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From:	Ian (166.3.248.129)
Subject:	Question about digestive enzymes
Date:	June 6, 2012 at 1:35 pm PST

This is a quote from Dr. Edward Howell, from his book The Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism

"A separate and distinct organ, the food enzyme stomach, is widespread in Nature. It was evolved specifically to pre-digest food by food enzymes before the body's digestive enzymes come into contact with the food. I have
also documented that three outstanding, authoritative texts, Gray's Anatomy, Cunningham's Anatomy and Howell's Physiology have recorded that the human stomach consists essentially of two parts — the upper section and the lower section, with different physiological duties. The upper part of the human stomach performs the same function as the food-enzyme stomach of animals, which is the predigestion of food by food enzymes."

Is this valid or not? My thoughts were that all food is digested using enzymes that were created in the body and we don't use the enzymes of the foods we eat. They simply get digested with everything else we eat. This seems to be a contradiction to that.

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