Welcome to the GetFake Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the GetFit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to learn

how to use digestive enzymes to help with exercise. That's right, digestive enzymes for exercise. Now, let's say you're sore.

Maybe it was the heavy squats or the long run or the enormous number of pull-ups you cranked out,

or just life in general. So you open the refrigerator and you're digging around for something,

anything, to knock out the soreness. And you happen upon that bottle of digestive enzymes you

perhaps rarely use or only use prior to meals. And you look at the label. It says protease this

and amylase that and HUT, sapu, FIP, whatever the heck those mean. I do have a link in the show

notes to piece on digestive enzymes that my fellow Quick and Dirty Tips

podcaster, The Nutrition Diva, did indeed record. You can check that out at quick and dirty

tips.com. But anyways, you put away the bottle and shrug and walk away, perhaps in search of a

foam roller. But what would have happened had you popped a few of those enzymes? Well, you'd be

surprised at what could have happened when it comes

to the potential for a significant increase in muscle recovery. So in this episode, I'm going to tell

you how digestive enzymes can be used for far more than just say, digesting a steak or a big meal.

If you need a really comprehensive review of what digestive enzymes are and how digestive enzymes

actually work, then please

listen to a podcast episode that I have over at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com. It is called Digestive

Enzyme Myths. And in that podcast, I interviewed this biohacker named Matt Gallant and also a

bodybuilder named Wade Lightheart about probiotic and digestive enzymes blends, and they reveal

plenty of very interesting facts that I didn't know about both probiotics and digestive enzymes.

So basically, the role of digestive enzymes is to act as catalysts in speeding up specific chemical

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