BioZyme BioZyme is a mild, all-natural food supplement designed to support and enhance your body's natural digestive processes. BioZyme contains a comprehensive balanced blend of enzymes to help your body digest and benefit from the diverse and very complex foods we eat.   Enzymes Enzymes are protein molecules which initiate and control nearly every biochemical process in the body. The presence of certain enzymes is what makes it possible for us to digest food, repair tissue and rid our bodies of dangerous toxins. Every enzymatically controlled reaction is crucial to overall health, and a few of the duties that enzymes perform include: Breaking down food particles enabling them to pass through the intestinal wall and enter the blood stream. Transforming tiny food nutrient particles into tissue found in muscles, nerves, organs, glands, etc. Contributing to the process that stores sugar in the liver and muscle tissue. Enabling mineral molecules to link up with blood cells. Helping to detoxify blood and tissues by enabling the immune system to attack foreign material. Directing metabolism on a cellular level and converting food to energy, which fuels virtually every biologic mechanism of the body. Enzymes are indeed the spark plug of life, yet it is important to understand that the average American diet is enzyme-deficient. Refined and processed foods, as well as cooking at high temperatures, destroy enzymes. A diet consisting primarily of cooked food is undoubtedly seriously lacking in enzymes. Raw, uncooked foods are laden with enzymes. They are present to help digest the very food they are found in. Unfortunately, most of the enzymes in food are destroyed when the food is cooked, steamed, microwaved or baked.   When enzyme reserves become depleted, we place large amounts of unnecessary stress on body organs like the pancreas, liver and lymph system. Enzyme deficiency contributes greatly to acidification of the body. Without sufficient enzymes, foods and proteins go undigested, and eventually ferment in the body, causing toxicity and acid overload. Research studies strongly suggest that significant numbers of people with liver disease, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, tuberculosis and even obesity have low tissue enzyme levels.   BioZyme...Necessary For Optimal Health Even if your body has a sufficient quantity of enzymes to operate, these enzymes require specific pH environments in order to function. When the pH of the environment is too acidic, vital enzymes lose their structure and function and electrons cannot circulate, making them unavailable for the chemical reactions required for nutrient digestion and absorption. Without the proper pH, enzymatic reactions fail and the metabolism of cells stops.   Biozyme provides the vital enzymes necessary for optimal health. BioZyme also works synergistically with all other Nutronix products to help create the correct pH balance in your body. BioZyme works best when drinking water treated with O2 Proformance Hydration.   BioZyme Systemic Enzyme Therapy The principle of systemic enzyme therapy depends on the absorption of enzymes as intact molecules and preservation of their biological effects after oral consumption. The enzyme supplement must be able to resist gastric secretion to prevent destruction by the stomach acid. Once in the intestines, the enzyme molecules will be absorbed into the blood. Enzymes do not exist in a free form in the blood, but are bound to a carrier in order to protect themselves from negative interactions with other molecules. The blood and lymph systems eventually deliver the active enzymes to their site of action. This process is referred to as "systemic action." The BioZyme formula includes systemic enzymes that function and flow throughout your entire body, in every system, tissue and organ. BioZyme also contains digestive enzymes to address all facets of digestion for the three main food groups: proteins, carbohydrates and fats.   BioZyme's Digestive Enzymes Serrazimes (TM) is a proteolytic enzyme that digests dead and damaged tissue, blood clots, cysts and arterial plaque. It helps to support cardiovascular, joint, respiratory and immune system health.   Bromelain is taken from the stem of the pineapple plant.This enzyme helps to break down proteins. Bromelain is most notable for its therapeutic effectiveness in the reduction of inflammation and decreasing swelling.   Papain is extracted from the papaya fruit; this enzyme splits protein peptides to powerfully digest protein foods.   Lipase breaks down fats into fatty acids and glycerol.   Amylase works to break down starch, glycogen and specific polysaccharides.   Protease is a digestive enzyme secreted by the pancreas that metabolizes carbohydrates, starch and protein.   Cellulase breaks down cellulose and glucans found in fiber foods.   Lactase breaks down lactose found in milk products.   These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to prevent, treat or cure any disease.