AMINO ACIDS
Your body needs 20 different amino acids to function optimally.
Though all 20 of these are important for your health, only nine amino acids are classified as essential. These are:
- histidine
- isoleucine
- leucine
- lysine
- methionine
- phenylalanine
- threonine
- tryptophan
- valine
The other amino acids are:
- alanine
- arginine
- asparagine
- aspartic acid
- cysteine
- glutamine
- taurine
- glycine
- proline
- serine
- tyrosine