Comment by morsch
6 hours ago
So what you are saying is they forgot the word "small" in "arginine is an amino acid small children need to grow".
6 hours ago
So what you are saying is they forgot the word "small" in "arginine is an amino acid small children need to grow".
More like: we all need arginine, but our body makes it, so we don't need to supplement it. Wikipedia writes this:
Preterm infants are unable to synthesize arginine internally, making the amino acid nutritionally essential for them. Most healthy people do not need to supplement with arginine because it is a component of all protein-containing foods and can be synthesized in the body from glutamine via citrulline.
I have no idea if he is right about what he claimed, but can small really stand in for prematurely born or carrying relevant rare genetic mutation?