Extra Strength Digestive Enzymes

Digestive enzymes are proteins that break food down into pieces small enough for your body to absorb. Each one has a specific job and without them a meal would pass through largely intact and most of the nutrition in it would go unused.

Your body makes these on its own and how much you produce varies with age, with the size and richness of the meal, and from one person to the next. When a meal outpaces the supply, food reaches the lower gut only partly broken down, where bacteria ferment it. That fermentation is where a lot of post-meal gas, bloating and heaviness comes from.

A supplemental enzyme works on the meal in front of you. Taken at the start of the meal, it mixes in with the food and helps break it down alongside your own enzymes. It isn't stored and doesn't accumulate so it does its work on that meal and is digested along with it.

One or more capsules at the start of the meal with the first bite of food.

No. A probiotic seeds your gut with bacteria over a period of several weeks. Good Digestion is a digestive enzyme which works to breakdown the food in that one meal.

90 capsules covers up to 90 meals, depending on whether a meal takes one capsule or two. Used at every meal that is roughly a month; used only for the meals that tend to cause trouble, considerably longer.