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Muscle protein is made of amino acids. Most of your neurotransmitters are made from amino acids. Glutathione, the most important detox molecule in biology is made from amino acids. Enzymes that break down food and catalyze biochemical reactions are made from amino acids. Collagen is a combination of amino acids.
In short, your health depends on amino acids.
Therefore, the more you know about these critical building blocks of life, the greater health you can cultivate.
There are thousands of amino acids found in nature, but when it comes to biology living cells of everything from plants to elephants to humans only use a set of 20. And these 20 break down to 3 basic categories: Essential, Non-Essential, and Conditionally Essential.
Essential Amino Acids
This term refers to amino acids that cannot be made by the cells, so they must be obtained through diet. They are different for every organism, so let’s focus on humans.
This is particularly interesting because it actually changes as we age.
As infants, we have 9 essential amino acids. However, as we grow, new enzymatic pathways come online. After the age of 3 months, our bodies can begin to synthesize histidine* (see note below on the scientific debate) from other amino acids.
So that leaves us with 8 core essential amino acids for the average adult:
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine
From these 8 basic amino acids, the enzymes of your cells can synthesize all of the other 12 amino acids.
That means anything your body needs, every digestive enzyme, detox molecule, neurotransmitter, protein, or anything else can be reduced to these 8 basic ingredients.
Almost everything you need for optimal health comes down to amino acids.
This is the basis of Dr. Minkoff’s scientifically tested PerfectAmino formula, optimized for 99% utilization by your body.
Conditionally Essential Amino Acids
Sometimes, however, our bodies face challenging situations, placing extra biochemical demands on our system. In times of stress or illness, your body increases the use of certain amino acids, and this can drain your reserves, eventually leading to dysfunction or disease.
These are called Conditionally Essential amino acids because in certain conditions they become essential. These include:
Arginine
Cysteine
Glutamine
Tyrosine
Glycine
Ornithine
Proline
Serine
Histidine*
However, because these can still be converted from the 8 basic essential amino acids, making sure to cover your 8 essentials first though attention to diet or with PerfectAmino is your best insurance policy for total health.
Non-essential Amino Acids
The final and smallest group of amino acids to look at are the non-essential. Most other classification systems will lump the conditionally essential and non-essential amino acids together and call them both non-essential.
That said, these last 2 amino acids are still important and necessary for life. But because the intelligence of your body can produce them through biochemical synthesis, you can easily compensate for any dietary deficiencies.
This group includes:
Alanine
Asparagine
The Foundation of Biology
Amino acids are the foundation of your all biology, which also makes them the foundation of your health.
No matter where you are at, or what your goals are…
Whether you are an athlete looking for greater gains in your training, healing from disease, detoxing, preserving your health as you age, or just looking to optimize your health so you can be your best…
The 8 essential amino acids are critical to your optimal health––eat and supplement accordingly.
* NOTE:Because the histidine conversion process is biologically “expensive” and takes a lot of energy there is a scientific debate on whether histidine is truly essential or conditionally -essential. For the most part, this is an academic issue. For the practical purposes of daily life, histidine is only critical in certain conditions or diseases. There may also be a genetic factor to histidine synthesis, but there is insufficient evidence to make any definitive claims.
*This website, including products, articles, and educational content are not intended to diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease. The statements on this website have not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This website does not provide medical advice. The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only.
Dr. David Minkoff
Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement. He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego.
He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine.
In 1992, Dr Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance. Based on this new knowledge Dr Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States. In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy and optimum nutrition. He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right. Dr Minkoff is one of the most in demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein.
The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today. Dr. Minkoff writes two free online newsletters, “The Optimum Health Report” and ”The BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter”, to help others learn about optimum health and fitness.
Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 44 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teachers to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.
by Dr. David MinkoffOctober 14, 20218 min read0 Comments
Alright, so we know that when sugar comes into the body Insulin is released to shuttle that sugar into the cell. And if the cell is full, then it connects the sugars in chains and stores them as something called Glycogen in your muscle and liver cells for use later on. And if those are full then it connects the sugar to fatty acids and stores it as body fat. And, while Insulin is in the blood stream, fat burning is prevented.
We also know that, given too much sugar for too long, the cells start resisting it and refusing to let it in when Insulin tells them too, causing them to have less sugar to make energy with as well as causing more of it to be converted to body fat.
by Dr. David MinkoffOctober 14, 20215 min read0 Comments
This is the second article in a series on Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Sugar and Body Fat, as a well as an overall series on hormones, so stay tuned!
Alright, if you read the first article in this series (Link this to first article) then you understand that when sugar is in the blood stream the hormone Insulin is released to send it into the cells for energy, or to store it as energy in the muscles as something called Glycogen, or to convert it into fats known as Triglycerides — body fat.
And that while insulin is in the bloodstream almost no fat burning can take plac
by Dr. David MinkoffOctober 14, 20216 min read0 Comments
Yes, about 90% of what most of us consider as body fat is made by and from sugar.
But probably not how you think.
And it has a lot more to do with thetypeof sugar it is and, more specifically,howit affects yourhormones(messenger chemicals that tell your body how to use the food you put into it).
Because it’s your hormones that will determine what will ultimately happen with this sugar and whether or not it will be used to make new body fat.
Let me assure you, this is not another low carb rant!
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