ENZYMES for HEALTH

ENZYMES

GREEN PAPAYA FRUIT

 Enzymes are critical for life; they are the body’s labor force.  Enzymes metabolize, digest and assimilate all substances entering the body.  For example, live enzymes digest food, destroy toxins, even break down fats and cellulose and metabolize starch and proteins.  Furthermore, enzymes are involved in moving muscles, nourishing nerves, stimulating brain function, breathing, accompanying male sperm and female eggs, fighting off illness, infection and disease and more.  A shortage of live active enzymes could wreak havoc in your body.

 Unfortunately, most people do not have sufficient enzyme activity.  Although the pancreas manufactures a certain limited number of enzymes for digestion, there is still a need to supplement the body with additional enzymes.  Supplementary enzymes are generally acquired through the foods that we eat; raw fruits and vegetables are packed with live active enzymes.  However, these supplementary enzymes are easily destroyed when we cook, broil, bake, fry, poach or even freeze our foods.  The enzymes within the body are further destroyed by stress, fatigue, chemical pollutants, even pregnancy and possibly and an extraordinarily strenuous exercise regime.

 Green Papaya is a tropical fruit that usually resembles a rather small, elongated melon.  Its most interesting feature is that it contains the enzyme papain, a protein-digesting enzyme which is used as a digestive aid, or a meat tenderizer.

 What is papain?  Papain is the milky juice of the green papaya fruit.  The enzyme papain is only found in papaya.  Papain used internally is very effective in the treatment of indigestion, since it transforms proetids into peptones and albumoses by its proteolytic power, it has also been found to be helpful in gastric and intestinal indigestion.