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Importance of Amino Acids for Weight Control
April 20, 2000
News: Been busy with another mini fitness retreat... 5 women from the last Belleview Biltmore Fitness Retreat returned exactly 30 days later to reveal what they had accomplished doing nothing but T-Tapp Total Workout and Hit the Floor workouts. Wow! What a difference it makes having photos taken and placed side by side for review! Check out iVillage.com message board "Workouts that Work" in archives #14, item #50 and see what one of the attendees, "Dee" wrote about her experience – she has a black belt in karate and lost a lot of waist-to-knee "bulk".
Each age group was represented: 28, 38, 43, 46, and 58. Inches and clothing sizes were lost, muscle bulk was reversed and skin was tighter! And nobody changed eating patterns either, except the 28 year old who actually ate more from several pre-wedding parties (cakes, candies and pastries). She didn't gain anything. In fact, her body looked better than ever!
All shared a new viewpoint after witnessing everyone's results and that was you don't have to do any additional cardio or weights with the T-Tapp Workout. You can, if you wish, but you don't have to in order to get results. Don't workout harder… workout smart! Soon, I will have an article on the website with 30-day before/after photos to share their success stories.
Contest Winners: Congratulations to April Hite, Alpna Bhatia, and Irma Gomez you receive your choice of Target Pop Videos Primary Back Stretch for ultimate lymphatic health and fat burning or Secret to Toning Arms without Weights or Secret to Lunges without Bulking. Also Thelma Burgess and Rose Popper receive their choice of Intermediate or Advanced Level T-Tapp Workout. Be sure to email your selection with mailing address to teresatapp@yahoo.com or call 1-800-342-0717. Prize is sent first class mail. Next contest will be 30th of April... 3 Target Pop Winners and 2 Mini-max Workout Winners will be chosen! Be sure to re-enter since names do not carry forward.
Importance of Amino Acids in Weight Control: One of the most important aspects of obtaining a good diet is the balancing of amino acids. There are approximately 22 amino acids that are the primary components of protein. Eight of these amino acids... tryptophan, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, valine, and threonine are known as "essential" because they cannot be manufactured by the body and must be supplied by foods in our diet.
Amino acid content of every food differs. The amino acids in foods must be consumed in amounts and proportions that closely approximate the pattern required by the body. If one essential amino acid (EAA) is missing or is present in a low amount, protein synthesis in the body will fall to a very low level or stop altogether! In most foods containing protein, all the EAAs are present, but in some foods one or more of the EAAs may be present in a substantially lower amount than the others, thus placing it out of proportion and deviating from the EAA pattern required by the body. The EAA that is absent or in lowest percentage of the daily Estimated Amino Acid Requirement (established by the National Academy of Sciences) is known as the limiting amino acid (LAA) and is the factor that determines the amount and quality of protein utilized by the body. For example: a food containing 100% of a person's lysine requirement but only 20% of the methionine requirement will result in only 20% of the protein in that food being used as protein by the body. The rest is used as fuel rather than for replenishing or building/repair of tissue.
Foods such as meat, fish, poultry and dairy products are high in protein content and have a good proportion of EAAs. Many vegetables and fruits are low in or missing some amino acids, thus rendering the amino acids present relatively useless. Foods low in or missing a particular amino acid (the LAA) will have increased protein quality when combined with foods high in the in the same LAA. For example: macaroni and cheese, vegetable stew and chicken chow mein. This is why it is important to understand the power of amino acids and protein combining - especially if you are a vegetarian - in order to get full absorption/assimilation of necessary protein for body function/repair. Supplements can also be used to increase protein quality of foods.
The body's protein requirements can easily be met if foods are eaten in proper combination of usable protein. By this I mean, smaller quantities of food can be consumed and the body's nutritional needs will still be taken care of... just because you consume a lot of protein doesn't mean that your body is assimilating it. The importance of balancing the amino acids to obtain the best possible protein from foods cannot be overstressed!
To determine exact individual amino acid requirements just divide body weight by 2.2 to find weight in kilograms. Then multiply this figure times the requirement for each amino acid as listed in following chart. Results will appear as total milligrams of each amino acid required to carry on the daily body building functions of protein.
Source of following chart: National Academy of Sciences, "Recommended Dietary Allowances", 9th edition - pg. 43. Requirement (per kg of body weight), mg/day.
Amino Acid Adult Requirement AA Pattern for high quality Proteins
mg/g of protein
Histidine ? 17
Isoleucine 12 42
Leucine 16 70
Lysine 12 51
Total S-containing AA's
(methionine and cystine) 10 26
Total aromatic AA's
(phenylalanine and tyrosine) 16 73
Threonine 8 35
Tryptophan 3 11
Valine 14 48
Actually, recent research has revealed that all 22 amino acids are essential for health, but the "Special Eight" are thought to be particularly essential since the body cannot possibly produce them from its own resources. Again, these 8 essential amino acids must be acquired through diet or supplementation. The sensitivity of protein metabolism and synthesis is such that if only one essential amino acid is absent, the whole system falls apart. In order for the body to correctly synthesize protein, all essential amino acids must be present.
The amino acid phenylalanine (100 to 500 milligrams at night on an empty stomach) aids in weight reduction. A combination of other amino acids, L-arginine along with L-lysine and L-ornithine, is thought to burn fat by releasing a growth hormone that is not normally found in adults. L-carnitine is another amino acid that enables fat to be released from existing fat cells for immediate use with muscle activity. I sometimes take phenylalanine in the afternoon to curb my appetite along with Pyruvyl Glycine spray (amino acid version of pyruvate).
Problems in Assimilating Amino Acids: The process of healthy protein metabolism and digestion is to purposely break apart the bonds of protein molecules, releasing free form amino acids into the body to be used where and when needed. Normally, when in the natural process of transition from being a part of different proteins, amino acids act as "switches" for important, if not master, chemical pathways, turning them on and turning them off. And then, immediately after use, these free form amino acids are reabsorbed by the body in its effort to maintain homeostasis (body balance).
This process works fine in our youth, but as we age, the natural ways of building up and breaking down materials for proper bioavailability becomes less efficient. Although a healthy body is normally breaking down proteins into separate amino acids and then reassembling them into other needed protein structures, eventually this homeostasis is disrupted. The older we become, the more accelerated the process of breaking down cellular protein begins to exceed the constructive process of building it up. Biochemical pathways become sluggish and untuned, not responding in harmony. Pathways, which are specifically used to release amino acids from their bonds, become unexercised and lack youth rhythm, finally stalling altogether.
Free form amino acids then become more and more scarce with increasing years. When in short supply, any free form amino acids resent within the body's environment are reattached to other proteins too quick to be used by other needy pathways. Without the presence of free form amino acids, critical brain “switches” cannot be thrown and important direction and biochemical messages are never sent to important parts of the body.
The lack of free form amino acids actually retards the healthiness and constructive rebuilding of the body. Without them, superordinate pathways (i.e.: master or governing pathways) are rarely initiated. Normal processes are circumvented as the body begins to conserve for just the essential, lower-order, life-preserving pathways... so higher order functions or "life-enhancing" functions, are not served.
As we become older, normal protein synthesis and metabolism is inhibited by a number of things, including poor diet, erratic patterns of sleep, unresolved stress, lack of exercise, developed food allergies, even environmental pollution. All of these problems can and usually do disturb digestive and metabolic processes. When the uncoupling of amino acids is inhibited, then the life-preserving free form amino acid, the fundamental ingredient of health and beauty, will not be found.
These problems become additive… one problem causes a host of others developing a downward spiral of body decay and destruction, thus resulting in premature aging.
Furthermore, incomplete breakdown of protein also results in toxic putrification within the digestive tract, which increasingly interferes with the efficiency of the digestive process. These toxins become inhibiting agents to the body, which are destructively absorbed through the intestinal walls. This further compromises the efficiency of the digestive system, as well as inhibits the normal metabolism and synthesis of cellular protein, making the release as well as the biological availability, of free form amino acids almost impossible.
Effects of Amino Acid Deprivation: With increasing age, the process of obtaining the necessary number and correct proportion of amino acids becomes a rather circular and frustrating problem. You see, not only does the body need a specific number of amino acids to make proteins, but it also needs the necessary amino acids to make the digestive enzymes, which break down the proteins into the substances that it needs to rebuild itself, namely, more amino acids.
When there are insufficient correctly configured amino acids available, then normal protein metabolism and digestion is inhibited. Amino acids cannot be released from their bonds. As we become older, poverty of naturally configured amino acids accelerates and brings on a multitude of problems. When amino acids are not sufficient in number, specific brain switches cannot be thrown, master biochemical pathways cannot be initiated, and the body cannot help but travel a pathway of accelerated aging.
What results is a general "dampening", a loss of interest, of the immediacy and intimacy of life. We're not as sharp as we used to be, life seems to begin to slip away from us, and little hassles begin occurring more frequently and become annoyingly compounded. We don't seem to sleep as well as we used to. We find ourselves becoming more easily upset at life's little problems and we can't seem to handle things as well as we used to. We become more easily frustrated and there is a general feeling that we're not the person we used to be. Our youth seems to slip further and further away. We don't seem to be able to concentrate like we used to. Things are more of a chore than they should be. And, sometimes, we are surprised as to how little we care about things anymore - how apathetic we are becoming. We may even become more susceptible to longer periods of sadness.
And there are other changes... digestion becomes sluggish and uncomfortable, taste for food becomes dulled, and healing of wounds becomes slower... eyes lack the luster they once had, nails become more brittle, and our skin begins to dry out much more quickly. Now, don't be mistaken. This is not just "growing older" – although this is usually how such symptoms are traditionally defined. Becoming older doesn't mean that we have to physically fall apart at an accelerated rate. Nor does it mean a diminishing interest in life. It doesn't mean that the exciting days of our youth are over or that "the best years of our life" are gone forever. No, not at all. Each day of our life has the potential of becoming better. In reality, the "best days" of our life are yet to happen.
Therefore, if you're one who is plagued by general dampening of life's interests, it might be due to a handicapped biochemistry rather than just "growing older." Your eight-cylinder engine is probably running on only five cylinders. You may very well be experiencing a lack of amino acids in your life and without proper balance, you will become older faster.
But amazingly the body can repair itself – it is always trying to maintain balance or "homeostasis". I wanted to bring to your attention the importance of amino acids... everyone usually concentrates on the importance of vitamin and minerals, but our body has 20 times more amino acids than vitamins and 4 times more amino acids than minerals. In fact, medical science has compared the importance of Amino Acids to the Health Industry as having the same significance as what the "Computer Chip" was to the Electronic Industry. Without amino acids, and all that they do, we simply could not live. Thus, amino acids are life sustaining - their supplementation is generally nontoxic, being less harmful than vitamins. They are a fundamental food, substances on which all common foods are made, and on which all life relies.
Last year at Easter, I discussed the importance of eggs because of their PER (Protein Efficiency Ratio) being the highest of all proteins ("4.0") and that they contain all of the essential amino acids in correct proportion (see archives for previous newsletter details) – now you know how and why eggs are important in have in our diet.
Other Food Sources for Amino Acids: Besides eggs, other protein sources of amino acids are all types of meats, poultry, fish, and milk (be sure to drink hormone free!). But I want to bring to your attention food sources for - L-TRYPTOPHAN, which your body needs in order to produce SEROTONIN - important for mood-elevation (low levels can cause carbohydrate cravings). So consume the following foods for L-tryptophan: roasted pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds, turnip greens, collard greens, seaweed (kelp and spirulina) and dairy.
Last of all, people always want to know what I take and what I do to maintain my health and vitality. Well, for amino acids, I try to consume at least 3 to 5 eggs a week, have a glass of pure, non flavored soy protein powder mixed with soy milk at least every other day, and supplement daily with a product called "Body Balance", which contains all 22 of the amino acids and necessary enzymes from sea plant sources. Natural Energy is the brand of the soy protein powder; it has the highest PER ratio (3.2) of any protein powder on the market today (most are under 1.7!). I mix it with 8 oz of Westbrae Unsweetened Soy Milk (sometimes I sweeten it with Blackstrap molasses to get additional natural mineral supplementation and to control my sugar cravings). Check out archives for Soymilk newsletter comparisons. You can order Natural Energy at 425-486-5956 from the creator of this product is Graydon Collins. Be sure to tell him that you are a T-Tapper so you can save ½ on shipping. "Body Balance" is a whole food supplement with a synergistic combination of 121 vital nutrients in a natural ionic liquid for immediate assimilation/use at cellular level. It contains virtually every vitamin, macromineral, micromineral, ultra trace mineral, all amino acids, essential fatty acids and enzymes needed for optimal health – they offer a sample size as well as a one month quart size. I take 1 oz daily or twice daily when "stressed" and it tastes like "Kool-Aid"! For more information or to order call David Borque at 1-800-823-9776.
Hope all of you have a HAPPY EASTER – until next tip... be your best and remember that amino acids definitely are basics for having a better body!
Teresa Tapp
April 20, 2000
News: Been busy with another mini fitness retreat... 5 women from the last Belleview Biltmore Fitness Retreat returned exactly 30 days later to reveal what they had accomplished doing nothing but T-Tapp Total Workout and Hit the Floor workouts. Wow! What a difference it makes having photos taken and placed side by side for review! Check out iVillage.com message board "Workouts that Work" in archives #14, item #50 and see what one of the attendees, "Dee" wrote about her experience – she has a black belt in karate and lost a lot of waist-to-knee "bulk".
Each age group was represented: 28, 38, 43, 46, and 58. Inches and clothing sizes were lost, muscle bulk was reversed and skin was tighter! And nobody changed eating patterns either, except the 28 year old who actually ate more from several pre-wedding parties (cakes, candies and pastries). She didn't gain anything. In fact, her body looked better than ever!
All shared a new viewpoint after witnessing everyone's results and that was you don't have to do any additional cardio or weights with the T-Tapp Workout. You can, if you wish, but you don't have to in order to get results. Don't workout harder… workout smart! Soon, I will have an article on the website with 30-day before/after photos to share their success stories.
Contest Winners: Congratulations to April Hite, Alpna Bhatia, and Irma Gomez you receive your choice of Target Pop Videos Primary Back Stretch for ultimate lymphatic health and fat burning or Secret to Toning Arms without Weights or Secret to Lunges without Bulking. Also Thelma Burgess and Rose Popper receive their choice of Intermediate or Advanced Level T-Tapp Workout. Be sure to email your selection with mailing address to teresatapp@yahoo.com or call 1-800-342-0717. Prize is sent first class mail. Next contest will be 30th of April... 3 Target Pop Winners and 2 Mini-max Workout Winners will be chosen! Be sure to re-enter since names do not carry forward.
Importance of Amino Acids in Weight Control: One of the most important aspects of obtaining a good diet is the balancing of amino acids. There are approximately 22 amino acids that are the primary components of protein. Eight of these amino acids... tryptophan, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, isoleucine, valine, and threonine are known as "essential" because they cannot be manufactured by the body and must be supplied by foods in our diet.
Amino acid content of every food differs. The amino acids in foods must be consumed in amounts and proportions that closely approximate the pattern required by the body. If one essential amino acid (EAA) is missing or is present in a low amount, protein synthesis in the body will fall to a very low level or stop altogether! In most foods containing protein, all the EAAs are present, but in some foods one or more of the EAAs may be present in a substantially lower amount than the others, thus placing it out of proportion and deviating from the EAA pattern required by the body. The EAA that is absent or in lowest percentage of the daily Estimated Amino Acid Requirement (established by the National Academy of Sciences) is known as the limiting amino acid (LAA) and is the factor that determines the amount and quality of protein utilized by the body. For example: a food containing 100% of a person's lysine requirement but only 20% of the methionine requirement will result in only 20% of the protein in that food being used as protein by the body. The rest is used as fuel rather than for replenishing or building/repair of tissue.
Foods such as meat, fish, poultry and dairy products are high in protein content and have a good proportion of EAAs. Many vegetables and fruits are low in or missing some amino acids, thus rendering the amino acids present relatively useless. Foods low in or missing a particular amino acid (the LAA) will have increased protein quality when combined with foods high in the in the same LAA. For example: macaroni and cheese, vegetable stew and chicken chow mein. This is why it is important to understand the power of amino acids and protein combining - especially if you are a vegetarian - in order to get full absorption/assimilation of necessary protein for body function/repair. Supplements can also be used to increase protein quality of foods.
The body's protein requirements can easily be met if foods are eaten in proper combination of usable protein. By this I mean, smaller quantities of food can be consumed and the body's nutritional needs will still be taken care of... just because you consume a lot of protein doesn't mean that your body is assimilating it. The importance of balancing the amino acids to obtain the best possible protein from foods cannot be overstressed!
To determine exact individual amino acid requirements just divide body weight by 2.2 to find weight in kilograms. Then multiply this figure times the requirement for each amino acid as listed in following chart. Results will appear as total milligrams of each amino acid required to carry on the daily body building functions of protein.
Source of following chart: National Academy of Sciences, "Recommended Dietary Allowances", 9th edition - pg. 43. Requirement (per kg of body weight), mg/day.
Amino Acid Adult Requirement AA Pattern for high quality Proteins
mg/g of protein
Histidine ? 17
Isoleucine 12 42
Leucine 16 70
Lysine 12 51
Total S-containing AA's
(methionine and cystine) 10 26
Total aromatic AA's
(phenylalanine and tyrosine) 16 73
Threonine 8 35
Tryptophan 3 11
Valine 14 48
Actually, recent research has revealed that all 22 amino acids are essential for health, but the "Special Eight" are thought to be particularly essential since the body cannot possibly produce them from its own resources. Again, these 8 essential amino acids must be acquired through diet or supplementation. The sensitivity of protein metabolism and synthesis is such that if only one essential amino acid is absent, the whole system falls apart. In order for the body to correctly synthesize protein, all essential amino acids must be present.
The amino acid phenylalanine (100 to 500 milligrams at night on an empty stomach) aids in weight reduction. A combination of other amino acids, L-arginine along with L-lysine and L-ornithine, is thought to burn fat by releasing a growth hormone that is not normally found in adults. L-carnitine is another amino acid that enables fat to be released from existing fat cells for immediate use with muscle activity. I sometimes take phenylalanine in the afternoon to curb my appetite along with Pyruvyl Glycine spray (amino acid version of pyruvate).
Problems in Assimilating Amino Acids: The process of healthy protein metabolism and digestion is to purposely break apart the bonds of protein molecules, releasing free form amino acids into the body to be used where and when needed. Normally, when in the natural process of transition from being a part of different proteins, amino acids act as "switches" for important, if not master, chemical pathways, turning them on and turning them off. And then, immediately after use, these free form amino acids are reabsorbed by the body in its effort to maintain homeostasis (body balance).
This process works fine in our youth, but as we age, the natural ways of building up and breaking down materials for proper bioavailability becomes less efficient. Although a healthy body is normally breaking down proteins into separate amino acids and then reassembling them into other needed protein structures, eventually this homeostasis is disrupted. The older we become, the more accelerated the process of breaking down cellular protein begins to exceed the constructive process of building it up. Biochemical pathways become sluggish and untuned, not responding in harmony. Pathways, which are specifically used to release amino acids from their bonds, become unexercised and lack youth rhythm, finally stalling altogether.
Free form amino acids then become more and more scarce with increasing years. When in short supply, any free form amino acids resent within the body's environment are reattached to other proteins too quick to be used by other needy pathways. Without the presence of free form amino acids, critical brain “switches” cannot be thrown and important direction and biochemical messages are never sent to important parts of the body.
The lack of free form amino acids actually retards the healthiness and constructive rebuilding of the body. Without them, superordinate pathways (i.e.: master or governing pathways) are rarely initiated. Normal processes are circumvented as the body begins to conserve for just the essential, lower-order, life-preserving pathways... so higher order functions or "life-enhancing" functions, are not served.
As we become older, normal protein synthesis and metabolism is inhibited by a number of things, including poor diet, erratic patterns of sleep, unresolved stress, lack of exercise, developed food allergies, even environmental pollution. All of these problems can and usually do disturb digestive and metabolic processes. When the uncoupling of amino acids is inhibited, then the life-preserving free form amino acid, the fundamental ingredient of health and beauty, will not be found.
These problems become additive… one problem causes a host of others developing a downward spiral of body decay and destruction, thus resulting in premature aging.
Furthermore, incomplete breakdown of protein also results in toxic putrification within the digestive tract, which increasingly interferes with the efficiency of the digestive process. These toxins become inhibiting agents to the body, which are destructively absorbed through the intestinal walls. This further compromises the efficiency of the digestive system, as well as inhibits the normal metabolism and synthesis of cellular protein, making the release as well as the biological availability, of free form amino acids almost impossible.
Effects of Amino Acid Deprivation: With increasing age, the process of obtaining the necessary number and correct proportion of amino acids becomes a rather circular and frustrating problem. You see, not only does the body need a specific number of amino acids to make proteins, but it also needs the necessary amino acids to make the digestive enzymes, which break down the proteins into the substances that it needs to rebuild itself, namely, more amino acids.
When there are insufficient correctly configured amino acids available, then normal protein metabolism and digestion is inhibited. Amino acids cannot be released from their bonds. As we become older, poverty of naturally configured amino acids accelerates and brings on a multitude of problems. When amino acids are not sufficient in number, specific brain switches cannot be thrown, master biochemical pathways cannot be initiated, and the body cannot help but travel a pathway of accelerated aging.
What results is a general "dampening", a loss of interest, of the immediacy and intimacy of life. We're not as sharp as we used to be, life seems to begin to slip away from us, and little hassles begin occurring more frequently and become annoyingly compounded. We don't seem to sleep as well as we used to. We find ourselves becoming more easily upset at life's little problems and we can't seem to handle things as well as we used to. We become more easily frustrated and there is a general feeling that we're not the person we used to be. Our youth seems to slip further and further away. We don't seem to be able to concentrate like we used to. Things are more of a chore than they should be. And, sometimes, we are surprised as to how little we care about things anymore - how apathetic we are becoming. We may even become more susceptible to longer periods of sadness.
And there are other changes... digestion becomes sluggish and uncomfortable, taste for food becomes dulled, and healing of wounds becomes slower... eyes lack the luster they once had, nails become more brittle, and our skin begins to dry out much more quickly. Now, don't be mistaken. This is not just "growing older" – although this is usually how such symptoms are traditionally defined. Becoming older doesn't mean that we have to physically fall apart at an accelerated rate. Nor does it mean a diminishing interest in life. It doesn't mean that the exciting days of our youth are over or that "the best years of our life" are gone forever. No, not at all. Each day of our life has the potential of becoming better. In reality, the "best days" of our life are yet to happen.
Therefore, if you're one who is plagued by general dampening of life's interests, it might be due to a handicapped biochemistry rather than just "growing older." Your eight-cylinder engine is probably running on only five cylinders. You may very well be experiencing a lack of amino acids in your life and without proper balance, you will become older faster.
But amazingly the body can repair itself – it is always trying to maintain balance or "homeostasis". I wanted to bring to your attention the importance of amino acids... everyone usually concentrates on the importance of vitamin and minerals, but our body has 20 times more amino acids than vitamins and 4 times more amino acids than minerals. In fact, medical science has compared the importance of Amino Acids to the Health Industry as having the same significance as what the "Computer Chip" was to the Electronic Industry. Without amino acids, and all that they do, we simply could not live. Thus, amino acids are life sustaining - their supplementation is generally nontoxic, being less harmful than vitamins. They are a fundamental food, substances on which all common foods are made, and on which all life relies.
Last year at Easter, I discussed the importance of eggs because of their PER (Protein Efficiency Ratio) being the highest of all proteins ("4.0") and that they contain all of the essential amino acids in correct proportion (see archives for previous newsletter details) – now you know how and why eggs are important in have in our diet.
Other Food Sources for Amino Acids: Besides eggs, other protein sources of amino acids are all types of meats, poultry, fish, and milk (be sure to drink hormone free!). But I want to bring to your attention food sources for - L-TRYPTOPHAN, which your body needs in order to produce SEROTONIN - important for mood-elevation (low levels can cause carbohydrate cravings). So consume the following foods for L-tryptophan: roasted pumpkin seeds, raw sunflower seeds, turnip greens, collard greens, seaweed (kelp and spirulina) and dairy.
Last of all, people always want to know what I take and what I do to maintain my health and vitality. Well, for amino acids, I try to consume at least 3 to 5 eggs a week, have a glass of pure, non flavored soy protein powder mixed with soy milk at least every other day, and supplement daily with a product called "Body Balance", which contains all 22 of the amino acids and necessary enzymes from sea plant sources. Natural Energy is the brand of the soy protein powder; it has the highest PER ratio (3.2) of any protein powder on the market today (most are under 1.7!). I mix it with 8 oz of Westbrae Unsweetened Soy Milk (sometimes I sweeten it with Blackstrap molasses to get additional natural mineral supplementation and to control my sugar cravings). Check out archives for Soymilk newsletter comparisons. You can order Natural Energy at 425-486-5956 from the creator of this product is Graydon Collins. Be sure to tell him that you are a T-Tapper so you can save ½ on shipping. "Body Balance" is a whole food supplement with a synergistic combination of 121 vital nutrients in a natural ionic liquid for immediate assimilation/use at cellular level. It contains virtually every vitamin, macromineral, micromineral, ultra trace mineral, all amino acids, essential fatty acids and enzymes needed for optimal health – they offer a sample size as well as a one month quart size. I take 1 oz daily or twice daily when "stressed" and it tastes like "Kool-Aid"! For more information or to order call David Borque at 1-800-823-9776.
Hope all of you have a HAPPY EASTER – until next tip... be your best and remember that amino acids definitely are basics for having a better body!
Teresa Tapp