Digestive enzyme is different from systemic enzyme. To support the systemic characteristic (it means throughout the entire body), systemic enzyme is protected by enteric-coated and also uses a highly advanced delivery system to make sure all the medication, in their most active state, get to all the tissues and organs.
Enteric-coated means coated with a certain type of material that allow to survive from stomach acid, then get into the small intestines where the medication’s finally absorbed by our body and distributed (Enteric: refers to the small intestine).
The other differences between systemic and digestive enzyme are
- Systemic enzyme is more expensive to produce.
- It’s very important to consume this type of enzyme on empty stomach, at least 30 minutes to an hour before meals, so our body can absorb them better.
On the contrary, the concept of digestive enzymes therapy is very different.
- It works in the stomach and intestine to help us digest all the foods we eat, so they can be absorbed into the blood stream.
- It is not designed to survive from stomach acid.
- It doesn’t have sufficient amount to be absorbed into the blood stream after being used for digestion process.
- The common types are amylase, protease and lipase.
The reasons why the need of systemic enzyme can’t be replaceable with digestive one are because
- Digestive enzyme has no protective coated, no balance between each of the ingredients, no synergy of action, and
- It isn’t designed to keep the enzymes from eating each other that will neutralize their own action.
