Why Enzymes are So Important to Your Pet's Life

Enzymes are vital to maintaining health in both
humans and animals. As a lot of pet foods are
processed, those necessary enzymes are being
rmoved. The purpose of this article is to
explain the importance of enzymes in humans and
in their dogs and cats.

Enzymes are the foundation of energy and the
life force in all living things. They are
responsible for building, detoxifying, and
healing the body. They are also the force that
allows your body to digest and absorb food.

Enzymes also regulate tens of thousands of other
biochemical functions that take place in the body
every day. Even thinking involves "enzymes".
Without enzymes, seeds would not sprout, fruit
would not ripen, leaves would not change color,
and life would not exist.

Classifications of Enzymes

Throughout nature, there are many
classifications of enzymes. Our focus is on two
of these classifications, namely dietary
enzymes, and digestive enzymes.

Dietary Enzymes - All natural foods contain
Living Dietary Enzymes. They are a powerful
nutritional factor that supports the digestive
process and the assimilation and distribution of
key nutrients. They activate to strengthen the
body's immune functions and natural metabolism.
Living Dietary Enzymes provide the body with a
resource, enabling it to produce a whole series
of metabolic enzymes, primarily the defensive
frontline Antioxidant enzymes:

• Superoxide Dismutase

• Catalase

• Glutathione Peroxidase

• Methionine Reductase

These enzymes are critical in the fight against
free-radical damage and in maintaining healthy
cellular functioning. The cells are the building
blocks of life, and key to health and vitality.

The reason it is so important to supplement with
Dietary enzymes is that cooked and processed
foods have these enzymes destroyed thru heat and
during processing. Without an adequate supply,
the body lacks the necessary resources to keep
pace with the body's demands for daily
restoration and repair. This scenario leads to a
downward spiral in general health and wellness.

Contributing Factors to a Pet's Poor Health

A famous pet-nutritional study by Dr. Francis M.
Pottenger reported that a life-long diet of
processed or cooked foods as a contributing
factor why animals develop chronic degenerative
diseases, infections and other maladies. His
decade-long study confirmed that the succeeding
generations who remain on this type of
enzyme-less diet will show progressively more
illness and disease.

Even the best commercial pet foods have their
enzymes destroyed through heat, processing,
preservatives and other chemicals. These vital
food enzymes are needed to help maintain a pet's
immune system and protect all of their body's
primary metabolic functions.

The fact that we continue to feed our pets such
enzyme-less food over an entire lifetime may
contribute to the growing list of animal health
problems we witness today including;
Osteoarthritis, Inflammation, Joint Pain, Hip
Dysplasia, Pano, OCD, HOD, Shedding, Hair loss,
Dry Skin, Itchy Skin, Digestive Disorders,
Gastritis, Pet Food Allergies, Epilepsy,
Fatigue, Hot Spots and many other stress related
symptoms contributed to by a weakened immune
system.

Remember, every pet needs more than processed
foods!

There are all-natural pet health supplements on
the market that provide 'live' ingredients,
which give the perfect added nutrition both pets
and people need for promoting good health and
vitality. Enzymes support a healthy immune
system. If there are NO enzymes in your pet's
food then there is little else to protect their
body.

Linda Arndt (Canine Nutrition Consultant -
www.greatdanelady.com) starts her Great Dane
pups on an eNzymes diet as soon as they are
weaned to support them as they prepare for
vaccinations and to help them with growth and
conformation all life long. She feels that it is
necessary to use these all-natural supplements as
they help to replace what's missing in today's
over-processed pet foods.

Digestive Enzymes- Are found within living
foods. They are there to help our bodies process
(break-down for absorption) the foods we consume
each day. The pancreas is also involved in the
body's own production of digestive enzymes. Each
enzyme produced plays a specific role in breaking
down the various components of the food that we
consume. These digestive enzymes include the
following:

• Amylase

• Cellulase

• Lipase

• Pectinase

• Phytase

• Protease

However, these digestive enzymes suffer the same
forces as their dietary brothers when they are
processed with heat or chemicals. This scenario
leaves our bodies with limited resources to
digest we eat each day. This enzyme deficit
often leads to problematic nutritional
deficiencies that play havoc with our bodies and
health.


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Article submitted by Tim Delaney. References
include Nzymes at http://www.nzymes.com and
Nzymes EU at http://www.nzymes.eu.com


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