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by JumpCrisscross 1007 days ago
> safe to discount any study that indicates significant health effects from a nonessential amino acid

One, that’s too much confidence for a topic we do not understand well. Two, the study found—with startlingly high confidence and a meaningful, if small, effect size—glycine “can mitigate methionine toxicity,” the latter being an essential amino acid [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30916479/