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What the heck are amino acids? Well, amino acids are the building blocks of proteins in both plants and

animals. Now, amino acids, there are 22 different amino acids, and these combine in different

ways, in different patterns throughout your body to form the proteins that create the tissue that

make you use. They make your muscles, they make your cartilage. They make your bone. They make your muscles. They make

everything. So saying that amino acids are important is in a way an oxymoron. You have to have

amino acids. But where they come from is where all the controversy

and the hype comes from.

Now, there are essentially two types of amino acids

in humans.

There are what are called non-essential amino acids.

They're important for your health,

but they're called non-essential because you can produce

them on your own from other amino acids or even from sugar molecules. So you have the

enzyme system to make one amino acid from a different amino acid. So those are non-essential. On the other

hand, there are essential amino acids. We don't manufacture them ourselves, so we have to

obtain them from our diet. And that's where it gets entertaining. Now, many people are told you have to acquire amino acids for

bulking. And many bodybuilders and many people who advise athletes say that you've got to get

these amino acids primarily from animal protein.

Now, what a bunch of bump.

First of all, the head of nutrition professor Christopher Gardner at Stanford

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