Importance of Amino Acids

      Importance of Amino Acids in Naturopathy is immense as it is considered the most important of all known substances in the organic kingdom. Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins.

 

           In Naturopathy there is immense importance of Amino Acids. Proteins are exceptionally complex organic compounds of the elements hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and with some exceptions, sulphur. Each type contains a definite number of building blocks known as amino acids. When food stuffs are ingested, the nutrients and amino acids do not immediately disseminate into all the different tissues. There are a series of biochemical reactions in the digestive tract which collect these proteins, break them down and then utilise them as needed. There are about twenty two amino acids needed for the normal functioning of the body. The body can manufacture many amino acids if it has no sufficient nitrogen source, but it cannot produce certain others in adequate amounts to meet its needs.

          Much research has been done on amino acids in recent times and this has paved the way for dramatic cure and treatment of different problems by their judicious use. The various functions of the necessary and regularly investigated non essential amino acids, their deficiency symptoms and their therapeutic uses are discussed below days.