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Health Tip Articles:
- How Your Digestive System Acts as Your Second Brain by Dr. Gary Shima, M.D., CEO and Medical Director of the Health and Longevity Institute of San Marcos, CA.
- How Digestive Enzymes Work Throughout Your Body
- The Digestive System Basics
How Your Digestive System Acts as Your Second Brain
by Dr. Gary Shima, M.D., CEO and Medical Director of the Health and Longevity Institute of San Marcos, CA.
The importance of our digestive system demands great attention. Just as our skin is an envelope for protecting us from outside invaders such as microbes and noxious particles, our digestive system functions in no less a capacity.
The barrier effects of our intestines include protective immune function, by tremendous clusters of lymphocytes in the intestinal wall, highly concentrated colonies of probiotic bacteria that kill microbes and aid digestive functions. Numerous chemical neurotransmitters emit from our gastrointestinal tract that signal back and forth with our brain and other organs in our body such effects have researchers calling our GI tract a "second brain."
Disease begins and ends with the condition of our GI tract, therefore it is very important that high levels of oxygen, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and proper nutrients be provided on a daily basis.
How Digestive Enzymes Work Throughout Your Body
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Enzymes are catalysts, or substances that speed up the rate of reaction but are not changed or used up in the reaction. They are proteins and highly specific for the substrates, or molecules/nutrients, that they can cat on.
Enzyme Reaction Process
- 1. Enzyme and substrate are available
- 2. Substrate binds to enzyme
- 3. Substrate is converted and products are released
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