The Importance Of Protein And Amino Acids

While proteins and amino acids are closely related, they’re not exactly the same thing. Amino acids are called peptides, and they’re small sub units made from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and other compounds. Proteins are also called polypeptides, and they’re chains of amino acids linked together — chains that can contain thousands upon thousands of amino acids. Your body has the ability to break down proteins into amino acids, and rebuild amino acids into proteins, and both processes are important to your health.

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