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Your Personal ''MIRACLE DRUGS'' The two dozen amino acids present in the human body are now being shown to be among the most potent healing substances ever discovered. These constituents of protein are necessary to every life process, but research and clinical work in the last two decades have revealed a vast range of therapeutic functions for amino acids, including: arginine's ability to improve sexual dysfunction phenylalanine's pain-relieving powers tyrosine's addiction-fighting potential and energizing action methionine's role in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and as an antidepressant tryptophan's promising use with hyperactivity cysteine's emergence as one of the body's best free-radical destroyers This update and revision of the landmark book on amino acids covers the exciting discoveries of the last decade and shows you how to use them in your personal health-management program.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #501362 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

About the Author
Eric R. Braverman, M.D., is the Director of the Place for Achieving Total Health (PATH medical), located in New York City. Dr. Braverman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University and his M.D. with honors from New York University Medical School, after which he did postgraduate work in internal medicine with a Yale Medical School affiliate in Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Braverman has published more than eighty research papers with many colleagues. He is also the coauthor of several books, including Zinc and Other Micro-Nutrients, Male Sexual Fitness, and Hypertension and Nutrition.

Customer Reviews

Amino healing power
The amino acids in the human body are proving to be potent healing substances. This book reveals the findings of research in the 1980s and 1990s on the beneficial role of the aminos in Alzheimer’s, cancer, depression, heart conditions, stress and many other disease states.

The different amino acids are discussed in chapters according to type: Aromatic, Sulphur, Urea Cycle, Glutamate, Threonine and Branched Chain. Their food sources, nutrient interactions and proven benefits are given in detail.

The therapeutic functions of specific aminos include pain relief (Phenylalanine), fighting addiction (Tyrosine), treatment of Parkinson’s (Methionine), heart protection (Homocysteine), herpes killer (Lysine). Many of them also play a part in immune stimulation or as anti-oxidants.

There are three appendices: 1. The Problems of Vegetarianism. 2. The Much Maligned Egg: The Best Amino Acid Food. 3. Continuing Breakthroughs in Amino Acids. This informative book with its good news concludes with an extensive bibliography, a glossary of terms and an index.

Everyone can benefit from the use of supplemental amino acids. This excellent book shows how to integrate them in one’s own health management programme. Similar helpful books include The Amino Revolution by Erdmann and Amino Acids In Therapy by Chaitow.