Protease
Other Names: Peptidases, Potease.
A protease is a classification of enzyme that begins the process of catabolism of proteins through the hydrolysis of peptide bonds linking amino acids together.
Per the Enzyme Nomenclature committees, these substances should be referred to as peptidases.
Forms of Protease:
There are six classes of proteases known to science at the current time: threonine proteases, aspartic acid proteases (plasmepsin); serine proteases, glutamic acid proteases, cysteine proteases; and metalloproteases.
Sources of Potease:
Proteases are found naturally in all organisms and make up between one and five percent of the gene content.
Home Remedies using Protease:
Benefits and Uses of Potease:
Proteases have many varied benefits, depending on the specific type in question and can assist in many physiological occurrences ranging from digestion to regulating cascades, such as the blood clotting cascade.
Some proteases have shown potential benefits for:
- treatment of inflammatory conditions
- blood rheology control
- cancer
Proteases can also break down excess toxins, cellular debris, and undigested protein in the blood, saving the immune system from this task so that it can fully concentrate on live proteins (fungus, bacteria, and parasites) that proteases cannot break down.
Serine proteases are present in trypsin and chymotrypsin, which help in the digestion of protein in food.
Other proteases are present in blood and assist in blood clotting and the correction of the immune system.
Some are present in leukocytes (eg elastase) and are important in metabolic control.
Many proteases play an important part in the physiology of antibodies, hormones, and other enzymes by determining the lifetime of proteins that are necessary for such functionality.
Side Effects of Potease:
As the catalysts in the breakdown of proteins and amino acids, proteases are often involved in the destruction and breakdown of other proteases.
However, there are no known negative side effects of proteases.
Additional Information for Potease:
Inadequate amounts of proteases present to digest proteins can result in insomnia, excessive anxiety, arthritis, osteoporosis, moodiness, calcium deficiency, hypoglycemia, irritability, and compromised immune systems that lead to more frequent bacterial, viral, and yeast infections.
