Vitamins Working With Enzymes

Vitamins are miracle workers in the body, but they do not work alone.

Our bodies were created to be able to convert food into energy but in order to do this it needs three critical elements.  Used together, they are, Vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.

Enzymes are tiny elements found in all cell of any living organism, plant, animal, human. Enzymes are the catalysts, which speed up our body processes and functions.  Think of an enzyme as a specialist. It has one task to perform, create energy from vitamins in our foods.  Here is the next important bit of information about your friend the Enzyme; he cannot live in temperatures over 120 degrees. If you cook the foods over that, the enzymes in the foods will be killed by the heat, and no longer an added source. Foods that are good tasting, raw, should be eaten as much as possible in the diet.

Enzymes are produced in the pancreas.  If your pancreas isn't producing enough of the right kind, or you are not getting enough in your food, your body can't utilize the vitamins and minerals. The three work together, without one the other doesn't function properly in the body.

Now that you know you need the proper vitamins to insure that your pancreas functions correctly, do you feel as if you are going in circles? Well, you are. Here is another factor, which will show you even more of how vitamins sustain life.

There are two kinds of vitamins: Those which dissolve in fat (such as in eggs, and liver); and those which dissolve in water (like in fruits and vegetables). The fat soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K. The water soluble one are C, various B complex, P and others. Vitamins A and D are the two vitamins which are stored in the liver for future use, as well as some others we will discuss later. So beware of these levels, as excessive amounts, could cause trouble.  As a general rule of thumb, 50,000 IU or Vitamin A and 4,000 Units of Vitamin D, are considered safe.  Please check with your own physician before taking any medications.

As our body uses the vitamin supply by it's own activity, what can you do to help keep your sources of vitamins at higher levels?  Replace them with high vitamin sources of foods, and read the list below.  This is only a small list of items which deplete our vitamins:

• Tobacco, alcohol
• salt, sugar, rancid fats
• estrogen antibiotics
• sleeping pills, tranquilizers
• mineral oil
• surgery sickness, accidents
• emotional strain
• fluorides
• polluted air or water
• pesticides
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