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How do Essential Amino Acids (EAA) work?Updated a year ago

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Your body cannot synthesise every amino acid, and the 9 that cannot be synthesised are called essential amino acids. When you consume enough of each EAA, a protein is said to be complete. Among these EAAs, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are crucial for muscles (Patel, K. 2022).

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