Amino Acids and Health

For the normal person, amino acids are very valuable. However, when there is something wrong, the situation can change. Some diseases are caused by errors in amino acid metabolism, including many inborn errors of metabolism called aminoacidopathies.

Taurine

Taurine is in milk, eggs, fish, clams, oysters, and meat. According to Dr. H. Winter Griffith (1998), it is not in plant sources. This amino acid is not essential. It can be made from other amino acids. Griffith is the author of the book "Vitamins, Herbs, Minerals, & Supplements: The Complete Guide". I have checked out his information with other sources and his information is valid.

Serine

Serine is in dairy products, meat, peanuts, soy, and wheat gluten.

Phenylalanine

This essential amino acid is in almonds, avocados, bananas, cheese, cottage cheese, lima beans, milk, peanuts, pickled herring, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and aspartame. Seeds tend to be high in protein for a plant product. This is also true of legumes (beans, peas, etc.).

These foods must be avoided like the plague by patients with PKU.

Methionine

According to my theories, methionine plays an adverse role in mental diseases. Methionine is in beans, eggs, fish, garlic, lentils, meat, milk, onions, etc. Other foods have lesser quantities of it.

Lysine

Lysine is in cheese, eggs, fish, lima beans, milk, potatoes, red meat, soy products, yeast, etc. Milk has all the essential amino acids. Lysine is essential, as is methionine.

Arginine

Arginine is abnormal in one inborn error of metabolism. It beomes too high in the blood and needs to be avoided in the diet. Arginine is in nuts, chocolate, seeds, carob, raisins, brown rice, oatmeal, popcorn, raw cereals, etc.

Cysteine

Cysteine is in some cereals, dairy products, eggs, meat, whole grains, etc.

Glutamine

Glutamine can convert to glutamic acid. Milk contains almost all amino acids. It contains all the essential ones. Glutamine is in raw parsley and spinach. The general rule for amino acids is that they are in seeds, grains, most vegetables, animal products, nuts, etc. They are low in fruits, which contain around 90% water.

Mental Health Science

All is not science in the area of mental health. Some of it is like a religion. Scientology is an example of that. It is a bogus religion. Some of it is economics. The science is warped to maximize corporate profits in money-driven medicine.

Geiger

This is not the same Geiger who invented the Geiger counter. In 1963 Ruth Geiger published an article in a book entitled "Serological Fractions in Schizophrenia". This book, a gem, is much more technical than my articles. The article was a paper that had been presented at a symposium in 1961.

Geiger studied "cortical brain tissue in culture". This technique was later used in the Soviet Union with similar results. Geiger was from the University of Illinois.

She found that adrenochrome was very toxic to the cultures. It caused "chromatolysis within several hours". This was the same type of pathology seen from "taraxein", which was an extract of the serum of schizophrenics.

Schizophrenic Serum

The "serum from untreated schizophrenic patients" was added to the tissue culture. This means that the patients were not on any drugs. "during the first few days, the Nissl substance increases." The Nissl substance, now called the rough endoplasmic reticulum, houses amino acids for the manufacture of proteins.

"Nissl particulates appear around the nuclear membrane." This means that the cell has been activated. It is producing proteins from amino acids.

"... transfer of material from the glia to the neurons becomes more evident." The glia feed the neurons. They control the blood-brain barrier. This finding appears to indicate that the neurons are overeating some macronutrients, perhaps amino acids.

After 72 hours "the Nissl particulates become smaller and more diffuse and tend to disappear." This is tigrolysis.

The destruction of the Nissl bodies appears to mean that amino acids are the culprits. Amino acids are flooding the cells. Geiger did not conclude this. This is my own interpretation.

Astrocytes

"... phenol-red-colored substances were seen to be gradually taken up by the sucker feet of astrocytes and drawn up through their processes into the cell body. Subsequently the whole astrocyte can take on a pinkish color." This is abnormal.

Conclusions

"Serum from schizophrenics can markedly accelerate the uptake of these phenol-red-staining components from the capillary cement into the glial elements."

"None of the free astrocytes or other glial elements normally take up this color." This suggests a weakening of the blood-brain barrier caused by a toxin in the schizophrenic serum. Geiger probably should have gotten a Nobel prize for this work, but she didn't. This may have been due to skeptics like Dr. Seymour Kety of Harvard. Seymour may have seen less.

"Taraxein" was provided by Dr. Heath of New Orleans. Taraxein is supposed to be the unknown toxin in the schizophrenic serum. Taraxein caused chromatolysis in Geiger's assay.

More research is needed. I intend to write further articles on these matters. This work could lead to a cure for schizophrenia.

References

1. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1333742/neurobiological_disturbances_in_schizophrenia.html

2. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1330527/advances_in_brain_research.html

3. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1327509/brain_abnormalities_in_mental_diseases.html

4. www.associatedcontent.com/article/1321835/dont_get_depressed_about_schizophrenia.html

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