What is a food source for lysine?

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LYSINE, an essential amino acid, insures your body absorbs the right amount of calcium. It also helps form collagen used in your bone cartilage and connective tissues. Lysine aids in the production of antibodies, hormones, and enzymes. Recent studies have shown lysine improves the balance of nutrients that reduce viral growth.

The human body is capable of manufacturing only 12 of the 20 different amino acids needed to build proteins used to grow, repair, and maintain cells. The other eight are known as essential amino acids because since the body cannot manufacture them, they must come from a person's diet,usually red meat or dairy products. Moringa is one of very few plants that contain all eight essential amino acids.

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All proteins are not a high source of lysine. While there are 8 essential amino acids lysine is one of three "limiting proteins". These three are called limiting amino acids, because if a person's diet is deficient in one of them, this will limit the usefulness of the others, even if those others are present in otherwise large enough quantities. The three limiting amino acids include the sulfur-containing ones (methionine and cysteine), tryptophan, and lysine. If you do not consume meat it can be especially hard to find, even more so for vegans. Complete proteins include meat, soy, quinoa, and moringa. Lysine is found in eggs, cheese and milk. It is also found in seaweed, spirulina, cottonseed oil, Apples, apricots, grapes, papayas, Pears, alfalfa, beets, carrots, celery, cucumber, dandelion greens, parsley, spinach, turnip greens. Eating lots of nuts as well as taking a nutritional supplement doesn't hurt.