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Trying to understand digestive enzymes units
Hi B. and Daniel,
What do the digestive enzymes units mean? For example, protease has 60000 HUT.
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Hey ,
HUT stands for ‘Hemoglobine Units on Tyrosine Basis. It’s a procedure to determine the proteolitic activity of proteases. The test is based on what happens when these proteases do when they are exposed 30 minutes of a hemoglobin substrate at a certain pH level and a certain temperature (pH 4.7 and 40°C).
The other units are also units that tell you how effective these enzymes work under certain conditions.
For example DU is a unit that tells you something about how well this enzyme converts starches to dextrin molecules. It’s short for Alpha-amylase Dextrinizing Units.
HUT numbers are usually somewhere between 30.000 and 60.000 for most supplements.
As far as I can asses, the lipase (the enzyme that breaks down fats to fatty acids) has a good value as well. I’ve seen numbers varying from 300 to 1100 FIP. 3000 looks pretty good.
Glucoamylase, which is an enzyme that helps break down starches to glucose. Good values would be above 10 AGU.
Lactase is the enzyme that helps break down lactose. If you’re lactose intolerant the amount of lactase might not always be sufficient. I don’t think you are worried about that, but if you like to learn more you can find more information here and the other link I will share.
From what I can asses from the label is that this product is pretty potent.
If you like to learn more about the other enzymes, this reference could help you. I warn you, you might need a few digestive enzymes to digest this article as well.
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Hi Daniel,
Thank you for the detailed response. I just need something easy on the stomach will help with breakdown proteins. I want to see this heavy feeling like rocks will go away and something low with betaine hcl. It finally clicked with me that pepsin breaks down protein in the stomach and protease a pancreatic enzyme breaks down further in the small intestine. Am I right?
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You’re right. Pepsin is made in the stomach and starts protein digestion there. Protease assists when food passes through the stomach and prepares it for absorption in the small intestines.
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Thanks for the further clarification
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Hey ,
If understand you correctly I believe you like to try Betaine HCl low and slow. Just in case you’re considering the product from the label you shared.
Is it by any chance ‘Digestive Enzymes Ultra’ from Pure Encapsulations? Just asking, because this product is plant-based or rather based on yeast fermentation. Often Aspergillus is used to produce these enzymes. They might not be the best choice if you’re dealing with mold as well.
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Hi Daniel,
This may not be the best product if associates with yeast and this is the first time I came across this product. I notice it has 500mg Betaine HCL. It might be a bit too strong.
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