What are amino acids?
Everything from your hair down to your toes is made of combinations of amino acids. Your hormones, blood cells, muscles, organs and neurotransmitters in the brain are made of amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of life. There are twenty amino acids that do all of this building and eight of them are referred to as essential amino acids. This means it is essential you take them in through nutrition (or supplements) because your body cannot manufacture them from other chemicals. The amino acids in beCALM d are phenylalanine, both d and l form, and glutamine. Phenylalanine is the building block for noradrenalin and dopamine. Glutamine builds GABA, the major calming chemical in the brain.
These liquids are normally found in bodybuilding shops, health food shops and fishing specialist shops. They are normaly based on liver and spleen animal extracts. They are also sold by just about every British carp bait company under one name or another. Individual aminos in crystal form can be used in carp baits BUT unless you really know what you are doing and have the equipment to measure extremly small amount. LEAVE WELL ALONE – Too much and you will scare the fish. If anyone is interested , in Kevin Maddocks book “CARPFEVER” there is a chapter on tank tests on aminos , also in both Rod Hutchinsons excellent books “THE CARP STRIKES BACK” and “CARP NOW AND THEN” there are some interesting chapters mentioning the virtues and pitfalls N0 wonderbait has been found that can make carp feed when they dont want too , it dosent seem to be worth messing around with raw aminos . Anybody who wants to use aminos , ahould start with the liquid food suplements mentioned or the ones suplied by fi
