Hey friends. This is Dr. Brenden Cochran at Interactive Health Clinic. Today I want to talk about lysine. Most people are familiar with lysine because maybe they’ve used it for cold sores or herpes viruses. Now let me explain how it’s used. If you take lysine, it is said to inhibit viral replication, meaning it slows that viral division process down. The problem is if you’re still consuming its antagonist, which is arginine through foods through supplements you’re not really having the benefit of lysine. So the only way that lysine works really effectively is you’re taking lysine and you’re avoiding arginine rich substances. That’s the only way it works really effectively. Now you can take lysine orally. There is a threshold of how much lysine you can get. Otherwise you start to get GI symptoms and it is an amino acid. So, it does require your acid production in your stomach to be functioning optimally.
So if you’re on proton pump inhibitors, antihistamines, or, or you take Tums or you take baking soda. All of those things interfere with the ability for you to absorb proteins and make lysine for your body. Well, one thing we can do to get around that while we’re repairing the gut is use intravenous deliverables of lysine and give it also as an intramuscular injection. It is in some of our proprietary mixtures for viral support, but it’s also used. And this one, a lot of people don’t know it’s extremely important in collagen and collagen is what allows you to basically you repair. So you have stable joints. So if you sprain your ankle, you injure a shoulder, lysine is actually one of many different things that is necessary to build collagen effectively. It’s not just taking collagen powder. That’s one way to do it. But also lysine is important with that. We have another one we’re going to talk about later called proline and glycine. We talked about in another video, but we didn’t really emphasize it’s important in collagen. So those are all really, really critical, especially if you’re an athlete or weekend warrior, really to make sure you have those nutrients optimized for collagen and support for best recovery methods. If you want to learn more about our Interactive Health approach to personalized medicine, visit our website at www.interactivehealthclinic.com or give us a call at (425) 361-7945.
