Digestive enzymes, besides being anti-inflammatory, play yet another vital role in preventing autoimmune dysfunction. Research has found that 80% of people with autoimmune diseases, like fibromyalgia, suffer from a condition known as hypercoalgulation.

Hypercoagulation causes fibrins (or small fibers) to begin coating the inside walls of your blood vessels, capillaries, and arteries. It is believed that this process is set in motion by pathogens, or germs, like viruses, bacteria, and mycoplasmas. These germs can add insult to injury by causing your oxygen-carrying red blood cells to stick together, which causes further clogging. With our blood vessels clogged by fibrins and sticky red blood cells, the body has a reduced ability to deliver oxygen to the cells.  This is a tremendous problem because people with autoimmune dysfunctions, like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, need more, not less oxygen than the average person.

So what do digestive enzymes have to do with hypercaugulation? Taking digestive enzymes between meals and at bedtime can actually clean up the fibrin and sticky red blood cells from the inside of the blood vessels.  Additionally, because of their ability to digest foreign proteins, digestive enzymes work to clear out bad bugs like viruses.
Note: Unsaturated oils inhibit the digestive enzymes’ clean up process.

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