Auto Immune
Researchers have long been aware of the role that nutrition and the immune system play in allergy (1), autoimmune diseases (2), degenerative diseases, and biological aging. Immunology’s role in conditions not previously recognized to be immune system influenced has become more recently understood. Many factors can adversely affect the normal modulation (3) of the immune system. Such factors include nutrition, environmental exposures, drug therapies, toxins, bacteria, virus, genetic predispositions, emotional stress and other factors that are yet unknown. The ensuing immune related derangements lead to maladaptive inflammation that underlies many conditions. Immune mis-modulation results in symptoms ranging from painful joints to tiredness to depression to brain fog and to feelings of impaired well being. Immune mis-modulation plays a major role in the development and progression of a wide spectrum of diseases including allergic rhinitis, asthma, lupus, chronic hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, cancer and degeneration associated with premature biological aging (4). Although amino acid based nutrition is not used to treat specific diseases, it may be used to nourish health in the presence of derangements of the immune system.
For example: the single naturally occurring amino acid histidine has been found useful in maintaining health for some individuals who have allergic conditions such as hay fever and/or auto-immunity conditions.
Amino acids are chemical structures chained together to compose various types of proteins. There are 21 different amino acids recognized in science with useful function, ranging from providing energy for the body to protecting against cardiovascular disease. Not one cell in the body could survive without the amino acids that proteins provide. In fact, next to water, protein is the second most abundant substance in our bodies. Help your body function properly and promote health.
When we eat protein rich foods such as meat, and legumes, our bodies break down the proteins into smaller components, allowing nutrients to be absorbed across the intestinal wall. Specific proteins contain specific amino acids arranged in a specific order. Once these chains are broken down during digestion into the individual amino acids, the body can recombine them in different patterns to produce different proteins that the body needs for various other functions.
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Wishing you the VERY best of health! Dr. Martin Dayton