Dr Gundry Reveals the Hidden Truth About Amino Acids

Dr Gundry Reveals the Hidden Truth About Amino Acids

Are amino acid supplements worth the hype, or are they just another trend? In this video, we’re diving deep into the world of amino acids to uncover the truth.

#AminoAcids #BranchChainAminoAcids #BCAAs

We’ll start by explaining what amino acids are and the different types that exist. You’ll learn about essential and non-essential amino acids and why each type is important for your body.

Next, we’ll explore the potential health benefits of amino acids. From muscle growth and recovery to improved mood and immune function, amino acids play a crucial role in various aspects of health. But can supplements really make a difference, or is it better to get your amino acids from food?

Speaking of food, we’ll also discuss how you can naturally boost your amino acid intake through your diet. We’ll highlight some amino acid-rich foods and provide tips on how to incorporate them into your meals.

Whether you’re a fitness enthusiast, a health-conscious individual, or simply curious about amino acids, this video has something for you. Tune in to discover the science behind amino acids and how they can potentially benefit your health. You won’t want to miss this episode!

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50 Comments

  1. @hariprem11 on October 16, 2025 at 11:07 am

    Gorillas eat £50 of roughage a day

  2. @user08157 on October 16, 2025 at 11:07 am

    Dr. Gundry, your content is getting creepy. Please don’t compare humans to gorillas or horses. That’s pseudoscience. Did you know that a gorilla spends its entire life eating and has to consume up to 60 pounds of food a day? And has a 20-foot-long large intestine? Believe me. A gorilla gets massive amounts of protein that are upcycled by its intestinal flora.

  3. @hungrymynd5673 on October 16, 2025 at 11:07 am

    With this logic all the vegetarians and vegans should look like gorillas! We’re omnivores bud, just try to stick to natural single ingredient foods friends. Don’t listen to this nonsense

  4. @josephmorrison3634 on October 16, 2025 at 11:07 am

    Your argument is strange to compare humans to gorillas and horses. Plant protein is absorbed anywhere from 10-17% and animal protein is absorbed anywhere from 20-34% which is roughly 2X that of plant protein.

  5. @fahrahaleshanee8444 on October 16, 2025 at 11:08 am

    Our digestive system is not the same as gorillas or horses.
    I was vegan for 4 years and felt bad constantly. I was deficient in so many minerals and vitamins.
    Started eating animal proteins and now feel much better. Remember, everyone does their own research. Go look at other studies first before changing your lifestyle based on one doctor or video🙌🏻

  6. @ed2939 on October 16, 2025 at 11:10 am

    What, is this one a joke? 😅😂

  7. @jond5925 on October 16, 2025 at 11:13 am

    WHAT ABOUT ONIONS, GOOD FOR U OR BAD, SOME SAY THEIR HIGH IN CHOLESTEROL & SOME PEOPLE WON’T EAT ON ACCOUNT OF UPSET STOMACH OR TERRIBLE ABDOMINAL GAS,, DO THEY HAVE TO MUCH AMINO ACID OR NONE AT ALL???MOST PEOPLE WHO EAT ONIONS DON’T GET ALOTA COLDS,, ITS LIKE TAKING AN ANTIBIOTIC,,SO WHAT’S THE BIG ABOUT DEAL,,,THE ONLY TIME I CAN’T HAVE ONIONS IS IN A BROWN GRAVY!!!!😅😅😅😅😅

  8. @JustEPlease on October 16, 2025 at 11:13 am

    Shut this guy down! He’s toxic and spreads false rumors like smoking links to longer lives. He only wants your money!

  9. @UrielVentris1984 on October 16, 2025 at 11:14 am

    then why do vegans consistently have small muscles despite eating tons of veggies? thier consistantly smaller, then the wieghtlifters that eat animal protien. you cant build muscle with plants, ive never seen it.

  10. @JimmyG91 on October 16, 2025 at 11:16 am

    How bout MSM supplementation?

  11. @hansalogic on October 16, 2025 at 11:19 am

    Horses an gorilla’s have different intestines than humans

  12. @DanielJones-i8t on October 16, 2025 at 11:19 am

    So if you are deficient in 1 or more type of amino acids, supplements won’t help for restoration? I disagree with this video

  13. @-55512 on October 16, 2025 at 11:19 am

    Horses snd gorillas ???

  14. @250txc on October 16, 2025 at 11:21 am

    Weak explanation … Gorillas & horses are not human …. You are off base here unless you are just a couch potato … Don’t drag our grandparents into this…

  15. @ApplyScripture-xw2fy on October 16, 2025 at 11:22 am

    You eat red meat for creatine not amino acids

  16. @tanyadimmick8890 on October 16, 2025 at 11:22 am

    Dr Don Layman would disagree 🤣 Very poor argument imo. Come here you beautiful steak 😋

  17. @Godgrace-i3y on October 16, 2025 at 11:23 am

    Gorillas dnt have muscles.. They have larger skeletal bone structure… And btw horses, elephants, and all large mammal for that matter are big but not muscular…. And they arr big cos of their genetics. A horse cant be the size of a rabbit, look at baby elephant and he is as big as a fully grown zebra… Its all in genes. So here, we are not doing apple to apple comparison…. Sorry about that 😂

  18. @guptayush179 on October 16, 2025 at 11:25 am

    amino acids from plant sources aren’t absorbed well

  19. @JustEPlease on October 16, 2025 at 11:26 am

    Shut this guy down! He’s toxic and spreads false rumors like smoking links to longer lives. He only wants your money! Spreads false info!

  20. @montyellingsworth4982 on October 16, 2025 at 11:26 am

    Horses and Gorillas are NOT HUMAN

  21. @zebeart8808 on October 16, 2025 at 11:29 am

    I’ve been a vegetarian for 45 years , and I’m very healthy and have amazing stamina for someone 75 years of age.

  22. @20911002223265 on October 16, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Muscle is the organ of stored aminos, it’s a black hole for glucose draining

  23. @marvinfalk5959 on October 16, 2025 at 11:31 am

    Excuse me. I’m not a gorilla. I don’t have their gut biome to beak down plants the way they do. I’m not a horse either. How many kilos of grass does it eat in a day to extract enough leucine for those big muscles. This is nonsense.

  24. @johnsavage4786 on October 16, 2025 at 11:32 am

    100% carnivore never short of amino acids. Plants have a great deal of antinutriants.. You would have to eat a lot of veg and beans to get 1gram per pound of body weight. I will stick to to bref and lamb steaks and eggs

  25. @joannaedwards6325 on October 16, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Do not be misled by this money hungry FEAR MONGER. His fake info is not meant to help anyone but himself.

  26. @j.t5841 on October 16, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Hey smarty-pants animals have way different structures than we do food for thought

  27. @sabrositocooking8680 on October 16, 2025 at 11:33 am

    Name one body builder that wins competitions without meat protein, or a horse or gorilla that doesn’t eat or graze 18 at of 24 hours a day. Gorilla’s do eat meat by the way. I think all the facts need to be talked about when comparing humans to beasts.

  28. @osamakanaan8684 on October 16, 2025 at 11:33 am

    Gorillas have different digestive systems that’s why 👀👀👀

  29. @jd-gw4gr on October 16, 2025 at 11:33 am

    what proportion ratio of proline, glycine and lysine should be taken? how many times a week should this dose be taken and with meal or on empty stomach?

  30. @JohnnyBrooks22 on October 16, 2025 at 11:39 am

    The Collagen I take does Not make Collagen , But , the hydrolyzed Collagen Protein I take has Over a Dozen Amino Acids , Examples like , Arginine, Glycine, Proline, Leucine, Methionine, Lysine and Many More ….. My body uses these Amino Acids that makes my own Collagen ! My Hydrolyzed Collagen has been my Staple for over 20 Years ! !

  31. @r.davidyoung7242 on October 16, 2025 at 11:39 am

    Hmmm, we lack the digestive ability of horses and gorillas. There’s many nutrients in plant fiber that we can’t extract because we can’t digest the fiber. We need longer intestines with more gut bacteria to breakdown fiber.

    I was reading articles on PubMed about taking proline as a supplement. And apparently any proline that we consume as a supplement goes to our liver then sent to our spleen and its torn apart. Our bodies build proline at the cellular site.

    If we take AKG supplement, this will go to the liver and also to tissue cells and proline will be fabricated. And glutamine. So i take AKG. (Alpha keto glutarate)

    If we take proline as a supplement, It’s destroyed.

  32. @wayneanderson991 on October 16, 2025 at 11:40 am

    This has to be one of the most ridiculous comparisons of humans to horses and apes. Dr. Gundry might want to revisit how an ape or a horse processes and digests it’s foods. I can’t believe the doctor could keep a straight face when making the comparison, absolutely ridiculous!

  33. @ejbh3160 on October 16, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Surely horses and gorillas take those animal amino acids in mother’s milk? That’s when they are growing rapidly and putting on muscle fastest in their lives.

  34. @SherryHuffman-q4m on October 16, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Where not grazing animals. Most of us don’t have time to stand in a field chewing all day

  35. @Lightningbug122 on October 16, 2025 at 11:44 am

    I’m not. buying it this time with you Dr Grundy, as far as carnivore

  36. @empireofsteeI on October 16, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Minerals and vitamins are the building blocks of muscle mass and health for that matter. Amino acids are essential but should not be over consumed like anything else..

  37. @Lightningbug122 on October 16, 2025 at 11:48 am

    Quit comparing us to animals

  38. @jaym9846 on October 16, 2025 at 11:50 am

    Protein, protein, protein. I can’t eat enough protein.

  39. @alexeswright1668 on October 16, 2025 at 11:53 am

    Horses and gorillas have extra evolutionary help to digest plant matter.
    I heard animals like horses, or deer and cows, actually are digesting bacteria that one of their stomach produces.
    Like a Greek yogurt. Not sure if gorillas have this extra stomach, or even horses. But i thought this was the major dictating factor between carnivore and herbivore.
    Herbivores digest bacteria that herbivores creates a healthy enviorment for, in the stomach.

  40. @KayFlowidity on October 16, 2025 at 11:54 am

    11:15 Collagen

  41. @aliposhtpazan2625 on October 16, 2025 at 11:55 am

    Excellent information and many many thanks 🙏🙏🙏

  42. @guptayush179 on October 16, 2025 at 11:57 am

    yeah animals who have big muscles also have a bit different genetic structure than humans so…

  43. @thoughtfulcurmudgeon1329 on October 16, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Who cares if you can use vegan protein? Is this the vegan channel? Critical theory is a cult and as far from professional as you can get. Are doctors supposed to preach their religion?

  44. @Rayram870 on October 16, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Animals like gorillas have the ability to ferment plant fibers to create amino acids needed to generate muscle. Humans can’t do this.
    The issue with plant proteins is that certain plants may be high in 1 or 2 amino acids. Animal proteins have a fuller spectrum of amino acids in one serving. So you’d have to mix multiple types of plant proteins to get closer to that full amino acid complex.

  45. @Dirk_van_Tonder on October 16, 2025 at 11:59 am

    The digestive systems of humans to horses or gorillas are as far apart as A is to Z.
    The human digestive tract is enzymatic in nature. In other words, designed for meat.
    Gorillas/horses are based on fermentation. In other words, designed for plant cellulose.
    Nice try gundry.

  46. @Adamtheopifex on October 16, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    Lmfao you gotta be kidding me 😂

  47. @20911002223265 on October 16, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    This guy is talking to people that don’t engage induced catabolism

  48. @Chickenbrain269 on October 16, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    This guy is a dunce.

  49. @wiscobuckeye on October 16, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Fantastic information! Listened on 1.5 playback speed and it felt like a normal conversation 😂

  50. @joshuamitchell5481 on October 16, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    JoMar Labs is an excellent source

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