neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenaline), and epinephrine (adrenaline), and the skin pigment melanin. It is found naturally in breast milk of mammals and reputed for its analgesic and antidepressant effects. It is a direct precursor to the neuro-modulator phenethylamine.
L-Arginine, while not an essential amino acid, is essential for infants and young children who lack the ability to make it. It is an important part of the immune system, aiding the construction of antibodies to fight viruses. It is also required for insulin and hemoglobin manufacture. It also has a major role in energy production, fertility, erectile function, and growth hormone production. However, it must be in balance with L-Lysine. Too much L-Arginine in ratio to L-Lysine can cause an outbreak of herpes, shingles, or CV.
Taurine is found in high concentrations in the heart, skeletal, muscle, and the central nervous system. It helps lower cholesterol and can help regulate the heart muscle itself. Taurine acts as a neurotransmitter in some areas of the brain and the retina. It has been used to treat some forms of epilepsy by controlling seizure outbursts.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals and makes up 25% to 35% of the whole body protein content. It is the structural protein in the extracellular matrix found in the body’s connective tissues and skin. Collagen proteins are bound together to form a triple helix of elongated fibril known as a collagen helix. Collagen proteins are shaped like cords, which transmit tension between cartilages, ligaments, tendons, and other connective tissue. They are also abundant in skin, corneas, blood vessels, the gut, intervertebral discs, and the dentin in teeth. Fibroblast is the most common cell in the connective tissue that produces collagen.
In his book, Fluoride-The Ageing Factor, Dr. John Yiamouyianous, PhD reveals how fluoridation of our water supply, fluoride in our food, medicines, and environment destroys the body’s collagen. This in turn produces premature ageing, wrinkling of the skin, weakened immune function, bone and joint damage, fluorosis of the teeth, and many other harmful effects. Fluoride is also a neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor creating immense damage that worsens with each generation.
ADEQUATE QUALITY PROTEIN
When we fail to consume adequate amounts of quality protein, the blood and tissues can become either too acidic or too alkaline; muscle tone, tendons, and ligaments atrophy; and many bodily functions, including hormone production cease performing properly. Additionally, protein deficiency can be a contributing factor in chronic fatigue, burnout, depression, loss of memory and concentration, slow wound healing, and decreased resistance to infection. Lack of dietary protein can also retard growth in children*2.
Energy is readily produced and sustained when adequate protein is provided. For your heart and body’s electrical system to function properly, a balance between protein, essential fatty acids, and natural daylight/sunlight is necessary. Your selection of quality protein at breakfast can prevent fatigue throughout the day.
Symptoms of protein deficiency, include hypoglycemia and high levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglycerides. Combine protein deficiency with a diet high in refined carbohydrates and damaged fats/oils and you have a recipe for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and viral infections. In fact, a low protein diet can actually make an over weight person gain even more weight. The glands must have sufficient protein for hormone production.
When deficient glands cannot produce the necessary hormones, the body will actually put on more fat and fluid as a defence mechanism, because fat and fluid help provide the missing hormones.
High protein content in a food may not necessarily mean sufficient or the right balance of amino acids that the body needs. Quality, organic animal protein has many advantages over vegetarian sources because vegetarian sources are typically low in one of more of the essential amino acids, even when overall protein content is high. This makes it difficult for vegetarians and more so for vegans to get enough quality protein.
The use of soy protein is high in mineral-blocking phytates and thyroid depressing phytoestrogens, which can suppress the thyroid. Potent enzyme inhibitors in soy may even depress growth*3. Also, soy is high in copper and low in zinc. This imbalance disrupts the body’s copper/zinc ratio and can cause many symptoms of copper toxicity such as skin eruptions, emotional mood swings, PMS, elevated estrogen, aversions to meat, and even cancer.