We All Need A Little (Digestive) Help

January is Food as Medicine month. Our focus is nutrition, awareness about bad ingredients in food and food that heals.

Our hectic lifestyles typically drive how well – or how poorly—we eat. We eat food on the run. It can be undercooked, overcooked or highly processed, all of which make food hard to digest. Sometimes we just need a little help, right? My private label Opti Digestive Support is specifically designed to support digestion and help unlock more nutrition from food. It is designed to stimulate the release and production of natural digestive enzymes in the pancreas. Those enzymes support digestion by breaking down food, unlocking more nutrients to your benefit. This formula supports gastric acid balance and digestive function.

Poor digestion can produce bloating and occasional gas, cramping, diarrhea or constipation, and even lead to incomplete digestion of food proteins that have been linked to food sensitivities. Optimal enzyme levels prevent foods from being fermented in the gut, so they halt the proliferation of “bad” bacteria and yeast at the expense of “good” intestinal bacteria. The enzymes facilitate more complete digestion of carbohydrates, which in turn removes the food source for these bad organisms.

Other things also contribute to poor gut absorption. Chronic overuse of certain medications may contribute to side effects stemming from low acid production, including poor mineral absorption and poor absorption of B12. Did you know that 1 in 3 Americans suffer from low levels of acidity? The depletion of stomach acidity is due to medications and age; there is age-related decline of enzyme.

The bottom line is that there are many factors that can lead to suboptimal nutritional status of certain vitamins and minerals and insufficient enzyme activation in the stomach. So, we all need a little help from enzymes.

The overall result and benefit of enzymes is that more nutrition can be derived from food. In addition, regular bowel movements result from this better digestion. My formulation is a comprehensive blend of acid-resistant, plant-based enzymes designed to help maximize the digestion and absorption of nutrients from food.

Each capsule includes lipase, amylase, lactase, CereCalase® and protease to aid in the digestion of protein, fat, starches, fiber and other difficult to digest foods known to cause food sensitivities. CereCalase®, a special blend of hemicellulase, beta-glucanase and phytase, is specially formulated to digest the cell walls of plants, providing better nutrition from a plant-based diet. The formulation also contains Gentian root and artichoke, both of which stimulate the body’s natural production of enzymes and bile.

Opti Digestive Support is specifically designed to support digestion and help unlock more nutrition from food. If you’ve made a 2024 resolution to eat healthier, consider this supplement as part of your regimen. It’s a great sidekick to healthy eating and you’ll definitely notice the result.