Moringa provides building blocks: amino acids for our body!

The Moringa tree, also known as Moringa Oleifera, has been cultivated in India and Africa for more than two thousand years. Most parts of the tree are edible and have many nutritional and medicinal properties unknown to the Western world.

This article only introduces the amino acids found in moringa. The human body needs twenty different amino acids (also called protein building blocks) to act as building blocks to maintain a healthy body. Eleven of them are not essential and nine are essential. Essential amino acids can be obtained from the diet, but our human body cannot produce them at all or cannot produce them in sufficient quantity to meet its needs.

Below is the list of naturally occurring amino acids found in Moringa.

1. Isoleucine – Best known for its ability to increase endurance and help heal and repair muscle tissue and stimulate clotting at the site of injury. It also keeps energy levels stable by helping regulate blood sugar.

2. Leucine: increases the production of growth hormones and helps burn visceral fat. It works with isoleucine and valine to repair muscles, regulate blood sugar, and provide energy to the body.

3. Lysine: helps prevent herpes and cold sores outbreaks, and is necessary for the production of hormones and the growth and maintenance of bones.

4. Methionine: helps the body process and eliminate fat. It contains sulfur necessary to produce the most abundant natural antioxidant in the body: glutathione. It can also produce two other sulfur-containing amino acids, cysteine ​​and taurine, which help the body eliminate toxins, build strong and healthy tissues, and promote cardiovascular health.

5. Phenylalaine: necessary for the normal functioning of the central nervous system.

6. Threonine: supports cardiovascular, liver, central nervous and immune system function.

7. Tryptophan: supports the immune system, relieves insomnia, reduces anxiety, depression, migraines. It also works with lysine to lower cholesterol levels.

8. Valine: stimulates the central nervous system and is necessary for proper mental function. It also works with isoleucine and leucine.

Animal foods such as chicken, fish, eggs, beef, pork, and dairy are rich in essential amino acids. Plant-based foods like dried beans, peas, soybeans, nuts, and seeds generally lack one or more of the essential amino acids. But taking the Moringa supplement you can get all the amino acids.