Quotes about Amino Acids from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Peptides are chains of amino acids often used in anti-wrinkle products. One expensive anti-wrinkle cosmeceutical, StriVectin-SD, aggressively marketed as an "Anti-Aging Breakthrough" and "Better than BOTOX," is based on a chain of amino acids known as Pal-KTTKS (sold under the trade name Matrixyl). In the product, Pal-KTTKS is chemically linked to palmitic acid, a penetration enhancer that drives the peptide deep into the skin. StriVectin-SD is claimed to increase skin's strength by stimulating enzymes to produce more collagen, thus reducing wrinkling."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Molecules of protein are comprised of twenty-four amino acids, and because of the many ways these amino acids can combine to form a protein, there are endless numbers of different proteins. Among the amino acids is a group known as the sulfur amino acids, which means that these compounds contain sulfur. Foremost among them are methionine and cysteine.
Methionine is an essential amino acid, meaning you must get it in the food you eat. Your body doesn't make it, as it does many other amino acids. Methionine has several main roles."- Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain (Get the book.) |
 "Teff is an excellent source of essential amino acids, especially lysine, and contains all eight essential amino acids needed in the human diet. Teff also contains high levels of trace minerals. Ounce for ounce, it supplies more fiber (15.3 grams of fiber per 4 ounces of flour) than any other grain. Teff is gluten-free, so it is appropriate for those with celiac disease. The Ethiopian pancake made from teff called injera goes through a fermentation process that enhances its amino acid and nutrient content."- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
 "Peptides are small proteins composed of amino acids.
If the enzyme alpha-secretase is active, the APP is cleaved in the middle and forms apparently harmless protein fragments. But if the APP is cut by enzymes called beta- and gamma-secretases, the BAP peptide fragment is formed.
This differential pattern of cleavage is important because the amyloid cascade hypothesis holds that this BAP fragment, formed by forty-two amino acids, is toxic to the brain."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "When you go to the health store and pay good money for largely useless amino acids, you will notice that the label says L-leucine. The L stands for left. There is no R-leucine for sale, and if there were, it would do you even less good than the L flavour because the enzymes that use it to make things have chiral binding sites. In fact, R-leucine, like all R amino acids, is likely to be either toxic or useless. amino acids are the beads making up the receptors, and we only use L forms. Making an exact mirror-image OR site to match the RO is
* John Leffingwell and his company (www.leffingweU."- Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.) |
 "These amino acids make up specific, codelike patterns and are present in—or sometimes on the surface of—our body's cells, as well as in the foreign invaders that enter our bodies, be they viral or bacterial. Each sequence of amino acids forms a unique pattern, something like the bar codes on supermarket items that the scanner in the grocery store recognizes as you go through the checkout line. Let's say a flu virus enters your body. Immune cells that are programmed to recognize the proteins from the flu virus set out to find it and attack it."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "They may see a set of amino acids, or a bar code, in healthy body tissue that is very like those in the flu virus, and instead of recognizing that pattern as being similar yet distinctly different, they goof, mistaking the sequence of amino acids in the healthy body cells for those belonging to the infiltrating germ. They set out to obliterate all the cells and viruses that share the same sequences, just to be sure they are getting the job done. Such was the case in my own episodes of neurological autoimmunity." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "Molecules of protein are comprised of twenty-four amino acids, and because of the many ways these amino acids can combine to form a protein, there are endless numbers of different proteins. Among the amino acids is a group known as the sulfur amino acids, which means that these compounds contain sulfur. Foremost among them are methionine and cysteine.
Methionine is an essential amino acid, meaning you must get it in the food you eat. Your body doesn't make it, as it does many other amino acids. Methionine has several main roles." - Stanley W. Jacob, M.D., Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for Pain (Get the book.) |
 "Since enzymes are proteins, they are built using amino acids. A diet rich in amino acids (found in beans, corn, meats, nuts, seeds) ensures you have the nutrients needed to build these enzymes. There is yet another important factor involved in your ability to get bone-building About 70% of North American adults suffer nutrients to your bones pro from maldigestion, malabsorption, digestive' biotics. Probiotics influence illnesses and unhealthy bacteria in the the absorption of nutrients digestive tract. involved in bone health."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
| "In a healthy brain, APP, which is composed of about seven hundred protein building blocks called amino acids, is cleaved and released from the cell membrane by enzymes called secretases. Different types of secretases can act on different portions of the APP, creating peptides that differ in length. Peptides are small proteins composed of amino acids.
If the enzyme alpha-secretase is active, the APP is cleaved in the middle and forms apparently harmless protein fragments. But if the APP is cut by enzymes called beta- and gamma-secretases, the BAP peptide fragment is formed." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "Since proteins cannot pass directly into the brain, your brain makes it own, using the substances that do cross the blood-brain barrier, namely amino acids. amino acids are the basic structural units of proteins, which combine together like beads on a string. When you eat protein, say, in soybeans or steak, your intestinal tract and liver digest it, breaking the protein's long strings of amino acids into individual amino acids, which circulate in your blood. Like glucose, these lone amino acids can enter the brain, which then assembles them to make the specific proteins it needs."- Guy McKhann, and Marilyn Albert, Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity (Get the book.) |
 "Whole grains have complex carbohydrates that supply a steady flow of energy rather than the spike and crash of simple sugars, and they're necessary to transport amino acids such as tryptophan into the brain. As you learned in chapter 4, tryptophan is a precursor necessary for the production of serotonin, and it and other important amino acids come from protein.
The brain is made up of more than 50 percent fat, so fats are important too, as long as they're the right kind. Trans fat, animal fat, and hydrogenated oils gum up the works, but the omega-3s found in fish are enormously beneficial."- John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "They encouraged the mothers to breastfeed, and when weaning their babies, the mothers used a specifically modified baby formula in which the dairy proteins were broken up into individual amino acids. The other families were allowed to use regular cow's milk. The children who were fed the specific formula were much less likely to develop the anti-beta cell antibodies; their risk was cut by 62 percent.78 In 2002, in a study involving families in fifteen countries, researchers found that large proteins can pass through the Peyer's patches in the small intestine and into the system, even in adults."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "The basic question is, "If amino acids and carnitine are effective together, why not just supplement with both individually?" The answer is this. There are three important actions that occur in the gut when supplements are taken—dissociation, dissolution, and absorption. All of these are related to how the supplement is handled in the gut and how well it will be taken up into the blood stream. Supplements taken individually are managed by the gut at different rates. Some dissociate and absorb quickly, while others take considerably more time."- Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
| "The disulfide that completes this bonding bridge between the amino acids, has 15 possible chemical positions along and A and B strands.
The A and B chains are bonded by two cystine bridges with one bridge located on the A chain for a total of three bridges. Six residues (amino acids) are found in the two (A and B) chains. Statistically, this allows for 15 possible different cystine bridges. In biologically active human insulin, the bridges along the A and B amino acid strands are A6-A11, A7-B7, and A20-B19. Without batch testing, only Eli Lilly knows how good their methodology is." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
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The results summarized above were achieved by a very conscious choice of foods and their juices, herbs, vitamins, amino acids, minerals, and enzymes. The incredible resolutions of the diabetic physiology to a nondiabetic physiology have as much to do with what we did include, as what we removed from the diet and lifestyle." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
| "An Aventis product —Lantus —has two additional amino acids molecules (glargine), for a total of 53 amino acids and one changed for another, essentially creating a foreign growth hormone structure. Attention diabeticsl Step right up. Be a human guinea pig for determining long-term results! There is no proof it is any better than Beef UL, only that it might be better than the very worst of the human "insulins from hell," NPH or Isophane human. New hormone technology is inherently dangerous." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
| "Being rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements is one of the key reasons why kelp is known as a great promoter of glandular health, especially for the pituitary, adrenal, and thyroid glands. Kelp was first used medicinally to treat enlarged thyroid glands. Physicians didn't know why kelp was effective, until it was discovered that it was exceptionally rich in iodine and that enlarged thyroids were caused by iodine deficiency. Because iodine stimulates the thyroid gland, which controls the metabolism, it was noted that those who took iodine lost weight more easily." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "Insulin also plays a major role in how the body uses amino acids to build proteins, and it helps stimulate growth and tissue development by preventing the abnormal breakdown of proteins, fats, and the storage form of glucose, called glycogen.
Beta cells can sense the amount of glucose in the blood. When they sense that blood glucose levels are rising, which occurs after eating, they secrete more insulin into the bloodstream so it can signal, for example, muscle cells to "take up" glucose (allow glucose to enter the cell through the cell membrane)."- Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Carnitine Carnitine is a derivative of the amino acids lysine and methionine. It is involved in energy production and specifically assists with the oxidation of glucose. Several published scientific studies have shown that carnitine supplementation supports insulin sensitivity and optimizes blood glucose levels. Carnitine has also been shown to decrease fat levels in muscle. A study conducted by experts at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, showed the benefits of taking carnitine for metabolic health." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Carnosine and Its Precursors Carnosine is a molecule (dipeptide) composed of two amino acids, beta-alanine and histidine. Carnosine is valuable because it helps inhibit accelerated aging by interfering with glycation, thus protecting against glycation-induced damage and acting as an antioxidant to fight oxidative stress. Evidence of carnosine's antiglycation abilities has been seen in several studies. In one recent example involving human cell cultures, carnosine protected against damage to kidney cells from high glucose levels." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) |
| "The Chemical Structure of L-Carn,t,ne and ^ and the body n£eds six essential elements for its synthesis: two amino acids (L-methionine and L-lysine), as well as vitamins C, Bg, niacin, and the mineral iron. L-carnitine synthesis begins with the methylation of the amino acid L-lysine by S-adenosyl-L-methio-nine (SAM).
After several more complex steps requiring consecutive methylations and the interaction of several enzymes—and the vitamins and minerals I described—carnitine is made in the body." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
 "A peptide is any compound consisting of two or more amino acids. amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. The union formed is called a "peptide bond." Peptides are combined to make proteins.
What they found was that every neuropeptide receptor they could find in the brain was also on the surface of a specialized form of white blood cell called the human monocyte. It identifies and digests foreign bodies. It is also responsible for wound healing and tissue-repair activity. They also found that the monocyte has receptors for peptide opiates, such as PCP."- Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.) |
 "Industry and media soon followed suit, and terms like polyunsaturated, cholesterol, monounsaturated, carbohydrate, fiber, polyphenols, amino acids, flavonols, carotenoids, antioxidants, probiotics, and phyto-chemicals soon colonized much of the cultural space previously occupied by the tangible material formerly known as food. The Age of Nutritionism had arrived. he term isn't mine."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "The modern scientific view is that DNA somehow manages to build the body and spearhead all its dynamic activities just by selectively turning off and on certain segments, or genes, whose nucleotides, or genetic instructions, select certain RNA molecules, which in turn select from a large alphabet of amino acids the genetic 'words' which create specific proteins. These proteins supposedly are able to both build the body and to switch on and off all the chemical processes inside the cell which ultimately control the running of the body."- Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) |
 "They said even the amino acids in vegetables were not adequate. But we began to find out that much of these were old wives' tales. With the exception of lack of B12 being of some concern, you aren't going to become deficient in protein and all these things. I use soymilk, and as far as eggs are concerned, my wife knows suitable substitutes.
"My wife is not a vegetarian, but she is changing. Again, it is no credit to me that I am a vegan—I just love it. There are so many tasty fruits, vegetables, and nuts. This morning we had wonderful strawberries, for example."- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Tofu (bean curd), a daily feature in the Okinawan diet, has been compared to bread in France or potatoes in Eastern Europe, the difference being that while one cannot live by bread or potatoes alone, tofu is an almost uniquely perfect food: low in calories, high in protein, rich in minerals, devoid of cholesterol, eco-friendly, and complete in the amino acids necessary for human sustenance. An excellent source of protein without the side effects of meat, tofu contains a compound, phytoestrogen, which may provide heart-protective properties to women." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "It infuses the grain with a high concentration of calcium greater than in untreated maize and most other foods, and unlocks certain amino acids for the body to absorb. Nicoyans call the resulting maize dough maiz nixquezado. "Mata has been studying diets in Guatemala where people prepare corn in that manner," she continued. "Populations consuming maiz nixquezado (maiz nixtamalizado in Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries) appear to have very low rates of rickets and also suffer fewer fractured bones and hips." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) |
 "Many reports show that people who supplement their diets with a combination of essential and nonessential amino acids experience measurable improvements in their detoxification capabilities.
Blood tests can help indicate how well your liver is functioning, especially if there is a question about liver disease, but unfortunately these tests cannot show the true extent of your liver's functional capacity."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
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