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Ben Mester
Amino acid therapy is considered an alternative medicinal therapy that's meant to help persons who are experiencing an imbalance in their brain chemistry caused by a deficiency on one or more of the essential amino acids the body needs to run properly. So what is an amino acid anyway? They've been labeled the building blocks of life, and they're probably the most essential type of compound to human life that exists. Proteins are just chains of amino acids linked together, and each of the 15,000 enzymes the body needs are built primarily of them. To give you another idea of how much amino acids are essential in the human body, I'll share with you a quote from the book "The Hidden Face of God:" "Each of your seventy five trillion cells is incredibly producing two thousand proteins each second...It makes our heads spin and it should." It sounds impossible, but it's true. Since each protein in the body is made up of a chain of individual amino acids, you can imagine that being deficient in even 1 of the 20 different amino acids can cause quite a lot of trouble. Of those 20, 12 can be produced naturally by the body itself, leaving 8 that must come through either food, or else through supplementation. Amino acid therapy aims to correct a possible deficiency that many people experience, thus bringing the body back into healthy alignment. Amino acid therapy isn't something new. It's been used for the last hundred years or so. The reason why most people haven't heard much about it is because with the advent of modern pharmaceuticals most "home remedies" or things which used natural nutrition instead of manmade drugs were seen as substandard. Most people are finally starting to realize that this couldn't be further from the truth. Manmade drugs always come with a list of unwanted side effects, not to mention the fact that prescription drugs have been shown to slowly damage the kidneys over time. In almost all cases in human physiology, the body has the ability to regulate its own brain chemistry. If chemicals are imbalanced in the body, sometimes it can be the product of nutrition or environmental factors, not because the body is unable to do the job. That's why amino acid therapy helps to balance many of the chemicals in the body, thus helping to treat symptoms like depression and anxiety. As you saw in the first paragraph, amino acids are the building blocks of the majority of the essential chemicals and compounds that are essential to the body's function. Since amino acids have been called the building blocks of life, it only stands to reason that if your foundation is not in good order, the rest of the structure won't be in very good order either. You have to start from the ground up at the foundation. As far as the chemistry of the brain is concerned, amino acids will only bring you part of the way. Having more than enough amino acids running through your system doesn't really give you a guarantee that they'll necessarily be used by the brain. Other factors, like stress and lack of sleep, have to be regulated as well if you hope that the amino acid therapy will take effect. ** This article is meant to add to your general knowledge and should not be taken as medical advice or as a medical diagnosis.
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