Peter Jans

Is that true or false?

And question three, one of the essential amino acids, histidine, plays an important role in what function?

And your options are muscle metabolism, the regulation of energy, or immune function.

And we do have two bonus questions, and the first one is, what meat contains high levels of the essential amino acid tryptophan, which can make you sleepy and increase serotonin?

And our last bonus question, what does the acronym BCAA stand for in terms of amino acids?

It's now time to recap that mnemonic.

And the mnemonic for the nine essential amino acids is MyHilltopTV.

For the My, we take the M for methionine and the I, isoleucine.

Hilltop, we take the H for histidine, the I as a cysteine, the first L, leucine, and the second L, lysine.

Top, we take the T for tryptophan, the O as a cysteine, and the P, phenylalanine.

And the TV, we take the T for threonine and the V for valine.

Now on to the answers for the three-question quiz.

And the first question was, what are the three types of amino acids?

And the three types of amino acids are essential, non-essential and conditional.

And question two, there are nine essential amino acids the body can't make.

Without them, the body's cells would use their own proteins to obtain the missing amino acids.

Is that true or false?

And without the nine essential amino acids, the body's cells would use their own proteins to obtain the missing amino acids.

So that's true.

And this would eventually lead to the breakdown of muscles and organs.