Gary Young's Blog

Gary loves to teach about enzymes because they are so vital to good health.

One of the things that you will see in Essentialzyme™ is carrot powder.

Why did I include carrot powder? Because I want the body to recognize the natural form of enzymes. It’s important to know that carrots contain the highest level of natural plant enzymes in the entire plant kingdom.

Remember, enzymes need minerals to perform their functions. Minerals are called “cofactors” because without them, enzymes would just sit around and do nothing. So it is vital that you supply your body with a variety of minerals.

If you look on the Essentialzyme label, you will see two ingredients called alfalfa leaf and sprout powders. Alfalfa is one of the most important ingredients we have included for a full range of essential minerals that harmonize and complement the enzymes in the carrot powder and the other enzymes that we have put with it. These enzymes include pancreatin, pancrelipase, trypsin, bromelain, and papain–all these ingredients are great because they work together.

Another reason why I included carrot and alfalfa is that I want your body to recognize Essentialzyme as a food so that your body does not become dependent on Essentialzyme to do the body’s action but will utilize Essentialzyme as food by breaking it down and putting the excess enzymes into your enzyme storage account to be drawn on it later, if needed.

What can enzymes do? They can clean up plaque and eliminate old fat and proteins left deposited for years. Enzymes enhance circulation and support the immune system by improving and increasing the surface area of the red blood cell, allowing it to transport more oxygen.

In addition, enzymes support weight regulation. Whoever thought of such a thing? For instance, overweight people may be lacking in lipase. In Essentialzymes-4™, you get lipase, and in Essentialzyme, you get pancrelipase (which is a form of pancreatin that has an elevated content of lipase).

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Essentialzyme is a complex of animal enzymes and plant enzymes including pancreatin-X, which is the strongest protein enzyme that exists. Your pancreatin enzymes help regulate the function of the pancreas and regulate glucose and insulin needs, and every aspect of it has a specific function.

So, if you want to stay well, then build your enzyme reserves. If you have an allergy, build your enzyme reserves.

I had a beautiful lady the other day say to me that she takes 20 to 30 enzymes a day and is still having a problem. So I made a real simple analogy. I said that if you have a car with a 21-gallon tank on it and you run out of gas, you have to pull over and park. If you put 1 gallon of gas in it, how far are you going to get before you run out of gas again? 

So for those of you starting out, your gas tank may be empty, and putting three or four enzymes in it is like putting a gallon of gas in it. You might get down the road a little ways, but you’re still going to have problems. You need to build up your enzyme reserves. It might take two years to reestablish that balance in your digestive tract, and up to two years could be a minimal time. If you have allergies, it might take you three years. If you have an illness, it might take you five years if you have depleted your enzyme reserves—particularly if you’re over the age of 40.

Gary told Marc to find a lab that could manufacture Essentialzyme in a tablet form. Mission accomplished!

I started the development of Essentialzyme in 1982 and finished it in 1984, and this has been the mainstay that I used in the treatment of my patients for all these years and still do today.

We experienced a problem two years ago with the laboratory that was manufacturing for us and tried to find another company that would formulate according to my specs and standards, but we had to go from a tablet to a capsule, which was not what I wanted, not because it wasn’t good but because it didn’t create the action that I put in the original formula.

I told Marc that we had to go back to what we had, and we had to find somebody who could make it the way I originally made it and the way I want it, so he and the other researchers have been working for months, going from lab to lab, trying to find one that would manufacture it correctly.

And now we have Essentialzyme in an enhanced formula. One thing that is really important to know is that animal enzymes work in the upper stomach, but they will not go through to the lower stomach. Therefore, it is really important to have an enteric coating or what we call a “bio layer” that has a time release in it, so it will stay for one hour in the upper gut and then go into the lower gut and release two hours later. Essentialzyme is a very powerful product, and you’re going to really love that, and, of course, it’s gone back to the tablet form.

The children from the Young Living Academy in Ecuador still have ample amylase reserves. But adults may need supplementation.

Plant enzymes have a wider range of activity than animal enzymes because there are so many of them such as protease, peptidase, lipase, amylase, glucoamylase, alpha-galactosidase, cellulase, hemicellulase, invertase, malt diastase, lactase, pectinase, and phytase. Wow, that’s a mouthful of “-ases.”

The plant enzymes, which are in your yellow capsule of Essentialzymes-4, contain Fiberzyme, Polyzyme, and Carbozyme and are so essential for you. 

Why is Fiberzyme important? People today do not digest fiber, and fiber is the host to candida, bacteria, and viruses. I have yet in 30 years to see a single patient with candida who was able to digest fiber.

Polyzyme contains protease to maximize protein digestion. It facilitates the breakdown of proteins into amino acids, supports the digestion of high-fat foods such as nuts, and enhances the absorption of nutrients.

Carbozyme contains amylase for digesting carbohydrates. The absence of amylase is the No. 1 cause of allergies today, so look at that and look at your past. Were you a child that maybe was nursed for a couple of months, and Mama ran out of milk, so she had to put you on formula? If that’s the case, you did not get enough amylase to build up the reserve in the body to be able to digest carbohydrates. And so what are you allergic to? Carbohydrates. All of this just builds the stage for having a wide range of health problems including allergies and gluten intolerance.

Now again, why are you so sensitive to gluten? Part of it is because all of the gluten products today are made from hybrid grains that have no enzymes. If you don’t have the enzymes, the product you are eating doesn’t have enzymes, so what’s going to digest it? Nothing. It’s going to create fermentation and may create a host environment for candida, bacteria, or a pathogen that leads to a disease. You are going to have problems and complications.

Gary created Essentialzyme-4 for those on the go who need the convenience of a two-capsule serving of the enzymes needed daily.

Plant enzymes work in the higher (alkaline) pH of the upper stomach and continue to be active throughout the acid of the lower stomach. Then they pass into the small intestine, which is alkaline, after which they reactivate and continue to work. 

This is why I’ve made several different enzymes for you. You have Allerzyme, Detoxzyme, Fiberzyme, Lipozyme, Carbozyme, and Essentialzyme. You’re just plumb “-zymed” up. I wanted to make it simple for you, so I did a little thing that might be fun with Essentialzymes-4™ that you can put in your pocket or in your purse. The four enzymes come in a two-capsule bubble pack, so you can easily take your enzymes wherever you would like to go.

Essentialzymes-4 capsules are two different colors. In this pack there are natural or cream-colored capsules and yellow capsules.

The natural-colored capsules are animal and plant enzymes and contain lipase. What does lipase do? It digests fat—and it does not come in a plant enzyme. Vegetarians who don’t take or eat any animal product do not get lipase. So what happens when their storage reserve of lipase that they’re born with is used up and they’re a vegetarian? It’s gone. You have to supplement with lipase if you’re a vegetarian, and if you’re a vegetarian and you don’t want to use an animal product, you’re in trouble. 

Because proteins and carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram while fat has 9, the fat-free diet came out in the 60s and continued evolving into the 80s. And what happened? The fat-free diet was promoted all over television, all over the world, and people’s hormones dropped even more because they didn’t have fat with which to make hormones.     

Yes, you have to have fat, but the right kind, and you’ve got to be able to convert it into a usable form. So the natural-colored capsule is lipase, an animal and oil enzyme, your old Lipozyme. Really simple.