Wang Mingyong (dietotherapy health expert) In recent years, the word enzyme has often appeared in major media and been widely discussed by the public. Suddenly, it seems to be the darling of health topics. Do you really know what an enzyme is? I believe that most people still have a little knowledge of enzymes. First of all, we should know that there are more than 1000 kinds of enzymes in the human body. Even eating enzyme supplements can really supplement the body's enzymes. Which one should I add? People who don't understand the principle are bound to eat indiscriminately. Secondly, enzymes are mainly catalysts for cellular chemical reactions, not as nutritional supplements; Disease, detoxification and obesity are all nutritional metabolism problems, and metabolic enzymes in the body cannot be supplemented from abroad. How can we achieve the effect of treating diseases, detoxifying and losing weight? Enzymes are the source of life. On the earth, all living things (that is, living things) need enzymes to maintain normal physiological operation. Bacteria, molds and other small organisms can not directly absorb macromolecular organic matter as a source of nutrition, but must first secrete digestive enzymes, which can decompose macromolecular organic matter into small molecular units such as monosaccharides, glycerol, short fatty acids and amino acids. And then absorb them. In addition, microorganisms also need to rely on enzymes to partially decompose host cells; Large organisms, such as humans and other animals, also need enzymes to help food digestion and energy conversion. The characteristics of Enzyme "enzyme" is enzyme in English, which is what we generally call "enzyme"; Greek means "things in yeast". Enzymes are active, catalysts for all biological biochemical reactions and indispensable necessities for maintaining life. Protein is the skeleton structure of enzyme and the protein carrier full of life energy elements, just like a car battery is composed of a metal plate full of electric energy. The maximum temperature range it can withstand is 48 degrees Celsius, and its activity will be destroyed if the temperature is too high. Wang Mingyong (dietotherapy health expert) In recent years, the word enzyme has often appeared in major media and been widely discussed by the public. Suddenly, it seems to be the darling of health topics. Do you really know what an enzyme is? I believe that most people still have a little knowledge of enzymes. First of all, we should know that there are more than 1000 kinds of enzymes in the human body. Even eating enzyme supplements can really supplement the body's enzymes. Which one should I add? People who don't understand the principle are bound to eat indiscriminately. Secondly, enzymes are mainly catalysts for cellular chemical reactions, not as nutritional supplements; Disease, detoxification and obesity are all nutritional metabolism problems, and metabolic enzymes in the body cannot be supplemented from abroad. How can we achieve the effect of treating diseases, detoxifying and losing weight? Enzymes are the source of life. On the earth, all living things (that is, living things) need enzymes to maintain normal physiological operation. Bacteria, molds and other small organisms can not directly absorb macromolecular organic matter as a source of nutrition, but must first secrete digestive enzymes, which can decompose macromolecular organic matter into small molecular units such as monosaccharides, glycerol, short fatty acids and amino acids. And then absorb them. In addition, microorganisms also need to rely on enzymes to partially decompose host cells; Large organisms, such as humans and other animals, also need enzymes to help food digestion and energy conversion. The characteristics of Enzyme "enzyme" is enzyme in English, which is what we generally call "enzyme"; Greek means "things in yeast". Enzymes are active, catalysts for all biological biochemical reactions and indispensable necessities for maintaining life. Protein is the skeleton structure of enzyme and the protein carrier full of life energy elements, just like a car battery is composed of a metal plate full of electric energy. The maximum temperature range it can withstand is 48 degrees Celsius, and its activity will be destroyed if the temperature is too high. Enzymes are very sensitive to heat If the food is soaked in water above 48℃ for less than half an hour, it may run out of enzymes. Therefore, China people are used to eating hot-fried food and cooking habits, which actually consume digestive enzymes contained in original fresh animal and plant foods. Enzymes are needed for the digestion, absorption and decomposition of all foods. In addition, enzymes also have the function of repairing cells. Different from drugs, enzymes do not directly kill viruses, but provide cellular nutrition in the body, so that damaged cells can get more nutrition, and the body can regain health through self-repair mechanism. In this process, enzymes play the role of medium, which may not be as effective as drugs, but they can make the body gradually recover energy because of getting enough nutrition, and then make the condition gradually improve; Although the effect is slow, it is a regulation of the whole body's cell function, which is different from the single effect of drugs. It's like our computer system has been used for a long time, and it will inevitably crash. If it is only aimed at a single problem, the computer will still have problems in a short time; At this point, only by "charging" can the computer return to normal; The same is true for enzymes, which can achieve the purpose of physical regeneration. How many enzymes there are, how many lives there are. Dr. Edward Twitchell Hall Jr, the pioneer of modern enzyme nutrition, mentioned in "Enzyme Nutrition" published in 1985 that "human life and health are inversely proportional to the consumption of enzymes in the body". If we can improve the utilization rate of enzymes in food, we can curb the decrease of potential enzymes in the body and improve human health and life. More importantly, enzymes can eliminate toxins, balance the pH value in the body, and then repair cells and regulate physical fitness. Enzymes in the human body are the most at birth, and with the increase of age, the enzymes in the body will decrease; Studies in the United States have found that young people have 30 times more enzymes in saliva than the elderly over 69. The decrease of enzymes in the body leads to weakness, and it is easier to get sick when you are old. For example, when we were young, we didn't sleep for three days and three nights, and we might recover our strength quickly after a night or two. But after middle-aged and elderly people, even if we get enough sleep, fatigue is not easy to eliminate, which is why. "Pre-digestion" can reduce the consumption of enzymes in the body. There are two important principles of "enzyme nutrition" proposed by Dr. Edward Twitchell Hall Jr: First, "enzyme adapts to the law of life", that is, according to different foods, the secretion of digestive enzymes in the body will be different. For example, when we eat, saliva will secrete digestive enzymes to decompose starch; If you eat meat, your stomach will secrete protein lyase. Therefore, if we eat food rich in enzymes, the body does not need to secrete too many enzymes to digest, which can save the consumption of enzymes in the body. The second important principle is "pre-digestion". Many animals do not secrete digestive enzymes. Cattle and sheep have four stomachs, the first three stomachs do not secrete enzymes, and only the fourth stomach has digestive enzymes and can process food. The saliva of cattle and sheep will not secrete enzymes, because the grass eaten by cattle and sheep is rich in enzymes and will decompose on its own. Therefore, even though cattle are much larger than humans, the size of the pancreas is only 1/3 of that of humans. The pancreas is an important digestive organ. The worse the digestive function, the bigger the pancreas will be. Many poultry, such as pigeons and chickens, can eat a lot of raw beans and grains, but humans can't because there are enzyme inhibitors in beans. Poultry animals, such as chickens, have a pouch around their necks. They can use their own enzymes to "pre-digest" food first to preserve digestive enzymes in the body, so that food can germinate and ferment within a few hours to produce enzymes and destroy fermentation inhibitors. The human body cannot handle enzyme inhibitors in food, but it can handle them by fermenting or cooking food. Fresh vegetables and fruits, even raw meat and fish contain enzymes, but I don't encourage eating too much raw meat and fish because of parasites. If vegetables and fruits are to be eaten raw, they must be cleaned. Humans who eat raw food are healthier, live longer and smarter. In the process of evolution, they learned how to cook food with fire. Although we enjoy all kinds of delicious foods, the natural food enzymes contained in these foods are lost little by little because of continuous heating. All animals, except human diet, are eaten raw, and cooked food will destroy enzymes. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, understood this view thousands of years before BC. He once said, "Eating with fire means eating too much. The index finger of fire is the heated food, and heating will make the enzyme lose. If you eat a lot of food cooked with fire, you are more likely to get sick. Modern scientists have also done many experiments and found that there are few chronic diseases in wild animals because they eat raw food; However, pet cats and dogs fed cooked food are prone to chronic diseases. There are many studies on the health of raw food, the most famous of which is to explore the health secrets of Eskimos. Anthropologists have found that the traditional Eskimos belong to the cold region, and they eat mostly raw food, including fish, walrus and elk from hunting, and rarely eat fruits, vegetables or tapirs for three meals. Traditional Eskimos will put raw meat in the snow, and after a few months, even if the meat looks rotten (actually, it is not rotten, but fermented), they will eat it. Because protein-decomposing enzymes in raw meat are pre-digested, protein in meat is decomposed into amino acids, so digestion and decomposition do not need to consume too many digestive enzymes in the body, and the human body is very easy to absorb and utilize, so it is not easy to get sick and keep healthy. However, after Eskimos immigrated to northern Canada in modern times and began to eat heated hot food, their physical condition began to change, which proved the important relationship between enzymes and health. The importance of enzymes to cells in the body People get sick for two main reasons. First of all, the lack of enzymes or nutrients in the body makes the body vulnerable to infection. This is the most important and fundamental potential reason. When your body is in balance, you won't feel uncomfortable, but once your body lacks enzymes, as long as you come into contact with carcinogens, cholesterol, bacteria, X-rays, food additives, tobacco and alcohol in your daily life, it will easily lead to diseases and become the last straw to crush your body. Second, the metabolic relationship between enzymes and cells is extremely important: all metabolic pathways in the human body are composed of enzymes and substrates; If the enzyme is regulated normally, the cell can function normally. The human body is like a small processing factory, which has to complete many chemical reactions every day, and these reactions need the participation of enzymes; The key point is that one enzyme can only be responsible for one function, but there are tens of thousands of enzymes in the human body, each of which performs its own duties, and * * * carries out various reactions in the body to maintain the normal operation of the human body. Without enzymes, the reactions that small processing plants should have cannot be carried out smoothly, leading to various metabolic disorders, diabetes, hypertension, cancer and other diseases, and finally even life can not be maintained. If all the functions in the body can operate normally and smoothly, the cells in the body can be fully metabolized, and naturally they can maintain youth, health and longevity. Classification of enzymes Modern people have many chronic diseases. Among the top ten causes of death in China, except accidents and suicides, others are related to metabolic disorders. Many diseases are defined as "metabolic syndrome", which has a great relationship with the balance of the body, including obstacles in digestion, absorption and excretion of food. The most important nutrient affecting metabolism is enzyme. There are two kinds of enzymes in the human body: metabolic enzymes that make the human body work normally and digestive enzymes that break down food. Protein, fat and starch, the three nutrients we eat through three meals, cannot be digested without digestive enzymes. Protein, fat and starch need to be decomposed by protease, lipase and amylase before they can be fully absorbed and utilized by human body. The waste after absorption and utilization needs metabolism, and all catalysts for biochemical reactions of body functions need metabolic enzymes. Foods rich in three digestive enzymes: protein catabolic enzymes: pineapple, papaya, kiwifruit starch catabolic enzymes: white radish, yam, cabbage, banana lipolytic enzymes: natto, miso, naturally fermented yogurt, cheese. Our body, including all organs and tissues, is operated by metabolic enzymes, which absorb protein, fat and carbohydrates (starch, sugar and other substances). Health depends on the perfect operation of all metabolic enzymes and digestive enzymes. So make sure that the body can maintain enough enzymes. About the author: Wang Mingyong graduated from Nutrition and Health Care Branch of Taipei Medical College, Food Health Care Branch of Taipei Medical College and Australian Herbal Medicine College. Member of Sports Nutrition Department of Taiwan Province Sports Science Association, lecturer of healthy diet of Foguangshan Humanities University, etc. Wang Mingyong fan group, Wang Mingyong blog.