Amino acid

I love creatine too.

Aminos, omegas.

I don't think we need to be taking 97,000 supplements.

I don't think when we were, our ancestors weren't taking that.

And then we're going to add to it in other ways to support your body.

So The other common ones that I have people asking me about lately is collagen, creatine, and amino acids.

This seems to be a really big trend right now.

Of course, those three things have existed for eons, and yet right now they're getting a lot of attention and for good reason.

They definitely can be supportive of our health and really easy to use as well as safe and effective.

So you may be finding all kinds of information online about okay, which kind of collagen and it can get lots of very confusing because there's lots of marketing, same with the creatine, same with the amino acids.

So what I'm going to do is down below here in these notes, I'm going to put links to my favorite products because I'm constantly doing product research.

My team helps me to research products.

It's a very specific type of protein called keratin.

and the thing that you need to know about keratin is that it's very high in sulfur okay and also amino acids because protein is just a combination of amino acids so doing a deep dive and understanding kind of what's making up this specific body tissue can give you clues on what you may need to eat more of so the two main sulfur amino acids are cysteine and methionine and so for example if you're eating foods that don't have those two amino acids or are incomplete that could be the reason why you are missing those amino acids and developing problems with your nail and realize if you have a problem with your nails it's not just happening with your nails it's happening all over the place so you could either be deficient in sulfur okay which by the way the number one symptom of a sulfur deficiency is brittle nails or it can be very specific amino acids that you're deficient in because you're eating foods that are not complete with the amino acids.

Now, rather than bore you and complicate things, tell you all the foods that don't have that, I'm just going to recommend eating foods that contain plenty of all of the amino acids.

That way, you don't have to worry about trying to focus on just increasing very specific amino acids.

You got to realize amino acids is not just about making your your nails, your hair, your muscle, your skin.

It's about making all these other proteins involved with biochemistry, energy production, digestion, everything.

Your body has millions of different enzymes and they need these amino acids.

So what kind of foods can you eat to get a complete amino acid profile? Well, the best foods you can eat would be animal products, specifically things like eggs, fish, meats versus legumes or grain type proteins.

But yeah, we'd use a synthesizer.

So we'd buy the amino acids, and then we would sequence them, and we'd basically fold them together, and then they would create... a peptide, so you start with a bioregulator, one, two, three, you know, aminos, and then you go into peptides, and then when you get starting bigger, you get into polypeptides, and then you get into proteins, and proteins are extremely hard, which we make some of those now, but when you get into peptides, they're really pretty easy to make, like KPV is three aminos put together in a peptide synthesizer, and it might take four hours to make, it depends on how much you're trying to make, right? So if I'm trying to make a kilo, I don't have the machinery to do a kilo because we never were in that level with that kind of stuff.

But, you know, that would take, you need columns two stories high.

You know, that might take 36 hours, but you have to sit there and watch so that the pH doesn't go off.

We know how to make 1% of those, right? We know what 10% of them are, but we don't know how they interact in the human body.

So you're not just going to start making things if you have no idea what they're going to do.

But you can pretty much blend any set of aminos together.

You start creating peptides.

But right now, I want to go back and talk about nitrogen and carbon metabolism, because we were also deeply at the inception of talking about polyamines.

So for you to understand polyamines, I have to give you some amino acid biochemistry.

And so that's what we're going to do.

Again, what I always find myself eventually falling back on with these lecture series in authentic biochemistry is we have to go back to the foundations.

So let's get into that particular discussion.

Hopefully you'll enjoy this for the Sunday afternoon because this is more like a general graduate or medical biochem lecture.

But of course, it's me, so I will take various journeys into other discussions, as you know I want to do, right? So amino acids have, of course, primary amino groups.

Now, amino groups, when they're completely reduced to ammonia, are very toxic.

Going off a conversation last show about protein pill form.

While not the same, there is a tablet called Perfect Amino that gives you the amino acids to build protein.

You can't entirely rely on it, but it's equivalent to 29 grams of plant protein and I believe 15 grams of protein from meat sources.

It's a good little supplement once a day with a protein shake.

And then we'll wrap up with basically what my own personal thoughts are on the topic of collagen supplementation.

So let's get into it, shall we? So collagen, what is it? Why does it matter? So collagen, you might know, um, is, uh, one of the most abundant amino acids in the body.

Um, it makes up a huge amount of the proteins in tendons, in ligament, in skin, and in bone.

So it's important to state that there is no one out there saying that collagen isn't important.

The question is whether supplementing with collagen actually adds anything to like your, to your results, to the, the benefits that I spoke about beyond just eating a balanced diet, um, and letting your body basically just do its own thing.

So as mentioned, collagen has an amino acid profile problem, let's say.

Um, if in that sense, it has a unusual configuration of amino acids.

It's really high in glycine, and it's really high in proline.

But Julia's like, oh my gosh, that's just one of the different five different ways that sugar is impacting our brains and leading to the phenomenon of craving.

But her amino acid and her amino acid protocols help us regulate, re-regulate our appetite, repair our damaged brains, restore sanity with food.

She has a virtual clinic, helps people all over the world.

And she has a training program for health professionals.

Over 5,000.

Okay.

So for whatever reason, I thought it was a big, big 30 years, 5,000 people, you know, that you've been learning about the power of amino acids to support us on this food recovery journey, this mental health, metabolic health recovery journey.

Why don't you take us back in time and let us know when was that moment when you realized sugar is addictive?