Champion Digestive Enzymes

Everyone's digestive system does not have the same ability to breakdown foods and convert them into energy. Wellness Nutrition's™ blend of 12 Digestive Enzymes will provide the needed comprehensive digestive support for optimal absorption and utilization of your meals.

Digestive Enzymes contains a broad spectrum of enzymes designed to assist your body in the digestion of many different types of food. Many athletes™ diet is protein rich; this formula provides a comprehensive blend of 5 protein enzymes for maximum support.

A Broad Spectrum Blend using high potency enzymes is essential to the digestion and assimilation of proteins, fats, sugars, and carbohydrates.

Ingredients Blends

• Protease Blend - aids the digestion and utilization of dietary proteins.
• Peptidase - enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids.
• Papain - breaks down protein found in meat fibers.
• Bromelain - helps with the digestion of protein.

Information about Digestive Enzymes written by Michael Zumpano - Founder of Champion Nutrition

Wellness Nutrition� Digestive Enzymes: Formulated for Better Protein Assimilation

The evidence on protein intake and lean body mass has been accumulating for 35 years. Finally, experts and institutions are beginning to admit that athletes need more protein than the average Joe, that is, if they want to carry more muscle and less fat. Today, even the Food and Drug Administration's AMDR¹ allows for up to 35% protein in an athlete's diet. Highly respected research has now established that "higher protein diets have quite consistently been shown to result in greater weight loss, greater fat loss, and preservation of lean mass as compared with 'lower' protein diets."² But bodybuilders routinely consume over 50% of their calories in protein � up to 700 grams a day! Is your body able to efficiently assimilate all that protein? Was your body even designed to assimilate that much protein? Studies seem to indicate that it was not. Literature, as far back as 1978, shows that the pancreas does not increase its output of protein-digesting enzymes when you eat more protein.³ You will digest this protein, but you will do it slowly. This only worsens as you age and your natural enzyme production decreases. So what? What happens if you don't absorb that protein quite as fast? In 2003 researchers showed that the rate at which your body made new muscle tissue is directly proportional to the level of amino acids in blood.⁴ The curious thing is that muscle growth doesn't level off � the more aminos in your blood, the faster you grow! So the question is: how can I guarantee consistently higher levels of amino acids in my blood after eating a high-protein meal? There is really only one thing: digestive enzymes. Digestive enzymes may be the most important ergogenic aid available to bodybuilders today! It is the easiest way to immediately increase the muscle you gain from your high-protein diet.

The trouble is, most digestive enzyme products are very heavy on the carbohydrate-digesting enzymes. That's because most people's diets are still high in carbs. Next they contain fat-digesting enzymes, because that's the other major component of the normal diet. Protein digestion is an afterthought in these products. Maybe not coincidentally, the carbohydrate and fat-digesting enzymes are much less expensive than the protein-digesting enzymes. But athletes need protein. Protein is the most expensive and important ingredient in their recovery and growth. So a digestive product for athletes must focus on protein. When we set out to design Champion Nutrition's Wellness Nutrition Digestive Enzymes for athletes, we studied each enzyme in the process of digestion. We found that digestion of protein occurs in phases. The first bank of protein digesting enzymes 'soften-up' the protein for the next bank of enzymes. They do this by breaking-up the 3-dimensional structure of the protein to produce medium-length peptides. The 'breaks' must occur at just the right place so that the amino acids on the ends of these peptides can combine with the next bank of enzymes. This optimizes the generation of di and tri-peptides, the ideal protein segments for the fastest absorption. For this specific reason our product delivers 5 different protein digesting enzymes.

We're proud of the Wellness Nutrition Digestive Enzymes product we've created. It is one of those rare products with which you will immediately see the difference!

Michael Zumpan
Founder - Champion Nutrition