Paul Saladino· MD
so let's go back to this paper and talk more deeply about non-protein amino acids we talked about bmaa we can also talk about b-o-a-a another non-protein amino acid beta n amino l alanine it's fun to say them i just try and say them for the first time on the podcast to see how badly i butcher it and this is associated with neurologism an upper motor on disease motor neuron disease seen clinically as [ __ ] paralysis of the lower limbs occurs in periodic outbreaks in ethiopia and the indian subcontinent following exposure to a range of non-protein amino acids consumed from certain latherous species in times of famine these are survival foods it could rain by the same mechanism the non-protein amino acid boaa present in chickling peas lathros sativas has been implicated in neurologism