{"id":4150,"date":"2018-12-19T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:16:12","slug":"the-enzymes-of-digestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/the-enzymes-of-digestion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enzymes of Digestion"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, back to digestive enzymes<\/a>. Protease breaks down proteins into something called amino acids, so we can absorb them digestion. Once they\u2019re absorbed, they get \u201creassembled\u201d into different things, and enzymes play a key role in that process as well.<\/p>\n

While some enzymes break down food, others act kind of like matchmakers. The matchmaker enzymes say, \u201cHey you, you molecule over there, you come meet this molecule over here digestion. You guys go make some eye tissue; you guys over there, go make a toenail.\u201d Some of the molecules become liver; some become skin. Our digestive system has to break down proteins and reassemble them so they can rebuild organs.<\/p>\n

Amylase is the stuff in your saliva that helps break down the sugars in carbohydrates into small components that can be utilized everywhere else in the body. Lipase breaks down fats digestion. Enzymes will also attack invaders. Do you have an infection? Enzymes can help deal with that infection.<\/p>\n

Every single function of your body happens because of enzymes. When you\u2019re young, you have lots of enzymes in your body, but you don\u2019t produce as many enzymes when you get older, and cooked and processed foods require more enzymes to break them down. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to eat raw foods<\/a>: they help replace the enzymes that you\u2019re using up.<\/p>\n

Remember being a teenager? You could drink a six-pack, eat a large pepperoni pizza, sleep for two hours, wake up the next day and do it all over again? Remember those days?<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t do that anymore, can you? One reason you can\u2019t is that you\u2019re not able to digest your food like you used to. Do you know what little kids eat? French fries and sugary cereal, and, BAM, they grow! There are almost no nutrients<\/a> in French fries, yet the kids keep getting taller, stronger, and smarter (well, we hope) every day. Where\u2019s the nutrition coming from?<\/p>\n

Part of the explanation is that a child or young adult\u2019s digestive enzymes are so strong, they can extract whatever nutrients are in the foods they\u2019re eating. As you get older, you can\u2019t do it anymore.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, back to digestive enzymes. Protease breaks down proteins into something called amino acids, so we can absorb them digestion. Once they\u2019re absorbed, they get \u201creassembled\u201d into different things, and enzymes play a key role in that process as well. While some enzymes break down food, others act kind of like matchmakers. The matchmaker enzymes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-highlighted-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136386,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/136386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drjoe.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}