How to Digest Probiotics & Enzymes

According to the World Health Organization, probiotics are live microorganisms, and needed to confer a health benefit to the host. Probiotics, which are found mostly in dairy products, provide the digestive tract with healthy bacteria essential to strengthening the immune system, digestion, and protection against disease-causing microorganisms. Enzymes are proteins found in animals and humans, and break down fat, carbohydrates and other proteins in order to provide digestion. Without enzymes, food cannot be digested and the body cannot receive proper nourishment. A healthy body needs both probiotics and enzymes. Eating foods rich in probiotics and enzymes, and taking supplements can greatly improve how the body functions.

Things You'll Need

• diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables
• probiotic and enzyme supplements
• aspergillus plant enzyme

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Instructions

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  Eat raw vegetables and fruits. Enzymes that are cooked or steamed lose 75 percent of their nutritional value. Raw foods contain the right types of enzymes needed to digest foods, and are essential to eliminating toxins that build up in the body.

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  Avoid eating processed and fried foods as they can destroy both probiotics and enzymes that the body needs to regulate the digestive system.

• 3

  Take probiotic and enzyme supplements. While enzymes are found naturally in the body, and probiotics are contained in many foods, supplements can replenish what the body loses, and can improve intestinal balance by providing the right amount of probiotics and enzymes for your system.

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  To prevent enzyme depletion, take an aspergillus plant enzyme before meals. Evolution has increased the size of the human pancreas so that it is able to produce enough enzymes to digest cooked food. An aspergillus plant enzyme will ensure that the pancreas doesn't become overworked.

• 5

  Lactating mothers are encouraged to breastfeed in order for the infant to receive natural probiotics and enzymes that are essential for brain development and tissue growth.