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Craig Emmerich: An Engineer's Guide to Optimizing Health - #96

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The Unique Amino Acid for Triggering Muscle Protein Synthesis

Lucy is a key amino acid for triggering muscle protein synthesis and muscle growth. Lucy becomes one of the challenging points when you're trying to work with people that are, you know, afraid of eating animal protein or avoiding animal protein. It's hard to get Lucy from non animal sources. Is Lucy entirely exogenous or do we produce it? Is dog, it's one of the essential amino acids. Any acids, essential amino acids, there's no essential carbohydrates.

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