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Article: Amino acids: heading for drug status?
- Article from:
- American Fitness
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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While fitness buffs think they're swallowing performance pills, many researchers believe they're courting disaster.
Over the past decade, massive doses of amino acids have been touted by some as a "natural" way to cure health problems. An increasingly health-obsessed public has responded. The dietary supplement industry has grown to a $3-4 billion a year enterprise, with virtually no regulation. Uses range from L-glutamine to treat alcoholism to L-lysine for herpes.
Health food industry groups say since amino acids are the building blocks of the body, and are present in "natural" foods, there is little danger from ingesting them. They say people have ...