My mother just came back from spending a month in Tuscany and the first thing she said to me was, “You’ve shrunk!”
She had a point. I recently bought a size two skirt and in my incredulity my reaction was to tell the sales lady that I’d have to start frequenting that store as their clothes must run really big.
Because I haven’t been dieting. Nor have I changed my eating habits or my exercise habits in about 2 years.
In fact, as I look back over the last 2 months or so, the only thing I’ve changed has been starting back up on plant-based digestive enzymes.
As we age our bodies ability to produce enzymes slowly diminishes, interfering with complete digestion and putting us at risk for degenerative diseases.
I’ve talked about how incomplete digestion is a major cause of weight gain, and how eating whole foods rather than processed foods encourages complete digestion and can help lose weight and nourish health. Digestive enzymes can help the body break foods down for better absorption of nutrients and more efficient elimination of extra material.
Years ago, my homeopath put me on digestive enzymes to help end the hives and facilitate my quest to get pregnant. At the time, I thought it was a great idea, knowing what I’ve put my gut through in my lifetime.
Beyond the typical alcohol/fast food/terrible eating habits abuse of my intestines, I’ve been infested with various parasites at various points for varying amounts of time, including giardia, cryptosporidium, listeria, cyclospora, blastocystis and others over a period of several decades. In my life, parasites have been a side effect both of traveling through the developing world and camping in the Rockies.
The commonly used anti-parasite medication is Flagyl, which, if you’ve ever done a course, brutally strips your insides as it annihilates both troublesome parasites and beneficial flora and fauna. Usually, by the time someone goes on Flagyl, the instigating parasites have been so brutal that the patient happily accepts the side effects as long as it works.
So I was thrilled to learn about digestive enzymes then to help rebuild my intestinal tract. I don’t remember losing weight that time, but I was a little distracted by other things.
The plant-based digestive enzymes, taken with every meal, are helping me to fully digest my food. Which is leading to weight loss as a bonus. This is the easiest diet I’ve ever done!
Looking for plant-based digestive enzymes for yourself? Here are general plant-based digestive enzymes; to find the right digestive enzymes to address the needs of your body, an Enzyme Urinalysis can determine what’s going on with your specific digestion.
12 Comments on “Plant based digestive enzymes for health and weight loss”
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what are the examples of the digestive enzymes that made u loose weight ,i want to get them pls.i wait for ur answers.thanks
emma
I have used Metagenics Azeo-Pangen digestive enzymes and they are causing me to gain weight quickly. I could use a few other sugestions of what ones to try. :I have reviewed several who say the side affect is weight gain.
The Metagenics Azeo-Pangen enzymes are not plant-based; they are porcine-based. That may be why you are not experiencing the effects you expected. I use Enzyme Formulations, which are only available through a practitioner. Contact me directly if you’d like to purchase some through my practice.
I always thought it was “normal” to have digestive problems until I tried the digestive enzymes Elizabeth talks about in her blog. It’s now been 3 months and I feel like a new woman. Or, rather, a normal one. I take one everytime I eat, whether it’s a full meal or not, and go about my day without thinking about how I feel in my gut. Can you imagine! I tried 2 different kinds of enzymes; one made me feel too uncomfortable,with symptoms of acid reflux. The other enzymes, however, have been just great, and I feel like I don’t want to live without them! I feel so much better in all kinds of ways, and actually lost a few needed-to-be-lost pounds. A win-win all the way around!
Susan R
I think weight loss surgery might be the best choice for extremely obese people, but for everybody else, the best weight loss method includes low fat, high fiber diet and moderate exercise
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