In our continuing efforts to make our products the finest and most effective on the market, we have boosted our original enzyme product formulas with MycoProZyme, the first enzyme on the market that works in a low pH environment. Pepsin is the chief enzyme of gastric juice; it converts proteins into the proteoses and peptones necessary for digestion. If the body is properly nourished and not assaulted on a daily basis by various environmental toxins and other stress factors, it is fully capable of producing the necessary digestive enzymes for breaking down all of our food. But in these days of fast foods and hectic lifestyles, cooking and processing methods often kill the enzymes in foods, and diets are not always the most nourishing. Even when foods are consumed in their raw form, they are rarely backyard-garden fresh. So the foods we eat are often depleted of enzymes that our gastric juices cannot supply. Modern life has thus created a virtually universal need for food enzymes. If digestive enzymes can't come from our innate systems or from the foods we eat, they must come from another source--nutritional supplements.

Supplemental pepsin is often derived from a porcine (pig) stomach lining, whereas MycoProZyme is derived through a fermentation process from the fungi Aspergillus niger. The optimum pH and temperature conditions of both sources are almost identical; and these forms of pepsin function basically the same under conditions that are comparable to the conditions in the human stomach, so they provide similar benefit. Since our vendor, like Simplexity, prefers using non-animal sources when possible, MycoProZyme has proved to be a viable alternative to animal-based pepsin. Both SBG Zymes and SBG Zymes Plus contain MycoProZyme, and both are entirely non-animal in nature, including the use of a vegetable capsule instead of a gelatin capsule.