Human health issues relating to amino acids are extremely broad and include metabolic disorders of amino acid metabolism as well as their presence in food and use as supplements. This book covers the biochemistry of amino acid metabolism in the context of health and disease. It discusses their use as food supplements, in clinical therapy and nutritional support and focuses on major recent developments, highlighting new areas of research that will be needed to sustain further interest in the field.

Contributions by: Stig Bengmark, R Caldwell, M Conway, Ekrem Dere, Pierre Fafournoux, J Haavik, Regis Hankard, Richard Hawkins, Malte Kelm, Takeshi Kimura, Deniz Kirik, A Kurpad, Richard Koch, Xiaodong Li, Timothy Maher, José Matés, J Mato, Paul Moughan, Stuart Phillips, A Rodriguez-Moreno, T Smith, Lyn Steffen, Hiroshi Ueno, M van de Poll, F Zepf, Tienush Rassaf, Sylvia Smith, Ronald Ball