I am currently learning about enzymes, their functions (and absent) in the body. For example when someone has lactose intolerance they are lacking of the lactase enzymes, their body is unable to break lactose into glucose.
My question is do we have a limited amount of enzymes in our body or the body is continuously producing it?
If we have limited amount that means once we lose it, its gone forever and that happened to the people with lactose intolerance. Or our body is continuously producing it and the people who has this kind of problem is actually have misfunctioning organs/organisms.
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Enzymes are just a type of protein. If you are lacking the enzyme, your body isn’t producing it. If you aren’t producing it, then you either lack the gene, the gene is damaged, or the gene is turned off.
Adult onset lactose intolerance is usually the result of the lactase producing gene being switched off in adulthood. Being able to digest lactose in adulthood is actually a mutation that prevents the gene from being turned off.
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