Why Take Free Form Amino Acids To Improve Health? 

Our body’s ability to function relies on proteins. There are an estimated 100,000 proteins in our bodies that repair cells, make cells, keep our immune system functioning, make blood components, hormones, liver functions, brain functions, and our bodies natural ability to fight and recover from disease, most everything our body does relies on protein.

Protein and Essential Amino Acids
Amino acids are the building block of proteins. All the proteins in our bodies (systemic proteins) are made up of twenty different amino acids, eleven of which are essential amino acids (EAAs), those that must be obtained from the diet.  If you are deficient in even one EAA these  systemic proteins will not function properly. Blood proteins that help in detoxification are mutated and lose their abilities to remove toxins allowing the toxins to re-enter the body. Hormone production is affected, cells can not be repaired or made, blood sugar is not controlled and our body's immune system is seriously compromised, making it difficult to fight disease, viruses and flu.

Enzymes and the Pancreas
Our pancreas is the number one over worked and stressed organ in our bodies. Pollution affects it, stress affects it, refined sugars and carbohydrates affect it, disease and injury affects it and lack of protein affects it. When our pancreas is under any duress it’s ability to produce enzymes for digestion is hampered. When this happens our natural digestive enzyme production is affected and we can not break down our foods into EAAs. Without EAAs we become protein deficient.

So, just take enzymes to help with digestion, right?. Wrong! Enzymes are proteins that are made and used up very quickly by the body. The body makes around twenty-two different digestive enzymes and chooses which of these to make according to the foods eaten. If you are taking digestive enzymes from a bottle you are essentially just hoping those are the ones you will need, and you are hoping they are of the correct strength. If the digestive system is not protein deficient it can make whatever digestive enzymes are needed on demand and they will be custom made to order, in strength and quantity.
 

Your Body's Ability to Makes Its Own Enzymes
By introducing into the digestive system a balanced blend of free-form, pharmaceutical-quality essential amino acids before meals, the pancreas starts functioning properly, producing adequate digestive enzymes. Free form EAAs are essentially pre-digested allowing your pancreas to use these valuable elements immediately, in essence, jump starting the body and preparing it to produce the enzymes necessary to break down your foods into more EAAs.

When your body is getting all the EAAs it needs,it will be able to heal, maintain normal function, detox, and most importantly fight disease, remove viruses and help build your immune system.

Written by Nina Stout, CHHC & David Stout, MT