If someone has not had Amino Acids for a long long time can they repair the damage ?

Question

especially certain amino acids. Can this person showing symptoms such as atrophy, and other weaknesses expect to repair or heal once consuming amino acids again?

The book about amino acids says that " unlike fat and starch, the human body does not store excess amino acids for later use, the amino acids must be in the food every day."

So what happens if the person does begin to consume amino acids once again ? Can the person consume a large amount of them in a short time to repair all of the damage ?

some nerve related problems it appears

Answer 1

You may want to check out the links below.

Amino acids are found in all food except oil.

There are about eighty amino acids found in nature, but only twenty to twenty-nine are required for human growth. This figure depends upon the source consulted but most agree the figure is twenty or twenty-one. Once again, depending on the source, eight to ten amino acids are considered essential for life. The reason for the classifications of amino acids into "essential" and "non-essential" was to distinguish between those the body could manufacture and the ones that had to come from diet.

Essential amino acids are those that must come from the diet. These include: isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.

Non-essential amino acids are those that the body can manufacture from an available source of nitrogen and a carbon skeleton. These include: alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, carnitine, citrulline, cysteine, cystine, GABA, glutamic acid, glutamine, gluthathione, glycine, hydroxyproline, ornithine, proline, serine, taurine, and tyrosine.

Semi-essential amino acids are ones that can sometimes be made internally if conditions are right. Arginine and histidine can be converted from other amino acids if needed. Methionine can be converted to cystine, but cystine cannot be converted to methionine. Phenylalanine can be converted to tyrosine, but not the other way around. Therefore, when cystine and tyrosine are present in the diet, the requirements for methionine and phenylalaine are reduced. Thus, cystine and tyrosine are sometimes classified as "semi-essential." The liver is able to produce 80% of the amino acids it needs for protein construction, while the remaining 20% must be consumed.

Proteins from the same plant family, such as grains, are generally low in the same amino acids. Proteins from another plant family, such as legumes, are low in different amino acids. If proteins from these two plant families are eaten together, one plant protein provides the amino acids that are low in the other plant protein. Since each protein makes up for the other's shortcomings, they can be said to be "complementary" to each other, and so they are known as complementary proteins. For example, beans and rice, when eaten together, result in a good balance of amino acids.

Some foods which may be combined to provide a good balance of amino acids are:

cereal + milk as breakfast cereal and milk

pasta + cheese as macaroni and cheese

rice + milk as rice pudding

wheat + peanuts as peanut butter sandwich

beans + wheat as baked beans and brown bread

peas + rye as split pea soup and rye bread

beans + corn as refried beans and tortillas

soybeans + seeds/nuts as trail mix

There is a difference of opinion within the two links - but the one thing that is agreed upon - if you eat a well planned out vegetarian diet - you will have no problems concerning amino acids.

So there really is no way to totally go without having amino acids within a diet - unless your starving yourself.

If your diet has been so poor that you feel that you are lacking in certain amino acids - you really need to see a doctor as just taking them without really knowing what your doing will cause more harm than help.