On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Amadeus Schmidt wrote: > in January Elizabeth posted something about homocysteine and it's > dangers. > Homocysteine is made by the body in the process of converting > methionine to > the really needed cysteine. I am not sure if limiting methionine would be a good idea. I recall from my nutrition classes that methionine is one of the limiting amino acids. In fact, farmers deliberately add high methionine foods to animal diets. A low level of methionine is not a good thing. That said, anyone eating much meat is getting plenty of methionine. All animal products are high in it, as are most beans. Methionine is the amino acid that vegetarians are adding beans to balance for.