On average, American women effectively consume twice as much methionine as they need and American men three times as much.7980 Given the cardiometabolic risk associated with higher intake, public health researchers suggest that the optimum intake may be down around the recommended intake.7981 So, just as I’m not advocating for a low-protein diet but rather a diet with the recommended amount, one need not eat a low-methionine diet but rather just one without excess methionine. Given what we now know, simply decreasing intake to recommended levels “has a great potential to lower tissue oxidative
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