Microblog: List of Essential Macronutrients

When a nutrient is defined essential, it means that the body cannot produce it but the body requires the specific essential nutrient for optimal health.

📺I’m doing a gut healing series on YouTube and Kiran talks about how our body has strategically outsourced some of the needs since we only have so much genetic code.

🦠Some of these might be the microbes for our gut. But this also pertains to essential proteins and fats.

🧬Proteins get broken down into amino acids and while there are many amino acids, there are 9 essential ones.

🌱Many plant foods are not complete proteins because they are missing an essential amino acid.

🥩You will always get these 9 amino acids (in varying quantities) from animal-based proteins.

🐄Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, which is needed for almost all functions. Most skeletal tissues, cells, organs, and muscles are made of amino acids.

💪🏼They help make the proteins that allow our bodies to grow, repair tissue, break down food, and perform many other essential processes in the body.

🐟There are 2 essential fatty acids. Alpha-linolenic acid is known as omega 3. Omega 3s are polyunsaturated fats that the body cannot make on its own. The most common…