Lysine Amino acid for health

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The High Lysine Low Arginine Diet

Joan McGovern Tendler, M.Arch.

High Lysine/Low Arginine • Have you tried going gluten-free, but still get bloated? • Do you have inflammation, food sensitivities, or frequent colds? • Do you suffer from Candida, from constipation? • Are you low in calcium and iron? • Do you have high blood pressure, high blood sugar, or hair loss? • Do you have anxiety, depression, or low energy? • Are you inattentive, or have poor memory? A diet that is low in the amino acid lysine and high in arginine will contribute to all of these problems.

Lysine is the only amino acid with the distinction of being the subject of two Hollywood movies!

Jurassic Park Lysine is critical for fertility in mammals (not in dinosaurs), including breastfeeding.

Lysine is well-known by farmers, who must feed it to their animals when fed with grains and cottonseed meal.

High Lysine Foods

Whey, Yogurt

Bean/Potato Soup

Fish, Bean and Black Bean Soup Cheese Tacos with Soaked Quinoa

Kelp

Cheese, Kale, Soaked Buckwheat Turkey, Potatoes Sweet Potato Crepes, Cheese

Beef, Pea Pods, Soaked Rice

Sardines

The Critical Importance of Lysine • STRONG, ELASTIC CONNECTIVE TISSUE: 30% of body (brain, membranes, skin, intestines, gums, lungs, eyes, bones, discs) • AS CARNITINE: Keeps heart and arteries strong, uses fat for energy, lowers LDL and triglycerides, reduces abdominal fat • DIABETES: maintains insulin receptors, prevents cataracts • ACTIVE SITE FOR HORMONE RECEPTORS: vitamins D and A, insulin, sex hormones, blood pressure hormones, oxytocin (social, breast milk), dopamine (feel-good hormone), thyroid • CANCER PREVENTION: strengthens cells, induces cancer fighter p53, controls tumor-stimulating effect of arginine • REGULATES INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE SYSTEM, KILLS VIRUSES, BACTERIA, PARASITES (including dormant) • REGULATES SEROTONIN, GABA (CALMING) AND MELATONIN (SLEEP): helps Alzheimer’s, autism, ADHD, migraines, anxiety, constipation, seizures, insomnia, depression, alcoholics

The Critical Importance of Lysine • KEY ROLE IN WASTE DISPOSAL: problem in Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s disease • REQUIRED FOR IRON AND CALCIUM ABSORPTION: blood oxygen, eye health, bones/teeth, prevents kidney stones • REGULATES DNA EXPRESSION, SILENCING, AND REPAIR • INHIBITS SEX HORMONE BREAKDOWN: prevents infertility, hair loss, enlarged prostate, acne, depression, abdominal fat • COUNTERS ADRENAL FATIGUE: reduces cortisol • CONVERTED DIRECTLY TO ACETYLCHOLINE: enhances short term memory, counters high blood pressure • BUILDS MUSCLES, PREVENTS SORENESS FROM LACTIC ACID • COUNTERS METABOLIC ACIDOSIS: serious diseases, Candida • ACTIVATES ENZYMES: mitochondria SOD, Anti-aging SIRT-1 • CONTROLS ABSORPTION AND ACTIONS OF ARGININE

Lysine Deficiency in our Diet Pesticides used on crops, lawns, pets, and farm animals bind lysine

Lower dairy consumption

Sugar binds lysine

Mental and physical stress depletes lysine

Low fish consumption

High consumption of high arginine grains, peanut butter, nuts, seeds

Caffeine depletes lysine

High arginine grains are no longer fermented

Cottonseed poison in meat and farmed fish binds lysine

Lysine in Fermented Grains

http://www.fao.org/docrep/x2184e/x2184e06.htm

Pesticides Bind Lysine • Pesticides, used for crops, pets, lawns, farm animals, indoor pest control, bind lysine and other amino acids. • Cottonseed contains a natural pesticide, gossypol, which also binds lysine. Cottonseed meal is fed to farm animals and fish. Cows from large dairies consume the most cottonseed meal, and are processed for hot dogs and hamburgers. • Dr. Bruce Semon fed cottonseed meal to mice, equal to what a person would eat during a lifetime of eating meat from animals who were fed cottonseed meal. All the mice developed Alzheimer’s tangles in their brains. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22136946

Cottonseed Oil and Meal in Our Food

Atlantic Salmon

Problems with Excess Arginine Arginine, from plant proteins, competes with lysine in the body. The body makes all the arginine it needs, but it cannot make lysine.

Vasopressin from excess arginine raises blood pressure, enhances clotting, water retention, anxiety, OCD, and sexual arousal.

Excess dietary arginine stimulates growth of all pathogens-bacteria, viruses and parasites-which need arginine to survive and replicate.

Excess arginine raises urea in the blood, causing metabolic acidosis, found with all serious diseases and Candida albicans.

Arginine can dilate blood vessels excessively, which increases heat loss and contributes to Raynaud’s, migraines, and neuropathy.

Arginine increases inflammatory nitric oxide, insulin and IGF-1, leading to serious diseases, free radicals, tumor growth, cataracts.

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Arginine becomes Glutamate and Nitric Oxide when Lysine Enzymes are low

Arginine Metabolism: Boundaries of Our Knowledge. Sydney M. Morris, Jr. J. Nutr. June 2007 vol. 137 no. 6 1602S-1609S

Effect of arginine-enhanced nutrition on the growth of tumors in mice. http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/10/2837S.full

©2004 by American Society for Nutrition

High Arginine Foods

All Nuts

Bran Muffins

Chocolate, Berries

Hummus, Pitas

Unsoaked Rice, Soy, Sesame Oats, All Seeds

Peanut Butter, Bread

All Citrus Fruits

Foods for Lysine Deficiency Low with lysine deficiency

Helpful foods for excess arginine

Vitamin A

Vitamin B

Vitamin C

Pea Shoots

Beets

Fresh Pineapple Juice

Vitamin D

Zinc

Iron

Papaya

Mango

Sour Cherries

Calcium

Potassium

Magnesium

Pomegranate

Greens

Legumes

Molybdenum

Protective Fats

Quinoa

Wheat Germ

Special Diets Milk Sensitivity • Whey has little or no casein or lactose. • Casein in sheep and goat milk, which is type A2, is more digestible. • Casein is pre-digested in well-aged cheeses. Gluten Sensitivity • Wheat is the grain highest in arginine, and arginine causes bloating, so some bloating may be from the arginine. Also, the trypsin in papaya digests gluten. Problems Digesting Beans • Long, warm soaking with lactobacteria predigests beans and raises lysine. Vegetarian • Dairy, beans, potatoes, yeast, and fermented grains are excellent sources of lysine. Salicylates • Like arginine, salicylates inhibit fat metabolism, damage the gut, increase blood flow, carbon dioxide, glutamate, ammonia and insulin, and lower GABA. Sulfites, Nitrites, and Candida • Arginine depletes molybdenum, the cofactor of enzymes that detox these substances.

High Lysine Diet HIGH LYSINE FOODS

CARBOHYDRATES: SOURDOUGH BREAD, SOAKED BUCKWHEAT, BROWN RICE, OATS, WHEAT GERM, CORN, POTATOES, SWEET POTATOES/CORN UNFERMENTED GRAINS

PROTEIN FOODS: WHEY, YOGURT, CHEESE, YEAST, FISH, PASTURE-FED MEAT AND EGGS, SEAFOOD, PEA/SOY SHOOTS

VEGETABLES: GREENS, BEETS, CAULIFLOWER, LEEKS, GREEN BEANS, PUMPKIN, BROCCOLI FRUIT: PAPAYA, PEACH, PINEAPPLE, PLUM, FIG, MANGO, AVOCADO

AVOID OR MINIMIZE

COCONUT

PESTICIDES

PEANUTS, NUTS, SEEDS, SOY

CHOCOLATE

GMO CORN

SUGAR

ONIONS, ORANGES, GRAPES, BERRIES

CAFFEINE

INEXPENSIVE MEAT: HOT DOGS, HAMBURGERS

Relax and Enjoy!

Yogurt-Marinated Chicken

Canned Salmon Quiche

Perch, Papaya Chutney

Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potato

Stir-fried Soybean Sprouts

Pea Shoots/Beets/Avocado Beans, Sausage, Rice, Pumpkin

Carob Black Bean Brownies

Soaked Oatmeal

Poached Eggs/Potatoes

Baked Beans, Molasses

Salmon Potato Cakes Sourdough Rye, Cheese