Have bought 3 different brands of amino acid tablets to try and take in the morning. One bottle by the PC at home, a packet in the car and another by the PC at work. The idea being to take them in the morning (with or without breakfast) to give me a good start to the day as well as suppress my appetite for later in the day. Especially at work where I tend to buy the poor selections of food available at the work cafeteria. I try and bring a good lunch but don’t always.

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein . The body has twenty different amino acids that act as these building blocks. Nonessential amino acids are those that the body can synthesize for itself, provided there is enough nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen available. Essential amino acids are those supplied by the diet , since the human body either cannot make them at all or cannot make them in sufficient quantity to meet its needs. Under normal conditions, eleven of the amino acids are nonessential and nine are essential.

I’ve also been slipping a lot of them into my water drink bottles during training.

Eight aminos are considered essential amino acids, meaning that the body does not synthesize them, so they must be supplied in the diet. These include: phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, isoleucine, methionine, leucine, and lysine. Four others—cysteine, tyrosine, histadine, and arginine—are required for infants and growing children.

Some amino acids have demonstrated an ability to markedly suppress appetite.