Hi all,
I just wondered if anyone had had any experience with using Systemic Enzymes and whether you found them helpful for inflammation and immunity?
Frances B
Hi Frances
What do you mean by systemic enzymes? Would serrapeptase be one of them?
Caroline
Don't know too much about them but there was a conference down south (London I think) recently where Nick Gonzolas (sp) was lecturing on them. If you google his name there wil be lots on it. Or maybe you went to the conference already. I wanted to go but it coincided with an ION w/e:(.
It all sounds very interesting but I don't know enough about it all yet. There also seems to be quite a bit of medical research on using SE.
Patchouli
Link to the NG site which you may already have.
This is definetely something I would be interested in finding out more about.
Regards
patchouli
Hello there,
I wasn't familiar with the term until a friend asked me what I thought about them and so I was looking it up on the internet but didn't find a huge amount. I wonder if they go by another name too. I found this basic definition...
Digestive Enzymes vs. Systemic Enzymes
Digestive enzymes conduct their actions in the stomach to digest food while systemic enzymes are enterically coated to prevent contact with the stomach acid. This way they pass through the stomach into the intestines where they are absorbed by the body.
Patchouli, thank you for the website, I'll have a read of that today.
Caroline, yes, serrapeptase is used as one from what I have read. This website did seem the clearest ...
I wonder if "systemic enzymes" here are the same as "metabolic enzymes"?
Metabolic enzymes perform all sorts of systemic cell-related functions including, very importantly, cell detoxification.
So, if serrapeptase is taken with food and doesn't have any enteric coatings, then it will be used to digest food in the stomach. So in this situation it acts purely as a digestive enzyme.
If serrapeptase is taken with food and does have enteric coating then it will not be digested with food but will pass through to the intestines from where it will be absorbed into the body and act as a metabolic (or systemic) enzyme.
If serrapeptase doesn't have any enteric coating and is taken on an empty stomach it will act as a metabolic (or systemic) enzyme.