Amino acids -

January 19, 2009

Hi ,

Re. supplementing tyrosine and other aminos ....

This is one of Eddie's (awful) old amino acid results

You can see he was low in tyrosine and also that it wasn't on the list

of ingredients for the recommended compunded supplement. We think this

is because it only included _essential_ amino acids.

We supplemented these recommended aminos for maybe a year before

deciding to stop and supplement according to the actual results

(essential AND non-essential). Which is what we still do - eg

supplementing citrulline (nutricology) and serine, tyrosine, histidine

and alanine (metabolics). In his last test Dr Amy wrote " beautiful "

next to his amino acid results :-)!

Best wishes,

Sandy

January 19, 2009

A bit of an aside on aminos ....

Here's another of Eddie's amino acid tests

Just have a look at methionine

140 uM/g and the range is 15-80 uM/g (!!)

and it was recommended at 715mg per day (see the list toward the end)

in the compounded supplement!!! Certainly made no sense to us at all

to supplement a generous amount of something that he was sky high

in.

This was the result that decided us not to take the compunded formula.

The other thing we had been doing was supplementing taurine but Eddie

was already too high in taurine (and his gene results explained

this). So we stopped supplementing taurine and promised ourselves we

would only supplement things Eddie needed (with the exception of

glutamates because of Amy Yasko's explanation) and definitely not

supplement anything he was high in.

Best wishes,

Sandy

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