General Health Tips

The main acids and their derivatives that promote liver health are branched-chain amino acids like valine, leucine, isoleucine, arginine, ornithine, aspartate, S-adenosylmethionine.
 
There exist several ways to use branched-chain amino acids to promote liver health. When serious pathologic disorders happen, they damage hepatobiliary system and oxidation activity of the main energy sources decreases. This leads to a lack of the main substrates in the human body, as only 30-40 % of vital energy can oxidize by means of amino acids oxidation in other organs and tissues.
 
Meanwhile, protein catabolism increases and body weight with sick people decreases intensively. On the other hand, in the course of liver disease, concentration of aromatic amino acids in blood plasma increases which leads to various central nervous system diseases and portal systemic encephalopathy. Introduction of branched-chain amino acids removes imbalance, benefits those suffering from portal systemic encephalopathy and promotes liver health in general. Branched-chain amino acids can promote protein synthesis in muscles and liver, can reduce its catabolism thus decreasing negative nitrogen balance. Leucine is produced by Kupffer cells which proves direct influence of branched-chain amino acids on tissue cells.
 
Let’s consider some branched-chain amino acids that promote liver health. Read the rest of this entry »