Digestive Enzymes
PIONEER® Digestive Enzymes & Herbs combines potent, broad-spectrum digestive
enzymes, from pancreatin, with concentrated, traditional digestive herbs.
This two-in-one combination is clinician-designed to help provide nutritive
support for assisting and strengthening the digestive process. Raw food
naturally contains the proper types and proportion of enzymes to assist in its
own digestion.
Food enzymes are released by the action of chewing, which ruptures the food’s
cell membranes. Like salivary enzymes, raw food enzymes play an important role
in human digestion by predigesting food in the upper stomach, where contents may
sit for as long as an hour before gastric secretions begin their action. Since
enzymes are essentially destroyed at 118ºF, most forms of cooking and industrial
food preparation render food devoid of enzyme activity. This places the full
burden of digestion on body processes and reserves. In time, this burden can
weaken or overwhelm an individual’s ability to process and absorb vital food
nutrients. Many health professionals believe that the prevalence of cooked and
processed foods in modern society makes supplementation with digestive enzymes
essential. Digestive enzymes also may be of benefit to those who experience poor
digestion and absorption.
Take With Meals
Serving Size 1 veg. capsule
AMOUNT PER SERVING %DV
Pancreatin 4X 350 mg . . .*
Protease 35,000 USP
Amylase 35,000 USP
Lipase 2,800 USP
Organic Ginger
Zingiber officinalis Root 100 mg . . .*
Fennel Foeniculum vulgare Seed Extract
(4:1 concentrate) 75 mg . . .*
Peppermint Mentha piperata Leaf Extract
(stand. to 1 mg [2%] essential oil) 50 mg . . .*
Gentian Gentiana lutea Root Extract
(5:1 concentrate) 50 mg . . .*
Artichoke Cynara scolymus Leaf Extract
(stand. to 1 mg [2%] caffeic acids) 50 mg . . .*
Cayenne Capsicum annuum Fruit 15 mg . . .*
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