Re: Enzymes
Enzymes are present at just about every chemical change. Breakdown, or buildup, any kind of recombination, needs an enzyme to make it happen. that makes them just as important as vitamins or minerals, in fact, even more so, because without them, vitamins and minerals can't do their thing.
The body was designed to make use of the enzymes present in our foods, but we don't always eat raw, and aren't always able to free up the enzymes present because cellulose is pretty difficult to digest. Moreover, our pancreas gets exhausted from years of overdosing on refined sugars.
Enzymes are created from protein builders (amino acids) some of which we cannot make because our bodies don't have the DNA pattern for them. and just because we have the amino acids, there's no guarrantee that the liver or pancreas will make up enzymes as fast as we need them.
So... best to take some enzymes whenever we eat cooked foods.