Methionine

So things like taurine, which is one of the main amino acids that bile acids get conjugated to before they're usable.

Methionine is a lipotropic nutrient.

It's kind of a methyl donor that supports the liver's fat processing and detox pathways.

Artichoke extract is a very helpful coloretic and colagogue.

Just so that we're on the same page that I also understand and the person watching understands why glycine is so important.

Methionine, which you are mentioning.

You know if somebody eats like ground beef or chicken thighs or just the meat itself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But basically that has high methionine in it.

In biochemistry graduate school or in medical school, they always teach the great methionine cycle, how that extra methyl group, once it's used up and it forms homocysteine, it gets recycled back into methionine, and that's how the body conserves this essential amino acid.

Well, because it's essential, the body has so many ways to recycle and regenerate it that it's needed only in very small amounts.

Methionine is only needed in amounts of about three hundred to five hundred milligrams, more like a vitamin than a bulk nutrient.

For glycine, you need about ten grams a day, about ten thousand milligrams a day of intake to keep a normal, healthy level.

Break 'em.

Methionine, inositol, choline.

Three totally different molecules that got grouped together decades ago because researchers kept noticing the same thing.

They all seem to influence how the liver handles fat.

And that pileup is exactly what the research has been chasing.

Okay, one at a time.

Methionine.

So technically, methionine's a sulfur-containing amino acid.

But, Lysine is still, you know, it is the only amino acid with a formal NRC established requirement of its own.

Methionine and threonine don't have an official NRC requirement.

So researchers and nutritionists estimate reasonable targets by looking at the amino acid ratios found in horse muscle tissue itself.

And then they take the ideal protein approach that we talked about earlier.

And those three are what, you know, most, you know, amino acid supplements are going to have in them.

And they're sort of the foundation for most amino acid supplements.

Methionine and threonine targets come from something called ideal protein, which is a concept that muscle amino acid ratios are relative to the amount of lysine.

And they kind of create a ratio for methionine and threonine based on the amount of lysine.