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Amino Acids

Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form proteins. They are essential nutrients that the body needs for growth and repair. They are classified into three groups: essential, nonessential, and conditional. Essential amino acids cannot be made by the body and must be obtained through diet, while nonessential amino acids can be made by the body from other amino acids or through the breakdown of proteins. Conditional amino acids are usually not essential, except in times of illness and stress.

Category
Nutritional supplement
Molecular Formula
Variable, depending on the specific amino acid
Mechanism of Action
Amino acids are used by the body to build proteins, which are then used for numerous biological functions, including muscle growth and repair, enzyme creation, and neurotransmitter production.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Protein building blocks

Primary Benefits

  • Promotes muscle growth and repair
  • Supports immune system
  • Enhances neurotransmitter production

Recommended Dosage

Healthy Adults Depends on the specific amino acid, but typically ranges from 500mg to 3000mg per day
Children Depends on the specific amino acid and age of the child

Side Effects

  • Nausea
  • Cramps
  • Diarrhea

Precautions

  • People with kidney disease should avoid high doses
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women should consult a healthcare professional before use

Interactions

  • May interact with certain medications, such as MAOIs

Key References

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266414/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3351736/
Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Stacy Sims
Optimizing Women's Wellness Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Hormone Health 1:03:09 0
“the whole goal of the luteal phase is to build tissue so this is where we're seeing a lot of shuttling of carbohydrate and amino acids to go to build that endometrial lining and that's the whole goal so yes you need to eat more protein you need to eat more carbohydrate.”

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Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 1:31:41 0
“the other advantage of glycine is it works on Phase 2 liver detoxification uh which is amino acid conjugation so you're helping your liver work better um and in a world where we're being exposed with all these toxic things from glyphosate to heavy metals we all need to do some sort of you know liver mitigation strategies glycine is one of the best”

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Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 1:32:33 0
“talk about glyphosate or round up same exact thing so many chemicals and it's challenging for us as humans the way I break it down not to get too far off topic is you know we're water soluble organisms living in a fat soluble world it's the job of our liver essentially to take the fat soluble stuff make it water soluble so we can excrete it right and that takes place in the liver in two phases phase one we're using the p450 enzymes it's like taking the trash putting the trash and the trash can putting it out the side of the road you have phase two amino acid conjugation the trash truck comes and picks up the trash”

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Peter Attia, M.D. on Macronutrient Thresholds for Longevity and Performance, Cancer and More
Exploring Diet, Genes, and Aging for Longevity and Health 6:27 0
“I mean that's, sort of, my biggest obsession, I think, is probably around those topics. So it's complicated. I think we have probably a better understanding of mTOR. I mean I think it's very clear that mTOR is amino acid driven.”

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Peter Attia, M.D. on Macronutrient Thresholds for Longevity and Performance, Cancer and More
Exploring Diet, Genes, and Aging for Longevity and Health 7:02 0
“Why do bodybuilders or people who love lifting weights, want to take Branched-Chain Amino Acids while they're exercising? The reason is largely through this empirical observation that it enhances muscles growth and/or prevents muscle degradation during exercise.”

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Peter Attia, M.D. on Macronutrient Thresholds for Longevity and Performance, Cancer and More
Exploring Diet, Genes, and Aging for Longevity and Health 9:19 0
“One camp says IGF-1 is driven exclusively by amino acids. The other camp says, no, it's actually driven by amino acids and carbohydrates.”

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Why Exercise Intensity Matters for Longevity | CrossFit for Health 2024
The Power of Exercise: Boost Longevity, Health, and Wellness 25:13 0
“not be pulling amino acids from our muscle right um and then that number goes up if you're physically active um it goes up to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight”

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Why Exercise Intensity Matters for Longevity | CrossFit for Health 2024
The Power of Exercise: Boost Longevity, Health, and Wellness 25:50 0
“older adults experience something called anabolic resistance so their skeletal muscle is not as sensitive to amino acids to make to increase skeletal muscle protein synthesis”

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The Science of Protein and Its Role in Longevity, Cancer, Aging, and Building Muscle
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“The pivotal role of the amino acid Leucine in activating muscle building pathways and how this impacts protein quality considerations.”

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The Science of Protein and Its Role in Longevity, Cancer, Aging, and Building Muscle
Protein's Vital Role in Health, Exercise, Aging, and Muscle Building 20:54 0
“Lucine is of particular importance for protein quality, the main anabolic component of protein is the branch chain amino acid Lucine which is a potent stimulator of muscle protein synthesis.”

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The Science of Protein and Its Role in Longevity, Cancer, Aging, and Building Muscle
Protein's Vital Role in Health, Exercise, Aging, and Muscle Building 21:39 0
“About 0.25 grams of protein per kilogram body weight in a single meal provides a saturating dose of Lucine and amino acids to stimulate muscle protein synthesis for up to 6 hours.”

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“we have two drugs rapamycin and one we didn't mention the amino acid glycine which have equally strong effects in males and females.”

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171- Longevity science: caloric restriction studies, aging biomarkers & possible longevity molecules
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“we certainly know that mTOR which you brought up a moment ago is an amino acid sensor”

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222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
Nutrition, Exercise, Genetics, and Longevity: Key Points for Health 1:56:28 0
“if you consume too much protein in one sitting uh and it's typically more than about 0.25 grams per pound is the general thinking you're going to end up oxidizing some of that protein so it's not that it's harmful it's just that you're not getting the amino acids you need for muscle protein synthesis which is of course our objective.”

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222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
Nutrition, Exercise, Genetics, and Longevity: Key Points for Health 1:58:50 0
“you can extend lifespan through protein restriction and there are actually again a couple of flavors of protein restriction you can restrict all protein down to some percentage some low percentage um or you can restrict specific amino acids particularly branched chains tryptophan methionine or branched chain amino acids are the ones that have been studied.”

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222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
Nutrition, Exercise, Genetics, and Longevity: Key Points for Health 2:02:34 0
“the branched chain amino acid and methionine restriction studies are pretty clear that those animals are consuming more calories more calories than certainly if you matched a weight then they add little mice and they're living longer.”

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222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
Nutrition, Exercise, Genetics, and Longevity: Key Points for Health 2:04:09 0
“when you consume a protein-rich meal, do we have a sense of how long mtor is being activated in response to that set of amino acids?”

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222 ‒ How nutrition impacts longevity | Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D.
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“if you're going to pound branching amino acids during a workout because you want as much anabolic signal as possible, it's going to be very difficult so much so that the idea of using bcaa analogs to treat sarcopenia was going to require drugs that could stay on much longer.”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
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“different models of that so that is a nice foundation for all training really yeah I I love it and and there's a matrix Brewing right now in my head as you go through that so we're going to come and kind of start to fill in some of this Matrix as we go um let's um simultaneously go back to the fundamentals but do so with um without any remorse for how rigorous we need to be that's the greatest setup ever so let's talk about muscles what is a muscle what is the functional unit how does it it generate Force what are the metabolic demands what makes these cells that are so ubiquitous in our body different from say the cells in our liver the cells in our gut the cells in our brain you know what what are these what are these cells that we almost take for granted sometimes all right now you're asking me to do like a two semester course 20 20 minutes look I me I did ask you to do a week in minutes so by that logic we could be here a while but yeah let's see what we can…”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
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“I think it's also important to understand how nutrients work right so we're going to talk a lot about amino acids and probably in particular Lucine”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
Unlocking Rapamycin's Potential: Longevity, Health Span, and Future Applications 59:38 0
“Tim did a simple experiment he said well let me remove amino acids and look where mtor is and it turned out it wasn't on lomes anymore it went off the lome then he added amino acids and he had even little movies within minutes it went back to the lomes.”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
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“Joe avick he had a paper in JBC where he looked at amino acid regulation of mtor this was this is before the lomes he was looking at the activity of using S6 kyes and he basically found a couple amino acids that mattered he found Lucine you know a very common essential Branch chain amino acid an important component of of whey protein for example that people take Arginine a very basic amino acid technically not essential lots of nitrogen in in that amino acid and those were the two big ones that he found.”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
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“that mtor is the most important sensor we have not just for nutrients but perhaps more importantly the most critical nutrients of them all which are amino acids”

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272 ‒ Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
Unlocking Rapamycin's Potential: Longevity, Health Span, and Future Applications 1:10:00 0
“I'm talking more about the studies of protein restriction and Branch chain amino acid restriction which in mice seem to have some positive effects on longevity but because mice are not they don't develop sarcopenia to the same extent or in the same way that people do I would worry a bit about extrapolating from that to say that it's going to have those same beneficial effects in people where sarcopenia seems to be much more important for quality of life probably life expectancy but certainly quality of life in in older adults.”

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The Impact of Nutrition, Exercise, and Health Monitoring on Longevity 13:47 0
“Lower levels of certain amino acids, branch chain amino acids, are good for the cell because they downregulate mTOR activity.”

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“Peptides, just like hormones, are made of strings of amino acids, but typically smaller. About a hundred amino acids. You can synthesize them on a machine or extract them from tissues, and they're used by cells to communicate between each other.”

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Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 21:50 0
“because the cancer loves sugar, and loves amino acids, right, and depends on sugar and amino acid, the more you give it, the happier it is.”

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Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 23:07 0
“once the amino acids are low, the growth factors and the sugar are low, the cancer is gonna starve.”

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Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 28:29 0
“In animal studies, you showed that because of the fasting lowers glucose levels, and... Like you mentioned, cancer cells love glucose, that's called the Warburg effect, where they're predominantly using glucose, of course, they also use glutamine and amino acids.”

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Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Fasting, and Exercise 1:01:45 0
“So, metformin, in our view, seems to be acting more in the sugar pathway, but then, of course, it's missing the effect on the amino acid pathway, or it has a much weaker effect on their pathways.”

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Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection | Huberman Lab Essentials
Enhancing Health Through Understanding Body Signals and Internal Connections 12:56 0
“these neurons are activated by the presence of fatty acids, amino acids, and sugars are coming from the foods that we eat.”

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Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection | Huberman Lab Essentials
Enhancing Health Through Understanding Body Signals and Internal Connections 14:08 0
“replacing those foods with foods that have high levels of omega-3 or amino acids can reduce sugar cravings.”

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How to Control Hunger, Eating & Satiety | Huberman Lab Essentials
Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 9:39 0
“CCK is stimulated by fatty acids, amino acids and particular amino acids that we'll talk about as well as by sugar.”

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How to Control Hunger, Eating & Satiety | Huberman Lab Essentials
Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 19:56 0
“if you eat and in particular if you eat carbohydrates blood glucose goes up if you eat fats blood glucose goes up to a far less degree and if you eat proteins depending on the protein it'll eventually be broken down for fuel or assembled into amino acid chains for protein synthesis and repair of other tissues and bodily functions”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 1:12:11 0
“You consume collagen, you break it down into both single amino acids, as you do when you eat an egg or a piece of beef.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 24:44 0
“things like mineral salts um um amino acids um nutrients that you would find in nutrient-dense soils you know you wouldn't believe the physiologic impact you can have on people just by putting them on a complex of B vitamins vitamin B12 some methylfolate um which are which are basic core nutrients required for the process of methylation and when they're deficient they become like they Hub the wheel they they they have all of these Spokes and people think that they have an autoimmune disease and they have a mental illness and they have a weight gain issue and they have sleep disruption and they have anxiety or they have ADD or ADHD and the truth is they very often have nutrient deficiencies”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:13:20 0
“the most important nutrients that we're missing and what are the supplements that we should be taking okay um so you know when you call something essential um that means it's necessary for life right so if you we have two essential fatty acids you know if you don't get these fatty acids they're they're essential for Life Omega-3s yeah Omega-3s omega-3 fatty acids um EPA dhas they're eight essential amino acids.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 1:16:50 0
“I take one called perfect aminos it's all the eight essential amino acids it's non-caloric won't even break a fast it has all eight of the essential amino acids because remember as soon as you get deficient in one of those eight amino acids there's a high likelihood that that's converting to fat or into sugar right so it's incomplete protein.”

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Essential habits for long-lasting health and vitality without extremes or shortcuts 26:58 0
“I'm someone who probably takes a lot of effort to consume 1.8 to 2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight and that's going to be spread out over three to four meals but there's probably still 14 hours a day when I'm not eating anything and during that period of time those amino acid levels are going to be really low”

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Simple Habits That Could Add Decades To Your Life – Dr Peter Attia
Essential habits for long-lasting health and vitality without extremes or shortcuts 31:02 0
“so what you don't want to do is waste for lack of a better word your amino acids down a gluconeogenic pathway where they're basically being used as glucose substrate”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 9:15 0
“the body activates those systems to produce gione now it needs three things right three amino acids M two enzymes and a catalyst like selenium to produce one molecule of gluathione.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 12:52 0
“balanced amino acid profiles are so important because then you give the liver exactly what it needs to assemble whatever protein it's going to assemble or you know go to the muscle and help repair muscle.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 13:03 0
“if you just take the three amino acids as glutathione and you swallow it or you take it in a liposomal version or a sublingual version or what have your body's actually not receiving that glutathione your glutathione production may rise but that's because that glutathione is being metabolized in the liver assembled back into those three amino acids and return to the bloodstream as glutathione.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 57:55 0
“most of us have a very difficult time meeting our protein needs and certain protein sources like whey protein and others can be as little as 20% absorbable. This is 99% absorbable and it has all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to build lean muscle to recover to improve our exercise performance and most importantly to repair after we have intense exercise.”

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Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 52:45 0
“we're starting to find out that natural vitamins minerals amino acids they are you know the best form of medicine in a lot of cases and by giving patients this medicine that they are typically lacking in their diet”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 57:34 0
“glutathione for detoxification and then a whole series of amino acids and minerals to help with also detoxification”

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“You can't take somebody who's in toxic environment and then just overload them with every supplement and vitamin and mineral and amino acid.”

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Understanding Dietary Misconceptions, Health Implications, and Consumer Empowerment 16:37 0
“If you want protein to build lean muscle but without the caloric impact or need to cut you need perfect amino. It's pure essential amino acids, the building blocks of proteins in a precise form and ratio that allows for near 100% utilization in building lean muscle and no caloric impact.”

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Enhance Your Longevity and Happiness with Blue Zone Lifestyle Choices 40:00 0
“and rice or like an Italian pasta and foli beans and pasta you get a whole protein all the amino acids so shelf stable cheap delicious uh uh um and and accessible that's where we need to start”

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“it has all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to build lean muscle to recover to improve our exercise performance and most importantly to repair after we have intense exercise”

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“once the food exits the GI track that it goes is the bloodstream and broken down into various molecules amino acids which are the subcomponents of proteins carbohydrates typically glucose fructose as well as various parts of fat”

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“if you ate just 2,000 calories we'll just assume for a second that you were the average guy weren't working out didn't use your brain that much and you only needed 2,000 calories a day just which is the RDA average... if you ate two thousand calories of just say brown rice and broccoli that was it, your entire diet, you would get all the vitamins minerals, protein essential amino acids you get about 80 grams of protein out of that.”

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“So we now know that TOR can be affected well, we knew from our work in yeast, 30 years ago, but we knew that both sugars and amino acids could feed into TOR and so now they're starting to be data looking at say, leucine levels, being essential for muscle building, but the glucose might also be pushing that leucine, the amino acids to perform more.”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 15:37 0
“when you eat a lot of meat and a lot of particularly branched chain amino acids they're called that are in meat you will stimulate this mtor”

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REVERSE AGING: What To Eat & When To Eat For LONGEVITY | David Sinclair
Enhance Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention with Lifestyle Choices 1:02:18 0
“just mostly from plant-based sources where there's not a lot of the branched chain amino acids those leucine isoleucine valine amino acids are the ones that activate mtor”

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“What are the sleep Super Foods ooh good question I mentioned cherries earlier yep that's a top tier uh good sleep food salmon another top tier good sleep food and I'm going to share another one with you that you know it's one of these Foods been around for a long time but and also it has number one the mega 3s are there as well eggs great we identify it often times for it's like a morning food it's not the fact of any of these Foods you're just going to eat and fall asleep all right but eggs are remarkable in the the choline choline is involved in the Sleep process as well and those Omega-3s are really helpful and also just amino acids because when we're talking about when I've said hormones and neurotransmitters several times today these are essentially cellular DMS all right it's enabling your cells to talk to each other that's what a hormone is and at its core hormones are proteins if you're deficient in certain amino acids you can't even make that [ __ ] anyways so your body will do a patchwork job but if you provide your body with the…”

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“glucose what it's doing when you when you have a constant intake of glucose and that glucose let's say you're not exercising enough to have that glucose get get disposed into your muscle which is really where you want it right you want it to go get taken up into your muscle exercise really helps with that when you exercise you cause a lot of glucose Transporters to come up to your muscle which opens up the gates to allow glucose in you want it to go to your muscle instead of your adipose tissue if that doesn't happen if you're not exercising enough the glucose will stay around in your bloodstream and what happens is yes there's an insulin response and all that metabolic stuff but there's also something that happens that that's called the mailer reaction and it's where glucose reacts with lipids it reacts with um DNA in your body it reacts with proteins and damages them and when it reacts with proteins like for example collagen lining your your pericardium surrounding your heart your myocardium surrounding your heart lining your blood vessels it causes the collagen to become stiff it changes the properties of the protein…”

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“mTor is activated by branch chain amino acids, leucine in particular; more circulating higher mtor. I think in general that's correct but I think we've also learned that there are indirect mechanisms by which other types of caloric intake can also activate mTor.”

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Exercise & Nutrition Scientist: The Truth About Exercise On Your Period! Take These 4 Supplements!
Optimizing Women's Health and Performance Through Physiological Understanding 46:02 0
“exercise you start exercising your body is trying to provide fuel so it's breaking down fat, it's breaking down glucose, it's breaking down amino acids. It's also creating in a recovery standpoint a boost of growth hormone, a boost of testosterone in both men and women that creates the cell cleanup which is autophagy.”

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Exercise & Nutrition Scientist: The Truth About Exercise On Your Period! Take These 4 Supplements!
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“after ovulation like I said progesterone comes up it's only produced if we ovulate because progesterone is produced from the breakdown of the housing of the egg progesterone like I said earlier will hold everything in the blood it will tell the body we need more blood glucose and we need that glucose to come to the endometrial lining we also need more amino acids so we're going to break down lean mass or I'm going to make this person crave more protein oriented Foods so that I can have amino acids to come in”

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“from day 14 onwards if we are going to do a lot of high intensity workout or High um a big workout yeah then we need to just make sure we're having more cobs yeah and then we have around a 12% increase in our protein needs because we have a higher amount of amino acids that are needed one because we're developing tissue but two we also have skeletal muscle turn over that we need to keep up with”

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Exercise & Nutrition Scientist: The Truth About Exercise On Your Period! Take These 4 Supplements!
Optimizing Women's Health and Performance Through Physiological Understanding 1:49:19 0
“for menopause we want a higher protein intake of course because as we get older we become more anabolically resistant to protein so that means our body isn't responding as much to the amino acids so we need a higher dose to invoke muscle protein synthesis and Bone regeneration”

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The Truth About Creatine & Exercise! 30% Of People Will Die From This! The Healthy Ageing Doctor
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“High quality protein has the greatest percentage of an essential amino acid called Lucine. Lucine is not made by the body, it has to be taken in from the outside.”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 28:18 0
“in the middle of the night your liver has to be making protein or you die where you muscle becomes a reservoir of amino acid it's kind of sitting there and it's not being used while you're sleeping and so it actually donates the amino acids that the liver is using in the middle of the night”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 1:01:33 0
“all of this is the branch chain amino acid leucine for years since the 1930s we've known that the branch chain amino acids are not metabolized in liver all of the other amino acids are metabolized in liver but these three branch chain leucine, valine and isoleucine get sent out primarily to skeletal muscle so the body has learned to sense it it is senses it as a indicator of protein coming in and basically when that leucine concentration goes up from basically fasting levels to about three times fasting levels uh it triggers a complex inside muscle known as mtor and that's the main sort of Central regulatory function that triggers all these sort of initiation factors and we trigger maximum protein synthesis.”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 1:08:38 0
“in these studies where they do protein restriction an inevitable outcome of that is simultaneously there is calorie restriction and then it becomes difficult to say well what do you attribute the change in lifespan too is it the differences in amino acids or is it of the fact that compared to the control that animal is now eating far less calories”

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Biomarkers For Slowing Eye Aging, Featuring ‪Joseph J. Allen
Optimize Eye Health: Insights on Aging and Preventative Measures 30:33 0
“homocyine amino acid used for producing various proteins in the body um various certain vitamin deficiencies right vitamin B6 vitamin B12 and then folic acid all play roles in basically breaking down homocyine and so if somebody's deficient in one of those like vitamin B12 we tend to have we don't absorb as well as we get older and so that may play a role in this”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 12:17 0
“so we all eat protein let's say you eat too much protein yeah you know the Porter House steak all right now if you're a bodybuilder those amino acids might go to muscle and you might increase your muscle mass because you're a bodybuilder because you're putting uh excess uh force on those muscles and you're growing those muscles okay but let's say you're not a bodybuilder let's say you're a mmortal like me or let's say you're a kid going through puberty who's synthesizing a lot of muscle not because they're lifting weights because they're because testosterone's making it happen yeah absolutely but let's say you're not let's say you know you're just you know just schlump the the street like uh you know joeo okay and you eat that Porter House you've taken on all these amino acids there's no place to store it other than muscle so your liver takes the excess and deamidates that amino acid takes the amino group off to turn it from a amino acid into an organic acid and then that organic acid can then enter the kreb cycle the tricarboxylic acid cycle what goes on in the mitochondria in order to…”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 18:34 0
“carbohydrates I think most of our audience will be familiar with the so-called macronutrients so we talked about fat in this case almonds there's some Fiber in there probably a little bit of carbohydrate a little bit little bit talked about the Porter House with butter right making me hungry already that's protein and fat MH very little of any carbohydrate it should be zero essentially maybe one zero zero yep um and then now we're talking about carbohydrates and we're going to subdivide that into glucose and fructose right galactose basically becomes glucose in the liver so we we can dispense with that unless you have a disease called galactosemia which is about one in 20,000 um and causes neonatal menitis and you know it's a disease as a pediatric endocrinologist I would take care of but we can dispense with that for the moment all right so glucose fructose glucose is the energy of life every cell on the planet Burns glucose for energy glucose is so damn important that if you don't consume it your body makes it so it will take an amino acid and turn it into glucose that's gluconeogenesis glucogenesis that's right it will…”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:38:10 0
“what makes insulin go up well two things refine carbohydrate and sugar those are the two things that make insulin go up in addition Branch chain amino acids make insulin go up as well Lucine isoline veine which is in cornfed beef chicken and fish processed food”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:43:24 0
“I'm not low carb I'm low insulin and there are a lot of ways to get to low insulin get rid of the refined carbohydrate get rid of the sugar increase the fiber get rid of the branch chain amino acids.”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:44:43 0
“marbling is intramyocellular lipid that animal has metabolic syndrome the American cornfed animal because that corn is filled with Branch chain amino acids.”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 1:33:20 0
“I think eating the foods some of them I listed off before like Meat and Fish and eggs and vegetables and fruits and some I do like starches like you know rice oatmeal some pastas some sourdough Breads and things I love butter who doesn't love butter um of course none of that stuff in excess olive oil but if one looks at kind of that Buffet of options you realize you can get some high quality amino acids you can get some high quality lipids you probably want to get more of them from olive oil than from butter but you can get the micronutrients you need provided those food sources are healthy.”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 1:48:14 0
“other things for gp1 secretion the thids also Fiers has been shown specific amino acids so high protein foods things that involve a lot of veine and glutamine uh green tea and specifically the uh elic the EC um ecgc that uh is one of the compounds in green tea that's been shown to stimulate glp1 curcumin”

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Muscle Expert (Jeff Cavaliere): You Need To Know This About Creatine! Melt Belly Fat With 1 Change!
Understanding Fitness: Diet, Exercise, Mental Health, and Long-term Well-being 2:02:16 0
“I think the best way to spot garbage would be to like there's something called amino acid spiking.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:52:16 0
“The myth part is that plants are uh missing amino acids. Uh they're not complete.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:53:04 0
“And I got a whole bunch of foods and I plotted out the amounts of every single amino acid in the food and the proportions they were in.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:54:21 0
“per calorie meat has more protein than plants in just in terms of calories. But proportion-wise, one of the myths is the missing amino acids or the incomplete ones. Because if you make a graphic out of this, you will see all plants have all godamn 20 amino acids.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:58:57 0
“all these plant sources have a lot of they have all the different amino acids that beef does in different proportions but they have them.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:59:49 0
“bioavailability gets lumped into quality protein like this. So there are these charts, right, that say that, you know, egg is the near-perfect protein or beef is the near perfect protein because of the bioavailability, our ability to use the amino acids as opposed to the amino acids being bound up by fiber or somehow not accessible.”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 2:00:50 0
“modernizing the definition of protein quality, which is technically always been on amino acid proportions and availability of digestion and absorption. And meat always wins.”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 1:53:23 0
“if you don't have enough fat to burn to make enough ketones and the brain is saying all right well I wanted to switch to ketones so that I could spare the glucose but I can't there's not enough ketones here so I have to rely 100% on glucose but if you're not eating glucose now the body has to start stripping the protein from muscle and it sends those amino acids to the liver then the liver is so capable it will turn those Amino acids into glucose so it turns my muscle into glucose to feed the brain”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 2:10:35 0
“aspartame just gets divided into amino acids we just digest it and absorb amino acids sucralose will go can cross the bloodb brain barrier and I don't know what it's doing there but I don't want it there”

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The Insulin & Glucose Doctor: This Will Strip Your Fat Faster Than Anything!
Optimal Health Through Balanced Diet: Managing Insulin for Better Outcomes 1:36:45 0
“prioritize protein I would say particularly animal Source protein which is the best source of all of the amino acids that humans need.”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 15:03 0
“skeletal muscle is a nutrient sensing organ it is uniquely sensitive to the quality of our diet the quality of our diet defined as the quality of the amino acids that we're gaining and that would be for the listener dietary protein”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 34:33 0
“the quality of protein is defined by the amino acid composition and typically animal-based proteins have higher quality”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 40:23 0
“the evidence would support two to three times that amount closer to 9 n gam of Lucine per day and just to calibrate us n gram of Lucine again is essential amino acid we can only get from food per day what does that equate to in terms of the total amount of let's say egg or steak protein that one would need to eat in order to ensure that just rough roughly yes.”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 42:01 0
“these essential amino acids primarily Lucine is necessary to trigger muscle protein synthesis”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 46:02 0
“is there a place for supplementing Lucine and other Branch chain amino acids specifically you know I always assumed that supplementing with Branch chain amino acids was kind of the unique domain of people you know post exercise trying to build more muscle but as you're telling me all this it seems that adding Lucine in powder form to a meal seems like it would be great for muscle health”

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How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Supplements 1:08:53 0
“the protein leverage hypothesis is that individuals will continue to eat to satisfy an amino acid need.”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 11:52 0
“They called 'sirtuins' and there are five of these genes in yeast and seven in our bodies. And they respond to low energy. They're respond to other stresses as well, such as high heat, low amino acids, high salt.”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 44:25 0
“But you can get aminos from plants as well as from animals.”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
Optimal dietary choices and habits for longevity and health benefits 46:00 0
“So, now you've got these amino acids circling in your body, circulating, and there are three ones that are particularly important to know about, it's leucine, ISO leucine and valine also known as the branched-chain amino acids.”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 24:06 0
“breakfast is actually really important it's it's important to get protein amino acids in that first meal because if you extend that fasting period by skipping breakfast your body is going to be like I need protein I got to make a bunch of proteins to like have my heartbeat and my kidneys function right so it's going to pull amino acids out of your muscle and so um that can cause muscle atrophy”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 26:49 0
“older adults are they're not as sensitive to amino acids it's called anabolic resistance so with the same protein intake they won't build as much muscle if they're 65 versus when they were 30.”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 1:24:51 0
“one high-intensity exercise does it it's been shown serotonin goes up it goes up because again your lactate is increasing the serotonin but it also goes up because Branch chain amino acids which you're getting when you're eating protein they compete with tryptophan tryptophan is a precursor it has to get into the brain and they compete for transport into the brain with those branch chain amino acids and tryptophan is a precursor for serotonin”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 1:24:51 0
“Branch chain amino acids which you're getting when you're eating protein they compete with tryptophan tryptophan is a precursor it has to get into the brain and they compete for transport into the brain with those branch chain amino acids and tryptophan is a precursor for serotonin”

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