Zachs
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Scallops are the highest in both aminos. There's a study somewhere showing scallops were awesome. Btw try nutritiondata.Com, they have a drop down menu for all aminos.
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Zachs said:Scallops are the highest in both aminos. There's a study somewhere showing scallops were awesome. Btw try nutritiondata.Com, they have a drop down menu for all aminos.
natedawggh said:Prompted me to purchase taurine and glycine. I have been taking both with every protein food I ingest: Milk, chicken, potatoes, as well as shrimp. I don't notice so much help from the free glycine, but I definitely feel different when using Taurine (and indeed it is the only amino acid shown to reduce water retention in cellular uptake, which is essentially what stimulates fat storage). I haven't noticed that I can eat whatever I want, however, and include Taurine. Protein is best assimilated whole and not individual amino acids, and so the shrimp is probably the best source I have been eating, but I have noticed an assisted effect by the supplementary Taurine. One of the main effects is the feeling that my fatty/bloated liver and lower intestinal inflammation has been subsiding quickly, and I've been experiencing a feeling of lightness in my lower abdomen that has been missing for some years.
Dietary taurine has a blood cholesterol-lowering effect in young overweight adults. Furthermore, body weight also decreased significantly with taurine supplementation.[42] These findings are consistent with animal studies.[43]
honeybee said:Taurine appears to cause headaches for me. Any ideas why or is anyone else experiencing this? I'm using NOW brand-I started at 500 mg and then lowered to 250 but still getting headaches. Has minimal excipients.
I've been taking glycine for months and it's relatively pure so it's not that. I also take a bcomplex 25, vitamin k, a, d. Nine of theses are causing me any problems.
natedawggh said:I definitely feel different when using Taurine (and indeed it is the only amino acid shown to reduce water retention in cellular uptake, which is essentially what stimulates fat storage).
natedawggh said:So... I have continued doing this but have experienced something that seems to totally validate the amino acid balance influence on body fat:
I started taking Lysine, because I have been suffering from some depression and since I no longer drink to deal with it, I needed something to take the edge off. Well, Lysine totally did that, but it halted the weight loss I was experiencing on the shrimp/shellfish based diet. I also know this because one of the other phenomena I experience is that the stretch marks on my skin, when doing the shrimp based diet, turn pink and have been healing and fading. As well as on the lysine they turned back to purple and stopped fading, and I stopped losing weight. I stopped taking lysine twice and my depression seems to have cleared, and the shrimp has once again been having a thermogenic response and the stretch marks are again fresh and fading. There really can't be any other reason for this than the amino acid influences.
Peata said:Just wanted to report back that for me, I was finally able to lose a little weight even when I was on cyproheptadine, and later switched to lysine. Now I am just taking taurine. In my case, I do not think the amino acid ratio was off in the first place enough to affect weight. It was more about getting glycogen problem fixed and raising metabolism. It's been interesting to read about the different things that have aided others though.
sele said:Peata said:Just wanted to report back that for me, I was finally able to lose a little weight even when I was on cyproheptadine, and later switched to lysine. Now I am just taking taurine. In my case, I do not think the amino acid ratio was off in the first place enough to affect weight. It was more about getting glycogen problem fixed and raising metabolism. It's been interesting to read about the different things that have aided others though.
How were you able to fix your glycogen problem?
natedawggh said:post 73991 Congratulations to me, I have lost 20 lbs on a Ray Peat diet, finally! And to you nice people who suggested I might have been at a weight that was healthy for me, thank you for saying so but I have definitely been very overweight, at a 42 pant size instead of my normal 34 or 36 pant size (I"m now at 38!)
This study suggests that the higher potential glycine and taurine in shellfish is possibly helping
http://www.ergo-log.com/best-high-prote ... ycine.html