November 9, 2008

Know Your Amino Acids

Most of us have good general knowledge about vitamins and fats and how they affect our health. The very mention of amino acids generates a kind-of apathetic attitude, since amino acids sound too technical and difficult to understand. Although you might have heard about amino acids, how they affect every area of your health may not have occurred to you. A deeper understanding of these indispensable chemical units can reveal how they affect every area of your life. On the other hand, a deficiency of amino acids can cause an array of disorders that often go undiagnosed with traditional testing or screening methods. We will try to plug those screening loopholes in this article.The Building BlocksAmino Acids are chemical subunits of proteins. They make up proteins and therefore are called the building blocks of proteins. They form shorter polymer chains called peptides, or longer chains called polypeptides or proteins. Amino acids also act as intermediates in metabolism.If any amino acid is missing, the entire effectiveness of the other amino acids is reduced, just like one missing block affects the entire building. The entire framework may be in danger of collapsing because of a single deficiency. A difficulty in handling proteins […]

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