To fully live, maintain immunity, build cells and provide metabolic processes, our body regularly requires amino acids. The more energy the body consumes, the more amino acids it needs. The body synthesizes natural amino acids and receives them with food. However, more intense loads, such as professional sports, require a whole complex of amino acids, in liquid form for better assimilation.
In nature, there are more than 20 amino acids classified according to various characteristics. The most known is the classification of amino acids for interchangeable and irreplaceable.
Replaceable amino acids
Such amino acids, which are part of proteins, enter the body with food and are released during its cleavage. Among them we can distinguish:
- Alanine is a component of connective tissue that strengthens the immune system that maintains blood sugar levels;
- glycine - is part of hemoglobin, regulates metabolic processes, has a calming effect, is used in medicine;
- Glutamine is one of the most common amino acids, participates in the work of the immune system, affects the growth of muscle mass, stimulates mental activity and strengthens memory;
- proline - involved in the formation of connective tissue and cardiac muscle;
- serine - supports immunity, stimulates memory, participates in the metabolism of fatty acids;
- taurine - is involved in the absorption and distribution of fats, lowers cholesterol;
- cystine - promotes the regeneration of tissues, reduces pain, is extremely important for nails and hair.
The synthesis of the replaced amino acids occurs in the body during the process of protein food cleavage. However, the peculiarity of this type of amino acids is that the organism can form them from other amino acids, thus synthesizing the already existing compounds.
Essential amino acids
They are called so, because the body is not able to produce such amino acids by itself. Unlike the substitutable amino acids, which the body is able to form from other amino acids, the irreplaceable come into the body exclusively from the outside. Among them:
- histidine - used to treat anemia and allergic diseases, is involved in the production of red and white blood cells;
- isoleucine - a key amino acid in the production of hemoglobin, provides muscle energy and helps cope with overwork;
- leucine - heals, promotes the rapid growth of bones, prevents the breakdown of the protein;
- methionine - restores liver and kidney tissue, lowers cholesterol;
- lysine - accelerates the synthesis of protein, produces collagen, and together with vitamin C forms L-carnitine - an element responsible for the accumulation of energy in muscles and the use of oxygen.
In fact, the protein molecule itself consists of amino acids and is not absorbed by the body in its pure form. When the protein enters the body, it splits into components and assembles the amino acids necessary to ensure the vital activity of the body.