Albicans Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, the basis of life itself.
Proteins are one of the major categories of both the structure and the chemistry of living things.
Amino acids may be linked together almost indefinitely to form more than 50,000 different proteins. A healthy body is continually breaking down proteins into individual amino acids, and assembling them into amino acid complexes as needed. The primary function of amino acids is not to supply energy, but to furnish the essential material for duplication of genetic code, for cell division, and for forming muscles and connective tissue. Amino acids are involved in the metabolism of hormones, neurotransmitters and the enzyme system. The body requires approximately twenty-two amino acids in a special pattern to make human protein.