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Lysine/Arginine Ratio


Okay . . . so where do we find the amino acid called "lysine"?


Well . . . "lysine" is in many of the foods we eat every day . . . but the question remains . . .


Are these foods giving us enough??


And to answer that question . . . we need to understand the "RATIO" between "lysine" and "arginine".


You see . . . many of the healthy foods we eat everyday contain both "lysine" and "arginine" . . . a good example would be . . .


Onions . . . now, onion are very good for us and most of us love them . . . but . . .


Onions only have "90" milligrams of lysine . . . whereas, they have "262" milligrams of "arginine". They have more "arginine" than they do "lysine".


So let's take another example . . .


Everyone likes a glass of orange juice in the morning . . .


Well . . . it contains only "22" milligrams of "lysine" and "117" milligrams of "arginine"


So the "lysine"/"arginine" RATIO . . . is just the amount of "lysine" vs "arginine" in any given food item.


And some of the elements that have the correct "ratio" of more "lysine" than "arginine" would be . . .