What are Enzymes & How Can They Help Prevent Acne?

Ray: For the average person, you probably won’t even read this article. But you have NO IDEA how important this one is. Knowledge is power. Learn baby, learnnn. Then you’ll have acne free skin for the LONGGG term, not just for the short run.

To get started I’ll quote Dr. Jon Barron:

“Enzymes are proteins that facilitate chemical reactions in living organisms. In fact, they are required for every single chemical action that takes place in your body. All of your tissues, muscles, bones, organs, and cells are run by enzymes (emphasis mine).

Your digestive system, immune system, bloodstream, liver, kidneys, spleen, and pancreas, as well as your ability to see, think, feel, and breathe, (in fact, the very functioning of each and every cell in your body) all depend on enzymes. All of the minerals and vitamins you eat and all of the hormones your body produces need enzymes in order to work properly. In fact, every single metabolic function in your body is governed by enzymes. Your stamina, your energy level, your ability to utilize vitamins and minerals, your immune system –all governed by enzymes.

The vast majority of metabolic enzymes in the body — the enzymes that regulate everything from liver function to the immune system – are proteases, or proteolytic enzymes –enzymes that regulate protein function in the body.” Now what does all this have to do with acne? Let’s divide enzymes into two groups based on how we use them: digestive and systematic.

As the name indicates, the digestive enzymes break nutrients into smaller molecules that your body can absorb. Without these enzymes the digestive process would come to grinding halt and food would just putrefy inside the digestive track. Your body can’t utilize partially digested food.

Taking digestive enzymes along with your food significantly improves digestion and prevents food from putrefying. Take off the undigested food and you have taken a big step in preventing adult acne.

That would obviously be a major step in curing and preventing acne, but the goods on enzymes don’t stop there. The second group of enzymes is systematic enzymes or, as some people call them, proteolytic enzymes.

Systematic enzymes are not used for digestion, but they enter the bloodstream and are transported all over your body. Having these enzymes floating around your body has a huge number of health benefits, but I’m going to focus on those that have a direct implication on curing and preventing acne.

Let’s use a small metaphor to illustrate a point here. Just for a little while imagine that the immune system is like a big gun that your body uses to fend of bad guys like bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi etc…

Systematic (proteolytic) enzymes are the ammunition for that gun. Bacteria, viruses, molds and fungi are protein/amino acid based, and are literally digested by systematic enzymes.

Can you see how that might help with acne? Systematic enzymes can literally eat away acne-causing bacteria.

Systematic enzymes can also clean your blood and lymph. Systematic enzymes are the primary tools the body uses to “digest” organic debris in the circulatory and lymph systems. What this means is that it takes some of the load off from the liver, giving your liver more time to clean toxins, chemicals and other poisons in your body.

-http://www.natural-acne-solution.com/enzymes-prevent-acne.html

Ray: So what the heck does this all mean?

Basically, if you have acne and you eat foods that are hard to digest, you can aggravate your acne. Enzymes help your body better break down foods before they become a PROBLEM for you AND your acne.

That’s it in a nutshell 😉

So how do you take enzymes? Any time you’re about to eat one of those kinds of meals, you know, the ones that you’re not too proud of but you gotta take a few bites because maybe the food selection is limited or your out eating with your friends and it’s a special occasion, you take some of these enzymes.

For example, it’s my friend’s birthday and we go out and eat at Red Robin. I’m not that hungry but my friends peer pressure me to grab something with them (trust me, this happens more often than you think). Finally, one of my friends offers to share a bite with me because she’s not too hungry either, but she wants a burger. Reluctantly, I give in.

The burger that she orders is something that I wouldn’t normally eat, but it’s okay because I have my TRUSTY enzymes! They’re going to help me digest foods that an ordinary body might struggle a little bit with. What I’m not saying is that these foods are not digested at all, but what I AM saying is that certain foods are more difficult to digest and are heavier than others.

If you don’t believe me, have you ever had a light salad before? How do you feel after you finish? Well… have come back from a trip, nay a JOURNEY, to the Hometown Buffet Restaurant coming from a 4-5 plates of chicken, fish, macaroni, and everything else you can imagine? How do you feel after that?

Well I’ll tell you from my College Course of Human Anatomy and Physiology, you’re probably feeling a lot more sluggish and lazy after that buffet meal. It’s because some foods and some combination of those foods are harder for your body to digest than others. And there’s been some considerable talk about enzymes aiding in digestion of those foods when you’re body is struggling to.

Now, the next time you know you’re about to have a heavy meal or some foods that you know might be mildly detrimental to your health, take a few digestive enzymes 5-10 minutes before the meal to help your body out.

Okay Ray, you speak of these “bad” foods, tell us then, which combination of foods should we avoid? More talk of this in my next article.

How To Clear Your Acne is done completely without pay and without outside help. This is information and experiences that I’ve compiled from more than the last 10 years of my life that I’m offering in order to give back to the community.

I think that people sometimes forget that I’m a normal person just like you and that this isn’t some corporately run office where I’m sitting in an air conditioned office sipping on my Starbucks Latte Grande.