Guest guest Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 My daughter's DAN! Dr. just recommended enzymes to help break down protein, + amino acids. If the enzymes break the protein down, are the amino acids necessary? I'm a little leary of them. We gave compounded amino acids a few years back, with bad results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Amino acids (usually derived from proteins) are necessary to make the enzymes necessary to break down proteins. It is a catch 22. Die off of pathogens can cause high ammonia which seems to reduce the body's ability to break down proteins. I actually put my son on an elemental protein (free amino acids only) diet for a month or so b/c his ammonia was so high and proteins were not being broken down fully. This helped a great deal. I did try the general amino support by kirkman's at one time and I saw some good and a little bad. Keep in mind with aminos that several are precursors to neurotransmitters and need to be used carefully to avoid increasing an already high neurotransmitter. Amino supplementation has done great things for my son, but I would only add them 1 at a time so that you can see what they are doing. There are a couple of good books on how to use amino acids to increase/rebalance neurotransmitters and Andy Cutler breifly mentions this in his book too. He recommends Pfeiffer. Caryn > > My daughter's DAN! Dr. just recommended enzymes to help break down > protein, + amino acids. If the enzymes break the protein down, are > the amino acids necessary? I'm a little leary of them. We gave > compounded amino acids a few years back, with bad results. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Wow! great info. Which books do you recommend? I started my son on L carnitine with 250 mg and will start taurine with 500 mg however, I read that for amino to work you should also give it with a free amino complex so I was starting kirkman's free amino comlex at a very low dose My son is skin and bones and was looking for a way to help him get weight and it made sense to give some type of free amino acids therapy thank you Subject: Re: enzymes / amino acidsTo: mb12 valtrex Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:09 AM Amino acids (usually derived from proteins) are necessary to make the enzymes necessary to break down proteins. It is a catch 22. Die off of pathogens can cause high ammonia which seems to reduce the body's ability to break down proteins. I actually put my son on an elemental protein (free amino acids only) diet for a month or so b/c his ammonia was so high and proteins were not being broken down fully. This helped a great deal.I did try the general amino support by kirkman's at one time and I saw some good and a little bad. Keep in mind with aminos that several are precursors to neurotransmitters and need to be used carefully to avoid increasing an already high neurotransmitter. Amino supplementation has done great things for my son, but I would only add them 1 at a time so that you can see what they are doing. There are a couple of good books on how to use amino acids to increase/rebalance neurotransmitters and Andy Cutler breifly mentions this in his book too. He recommends Pfeiffer.Caryn>> My daughter's DAN! Dr. just recommended enzymes to help break down> protein, + amino acids. If the enzymes break the protein down, are> the amino acids necessary? I'm a little leary of them. We gave> compounded amino acids a few years back, with bad results.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 I have Nutrition and Mental Illness by Carl Pfeiffer, but I just ordered " The Healing Nutrients Within: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemisry, " which is supposed to be more up to date and covers all aminos. I have not read it yet though. Perhaps in another week I can give feedback on that. To put weight on many parents have reported liking carnitine and others recommend using branched chain amino acids. I have used both, at different times and had good results. Good luck. Caryn > > > > My daughter's DAN! Dr. just recommended enzymes to help break down > > protein, + amino acids. If the enzymes break the protein down, are > > the amino acids necessary? I'm a little leary of them. We gave > > compounded amino acids a few years back, with bad results. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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