Amino Acids are the Building Blocks of Healing

When our body is stressed from being sick, injured, or just had surgery, it needs more protein to recover. This is not just rebuilding muscle, which is important, but also building the scar tissue that will hold things together again so we can function. If we think of recovering as rebuilding walls within our body, then we need building blocks, literally, to do that. It is the same for the proteins that rebuild us- they need their building blocks, called amino acids, and the ones essential to healing wounds inside and outside the body are arginine and glutamate. Arginine helps with immune function, cell growth, blood vessel growth, hormone production, and is vital to wound healing by building collagen and pulling skin back together. Glutamate helps the nerves and brain function properly, is essential to metabolism, and also vital to wound healing by providing energy to the cells that do the work. Both arginine and glutamate are made by the body, but when the body needs more for healing it is often helpful to provide these building blocks by eating more protein or taking a short term supplement.

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