The Ultimate Enzymes

Kelly Price asked:


Consider this fact - Most illnesses we face in our modern world can be traced back to a deficiency of enzymes. Enzymes are critical for every function in the body and if you don’t get a sufficient amount then wellness suffers and the vast majority of us don’t. Prebiotic supplementation will not just boost your wellness it will boost energy levels and make your skin look you younger and healthier and much more!

First let’s define what enzymes are:

They are defined as energized protein molecules that are responsible for helping your body digest and absorb food, eliminate unwanted bodies, keep the brain healthy repair body tissues and vital organs, as well as energizing the body as a whole.

Even if you consume other supplements and have a healthy balanced diet, you still need enzymes to break them down, so these nutrients can be used by the body. You could take vitamin or other supplements but the critical factor is absorption in the body - if the body can break them down and use them they will simply be disposed of by the body and will give no health benefits.

We produce them naturally in our body but as we age our production naturally slows down and we can have a deficiency. Enzymes are also found naturally in the food chain but processing, storing and cooking kills them.

A shortage of enzymes simply leads to bad digestion. Undigested food can then escape the intestines and enter our blood stream, the immune system tries to fight them and destroy them. This war within the body weakens its ability to fight off disease and illness and overall wellness suffers.

You could of course eat a raw food diet but that’s not appealing or practical for most people so a good way around it is supplements and take them and you will benefit from:

More energy, better overall health, more resistance to illness and disease and in addition you will get other benefits such as healthier skin, better digestion, lower cholesterol, better sleep and many more.

Prebiotics work in the following way:

By improving the internal environment of the body’s digestive ecology or “gut flora” by stimulating and supporting the growth of a healthy micro flora. There are around 400 different species of bacteria that live in the intestines and are referred to as human intestinal flora. The gut flora contains both beneficial and potentially harmful bacteria.

In good health, these organisms live in balance and harmony with each other and our bodies. The friendly bacteria in a nutshell keep the body healthy. When this balance is disturbed, organisms such as Candida albicans start to take over, resulting in general poor health and a range of ailments.

So if you want to look better feel better then you should take note of the importance of enzymes and take a prebiotic supplement to help you make sure that your body receives a great boost in overall wellness.

Try and Prebiotic supplement for yourself and you maybe glad you did.

cutie asked:


1. What do hydrolytic enzymes do to proteins, polysaccharides and nucleic acids??
2. Why does the liver receive blood from intestinal capillaries prior to heart and rest of body?
3. where does blood plasma enter nephron and what does this plasma ultimately turn into?
4. what is the selective advantage of hemoglobin in land animals?
5. What is the probable ultimate causal factor in evolution of courtship behavior? why is courtship more elaborate when they are sympatrically distributed??

*if u could help me with these questions it will greatly be appreciated!!!! thanks

Julie Health asked:


If you have been thinking about helping your skin from aging, you do not even have to walk out your door. Instead you can just wait for the right knock. It may be the local Avon lady ready to represent a series of products that will help benefit your anti-aging needs. As you look through the catalog you realize that there are endless products to choose from. If you are deciding on the Avon aging skin care products that are best for you, then looking at the following products may help in your final decision.

The first Avon product that is known to be a perfect product of Avon is the Avon retroactive cream. This particular product is mixed with papaya extracts in order to add enzymes and hydroxy-acids that are essential for your skin to stay healthy. Its mission for your skin is to get rid of dead skin cells, and to help keep your skin cleaner and clearer. Most who use this product say that the overall effect is the disappearance of pores and a cleaner, fresher look.

The second Avon aging skin care product that is known for good skin health is Avon Ultimate. This focuses on lifting the skin that is on your face, giving you a tighter and fresher look. It does this by combining oils made from gold, copper and magnesium. By putting this on your face it will cause your skin to hydrate and lift. Many also say that their skin is firmer after using the formula. This product can be found both as a night formula and a day time ingredient, both used to suit your lifestyle towards upliftment.

For a different type of Avon aging skin care product, you can look at the Anew Clinical Deep Crease Concentrate. This particular product does exactly what the title says. It gets rid of wrinkles and creases that are in your skin. It will concentrate around the eyes and mouth, where lines will form first. It does this through the mixture of Hyaluronic acid. This will loosen the areas around the places that form wrinkles from the stress of tightening the skin.

If you want to have the best for your skin, you can try the Avon Anew Advanced All-in-One. This cream is designed with phyto-based enzymes as well as glycolic acid and pre-retinol complex that move into the skin and provide it with everything that it needs. It will first get rid of the fine lines and wrinkles that form in your skin over time. It also helps to moisturize your skin without the extra oils that many creams carry. For those that want to have moisturizer in the sun, this particular cream also has a sun protection of SFP 15 to add extra help for your skin against both UVA and UVB rays.

Avon beComing is another special skin care product by this company. This particular product is all natural, for those who do not want to add chemicals to their skin. The Avon beComing product helps to fade age spots and can repair damage that is on any part of your skin. This particular product will come in lipsticks, creams and other types of products that fit your lifestyle best.

The next time that the Avon lady comes knocking, you know you will be ready for the aging skin care products that are available. By finding all of the possible solutions, you will be able to get what is best for your skin and best for your individual needs. All that it takes is deciding to stay young and waiting for that special knock.

James Harris asked:


The adaptable nature of bacteria makes it possible to exploit particular strains for their beneficial qualities. The natural biodegradation of organic waste can be greatly enhanced by the introduction of naturally occurring, non genetically engineered, non pathogenic bacteria. Biodegrading “specialists” are scientifically selected for their exceptional enzyme production and long term stability.

In the natural environment, both bacteria, and the enzymes they produce, play a significant part in biodegradation: Bacteria produce the enzymes essential for metabolizing the food source (organic waste) into energy necessary for further growth of the living organism. Enzymes facilitate the phase of metabolism in which complex compounds are broken into simpler ones (catabolism). This, in turn, speeds the process of converting the food source into an available energy supply for bacterial growth and reproduction (and continuous enzyme production).

A. BACTERIA

1. General Background

Although some bacteria may cause certain diseases, many more bacteria are not only harmless, but they actually are very beneficial. The positive influence of these numerous useful microscopic organisms in our biosphere is incalculable. For example, without bacteria, the soil would not be fertile (and all plants and animals ultimately are dependent upon soil fertility for life sustaining materials). Various species of bacteria are concerned in the decomposition of organic matter, fermentation, and the fixing of atmospheric nitrogen. Many of the common bacteria of air, soil and water are capable of digesting dead organic materials, proteins, carbohydrates, fats and grease, and cellulose breaking them down to simpler molecules and in utilizing these substances. This impressive ability of bacteria as a group to produce such a great diversity of biochemical changes and end results constitutes one of the outstanding facts of the natural world.

2. Rate of Multiplication

Given reasonable and suitable conditions for growth, the rate of asexual multiplication of bacteria is very rapid; it has been found that a cell divides every 20 to 30 minutes. So, assuming that conditions are conducive to a rate of one division every 30 minutes, a single individual cell will have produced 4 cells at the end of the first hour, 16 at the end of two hours, and about one million (1,000,000) at the end of fifteen (15) hours. Thus, when products containing millions of selected bacteria per milliliter are introduced under suitable conditions, the eventual bacterial growth is astronomical, and, by virtue of the presence of such great numbers of efficient, beneficial bacteria, the presence and growth of less productive and often harmful, naturally occurring bacteria are greatly reduced by competitive exclusion. Simply stated, the selected, introduced bacteria are more efficient and out compete the naturally occurring bacteria for the food source.

3. Conditions Affecting Growth of Bacteria

a. Food requirements. Bacteria must obtain from their environment all nutrient materials necessary for their metabolic processes and cell reproduction. The food must be in solution and must pass into the cell.

b. Temperature. For every bacterium, there ‘are certain cardinal points of temperature at which growth is most rapid. Although different bacterial species differ widely, the optimum growth temperature for most bacteria lies between 5° C and 55° C (41 ° F to 131 ° F). Growth may slow at temperatures below 5°C (41 ° F) and cell damage may occur at temperatures above 60° C (140° F). The ordinary cells (non spores) are damaged at temperatures of 60° to 80° C (122° F to 140° F); hence a single boiling of a fluid or even pasteurization (application of a heat of 63° C or 145° F) is sufficient to eliminate them. Bacterial spores, however, must be subjected to very prolonged heating at higher temperatures before they are distressed.

c. pH. Each bacterium has a pH range within which growth is possible. Growth will occur in environments that have pH values between 4.5 and 10; the optimum pH value differs greatly between species but an environment kept close to neutral (pH 7) will sustain most bacterial species.

d. Moisture. Bacteria require moisture. The importance of moisture for bacterial growth will be seen clearly if it is realized that bacteria have no mouth parts and all their food must be absorbed in a soluble form by the process of diffusion through the cell wall; without sufficient moisture, therefore, the inflow of food and the outflow of excreta becomes impossible.

e. Oxygen. Bacteria of various kinds exhibit wide differences in their relation to oxygen of the air. Some need oxygen for respiration and cannot grow unless it is provided. These are known as aerobes. Others grow only in the absence of free oxygen and are unable to use it in their respiration, they are called anaerobes. Still others can grow under either condition and are termed facultative.

B. ENZYMES

1. Introduction

Bacteria exhibit great diversity in their physiological activities. The energy necessary for carrying on cell activity and the building materials needed for the formation of new cells during multiplication is secured in a variety of ways. The acquisition of energy and materials, in turn, is related in large measure to the different enzymes produced by various bacteria.

2. Examples of Enzyme Action

Many enzymes are discharged from the cells that produce them and, therefore, function outside the living cells (”extra cellular”). For example, the secretions of the digestive tract of animals contain many such extra cellular enzymes. All of the enzymes of the digestive tract act to convert the complex molecules of food into smaller, simpler molecules which are easier to take into the bacterial cell. The process of degradation is called hydrolysis. This degradation, which involves the conversion of solids into water soluble substances, and of large water soluble molecules into smaller ones, is the essence of the process of digestion.

C. SPORE FORMATION

Some bacteria are able to form spores. Spores are formed usually when conditions become unsatisfactory for active metabolism and for cell reproduction. Bacterial spores are extremely stable, and resistant to heat, drying, light, disinfectants and other harmful agents than the original vegetative bacterial organism. Spores may survive for many years.

When more suitable conditions present themselves, the spore germinates and again develops a cell similar to the one that originally formed the spore. This new cell, under favorable conditions of moisture, temperature, pH and food supply, begins active metabolism, reproduction, and enzyme production.

D. CONCLUSION

Bacteria in nature actively compete for nutrients and the most successful species in a given habitat will be those capable of best utilizing the conditions that prevail. The introduced, specially selected, beneficial, problem solving bacteria dominate the system they are added to, and safely and economically resolve problems by eliminating the source of the problem (the organic waste is broken down, digested and metabolized).

Odors are reduced by eliminating their source; and as a result, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Suspended Solids (S/S), and Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) are reduced; and the primary byproducts of this microbial degradation are water (H20)and carbon dioxide (C02).

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BASIC DEFINITIONS

Aerobic Bacteria:

Bacteria that require the presence of oxygen to live and function.

Anaerobic Bacteria:

Bacteria that do not require the presence of oxygen to survive they are capable of living and functioning in the absence of oxygen.

Bacteria:

Any of a group of diverse, ubiquitous, microscopic single celled microorganisms.

Biochemical Oxygen Demand I(BOD):

The amount of oxygen that is required/consumed by bacteria during the digestion of the organic waste in water. BOD is a relative measure of water quality since the higher the BOD, the greater the amount of organic waste in the water. Surcharges and fines are based on the BOD levels of the wastewater.

Biodegradation:

The digestion of organic substances by biological action, a process usually involving microbes, particularly bacteria.

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD):

The amount of oxygen that is required/consumed during the digestion of organic waste by chemical means. COD is a relative measure of water quality since the higher the COD, the greater the amount of organic material in the water.

Chemotaxis:

The ability of an organism, in this case bacteria, to detect and move toward a particular chemical. Selected bacteria exhibit positive chemotaxis and move toward higher levels of biochemical food sources. This ability is particularly advantageous when the goal is the efficient digestion of organic materials.

Colony Forming Unit I(CFU):

The standard microbiological method used to count bacteria. The number of viable cells that give rise to a colony of bacteria on a suitable agar medium.

Enzyme: (a/k/a non living chemical catalyst):

Any of various complex organic substances originating from living microorganisms, and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action. Enzymes are the chemical catalysts of living cells.

NOTE: While bacteria metabolize a wide variety of organic material, enzymes are substrate specific. For example:

Protease enzyme catabolizes (”breaks down”) protein

Amylase enzyme breaks down starch and carbohydrate

Lipase enzyme breaks down fat and grease

Xylanase enzyme breaks down plant material (xylan)

Cellulase enzyme breaks down cellulose

Urease enzyme breaks down urea

Facultative Bacteria:

Bacteria that are capable of living and functioning either in the presence of oxygen or absence of oxygen.

Microbial Degradation:

The beneficial activities selected of bacteria in carrying out biodegradation.

Motile:

Capable of motion. Selected bacteria are motile, enabling them to move about their immediate environment.

Spore:

The inactive/dormant, protected/resistant form that some bacteria can temporarily assume, when conditions are not satisfactory for active metabolism and cell reproduction.

Suspended Solids (SS): Particles of organic waste suspended in water. The levels of SS are often used to indicate water quality.

Volatile Fatty Acids I(VFA):

Volatile Fatty Acids are the compounds primarily responsible for the “sour” or “rancid” odors emanating from decaying organic material. The presence of high levels of VFA’s are indicative of inefficient microbial degradation of organic waste.

Nick Mutt asked:


Wheatgrass has several health benefits. It is young wheat plant of 1 to 2 weeks of age and is widely used as health supplements. It is highly rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, protein and chlorophyll. It contains almost every amino acid, vitamin and mineral necessary for human nutrition that makes it a complete food for us. The high chlorophyll content make it acts as a magnet in drawing out toxins from the body.

Now doctors recommend eating green leafy vegetables. Wheatgrass is an ultimate way to increase dark green leafy vegetables in our diet. Its just surprising to know that just 15 pounds of wheat grass is equivalent to 350 pounds of vegetables. A 16×16 tray of wheatgrass yields about 15 to 22 ounces of juice, depending on its length.

Wheatgrass is available in market in various forms like wheatgrass juice, tablets and powders. When wheatgrass reaches a height of 12 to 20cm it can be cut and then juiced. Wheatgrass is considered as an ideal food to nourish the body and rid it of toxins. It is also very beneficial for those who suffer from pain and illness.

Benefits of wheatgrass

• It fights against infections and improves the body’s ability to heal wounds.

• It helps in scalp treatment for lusterless hairs.

• It helps in removing heavy metals from the body.

• It also act as a cleanser and astringent for all types of skin

• It absorbs 92 out of the known 102 minerals from the soil.

• It also helps in treating skin problems like eczema or psoriasis.

• Chlorophyll present in wheatgrass helps to improve blood sugar disorders.

• It helps in preventing tooth decay.

• It also helps in eliminating body odors.

• It helps in boosting sexual stamina. The high magnesium content in chlorophyll builds enzymes that restore the sex hormones.

• It aids in the prevention and fight against cancer.

• Chlorophyll in wheatgrass also helps to purify the liver.

• It stops the growth of harmful bacteria.

• It is an ultimate energizer for body and mind.

• It is useful in treating constipation and keeping the bowels open.

Usually it is recommend to start with 30mls of wheatgrass juice followed with a glass of water, for the first few days. Once we get comfortable with this we can increase the amount up to 60mls, eg 30mls twice a day. As it has a strong cleansing effect, it may make us nauseous if we start with too much. It can also be taken by mixing it with other juices.

Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provide health advice and is for general information only. Always seek the insights of a qualified health professional before embarking on any health program.

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