Amino Acids and protein digestion

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Great theory! Have you ever head of serine proteases? They're a specific

category of protease that has serine at it's binding point. Serine is a

" Non-essential " amino acid because the body can make it out of glycine,

however, if the folate cycle is stalled the body doesn't make serine!

My protein digestion got much better once I got my folate cycle working

again.

-Lana

On 5/14/08, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

>

> Just curious since I'm on this amino acid kick, why did you take her

> in for testing? Is she smaller than she should be? Trouble gaining

> weight? I've got a theory that part of the food sensitivity thing is

> that people are low in protease (the enzyme that breaks down

> proteins) and that aside from problems with partially digested

> proteins getting into the blood and causing an immune response the

> person will also suffer from amino acid deficiency (what proteins get

> broken down into). Once they are amino acid deficient, they cannot

> make the enzymes (which need some amino acids!) so it becomes a

> vicious cycle.

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