Amino acids are the components of life that make up proteins. Amino acids are found in all living organisms.
A distinction is made between essential amino acids, which the body cannot build itself and which must therefore be ingested with food, and non-essential amino acids, which the body can in principle build itself, but which usually require other amino acids.
Essential amino acids are:
Non-essential amino acids are:
- Alanine
- Arginine
- Aspartic acid
- Cysteine
- Glutamine
- Glutamic acid
- Glycine
- Histidine
- Proline
- Serine
- Tyrosine (essential for children)
Bernd Guzek, MD, PhD #
Physician, author & co-founder of Bye-Bye-Booze
Specialized in biochemical mechanisms of addiction and brain metabolism.
