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What is a raw food enzyme? There are a couple of categories of enzymes. There are food enzymes in fresh foods. Take a banana for example. They have enzymes in them that help the banana break itself down. When you eat a banana, these enzymes help it digest itself inside your body. There are also metabolic enzymes which are produced in the body. Metabolic enzymes are used for every single process that you can possibly imagine. From talking to blinking to moving a muscle to running to thinking to processing every single food that you eat; enzymes are needed for those actions. 

Digestive enzymes are enzymes that are produced in the pancreas of the human body. They are secreted into the digestive tract to help your body to digest the foods that you eat.

So, you can see why there is a big benefit to eating more raw foods. A raw food diet will bring more enzymes into your body. They do not deplete your body of enzymes like cooked foods. In the first lesson, we talked about foods becoming dead when they are cooked above 118°F. Cooked food no longer has enzymes. They have become denatured and they no longer work. So when you eat cooked foods it makes digestion a lot more difficult for your body. 

Your body has a limited number of enzymes. There is research that shows a correlation between how long you live and the number of enzymes in your body. And very simply, when you run out of enzymes you run out of life. Think of your enzyme capabilities as a bank account. If you eat cooked food all the time, foods that have no enzymes, you need to deplete your enzyme bank account in order to digest those foods. You are demanding that the body secrete a lot of its enzymes into the digestive tract to break down these foods in order for you to benefit form them.

On the flip side, if you are eating a lot of raw foods that are rich in food enzymes, your pancreas will not have to secrete as many enzymes because the raw food can aid in its own digestion. That makes a huge difference. When you eat raw foods, your body can focus more of its energy away from digestion and divert those enzymes toward metabolic processes such as breaking down immune complexes, breaking down dead cells, and regenerating new skin. All of the things that the body needs to spend more time doing can be done simply by adding more raw foods into your diet because of the food enzymes coming in with those foods. The goal is to save your body’s enzymes and bring more enzymes into your body’s enzyme bank account.

If you do eat cooked foods, that is up to you. But one thing I would suggest is that you take a digestive enzyme with that food. You can find digestive enzymes at any health food store. Supplemental digestive enzymes supply your digestive tract with the enzymes that it needs to break down and assimilate foods into your body.