Doctor's Best Proteolytic Enzymes Supplement for Men & Women - Supports Protein Digestion, Caps for Digestive Wellness, Bromelain, Protease, & Papain Blend, Supports Metabolic Health - 90 Veg Capsules

Writing this review hoping it is helpful to others. Little background first... Before taking any supplements I always buy AND read at least 2 books on the topic ÷ look at pubmed published research + read as many user reviews as possible. About 10 years ago i read the books but didnt follow through with supplementing mostly because i was young and healthy but the idea stayed in my mind. The beauty of books is that someone else spends the time compiling the research and it acts as a quick source of reference. Unfortunately they become dated. That's where pubmed comes in, takes a couple of minutes to find all the new research. User reviews are great but difficult to compare different products and can be manipulated. The reason why i mention all of this is because most people want the shortest answer. I myself look for honesty and accuracy. I first started taking proteolytic enzymes for its cardiovascular effects, specifically it's ability to break down fibrinogen in your blood thereby having a blood thinning effect, which it does. What motivated me to write this review on this specific product was 2 recent experiences. In July of 2018 i traveled to Puerto Vallarta which is mosquito season. They bite you in the ankles and elbows and you get intense itching. Usually a little topical antihistamine stops it cold, except it didn't help this time. Not only did it not help but i got intense uncontrollable itching in areas that never itch like the side of the ribs, top of the thighs etc. Took oral antihistamines thinking it might be an allergic reaction and it made no difference. Applied topical steroid creams and it didnt make a difference either except for getting more concerned and frustrated. This lasted for 2 months. Coincidentally the previous bottle of these enzymes was about to run out so i decided to take it with me and finish the remainder throughout the day. I took between 6 or 8 pills throughout the day. Incredibly the intense itching in unusual areas was completely gone the following morning. If you read the research you'll find that proteolytic enzymes reduce inflammation, breakup biofilm, breakdown proteins amongst other things. I don't know the exact mode that helped me but i am very clear that it did. After that experience while reordering I decided to read other reviews to see if anybody else had a similar experience. While reading the reviews many people mention that it's helped them with their joints. My mother had just showed me her hand and fingers and how she could not curl her fingers in to touch her palm. I ordered her a bottle and told her to take it as the bottle suggests. It's been about 3 weeks and today she showed me her hands again. She was able to curl her fingers to her palm now and told me that her joint pain started to go away within 3 days of taking them. She was really appreciate and asked me to make sure she didnt run out of them. If you spend enough time trying to compare the specific enzymes or combinations in different products you quickly realize that its almost impossible. I do supplement with other enzymes for different reasons but the effects of these were clear and so i was motivated to write this review. Hope it helps others out there.

A few weeks ago after flossing (which I hadn't done for a while), I got a severe headache in my cheek and temple region, just on one side of my face. The headache persisted every day for the next 1-2 weeks and was really intense -- actually debilitating! I thought that I had stirred up some microbes from the flossing and had created a sinus infection. So I started doing everything I could to try and kill the infection -- including, essential oils (internally and externally), coconut oil, oil pulls, oregano and peppermint oils (internally and externally), garlic, hydrogen peroxide inserted into my sinus cavity, apple cider vinegar, On Guard oil, Thieves oil, etc. Absolutely nothing worked, except for some occasional temporary relief, but not always. Then one day I saw a green fleshy-looking substance come out when I blew my nose. After researching this, I realized I actually had a fungal type of sinus infection -- Aspergillus Sinusitus. This fungus creates a "fungus ball" in your nose or sinus area and protects itself with a biofilm that makes antibiotics and even the body's own immune system ineffective against it. The conventional treatment is surgery, which is used to go in and remove this thing physically. I was not a fan of that route, so I did a bunch of research and discovered that certain enzymes can destroy these biofilms -- the very same enzymes that are in this product (Proteolytic Enzymes). So I gave it a try. After 1-2 days of taking this product, the headaches went away -- totally! This was amazing, because absolutely nothing I tried had been able to achieve this beforehand. Also, after these 2 days there was no further evidence of the fungus ball when blowing my nose. The enzymes seemed to have done their work beautifully -- destroying the biofilm so that my own immune system could then go in and destroy the fungal infection. I was actually amazed how quickly this condition turned around. Since then, I have continued taking the enzymes at the recommended dosage of 3 caps per day between meals. I've continued to be totally headache free and have had absolutely no symptoms of any infection. A few notes: For the first few days I took 3-4 times the recommended dosage. Instead of 3 caps per day, I probably took around 10-12 per day for the first few days (half of these at night and the other half in the early morning). After that, I tapered down slowly to the recommended 3 caps per day. I was also very careful to always take these on an empty stomach -- hours after any meals, and hours before any meals. I had absolutely no stomach upsets from taking these. Bottom line: This product was extremely helpful for me and seemed able to help my body destroy a fungal-based sinus infection very quickly -- possibly by destroying the protective biofilm.