What’s the differences between different amino acids?

Among the eight essential amino acids, leucine, isoleucine, and valine are also called branched chain amino acids, and they are used the most in amino acid preparations.

1. Leucine (L-Leucine)

It can reduce blood sugar concentration and promote the repair of bone, skin and muscle tissue. It is a supplement for rehabilitation after surgery.

2. Isoleucine (L-Isoleucine )

It is necessary for the formation of hemoglobin, and can stabilize and regulate blood sugar and energy content.

3. Valine (L-Valine)

It can relieve liver failure, protect the liver, and speed up the healing of wounds.

4. Lysine (L-Lysine )

It is an essential amino acid for the human body. It can strengthen bone, resist osteoporosis, increase the body, promote growth and development, tissue repair and produce antibodies, hormones and enzymes, which can reduce or prevent herpes simplex. The occurrence of infection, enhances concentration, and enables the normal use of fatty acids for energy production.

5. Threonine (L-Threonine)

It is very important for the synthesis of collagen and elastin acid in the body. And when combined with aspartic acid and methionine, it can assist liver function to play a role, participate in fat metabolism, and prevent liver fatty lesions.

6. L-Methionine (L-Methionine)

It has the effects of lowering lipids and detoxification. Methionine cannot be formed in the body and must be obtained from food or nutritional supplements. It is very important for the treatment of rheumatic fever and toxemia caused by pregnancy. It can assist lipolysis and prevent fat accumulation in liver and arteries. It has a protective effect on the heart, brain and kidneys. It can also help the digestive system to detoxify harmful substances. It relieves muscle atrophy and brittle hair. It is also beneficial for chemical allergies and osteoporosis. If the body lacks methionine, it will also affect the body’s function of producing urine, leading to edema.

7. Tryptophan (L-Tryptophan)

It acts as a nerve conduction between the brain and the human sleep biochemical mechanism, which helps hypnosis and reduces sensitivity to pain (such as adding a small amount of tryptophan to safflower oil ), it can alleviate migraines, reduce the imbalance of chemical reactions in the human body caused by alcohol, control alcoholism and contributes to maternal and child health.

8. Phenylalanine (L-Phenylalanine )

It has the function of controlling pain, especially for arthritis. It can enhance mental alertness, suppress appetite, and assist in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Histidine and arginine are needed by young children, so they are also called semi-essential amino acids.

9. Histidine (L-Histidine )

It can maintain our growth and digestion. Histidine plays an important role in growth, tissue repair, ulcers, control of gastric acid, digestion and gastric juice. It helps to treat allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia and other diseases. Histidine is needed to produce red blood cells and white blood cells. . Tissue ammonia is formed by histidine, which can be released outside the cell to play an immune function. At the same time, histidine is also an important amino acid in the synthesis of peptide drugs.

10. Arginine (L-Arginine)

It is an essential amino acid that maintains the normal function of the pituitary gland. It acts together with ornithine (L-Ornithine), phenylalanine (L-Phenylalanine) and other nerve elements, and synthesizes it. Secrete the growth hormone of the pituitary gland and quickly restore physical fitness. Arginine is particularly important for men, it can increase the number of male sperm. At the same time, it can enhance immunity and promote wound healing. It also helps to accumulate fat in the body, metabolize and strengthen muscle tissue. In recent years, it has become a very popular anti-cancer and anti-aging necessities in the market. Other commonly used amino acids are also known as non-essential amino acids, which can be synthesized in the body.

11. Alanine (L-Alanine )

It plays an important role in the process of protein synthesis in the body. When amino acids are metabolized in the body, keto acids are produced after deamination, and sugars are produced according to the glucose metabolism pathway.

12. Aspartic acid (L-Aspartic Acid)

It is a compound with metal ions, which can supplement trace elements in the body, and can also reduce blood ammonia. It is used for diuresis, and is an intermediate for the production of cardiovascular drugs. It is the main ingredient of high-energy space food.

13. Cystcine (L-Cystcine)

It is a medicine for relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It is commonly used as aerosols and tablets and has finished products on the market.

14. Glutamic (L-Glutamic Acid)

It  is involved in the metabolism of brain proteins and carbohydrates, and is an indispensable amino acid for improving and maintaining brain function. At the same time, its tripeptide with cystine (L-Cystine) and glycine (Glycine) is an excellent medicine for the treatment of eye diseases, and the merchants have sought it the most in recent years.

15. Proline (L-Proline)

It is an important raw material for the synthesis of commonly used cardiovascular drugs such as captopril, enalapril and captopril. Its derivatives can be made into drugs for the treatment of arthritis, or necessary nutrients for women’s postpartum recovery to increase collagen in the body.

16. Tyrosine (L-Tyrosine)

It is a good medicine for treating depression. It can produce various nerve impulse transmitters to make adrenaline in the brain, which is helpful for memory, learning, and control obesity. Because it acts on the central nervous system, it can regulate people’s mood, eliminate depression, and relieve migraine, menstrual pain and arthritis pain.

17. Glycine

It can neutralize excessive gastric acid and reduce the damage of salicylic acid to the stomach. It can also provide a nitrogen source for non-essential amino acids. At the same time, it can be used together with glutamic acid and alanine, and it is also effective in treating symptoms of prostatic hypertrophy, dysuria, frequent urination, residual urine and other symptoms.

18. Serine (L-Serine)

It plays an important role in beauty, skin beautification and hairdressing. It is also the precursor for the synthesis of purine, thymine and choline. There are several non-protein amino acids that are common at present, such as taurine, carnitine, theanine and so on.

19. Taurine

It can protect the heart and brain. It is the main component of bile, which can help digest fat, absorb fat-soluble vitamins and control the amount of cholesterol in serum. Epilepsy, depression and brain dysfunction are all related to lack of taurine. Infant milk products need to add taurine to achieve the nutritional level of breast milk. In addition to baby food, taurine products are also added to make up for the lack of taurine in animal protein and reduce the body’s own synthesis. pressure.

20. L-Carnitine

It is called a fat burning agent and is currently a widely used weight loss agent abroad.

21. Theanine

It can significantly promote the release of dopamine from the central nervous system of the brain and increase the physiological activity of dopamine, thereby helping to relax the body and relieve fatigue. At the same time, it can effectively improve children’s ADHD and have obvious therapeutic effects on menopausal syndrome.

22. Glutamine (L-Glutanmate)

It can protect the gastric mucosa, heal gastric ulcers and hangover, to protect the liver.

In addition, amino acids have been widely used as pharmaceutical intermediates and double salts. Besides the above mentioned, glutamic acid, alanine, and aspartic acid are intermediates for the synthesis of folic acid, VB6 and calcium pantothenate and have been used for many years. Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry has invested a lot of energy in developing various new drugs to repair genetic defects to solve difficult human diseases, such as anti-aging…etc. The drugs and nutritional supplements are extremely popular.

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