Liquid Vitamin Facts: Enzymes in Liquid Vitamin Supplements?
Why do liquid vitamin supplements incorporate enzymes? Read more to find out why.
Liquid vitamin supplements are incorporating enzymes into their supplements. Why would they want to do this? Why are enzymes so important for the body? Enzymes are essential to sustain life. Most chemical reactions in the body would occur too slowly, or would lead to different products without the assistance of enzymes.
An enzyme is a protein that catalyzes, or speeds up, a chemical reaction. In fact, it is estimated that digestion of one meal would take 50 years without the help of enzymes. So enzymes are very important for the body. So it only makes sense to have a vitamin that contains enzymes.
Enzymes are specific and very selective. Enzymes may catalyze only one reaction, or one specific class of closely related reactions. Some enzymes require the incorporation of a non-protein molecule to become catalytically active, referred to as cofactors (metal ions such as zinc, and iron) or organic molecules known as coenzymes, which are derivatives of vitamins (niacin and riboflavin). Lack of a particular vitamin or mineral can impair the action of its corresponding enzyme and lead to disease. This is an important reason to take a good daily vitamin supplement.
Kristy Haugen
