The Pancreas & Pancreatic Enzymes
The pancreas is a glandular organ inside the abdomen. You might know that it releases insulin and glucagon, hormones that keep your blood sugar level stable. But the pancreas also secretes enzymes that digest your food.
When you eat, your pancreas produces pancreatic juice that contains several enzymes. Although most pancreatic enzymes assist digestion, not all digestive enzymes are made in the pancreas. The stomach, small intestines, and tongue also produce digestive enzymes.
Types of Pancreatic Enzymes
Your body has three types of pancreatic enzymes: lipolytic, amylolytic, and proteolytic. Those are big words that have simple meanings. The root “lytic” means to break apart, and "lipo" refers to lipids (fats). Thus, lipolytic enzymes break down fats. "Amylo" is a Latin root word that means starch; Amylolytic enzymes work on carbohydrates. And proteolytic enzymes break down proteins.
Once large pieces of food get broken into smaller ones, the body can absorb and use their nutrients for energy or as the building blocks of organs and tissues.[3] Let's take a closer look at each of the three pancreatic enzymes.
Amylolytic
Amylolytic enzymes break down carbohydrates. Specifically, amylolytic enzymes break down complex carbs (polysaccharides) into simple sugars like glucose.
Interestingly, these enzymes are used commercially to produce beer, food sweeteners, and paper.
Amylase is one of the most common amylolytic enzymes. It’s considered a pancreatic enzyme because it’s produced by — you got it — the pancreas. Only half of the body’s amylase is made in the pancreas, though. The rest is made in your mouth and present in your saliva.
Lipolytic
The primary purpose of lipolytic enzymes is to digest fats or lipids. Common lipolytic enzymes include lipase, phospholipase, and lecithinase A and B.
The pancreas produces lipase, an enzyme that breaks triglycerides into free fatty acids and glycerol. Other organs, including the tongue, stomach, and liver, also produce lipase.
Healthcare professionals often look at blood levels of amylase and other enzymes when evaluating and diagnosing acute pancreatitis and other pancreatic issues.[7, 8] Don't worry, taking supplemental enzymes will not affect this test.
Proteolytic
Proteolytic enzymes break down protein from your food. Sometimes, they’re also called peptidases, proteases, or proteinases. Examples of proteolytic enzymes made in the pancreas include chymotrypsin and trypsin. These two powerhouse enzymes work to break down amino acids.
Proteolytic enzymes not only help with digestion, but they also act systemically. This means they keep the body cleaned up, so to speak, breaking down protein from infections, scar tissue, and old cells.
Points to Remember
The pancreas produces pancreatic enzymes, as well as hormones like insulin and glucagon. Pancreatic enzymes play a vital role in the digestion of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
Different types of digestive enzymes play unique roles in the body. Amylolytic enzymes process nutrients from carbohydrates, like starches and sugars. Lipolytic enzymes break down fats. And proteolytic enzymes digest proteins.
For optimal health, you need optimal levels of all pancreatic enzymes. An enzyme deficiency will cause digestive issues, among other things.
Medical research and science doesn’t yet know that celery juice contains completely different digestive enzymes, which perform a separate function to the digestive enzymes that break down food in your stomach. These digestive enzymes are completely unique to celery juice, meaning you can’t get them from any other food. As shared in Medical Medium Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine of Our Time Healing Millions Worldwide, celery juice’s digestive enzymes are “like little capsules that are activated by pH change when they enter the small intestinal tract. One celery juice enzyme can reignite, revive, and reactivate multiple weakened digestive enzymes from other sources that are hanging around in the small intestine.”
What does this mean for your body?
First, it’s important to understand that almost everyone today has digestive enzymes that are not as strong as they’re meant to be. The reason for this is because the liver plays a critical role in producing one essential type of digestive enzyme––a truth which is decades away from being discovered by research and science. But the problem is that nine out of ten people right now have livers that are overburdened and sluggish from having to deal with so many toxins, pathogens, pollutants, poor diet and lifestyle choices, alcohol, medication, drugs, cigarettes, air fresheners, colognes and perfumes, and more. A struggling liver impacts the production of the type of digestive enzyme the liver is responsible for, which in turn affects digestion and contributes to other problems within the body. This is one key reason why so many people experience digestive issues of some kind over their lifetime. If you’ve been fortunate enough to have not experienced any digestive issues yet, it’s still important to take preventative steps now to avoid suffering with them in the future.
Celery juice's digestive enzymes are a saving grace to these weak enzymes almost everyone has. They come along and reinvigorate these weary enzymes so they can do their job better. Plus, celery juice’s enzymes re-stimulate enzymes from food that are in the small intestine. Celery juice also revives the liver so it can produce stronger bile-related digestive enzymes in the first place and helps strengthen the pancreas and ignite pancreatic enzymes. In addition, the enzymes in celery juice themselves are profoundly powerful for the breakdown, digestion, and assimilation of certain nutrients that neither bile nor hydrochloric acid addresses, because the digestion process is that complex. Medical research and science do not yet fully understand how digestion works and how intricate, involved, and miraculous it is.
The benefits I’ve shared here are just a handful of the ways celery juice’s enzymes are instrumental in improving the health and functioning of your body. There’s many more ways they support you. Celery juice actually contains well over two dozen varieties of enzymes, most of them undiscovered and involved in the breakdown of waste matter inside the intestinal tract. But it’s the healing benefits the three special undiscovered enzymes I mentioned above provide that are one of the main reasons so many people feel better and heal when they drink 16 ounces of straight celery juice on an empty stomach every morning.
Celery juice isn’t a short-term fad or trend that is going to soon pass. It’s not something that’s popular right now but will soon be a distant memory. That will never happen with celery juice because its healing power is too great. It has made that much of a difference in millions of people’s health and lives already and will continue to help many millions more. Celery juice, when consumed in the specific way has the potential to bring improvement and healing to all kinds of chronic illnesses and symptoms, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, acid reflux, bloating, SIBO, migraines, anxiety, depression, dermatitis, allergies, fatigue, mood swings, reproductive issues, fibromyalgia, streptococcus, and much more.
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