AMINO ACIDS ARTICLE QUESTION SHEET

  1. What do proteins control?
  2. What are proteins made out of?
  3. How many proteins are there?
  4. How many amino acids, make them up?
  5. What is the difference between essential and non-essential amino acids?
  6. Name 1-3 conditions that you have had in the past, that an amino acid may have been helpful in treating you with :
  1. Tyrosine:

·  Essential or Non- essential?

·  Function:

  1. Tryptophan

·  Esse or Non?

·  3 functions:

·  2 foods that YOU eat that contain Tryptophan

  1. Taurine

·  Ess or Non?

·  What organ does it help maintain and how?

·  Name 3 other possible uses:

  1. Lysine

·  Ess or Non?

·  Additional function:

·  2 foods where it is found:

  1. Glutamine

·  Found mostly where:

·  Most important function:

  1. GABA

·  Is a significant influence on what conditions?

·  What does the research from San Antonio say?

  1. Cysteine

·  Who may it protect, and from what?

·  Name 3 things it may be able to prevent:

  1. BCAA’a may increase energy for what types of people?
  1. A person who suffers from frequent muscle spasms may try which amino acids, to relieve their symptoms, naturally?