08/21/2018
VITAMIN OF THE WEEK: ZYPAN
Support for a Healthy Digestive System
Digestion is a key element in overall wellness. Many people think digestion is just about what they eat or any issues they might have, like bloating or occasional heartburn. What they may not know, is that 70 percent of the immune system is in the digestive tract and a healthy gut supports so many other areas in the body.
Zypan combines pancreatin, pepsin, and betaine hydrochloride to facilitate healthy digestion.
* Supports gastrointestinal pH
* Supports the environment of the gastrointestinal tract
* Provides enzymatic support for protein digestion
* Stearic acid included to coat the pancreatin, helping it to be digested in the correct area of the digestive tract
INDICATIONS: Indigestion, flatulence, constipation, ulcers, emaciation, anemia, poor calcium & iron absorption, halitosis parasitic prophylactic, foreign travel (sudden dietary changes).
Commentary: This is a Pepsin and Hydrochloric Acid (HCL) supplement. This type of hydrochloric acid product works differently than antacids. The antacid is the wrong biochemistry, as it neutralizes one of the most important of all bodily secretions, hydrochloric acid. ZYPAN provides pepsin and HCL to aid the digestive process. In Guyton's Physiology, 7th ed, page 790, we read: "Pepsin, the important peptic enzyme of the stomach, is most active at a pH of 2 or 3 [extremely acid] and is completely inactive at a pH above approximately 5 (an antacid can easily raise pH to 6 or higher]. Consequently, for this enzyme to cause any digestive action on protein, the stomach juices must be acidic ... HCL is secreted by the parietal cells at a pH of about 0.8, but by the time it is mixed with the stomach contents and with the secretions from the nonoxyntic glandular cells of the stomach the pH ranges around 2 to 3, a highly favorable range of acidity for pepsin activity. Pepsin is capable of digesting essentially all the different types of proteins in the diet. One of the important features of pepsin digestion is its ability to digest collagen, an albuminoid that is affected little by other digestive enzymes. Collagen is a major constituent of the intercellular connective tissue of meats, and for the digestive enzymes of the digestive tract to pe*****te meats and digest the cellular proteins, it is first necessary that the collagen fibers be digested. Consequently, in persons lacking peptic activity in the stomach, the ingested meats are less well pe*****ted by the digestive enzymes and, therefore, may be poorly digested." Guyton also warns of pernicious anemia (potentially fatal form of anemia) from a stomach chronically low in HCL (hypo or achlorhydria):
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