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Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps form and maintain healthy skin, teeth,mucus membranes, skeletal and soft tissue.  Vitamin A promotes good vision, especially in low light.  It may also be needed for reproduction and breast-feeding. Scientific/medical names include: Vitamin A, alpha carotene, retinol, retinoic acid, retinyl palmitate, retinoids, beta carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin. Two

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Amino Acid

Amino acids are organic compounds that combine to form protiens.  Amino acids and proteins are the building blocks of life. When proteins are digested or broken down, amino acids are left.  The human body uses amino acids to make proteins to help the body: Break down food Grow Repair body tissue Perform many other body

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Isoleucine

Isoleucine is an essential amino acid and is one of the three amino acids having branched hydrocarbon side chains.  It is usually interchangeable with leucine and occasionally with valine in proteins.  The side chains of these amino acids are not reactive and therefore not involved in any covalent chemistry in enzyme active centers; however, these

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Valine

Valine is an aliphatic amino acid that is closely related to leucine and isoleucine both in structure and function.  These amino acids are extremely hydrophobic and are almost always found in the interior of proteins.  They are also seldom useful in routine biochemical reactions, but are relegated to the duty of determining the three-dimensional structure

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Leucine

Among anti-atrophic therapies, amino acid supplementation, particularly with leucine, has received a lot of attention.  Atrophic conditions include muscle disuse, sarcopenia and cancer.  The characterization of the mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle atrophy under different conditions has been a constant focus of research.  Supplementation has been shown to have remarkable effects on muscle remodeling through protein

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Phenylalanine

Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid (a building block for proteins in the body), meaning the body needs it for health but cannot make it.  You have to get it from food or supplements.  Phenylalanine is found in 3 forms:  L-phenylalanine, the natural form found in proteins; D-phenylalanine (a mirror image of L-phenylalanine that is

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Lysine

Lysine, or L-lysine, is an essential amino acid.  That means it is necessary for human health, but the body can’t manufacture it.  You have to get lysine from food or supplements.  Amino acids like lysine are the building blocks of protein.  Lysine is important for proper growth, and it plays an essential role in the

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Multivitamin Supplement Patch

One month supply. 30 Multivitamin Supplement Patches – 29.95 Vitamins play a critical role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  Texas Transdermals’ all natural time release Multivitamin Patch delivers a full range of vitamins and antioxidants proven essential for human well being.   This multivitamin formulation is optimized to deliver the most nutritionally effective forms of these

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