Amino Acid L-Ornithine

L-Ornithine has similar properties to L-Arginine, and is used (sometimes in combination) for wound healing and "muscle tone". However, unlike most other amino acids (including L-Arginine), L-Ornithine is unusual in that it is not incorporated into proteins. Likewise with L-Arginine, L-Onithine has been used in extremely large dosages by intravenous administration to increase the release of growth hormone.

Contraindications: Schizophrenics.

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Amino Acid L-Methionine

Your search for L-Methionine is most likely due to its relationship with Creatine - L-Methionine is one of three Amino Acids (the other two being L-Arginine and L-Glycine) required to produce energy-rich Creatine.

L-Methionine was first isolated from Casein (commonly called milk protein, as it accounts for 80% of milk protein, the other 20% being whey protein) and is synthesised by L-Aspartic Acid and synthesises into L-Cysteine to act on Gluthione (tri-peptide made up the Amino Acids L-Glutamic Acid,L-Cysteine, and L-Glycine) for liver detoxifying. L-Methionine also important for health of hair, nails and skin.

Contraindications: Diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, pregnancy.

Food sources include: Meat, Eggs, Dairy Products, Fish, Beans.

Amino Acid - L-Cysteine

Rather than recite the same information carried across many websites & quoting the same references, I (GP) will try and keep the information relevant to why you've probably searched the Gym Professor site - hair loss products (or better phrased: the promotion of hair growth)?

L-Cysteine can be found among the ingredients list of many hair growth formula's. The reason, growth (& health) of hair depends on adequate levels of L-Cysteine. Although L-Cysteine's a non-essential amino acid (can be made by the body), we've already touched on why consumption of "non-essential" (I'll encase "non-essential" in speech marks in this instance, considering it's a term ONLY!) amino acids are still important through your food intake (a healthy balanced diet will contain many sources of L-Cysteine - poultry, eggs, wheat, broccoli, onions, red peppers).

As regards L-Cysteine's supplementation in the matter of hair growth, having known a couple of people suffer slight hair loss & poor hair health through no apparent predisposition, which would now appear to be attributable to poor nutrition, in their instances (so they felt at least), a greater initial improvement ("jump start") was experienced by supplementing 1g of L-Cysteine daily (for only a couple of weeks) in conjunction with their improved (& continued) eating habits. Of course some people are more predisposed to hair loss than others. A healthy balanced diet may have a lessening effect (& will certainly be beneficial in many other ways), but don't expect miracles from hair growth formula's.

Contraindications: Diabetes and Cystinuria.

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