How Do Digestive Enzymes Reduce Gas and Bloating?

Digestive enzymes help break down the food you eat into nutrients your body can use. Each enzyme targets a specific nutrient, such as carbohydrates, dietary fat, fiber and protein. Without adequate amounts of enzymes to break down a meal, that food will remain partially undigested.

Your digestive system runs on a schedule, and a shortage of enzymes or a slowdown due to incomplete digestion anywhere in the process (from your mouth and esophagus to stomach and intestines) can lead to occasional digestive discomforts. When undigested food lingers too long in your GI tract, it can ferment and lead to occasional gas, bloating, indigestion and irregularity.*

Plenty of things can impact the amount of digestive enzymes your body has on hand at any time. Age, genetics, how much you ate, what you ate, etc. can all play a role. Digestive enzyme supplements can help fill in the gaps, supplying your body with what it needs — without ever interfering with your natural production.

By supplementing with digestive enzymes, the stomach and intestines get help with digestion.* This improves nutrient absorption while quickly and efficiently breaking down food at each meal.*

Enzymes are proteins that speed up reactions. They occur naturally in your body, acting like scissors to help cut food into smaller pieces as it moves through the digestive tract. Enzymes help you more easily and fully absorb nutrients. Taking digestive enzymes reduces gas and bloating by giving your body what it needs to digest each nutrient optimally, helping you to feel like your best self before and after meals.*

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