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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The body makes enzymes, but they don’t last long, they are generally large complex protein structures; different parts of the body are responsible for different enzymes, normally located near where they are needed. So if that part of the body is missing or malfunctioning the enzyme isn’t produced.
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