It is a good idea to increase that to 75g by adding whey because of
its cysteine content.
In terms of helping the body to handle metal poisoning, soy is an especially inferior protein because
its cysteine content is tied up in and largely made unavailable by protease inhibitors.
As a consequence of their high
cysteine content, they serve as a toxic metal detoxification system for mercury, cadmium and silver.
Not exact matches
L -
Cysteine is often considered to be an antioxidant because of its sulfur
content and rapidly converts into Cystine in the body.
Since the
cysteine and leucine
content of muscle protein is comparable, an autophagy - mediated increase in plasma leucine will be accompanied by a similar increase in
cysteine, thus facilitating glutathione biosynthesis.
Included in this excellent protein
content are plentiful amounts of sulfur - containing amino acids like
cysteine and methionine, as well as branched chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine) that are important for support of cardiac and skeletal muscle.