Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, your body's main energysource. Deficient intake or uptake of essential amino acids causes yourbody to expend valuable energy breaking down proteins to compensate forthis deficiency. In addition, a host of specific amino acid imbalances caninstigate or contribute to symptoms of chronic fatigue.

Tryptophan is the body's primary source for producing serotonin, a aturalrelaxant. Thus tryptophan deficiencies can result in insomnia, and theresultant chronic fatigue that accompanies cumulative sleep deficit.

Creatine--a product of the amino acid arginine-- is depleted with physical exertion, and must be replenished before recovery from fatigue ispossible.1 This replenishment requires an adequate supply of arginine, thecrucial component for proper muscle and tissue repair.
Elevations of homocysteine, tyrosine, alanine, and other amino acids maysignal key nutritional deficiencies of vitamins B6 and B12, which have alsobeen linked to fatigue.2-4 And other amino acid imbalances can promotefatigue through their interaction with adrenal hormones, thyroid function,detoxification processes, and toxic elements.

The Amino Acids Analysis uses a urine sample to assay over 40 amino acids, including all essential, semiessential and protein-forming amino acids. If the test results reveal critical imbalances, an amino acidsupplement schedule is included.

Related Information:
CFS and Adrenal Hormones
CFS and Detoxification
CFS and Toxins and Nutrients

References:

1 Hirvonen J, Nummela A, Rusko H, Rehunen S, Harkonen M. Fatigue and changes of ATP creatine phosphate, and lactate during the 400-m sprint. Can J
Sports Sci 1992;17(2):141-4.

2 Dommisse J. Subtle vitamin-B12 deficiency and psychiatry: a largely unnoticed but devastating
relationship? Med Hypotheses 1991;34(2):131-40.

3 Goodman KI, Salt WB 2d. Vitamin B12 deficiency. Important new concepts in recognition. Postgrad Med 1990;88(3):147-50, 153-8.

4 Beynon RJ, Bartram C, Hopkins P, Toescu V, Gibson H, Phoenix J, Edwards RH. McArdle's disease: molecular
genetics and metabolic consequences of the phenotype. Muscle Nerve 1995;3:S18-22.

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