Are Digestive Enzymes The Missing Link In Your Gut Routine?
Sold as the ultimate fix for bloating, sluggish digestion and even clearer skin, here’s everything you and your gut need to know…
Written by: Samantha Nice
Written on: August 11, 2025
Samantha Nice is a seasoned wellness writer with over a decade of experience crafting content for a diverse range of global brands. A passionate advocate for holistic wellbeing, she brings a particular focus to supplements, women’s health, strength training, and running. Samantha is a proud member of the Healf editorial team, where she merges her love for storytelling with industry insights and science-backed evidence.
An avid WHOOP wearer, keen runner (with a sub 1:30 half marathon) hot yoga enthusiast and regular gym goer, Samantha lives and breathes the wellness lifestyle she writes about. With a solid black book of trusted contacts (including some of the industry’s leading experts) she’s committed to creating accessible, well-informed content that empowers and inspires Healf readers.
- 1. What are digestive enzymes?
- 2. When digestion doesn’t go to plan
- 3. So should you be supplementing with digestive enzymes?
- 4. Do they actually work?
- 5. When and how should you take them?
- 6. Can food help instead?
- 7. What the science says
- 8. Any digestive enzyme myths to watch out for?
- 9. Bottom line: do you need digestive enzymes?
