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Digestive enzymes

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Digestive enzymes
Molecules that catalyze the breakdown of large molecules (usually food) into smaller molecules.
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digestive enzymes (di·jesˑ·tiv enˑ·zīmz),
n.pl proteins that catalyze reactions between other chemicals by reducing the energy required for the reactions.
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Digestive system.

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Raw food enhances the functioning capacity of digestive enzymes, supplies oxygen to the organs and tissues, and cleanses the bloodstream mainly through the ingestion of chlorophyll from green, leafy vegetables.
Digestive enzymes are essential for human and animal life.
In Ashcroft's case, an errant gallstone was blocking the flow of digestive enzymes from his pancreas to his small intestine.
 
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