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Does the body replace itself?

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The Universal Cell Fuel

Your cells need food to live, just like your body does. But you can't pass tha hamburger strayed into your cell, need to be broken down so yourself can use it. So there's a lot of stuff that the body does make. You need like 23, i think you need 23 amino acids. And like nine of em your body doesn't really manufacture. Those is the nine non essential ameno acids ain it. Use proteins for everything from making muscles to making red blood cells to a your mounting and immune response. Proteins are very, very vital. In some of em we have to build by eating stuff from our environment. We either suffer or thrive as a

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