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You can recapture the energy you had as a child. Get enzymes!

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I told Marc that we had to go back to what we had, and we had to find somebody who could make it the way I originally made it and the way I want it, so he and the other researchers have been working for months, going from lab to lab, trying to find one that would manufacture it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

Vibrant health requires optimal hormone production! Are you giving your body the enzyme building blocks it needs to keep you fully charged?

Supplemental enzymes come from plant, microbial, fermentation, and animal sources. A lot of you may be vegetarians, and I just wish for you to pay close attention, because I feel that I can speak your language quite well. I was a strict vegetarian for 27 years. I lived that life and felt it was really valuable—except for one thing. When you’re young in your 20s, 30s, and 40s, it’s really easy to be a vegetarian. 

When you hit 40, things start to change a bit. All of a sudden—and particularly for you ladies who have had children—all of a sudden you start to notice that your energy is down, and your skin doesn’t feel as soft and firm as it used to. You start to get little lines around your eyes but feel that you shouldn’t.  

Estrogen is needed to maintain beautiful skin for you ladies, and when you’re a vegetarian, you have a very, very difficult time maintaining proper estrogen levels after the age of 40 if you have had children. Now if you haven’t had children, you can probably make it to 50 before you really start noticing it, but in today’s world, I really doubt it.

For you men, it’s not any different, but it takes a little longer for us to notice the effects, since we’re not having babies and we’re not having the alterations take place in our bodies that women have. So a man might get to 50 before he can’t run quite as fast, can’t jump quite as high, or can’t bench press quite as much. Why? Because his testosterone levels are low. If he’s having problems as a married man, that might be an indicator to him. Testosterone.  That’s what allows a man to run fast, jump high, bench press, do the things he did when he was 20.

So what can we do to help our bodies produce hormones? Replenish our enzyme reserve, including animal enzymes.