methionine
2 stories tagged "methionine"
Metabolic & Weight
The Mice Ate More and Got Leaner. The Switch Was One Amino Acid, Turned Down.
USC mice on a low-protein, methionine-tuned diet ate as many calories as the junk-food group and still lost fat, while their own bodies pumped out more GLP-1. The scientist behind it also owns the company selling longevity diets.
Nutrition & FoodA Cheap Amino Acid Pulled Mice Back From a Cytokine Storm. The Twist Is Which Organ Did the Saving.
A Salk Institute mouse study found that dietary methionine cut deaths from severe inflammation by boosting the kidneys' ability to flush pro-inflammatory cytokines into urine, without blunting the immune response to infection.