PerfectAmino is often described as a protein source, but technically it isn’t protein—it contains essential amino acids (EAAs), the building blocks your body uses to make protein.
When amino acids are joined together, they form proteins used throughout the body for muscle, skin, collagen, bone, hormones, enzymes, immune cells, hair, nails and much more.
Why Essential Amino Acids Matter
Of the amino acids used by the human body, some are considered essential because your body cannot make them on its own. They must come from food or supplementation.
Your body needs all of the essential amino acids—and in appropriate proportions—to efficiently build new proteins. Unlike carbohydrates and fat, amino acids aren’t stored in large reserves for later use. Amino acids that aren’t incorporated into proteins can instead be broken down and used for energy or converted into other compounds.
This is one reason different protein sources can be utilized differently by the body.
PerfectAmino is formulated with essential amino acids in specific proportions intended to support efficient protein synthesis. Because the amino acids are already in their free form, they don’t require the same digestive breakdown as intact dietary proteins.
Protein Does Much More Than Build Muscle
Protein is involved in virtually every system of the body. We need it to maintain and repair:
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- Muscle, bone, skin, tendons and ligaments
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- Hormones and enzymes
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- Immune cells
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- Hair and nails
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- Cells and tissues throughout the body
When we’re sick, for example, amino acids are needed to produce immune proteins and repair tissue. When we exercise, they’re needed to repair and build muscle. Our bones also continually remodel and require adequate protein along with other nutrients.
Collagen—which supports skin, connective tissue and bone—is itself a protein made from amino acids.
Protein is also involved in hormone production and numerous chemical reactions throughout the body, so inadequate protein intake can have effects well beyond muscle mass.
Digestion and Aging Matter Too
Normally, dietary protein must first be broken down in the stomach and small intestine into individual amino acids before those amino acids can be absorbed and used.
Digestive efficiency can change with age and varies from person to person. If proteins aren’t adequately digested, fewer amino acids may ultimately become available to the body.
Because PerfectAmino contains free-form amino acids rather than intact proteins, those amino acids don’t require the extensive digestive breakdown that meat, eggs or protein powders do before absorption.
This can be especially useful when the goal is to provide amino acids without adding another large meal or protein shake.
What About Calories and Nitrogen Waste?
When amino acids aren’t used to build proteins, they can be broken down. This process produces nitrogen-containing waste that ultimately must be processed and eliminated by the body, primarily through the kidneys.
BodyHealth’s premise behind PerfectAmino is that providing the essential amino acids in carefully selected proportions allows a greater percentage to be directed toward protein synthesis rather than being broken down.
That also explains why PerfectAmino provides very few calories compared with conventional protein foods or powders.
So What Can PerfectAmino Support?
By supplying essential amino acids, PerfectAmino is designed to give the body raw materials it can use for:
Muscle maintenance and recovery • healthy bones • skin and collagen • connective tissue • immune function • enzymes and hormones • hair and nails
Individual results will naturally vary depending on diet, age, activity level, digestion and whether someone was getting adequate protein and essential amino acids to begin with.
How Does PerfectAmino Compare?
According to BodyHealth, 5 grams of PerfectAmino (5 tablets or 1 scoop) provides the protein-building equivalent of approximately:
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- 30 grams of whey, pea, soy or collagen protein powder
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- 15 grams of protein from meat, poultry or fish
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- 10 grams of protein from whole eggs
The important distinction is that PerfectAmino isn’t meant to behave like another conventional protein powder. It provides the essential amino acids your body uses as building blocks to create the proteins it needs.
And that is ultimately the idea behind PerfectAmino: give the body essential amino acids in a readily available form so it can use them to build and repair the proteins that support nearly every tissue and system in the body.
