Morning Dennis,
>> At 11:53 PM 5/28/2007, you wrote:
I have been a vegetarian for 10 years now and have been useing Braggs
liquid aminos to supplement my diet.
I have used this product also. I have been a little skeptical of it
because it is not a complete protein and does not contain all the essential
amino acids. I would like to see a few rats in a cage given this product to
see how long they would live.
( I know....... Too much Suffering )
If used in combination with a decent variety of food, the combination of
the two likely fills the bill on amino acids.
For many years, there were 16 essential amino acids. Now you find 12 as
being essential, and other places list 10.
That is why eating a little meat, whey protein, or other complete proteins
means the goofy writers that confuse us, can jump in the lake.
I still have doubts that slightly unhealthy people can make the ones that
are called Non essential. Supposedly a healthy body can in fact synthesis
them, but what about the unhealthy body with an inferior diet?
Virtually every food I eat intentionally, is listed here with amino acid
content. http://www.fugitt.com/trailmix.htm
This is all USDA data and one can quickly view a list of amino acids
in a number of common foods. NO MEAT is listed. Nuts, Seeds, and good
produce I grow and like............ Peanuts and Sunflower Seeds are near
the best source of many things. Almonds and Black Strap are good foods also.
Interesting brief on amino acids.
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Essential amino acids
Humans can produce 10 of the 20 amino acids. The others must be supplied in
the food. Failure to obtain enough of even 1 of the 10 essential amino
acids, those that we cannot make, results in degradation of the body's
proteins muscle and so forth to obtain the one amino acid that is needed.
Unlike fat and starch, the human body does not store excess amino acids for
later usethe amino acids must be in the food every day. The essential
amino acids include: Arginine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, lysine,
Methionine, Phenylalanine, Trypophan, and Valine.
The amino acids arginine, methionine and phenylalanine are considered
essential for reasons not directly related to lack of synthesis. Arginine
is synthesized by mammalian cells but at a rate that is insufficient to
meet the growth needs of the body and the majority that is synthesized is
cleaved to form urea. Methionine is required in large amounts to produce
cysteine if the latter amino acid is not adequately supplied in the diet.
Similarly, phenyalanine is needed in large amounts to form tyrosine if the
latter is not adequately supplied in the diet.
All the amino acids not listed in this section are non essential amino
acids.
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