Are there any advantages to taking digestive enzymes with meals? any disadvantages?

Digestive enzymes: Unless you have a specific deficiency, digestive enzymes are overhyped.

Pancreas: You only take digestive enzymes when your pancreas or intestine not working they are prescribed when there is dficiency and malabsorption. Advantage is to replenish. The disadvantages of taking them on normal body are nausea, bloating, gas, allergy, diarrhea and bleed. Excess of every thing is bad. Good luck.