soy milk

[SteelWeaver]

ZMA

Amount Per MEN'S Serving
Zinc (as/ -monomethionine and aspartate): 30mg
Magnesium (as asparate): 450mg
Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine HDI): 10.5mg

Multiply by 0.667 for Women's Serving amounts
(1/3 less)

Thank you both - good point about buying them separately Anthrax - I'm slowly starting to realise that anything I choose to supplement with is available out there somewhere for much less than supplement companies would have us believe it really costs.

BTW, just for interest's sake - what are proteases? Enzymes, but do they have names? I read something weird in a mag the other day about ... Bromian (??? - sorry, I can't remember exactly what it was called) an enzyme, that a guy used to make a cyst go away. Probably all anecdotal, but suddenly I'm seeing all this stuff about enzymes.

When I was a kid, my mom used papaya skin to make our warts go away ... enzymes, she said.

 

[anthrax]

Here is a definition of proteases (from proteases.net)

Proteases or peptidases are enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of peptide bonds (proteolysis). Proteases are essential to physiologic processes such as inflammation, infection, fertilization, allergic reactions, cell growth and death, blood clotting, tumor growth and bone remodeling.

Some proteases are very specific and produce a limited proteolysis while others degrade proteins completely into amino acids.

Proteases can generally be classed into two catagories:
1) exopeptidases that cleave off amino acids from the ends of the protein chain, or
2) endopeptidases, which cleave peptide bonds within the protein. Proteases are further classified according to their mechanism of action.

Serine proteases; eg., chymotrypsin, trypsin, elastase, subtilisin
Cysteine (thiol) proteases; eg., bromelain, papain, cathepsins, parasitic proteases, bacterial virulence factors
Aspartic proteases; eg., pepsin, cathepsins, renin, fungal and viral proteases
Metallo-proteases; eg., thermolysin