Kill Exhaustion With Enzymes

One reason why one can feel exhausted is a lack of enzymes in the diet.

Enzymes are catalysts in chemical reactions. Our body is full of chemical reactions taking place all of the time, such as the one that uses vitamin C to create cartinine, to turn fat into fuel.

In chemical reactions, if enzymes are not present, the reaction requires twice as much energy to take place than if an enzyme was present, like the following chart demonstrates:

Raw foods are absolutely abundant with thousands of enzymes. When we eat enzymes, our body uses energy more efficiently because we are physically using less ATP to facilitate chemical reactions.

Heating food over 115F denatures enzymes: it breaks bonds, changes their structure, and leaves them unable to bond to other molecules in order to do their job.

So, eating raw veg & fruits replenishes your body’s enzymes stores, and thus amps up your energy levels.

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What has 15x more nutrition than celery?

budding sunflower sprouts

It’s definitely more difficult to stay healthy during the winter. Local farms in cold climates stop delivering fresh produce, and so we have to ship more in from warmer climates.

The longer produce stays on a truck, the more nutrients are lost.

That’s why it’s critical to consume locally grown sprouts in the wintertime.

Consider the following chart, which demonstrates that pea sprouts have up to 15 times the nutrition of celery.

Source: www.nutritiondata.com

Sprouts contain many minerals, which is important because non-organic produce is grown in mineral-deficient soil (Source: United States Department of Agriculture).

Sprouts also contain 10 to 100 times the amount of enzymes than in raw fruits and vegetables.

Enzymes are critical for health because they catalyze chemical reactions. Thousands of reactions take place in your body to keep you alive, healthy, and young.

Without catalysts, reactions take more energy to produce the same result – leaving you feeling drained.

Whenever we use sprouts on our raw or vegetarian retreats, they come from a local grower named Mark Mackenzie. You can contact him to grow you pea, buckwheat, sunflower and wheat sprouts (i.e., wheatgrass).

Mark is also an extremely knowledgeable nutritionist and a 6-year raw vegan, so feel free to pose your advanced nutrition questions to him: +1.519.940.3869.