Amino acids enable vitamins and minerals to be properly assimilated into the body. Without the proper levels of Amino Acids assimilation is greatly reduced or just doesn't happen. They are very vital to what happens to metabolic rate and the immune system. Amino acids can be linked together to form more then 50,000 different proteins and 20,000 enzymes in different combinations. There are exactly 20 known amino acids used (that we presently know about) by the body in thousands of small and large combinations. Nine Amino Acids are called "Essentials" and that is because they must be obtained from your diet - your foods. The other Eleven Amino Acids are called "Nonessentials" because the body manufactures them itself. This is as long as the body is healthy, in the younger stages of the life cycle and there is no immune battle going on like stress, on going toxin intake, injuries or diseases to fight off. The needed maintenance level of all Amino Acids is constant. But our absorption rate lowers then falls off the older we get, past the young adulthood stages of life. Thus the metabolism of food digestion falls, and with it, so does the metabolic rate also. The building blocks for body maintenance are no longer available or if they are, they are available in lessor amounts. The body starts down a deprivation course which we call aging.

Without the proper levels of Amino Acids there is a lack of and/or not the proper protein synthesis. The Amino Acids provide the enzymes to aid digestion of dietary protein. These proteins enable the body to function properly. They are essential for body tissue maintenance. The body makes specific proteins by breaking down the bulk protein from the foods we eat into its components - Amino Acids. The body arranges these amino acids into the thousands upon thousands of different combinations to create each kind of protein needed to power everything that the body is required to do.

Since each type of protein is composed of different amino acids, each tailored for a specific use and need required for different body functions, they are therefore not interchangeable. Our central nervous system cannot function without amino acids. Our Immune system cannot function without amino acids, etc. They are necessary in order for the brain to receive and send messages. The bodies entire function process totally depends upon them. If they are not present at the right levels, then the body ages rapidly and promptly dies off.

Each one of them has a specific function in the body. Some have transportation functions, others are hormones, others go into protein as structural, such as collagen or contractile, like the amino acid/protein found in muscle tissue. As the body ages, its ability to digest and absorb can be less and therefore compromised. The resulting protein shortage thus leads to a number of age related disorders and diseases, since protein plays a major important role in this. In addition, those who are stressed, injured, or diseased will need supplementation of certain non-essential or conditionally-essential amino acids to help stop or try to reverse the aging process and assist in the bodies internal functions.

Amino Acids are a mandatory part of the format that is being developed in the role of fighting off disease and returning the patient to their original state of health from earlier adulthood. They are not to be over looked and thrown by the roadside, as being non-important. They are very important pieces in solving this puzzle (age related diseases) that we are presently trying to over come through our on going Medical Trials and Research Studies.

We are currently testing under medical trial, at therapeutic doses, against diseases the affects of, Taurine, D, L-Phenylalanine, L-Arginine, L-Glutamine, L-Tyrosine, L-Carnitine *, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine., Dimethylglycine, and Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid.

Other Amino Acids that we are studying the affects of on patients for optimum dosage only are, L-Aspartic Acid, L-Asparagine, L-Alanine, L-Cystine, L-Glycine, L-Hisidine, L-Isoleucine, L-Leurine, L-Lysine, L-Methionine, L-Ornithine, L-Proline, L-Serine, L-Theronine, and L-Valine.

*) L-Carnitine is not a amino acid, it is related to pro-vitamin B family, But because it has a molecular chemical structure is similar to amino acids, it is usually considered one of them.

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