Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a branch of rehabilitation medicine/Physical Therapy dealing with optimizing physical function in patients with cardiac disease or recent cardiac surgeries. CR services can be provided during hospitalization for the event or in an outpatient setting.
Pepsin is the active protein-digesting enzyme of the stomach. Pepsin acts on protein molecules by breaking the peptide bonds that hold the molecules together. Digestion of protein is completed in the small intestine by the pancreatic enzymes trypsin, chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase. These enzymes also get some help from the brush border enzymes found in the small intestine.
Protein is found in meat, eggs, dairy products, fish, nuts and beans. Before your body can use protein to build and repair tissues, the large molecules of protein must be digested by enzymes into small molecules called amino acids. Digestion of protein begins in your stomach with the aid of gastric juices. Through the action of a group of potent enzymes from the intestinal lining and the pancreas, digestion continues in the small intestine. From there, amino acids are absorbed into the bloodstream and transported throughout your body.