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Plant-based Digestive Enzyme Suggestion?

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jaym1212 - 25 Oct 2004 21:43 GMT
I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following
so far:

ActiveZymes (www.americannutrition.com/activezymes.htm)
55,000 HUT - Protease 6.0  
30,000 HUT - Protease 4.5
   35 SAP - Protease 3.0      
3,400 DU  - Amylase        
  225 FCC LU  - Lipase AN        
240 caps for $90

Ultra-Zyme Plus (www.throppsnutrition.com/ps_ultrazyme.htm)
75,000 HUT - Protease      
   25 SAP - Acid Stable Protease
12,000 SKB - Amylase      
8,000 LU  - Lipase          
270 capules for $48

Ultimate Enzymes (www.aaaab.com/enzymes/index.html)
75,000 HUT - Protease
15,000 SKB - Amylase
5,000 LU  - Lipase
270 Capsule for $45

Of the above, supposedly ActiveZymes is the best, but the Ultra-Zyme
seems to be a better value. Could someone recommend better ones?
markd@toad-net.com - 25 Oct 2004 23:17 GMT
"I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following"

Why bother?
jaym1212 - 26 Oct 2004 18:57 GMT
> "I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
> meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following"
>
> Why bother?

My skin reacts to some foods such as milk, citrus, soy beans, peanuts,
citrus, cantaloupe, etc. I didn't react to these foods when I was
younger. I am assuming that some food components are making it past
the digestive lining and into general blood circulation. I am hoping
breaking down foods to their simplest components might alleviate the
reactions. Does this sound plausible?
Jan - 26 Oct 2004 14:36 GMT
> I am looking for plant-based digestive enzymes that can be mixed with
> meals/smoothies and work over a wide pH range. I found the following
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> Of the above, supposedly ActiveZymes is the best, but the Ultra-Zyme
> seems to be a better value. Could someone recommend better ones?

Raw, unpastoerized sauerkraut?
http://www.belandorganicfoods.com/kartheins_fermented.html

Jan
markd@toad-net.com - 26 Oct 2004 19:07 GMT
Each of the items mentioned can have their own specific reason for causing
reactions, one frequent one is alergies to them which one can develope
later in life.  The theory you propose has no basis in science, if you are
referring to the so called "leaky gut syndrome" which is an invention of
those who are happy to charge to "cure" it. If it were true, the very
enzymes you mention would get in the blood as well and be a cause for
problems. I would suggest first confirming food as the source of your skin
reactions.  Stop eating all of them for a period and then eat each food in
isolation to see what happens.  It is just as likely the skin reaction is
caused by any of a number of reasons not related to food. Thus, even if
the reaction showed up with some food you would not know the cause was
actually something else.  Consulting a doctor with experience,ie
dermatologist, would be one first step.  Sadly far too many who promote
themselves as experts in food allergies are the same promoting leaky gut
etc. as having some reality in human biology.

>My skin reacts to some foods such as milk, citrus, soy beans, peanuts,
>citrus, cantaloupe, etc. I didn't react to these foods when I was
>younger. I am assuming that some food components are making it past
>the digestive lining and into general blood circulation. I am hoping
>breaking down foods to their simplest components might alleviate the
>reactions. Does this sound plausible?
Jeff - 28 Oct 2004 03:10 GMT
The only plant-based enzymes that could be useful that I can think of are
venus fly-trap enzymes.

You see, almost all plants don't eat food. And so they won't make digestive
enzymes.

The only thing the digestive enzymes you are trying to buy will eat is your
wallet.

Jeff
cde - 28 Oct 2004 04:47 GMT
> The only thing the digestive enzymes you are trying to buy will eat is your
> wallet.

There is some evidence of a benefit.  Search "oral enzyme" in PubMed. There
are a few articles in Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2001 issues 45 and 47,
Michael Donaldson discusses many them in his recent cancer-diet paper.
PMID: 15496224
 
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