The Glycine Solution: Unlocking Health Secrets with Dr. Joel Brind

And what I found other researchers, you know, in the literature had discovered is that methionine, although it is essential, and we learn in biochemistry school, if you will, we, we, everybody learns about the methionine cycle, the, the classic way in which your liver recycles methionine to make sure you have enough because it's essential. If you don't eat any methionine, you die. Well, because it's so essential, the, the body's got lots of different ways of recycling it, regenerating it, and reusing it so that in fact you only need half a gram at most of methionine in your diet every day. 300 to 500 milligrams is all the essential requirement is. That's more like a vitamin, right? Even though you think of an amino acid as a bulk nutrient.