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  1. CW: Bulk Supplements vs. Nutricost

    I am considering buying arginine alpha-ketoglutarate and I'm trying to decide between brands.

    Which brand is better in terms of product quality, Nutricost or Bulk Supplements?

    Tagging with #WeightLifting and #fitness since AAKG is most often used as an ergogenic.

    #Supplements #AAKG #Arginine

  2. @Havoc_online

    Those flare-ups are usually life-long and can be demoralizing. One idea that may help you to reduce the outbreaks and severity:

    Eat foods with a high lysine/arginine ratio. Foods high in the amino acid arginine can promote herpes virus replication, while foods high in the amino acid lysine can inhibit it.

    Some good food choices:
    milk, cheese, eggs, fish, lentils, beans, sweet potatoes....

    #HSV #herpes #lysine #arginine

  3. @Havoc_online

    Those flare-ups are usually life-long and can be demoralizing. One idea that may help you to reduce the outbreaks and severity:

    Eat foods with a high lysine/arginine ratio. Foods high in the amino acid arginine can promote herpes virus replication, while foods high in the amino acid lysine can inhibit it.

    Some good food choices:
    milk, cheese, eggs, fish, lentils, beans, sweet potatoes....

    #HSV #herpes #lysine #arginine

  4. #DeepSea corals are home to previously unknown #bacteria with extremely small genomes phys.org/news/2024-11-deep-sea paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-024 #genomics

    "the bacteria are the dominant #symbionts of these #corals and live in a gelatinous layer of tissue that forms part of their immune system and transports nutrients... These bacteria don't even carry genes for obtaining energy from carbohydrates... their only source of energy is the amino acid #arginine, provided by the #coral."

  5. #DeepSea corals are home to previously unknown #bacteria with extremely small genomes phys.org/news/2024-11-deep-sea paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-024 #genomics

    "the bacteria are the dominant #symbionts of these #corals and live in a gelatinous layer of tissue that forms part of their immune system and transports nutrients... These bacteria don't even carry genes for obtaining energy from carbohydrates... their only source of energy is the amino acid #arginine, provided by the #coral."

  6. #Cancer cells are chameleons. They completely change their #metabolism to grow continuously. University of Basel scientists have discovered that high levels of the amino acid #arginine drive metabolic reprogramming to promote #tumor growth. This study suggests new avenues to improve #liver cancer treatment.
    #Biology #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/10/bio10092301

  7. #Cancer cells are chameleons. They completely change their #metabolism to grow continuously. University of Basel scientists have discovered that high levels of the amino acid #arginine drive metabolic reprogramming to promote #tumor growth. This study suggests new avenues to improve #liver cancer treatment.
    #Biology #Medical #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2023/10/bio10092301

  8. Our preprint describes how #EffectivePopulationSize affects #AminoAcid usage. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20. Within highly exchangeable pairs of amino acids, high Ne species are able to prefer #arginine over #lysine, and #valine over #isoleucine. This matches #thermophile preferences, as expected from theories of marginal protein stability at mutation-selection-drift balance. 1/6
    @hanonmcshea #NearlyNeutralTheory #MolecularEvolution #EvolgenPaper

  9. Our preprint describes how #EffectivePopulationSize affects #AminoAcid usage. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20. Within highly exchangeable pairs of amino acids, high Ne species are able to prefer #arginine over #lysine, and #valine over #isoleucine. This matches #thermophile preferences, as expected from theories of marginal protein stability at mutation-selection-drift balance. 1/6
    @hanonmcshea #NearlyNeutralTheory #MolecularEvolution #EvolgenPaper

  10. @lucas_nivon It is great to read about practical experience using #protein design software. Amateurish question: Is it really always safer to stay close to natural proteins? Isn't there danger of #toxicity happening exactly because of similarity, like with #canavanine mistaken for #arginine or arsenic mistaken for phosphorus? Or this "similarity toxicity" happens only with small molecules which tend to be the "objects" of reactions rather than enzymes?

  11. @lucas_nivon It is great to read about practical experience using #protein design software. Amateurish question: Is it really always safer to stay close to natural proteins? Isn't there danger of #toxicity happening exactly because of similarity, like with #canavanine mistaken for #arginine or arsenic mistaken for phosphorus? Or this "similarity toxicity" happens only with small molecules which tend to be the "objects" of reactions rather than enzymes?

  12. CW: Long Covid (possible treatment)

    There is an interesting approach by an Italian team for the treatment of Long Covid. They use a combination of L-Arginine and Vitamin C.

    One study was already published:
    doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.phrs.2022.

    Another will be soon, see this report:
    breakinglatest.news/health/lon

    In a German news it says this might also be useful at the stage of acute infection (in German, right at the end):
    ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Hoffnu

    #Covid #Arginine #PostCovid #LongCovid #treatment

  13. CW: Long Covid (possible treatment)

    There is an interesting approach by an Italian team for the treatment of Long Covid. They use a combination of L-Arginine and Vitamin C.

    One study was already published:
    doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.phrs.2022.

    Another will be soon, see this report:
    breakinglatest.news/health/lon

    In a German news it says this might also be useful at the stage of acute infection (in German, right at the end):
    ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Hoffnu

    #Covid #Arginine #PostCovid #LongCovid #treatment