Allied Amino Acids
675 mg 75 capsules

Ingredients: L-Alanine, L-Glycine, L-Isoleucine, L-Serine, L-Lysine, L-Proline, L-Histidine base, L-Leucine, L-Valine, L-Threonine, L-Aspartic acid, L-Methionine, L-Phenylalanine, Beet Root.

Suggested use: Adults and children 12 or over, 1 capsule daily or as directed by a healthcare professional. Store at room temperature and keep out of reach of children.

AMINO ACIDS Overview

Amino Acids are the chemical units, or "building blocks", of the body that make up proteins. Protein substances make up the muscles, tendons, organs, glands, nails, and hair. Growth, repair and maintenance of all cells are dependent upon them. Next to water, protein makes up the greatest portion of our body weight.

Amino Acids are classificed in two ways: Amino Acids that must be obtained from the diet are called "Essential Amino Acids", while other Amino Acids that the body can manufacture from other sources are called "NonEssential Amino Acids."

Amino acids play central roles both as building blocks of proteins and as intermediates in metabolism. The 20 amino acids that are found within proteins convey a vast array of chemical versatility

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 use—the amino acids must be in the food every day.

The 10 amino acids that we can produce are alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine and tyrosine. Tyrosine is produced from phenylalanine, so if the diet is deficient in phenylalanine, tyrosine will be required as well. The essential amino acids are arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. These amino acids are required in the diet. Plants, of course, must be able to make all the amino acids. Humans, on the other hand, do not have all the the enzymes required for the biosynthesis of all of the amino acids.