If you often feel heaviness in the stomach, bloating, drowsiness and constant fatigue – most likely your digestion is disturbed due to a lack of enzymes in the diet. With their shortage, the incoming food is poorly digested and broken down, the necessary vitamins and microelements are not absorbed, and all systems of the body break down.
What are enzymes for?
The food we eat is a complex set of macromolecules – fats, proteins and carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and other elements. The job of digestion is to disassemble these large molecules into smaller ones. And enzymes help him in this, which are produced by the body itself and enter it from the outside from raw, unprocessed food. At the same time, external enzymes take part in the breakdown of food by 75 percent. And only at the final stages, those worked out independently are connected.
Not only do we often skip raw vegetables and fruits in our diet – but even a little cooking reduces the amount of enzymes in them. We also eat food grown using technological advances that break down enzymes during the initial maturation of foods. Harvested unripe, when enzymes have not yet formed. When stored for a long time, vegetables and fruits also lose some of the enzymes.
As a result, the already small amount of enzymes during cooking is destroyed and the body does not have to wait for help in digestion. He struggles to connect internal reserves, the pancreas gets tired, all systems are stressed, immunity decreases, a lack of vitamins and related problems develops – excess weight, accelerated aging, disruptions in the hormonal system.
The production of its own enzymes decreases with age, which adds additional problems to this picture. Therefore, you should take the load off the pancreas and actively dilute your diet with raw, proven vegetables and fruits for the season.
What foods contain enzymes
First of all, it is raw, plant-based food – any vegetables and fruits available in a given season.
At other times, sauerkraut, its juice, coconut oil, almond milk, pineapple, avocado, sesame seeds, nuts, sprouted wheat, horseradish, soybeans, cheeses, beef tripe, malt will help you.