About Amino Acids

Amino acids are the building blocks that make up proteins. Although all of the amino acids are important, I will focus on the ones that are known to be most critical to your health. As is the case with most nutrients, optimal levels are good (and likely better than the RDA) but more is not always better!

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Nutritional primer

We have a 20,000 word primer on nutrition at our website that provides more detail with study references on each nutrient. Click here to visit the "Amino Acids" section of our primer.