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hey guys dr. Berg here I’m going to talk about  what is an amino acid okay amino acids basically  

are the building blocks of protein and when  you have amino acids you have a chain of them  

it makes different types of protein okay so  when you consume protein your body breaks  

it down with the help of acid and enzymes into  the smallest particles of amino acids and this  

happens mainly on the liver and then your body  tissue starts reassembling these amino acids into  

many different structures making jeans making  blood tissue muscle collagen neurotransmitters  

that’s like hormones through the nervous system  hormones which actually through the blood skin  

hair organs enzymes antibiotics they’re all made  from protein so your body has to make them so you  

have simple proteins which are made from several  amino acids and very complex protein that’s made  

from thousands of amino acids it’s just like  it’s an interesting combination because you  

have all these different combinations of amino  acids that do certain functions and there’s  

certain genes or instructions or blueprints  that tell the body how do we assemble these  

things okay so you have this whole translation  unit you have this whole blueprint unit and you  

have the building unit of the cell to make body  tissue so it’s controlled by genes and basically  

amino acids are needed to make 50,000 different  combinations it’s amazing so amino acids are a  

little bit different than proteins and fat in  that they it has an extra nitrogen connected so  

it has carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen which  allows the protein to repair and build tissue so  

amino acids are necessary in the repair of the  body especially during stress that’s why when  

you’re under stress you need more protein controls  oh my gosh hunger mood emotion many many different  

things sleep you also have essential amino acids  and non-essential amino acids essential basically  

means that you can’t make these it must be gotten  from the diet now your your bite microbes in your  

gut have the capacity to make those but not in  sufficient quantities okay so you’re going to  

need to have certain external types of protein  to go in the body because you’re not going to  

have those but then you have non-essential amino  acids which doesn’t mean that it’s non-essential  

it means that your body can make them your liver  has a capacity to make certain amino acids from  

other proteins that you eat all right also the  egg happens to be the most complete high quality  

protein it has everything in the right combination  in fact there’s certain protein standards that are  

based on the egg okay so if someone tells you  that egg is not healthy that egg is a very very  

complete protein all right I consumed four eggs  every single day now I did a seminar at Exxon once  

and they pretty much said I couldn’t come back  to do future seminars and I asked them why and  

he says will you recommending 45 eggs a day I said  no I recommend four to five eggs a day they go a  

little miscommunication so they did invite me back  the bone marrow in your body makes red blood cells  

two two and a half million red blood cells every  single second so it’s requiring a lot of amino  

acids to do that then your GI tract replaces the  lining every four days requiring amino acids and  

then the skin replaces itself every twenty four  days and the bone collagen replaces itself every  

thirty years so it takes a little bit longer  but that all requires amino acids so basically  

you do need complete proteins you high-quality  protein you don’t need too much you just need just  

the right amount because if you have too much  protein it could clog up the liver so between  

three and six ounces per meal would be optimum  alright thanks for watching hey guys thank you  

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