in the saliva from the salivary glands. Then it travels down the esophagus into the stomach, where hydrochloric acid kills most contaminating microorganisms and begins mechanical break down of some food (e.g., denaturation of protein), and chemical alteration of some...
After some time (typically an hour or two in humans, 4–6 hours in dogs, somewhat shorter duration in house cats, ...), the results go through the small intestine, through the large intestine, and are excreted during defecation."[1]
Due mostly to age, but also to pancreatic inflammation and diet, most have a decrease in digestive enzyme production by 35 (sometimes earlier).
Also no human makes the cellulase enzyme which is absolutely necessary to break down the cell walls of uncooked or unjuiced vegetables, to make their nutrients available for absorption. Without juicing or cooking, (which tear down vegetable cell walls by mechanical action or heating), raw vegetables do not yield any nutrition to a human. As without cellulase, the cell walls of vegetables remain intact with their nutrients locked inside throughout the process of human digestion. This lack of "full digestion" is also the reason for gas formation from eating raw vegetables and beans.
References:
[1] Maton, Anthea; Jean Hopkins, Charles William McLaughlin, Susan Johnson, Maryanna Quon Warner, David LaHart, Jill D. Wright (1993).
Human Biology and Health. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-981176-1. |
