Posted by raybakes on November 22, 2004, at 13:53:07
In reply to Re: More on Tryptophan- does illness affect efficacy? » raybakes, posted by jasmineneroli on November 20, 2004, at 17:15:26
Hi Jas,
Sometimes feels like we're juggling nutrients, get one in the air, another crashes to the floor!
You do sound like you fitted in with that herpes abstract... although effective, worried about lysine and arginine and homocysteine.
Taking high dose arginine and lysine can raise homocysteine - lysine uses SAMe to make carnitine, and arginine uses SAMe to make creatine, both essential in energy production
'Carnitine biosynthesis is initiated by methylation of lysine'
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=6361812
"supplemental L-arginine can, however, also increase the production of S-adenosylhomocysteine from S-adenosylmethionine through the methylation-dependent generation of creatine from guanidinoacetate"
Ray
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