You Won't Build Your Perfect House If You Can't Unwrap The Materials

I recently read a great analogy for digestion and macronutrient absorption. Picture this! You are renovating your home. Trying to build the house you’ve always wanted. You will need to demolish the existing structures to make room for the newer, better parts you intend to build. After the demolition work, you will have carefully selected exactly what building materials you need for the renovations and had them delivered.
The building materials will have arrived in wrapped pallets. But what if you do not have a Stanley knife or any tool that allows you to remove the wrapping? All you will have managed to do is demolish parts of your home but not be able to rebuild and have your dream house.

When you train, you breakdown muscle and energy sources and replenish them when we consume the right foods. You may be eating lean, organic meat, oily fish, colourful fruit and vegetables and supplementing correctly, but that is a waste of time if you can not ‘unwrap’ them.
The ‘unwrapping’ is done by your digestive system. In your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, there are digestive enzymes that breakdown specific foods into their building blocks, which we use to remodel the house you live in, i.e. your body.
In an ideal world, you get your digestive enzymes from two sources: endogenous construction (produced by your body) and exogenous deliver (from our food). The body’s production reduces with age, as well as when you consume refined foods, alcohol or by simply eating too fast. Cooking food also destroys the naturally occurring enzymes found predominantly in vegetables.
So, you should eat a diet full of raw, whole foods, especially vegetables, as advocated by diets like the Paleo or Primal BluePrint. However that would involve not eating out and controlling what your friends and family feed you. This is somewhat impractical for most of us. I would recommend everyone supplement with highly specialised dietary enzymes, like those found in Proactazyme.

How To Supplement
Most enzyme supplements contain animal derived (pancreatic) enzymes which, though helpful, are dependent upon the acidity of the GI tract for activation. The GI tract has differing pH along the canal thus animal enzymes are a less than absolute solution can be especially ineffective in people with decreased stomach acid production, like those on anti-indigestion medication.
Plant sourced enzymes have been found to be up to 12.5 times more powerful than pancreatic sourced enzyme formulae. They are acid-stable, working over a broader spectrum of pH values.
In addition, Proactazyme has the bonus of helping with the digestion of a wider range of foods. Whilst most animal enzymes contain a protease (protein digestion), amylase (carbohydrate digestion at pH neutral) and lipase (fat digestion), Proactazyme has all those, in addition to glucoamylase for carbohydrate digestion at pH = 3, pectinase for pectin (found in plant cell walls) and cellulase for plant fiber.
If you suffer from any of the following, it is likely that your digestive enzymes are not working and you are not breaking your food down properly

1. Bad breath, body odour, smelly feet
2. Difficulty digesting food, so avoid certain food
3. Food allergies
4. Indigestion, wind, heart burn or bloating

Proactazyme is easy to use. Just take one or two tablets before eating, at least three times per day. The added bonus is that enzymes do not trigger a negative feedback, so your body will not decrease its endogenous production. That is why everyone should take Proactazyme, regardless of whether you have any of the above symptoms list above. That way, you will be ensured to have the building materials available when you need them.