Great Facts About Raw Food Enzymes

 One of our most important bodily functions as a person is digestion  . Unfortunately, most people don’t digest their food properly.

 In my experience, having worked with thousands of personal clients, faulty digestion or an “underactive stomach” is the most common health concern I notice.

 So why is digestion a health concern ?

 Well, consider that improper digestion can lead to nasty conditions like leaky gut syndrome, allergies, and auto-immune disorders – just to name a few.

  Just remember the last time you ate a heavy cooked meal  .

 Did feel really tired (and full) for several hours?

 I certainly did and it wasn’t too pleasant  .

 Think about those big family Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners where you’d stuff yourself with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, bread, wine, and on and on…. Thankfully, those kind of meals are rare.

 When You Cook Food, It Becomes Dead 

 Remember that cooked foods are dead.   Unfortunately, when heating above 118 fahrenheit, they contain no functional enzymes  .

 This makes it inherently difficult to digest these foods. After all, there’s a reason that all living foods contain enzymes that will naturally assist in their digestion. But as soon as their cooked… all bets are off!

 What this means to you is that your body now has to secrete more of its own digestive enzymes from the pancreas to breakdown these “dead” foods. And by the way, these enzymes can run out. When they do, you run out of life!

 Now let’s think of a really tough piece of steak 

 To help you understand just how hard it is for your body to digest dead foods – especially cooked proteins – let’s consider a piece of steak for a moment.

 To begin with, animal protein (even in its raw state) is very tough for our stomach’s to digest . But what happens when we cook meat – or a steak in this example?

 All of the steak’s proteins become denatured (just like those enzymes we talked about). They get all bent out of shape, coil jointly,  thus creating it tougher for us tummies to break down  .

 Just think of how many times you need to chew each bite of that steak just so you can swallow it! Maybe 100 times? Just imagine how much strain is now put on your stomach to further digest it.

  Here’s a rule of thumb…When protein is cooked, it makes it tougher for our body to beak it down .

 Here’s another example… Taking a raw egg, throwing it in a frying pan, and watching it ” coagulate” into a fried egg. Which do you think is easier for your body to breakdown – the raw “liquidy” egg or the tough, protein-denatured fried version?

 If you said the latter, then you’re right.

 That’s why if you someone has digestive difficulties and they love their eggs, one of the best things they can do is eat a soft boiled egg instead of a hard boiled egg.  Less cooking time makes it slightly easier to digest.

 Bottom Line – Raw Foods Are Easier to Digest

 Based on what we just discussed I’m sure you can appreciate just how much easier it is for us to digest raw foods. Raw foods are packed full of food enzymes, which assist in their own digestion. They don’t contain cooked, undigestible proteins.

 And they’re totally great for you too  .  They contain great vitamins that you simply don’t get when cooking foods   .