Doctors Best Digestive Enzymes - 90 Capsules

Doctors Best Digestive Enzymes is a uniquely formulated, full-spectrum high potency digestive enzyme blend created to complement and support the body’s own digestive capacities. Each capsule provides the body with vegetarian microbial-derived enzymes designed to optimally aid the digestion of fats, proteins and carbohydrates present in cooked and raw food.

The formula supplies the added support of alpha-galactosidase and beta-glucanase to break down vegetables, beans and grains and enzymes such as glucoamylase and invertase to assist with the digestion of sugars. In addition, this complete formula contains friendly bacteria and other cofactors to uniquely support and maintain optimal intestinal health.

Benefits of Doctor's Best Digestive Enzymes:

Provides Optimal Support for Healthy Digestion
Assists Digestion of Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats

Digestive enzymes are produced by the pancreas and secreted into the duodenum (upper small intestine), where proteins, carbohydrates and fats are broken down prior to absorption.

Supplementation with the enzymes in Digestive Enzymes supports replenishment of the body's enzyme levels, helping to support and maintain a healthy digestion process.

Benefits of Microbial Enzyme Supplementation

Enzyme supplementation promotes enhanced digestion and delivery of vital nutrients to the body. This benefits good health in many ways, including better elimination, support for healthy energy levels and maintenance of healthy body weight.

Supplemental Enzymes May Support Overall Health

The nature of the digestive process in the human body is such that it is highly energy-intensive. The pancreas is the organ that produces most of the digestive enzymes required for food breakdown and secretes them into the small intestine. The lower the efficiency of digestion in the stomach, the higher the requirement for newly manufactured pancreatic digestive enzymes.

CONTAINS NO animal derivatives, suitable for vegetarians.

90 Capsules

One capsule typically provides

Content

Amylase Blend (2 strains)

20,000 DU

Protease SP Plus Blend (4 strains)

75,000 HUT

Protease having DPP IV activity

20,000 HUT

Bromelain

50 GDU

Papain

500,000 FCC PU

Invertase

100 Invu

Cellulase

3250 CU

Beta-glucanase

65 BGU

Alhpagalactosidase

500 GalU

Hemicellulase

750 HCU

Xylanase

650 XU

Phytase

10 FTE

Glucoamylase

50 AGU

Lipase

3,000 FIP

Lactase

1,000 ALU

Bacillus subtillis

1 billion CFU

Encapsulated with cellulose

Dosage Guide

Adults: Take one capsule with each meal.

Profile of Enzymes in Doctors Best Digestive Enzymes

Support for Carbohydrate and Fibre digestion

Alpha-galactosidase

An enzyme that facilitates the breakdown of carbohydrates such as raffinose and stachyose. This enzyme is especially helpful in supporting the digestion of raw vegetables and beans. Helps reduce indigestion and flatulence from a high-fibre diet consisting of grains, beans and other vegetables.

Amylase

This enzyme functions to break down carbohydrates such as starch and glycogen, a storage form of glucose.

Beta-glucanase

An important enzyme that facilitates the digestion of beta-linked glucose bonds associated with whole grains such as barley, oats and wheat.

Cellulase

This enzyme helps free the nutrients found in both fruits and vegetables by breaking down cellulose, a plant fibre.

Glucoamylase

This enzyme complements the function of hemicellulase by breaking down polysaccharides from plants.

Hemicellulase

This enzyme assists in the breakdown of carbohydrates and is most useful for enhancing the efficiency of polysaccharide digestion from plant foods.

Invertase

This enzyme facilitates the breakdown of carbohydrates and is especially effective at helping to digest sucrose, common table sugar.

Lactase

This enzyme is necessary for the proper utilisation and digestion of lactose, the predominant sugar found in milk and other dairy products.

Phytase

This enzyme breaks down plant carbohydrates and is especially helpful at breaking down phytic acid found in leafy vegetables. Because it breaks down phytic acid, it frees the minerals in plants and aids in their absorption.

Xylanase

This enzyme is a sub-type of hemicellulase and functions to break down soluble fibre from food sources.

Support for Protein Digestion

Bromelain

An enzyme that is derived from pineapple, this nutrient also facilitates the digestion of proteins. Bromelain has also been associated with a wide range of diverse health benefits of its own.

Papain

This enzyme is derived from papaya and serves to enhance the digestion of proteins, facilitating nutrient absorption.

Protease

This enzyme supports the digestion of protein and protein-containing foods, breaking them into absorbable units of amino acids, the building blocks for the body’s regenerative purposes.

Support for Fat Digestion

Lipase

The main enzyme that functions to break down lipids and improve fat utilisation. In this capacity, it supports the function of the gall bladder. Microbial lipase is resistant to inactivation by stomach acid and can digest dietary fat beginning in the stomach and continuing into the small intestine.

Beneficial Micro-organisms

Bacillus subtillis

Although this bacteria is not known to be native to the human digestive tract, supplementing with this important probiotic organism promotes a healthy bacterial balance in the intestines. Probiotic organisms have been researched for their ability to support healthy immune function, efficient digestion and the general health and well being of the digestive tract.