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Digest Ultimate is a broad-spectrum blend of digestive enzymes in a plant-based capsule. NOW has packed nineteen different enzymes into it, each with its own function. From proteins and fats to milk sugar and the fibers from beans and cabbage. You take one capsule with each meal, and there are 120 in the bottle.
Enzymes are proteins that speed up a chemical reaction without being consumed themselves. In your digestion, they act like a kind of scissors. They cut large molecules from your food into pieces small enough to pass through your intestinal wall. Your body produces digestive enzymes itself in your salivary glands, your stomach, and especially your pancreas. Each enzyme is specialized. Amylase cuts starch into sugars, protease chops proteins into amino acids, and lipase splits fats into fatty acids. What many people do not know: your body cannot break down some components of your food at all, because you simply lack the right enzyme. Think of cellulose from plant cell walls or certain sugars from legumes.
The difference with many other enzyme products lies in the breadth. In addition to amylase, lipase, and four types of protease, Digest Ultimate also contains cellulase, hemicellulase, and xylanase, which act on plant fibers. Alpha-galactosidase splits raffinose and stachyose, sugars found in beans, lentils, and cabbage. Lactase cuts lactose (milk sugar) into glucose and galactose. In addition, you will find bromelain from pineapple, phytase, which breaks down phytic acid from grains, and invertase for regular sugar. NOW produces most of these enzymes through fermentation with fungi such as Aspergillus. As a result, they remain active over a wide pH range, from acidic to neutral. That is relevant, because your stomach is very acidic and your small intestine is almost neutral.
If you look at the table, you will see no milligrams per enzyme, but codes like DU, HUT, FIP, and ALU. Those are activity units. They indicate how much work an enzyme can perform, not how much it weighs. In short: two enzymes of the same weight can differ enormously in activity. That is why activity is the fair measure. HUT, for example, stands for the amount of protein that protease breaks down in a certain time, measured according to the American Food Chemicals Codex. The higher the number, the more active the enzyme. The 82,500 HUT of protease and 23,000 DU of amylase per capsule are substantial amounts in that respect.
Because enzymes do their work at the moment they encounter your food, you take Digest Ultimate at the beginning of the meal. The capsule itself is made of plant-based cellulose and uses a little MCT oil as a carrier. Anyone looking for digestive enzymes that cover as broad a menu as possible, from a high-protein lunch to a plate of chili con carne, will find in Digest Ultimate a complete enzyme complex without unnecessary additives.
From amylase, lipase and four types of protease to lactase, alpha-galactosidase, phytase and cellulase. Each enzyme has its own type of nutrient.
The enzymes come from fermentation and remain active over a wide pH range. It even contains an acid-stable protease that remains active in an acidic environment.
NOW states the activity for all nineteen enzymes in official units such as HUT, DU and FIP. So you can see exactly what a capsule can do, instead of just a total weight.
With 120 capsules and one capsule per meal, one bottle lasts 40 days when taken three times a day.
* Percentage van de referentie inname volgens Verordening (EU) Nr. 1169/2011.
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They are proteins that break food down into smaller pieces so your intestine can absorb the building blocks. Your body produces them itself in your mouth, stomach, and pancreas. A supplement like Digest Ultimate adds enzymes from an external source when you eat.
With the meal, preferably with the first few bites. Enzymes only work when they come into contact with your food. If you take the capsule long before or after eating, the enzymes will have nothing to work on.
Yes, 1000 ALU lactase per capsule. This is the enzyme that splits lactose into glucose and galactose.
Yes. The capsule is made of plant-based cellulose and the enzymes come from fermentation with molds, yeast and bacteria, plus bromelain from pineapple. It contains no animal-derived enzymes such as pancreatin. Please note: according to the label, it may contain traces of gluten, milk and egg.
Alpha-galactosidase breaks down raffinose and stachyose into smaller sugars. These sugars are found in beans, lentils, chickpeas, and cruciferous vegetables. Your body does not produce this enzyme itself, so these sugars normally reach your large intestine undigested, where bacteria ferment them.
Pancreatin comes from the pancreas of pigs and works mainly in the neutral environment of the small intestine. Microbial enzymes, such as those in Digest Ultimate, are made through fermentation and work across a wider pH range, including in your acidic stomach. In addition, they are suitable for vegetarians.
