file.newsgroup.med.58938 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Jason Chen)
Subject: Re: Glutamate
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
>In article [email protected] (Lawrence D. Sher) writes:
>> From the N.E.J.Med. editorial: "The dicarboxylic amino acid glutamate
>> is not only an essential amino acid ...
>
>Glutamate is not an essential amino acid. People can survive quite well
>without ever eating any.
There is no contradiction here. It is essential in the sense that your
body needs it. It is non-essential in the sense that your body can
produce enough of it without supplement.
Jason Chen