NOW Foods L-Lysine 500 mg, 250 Tablets for Connective Tissue Support

NOW Foods L-Lysine is an essential amino acid supplement in 500 mg tablets, made to provide L-lysine for dietary supplementation and support healthy connective tissue and calcium absorption.

• 500 mg strength — a clearly defined amount of L-lysine in tablet form.
• 250 tablets — a counted supply in one product.
• Essential amino acid — L-lysine must come from the diet or supplementation because the body cannot manufacture it.
• Supports healthy connective tissue — lysine is needed to produce collagen, the structural protein in skin, tendons, and bones.
• Supports calcium absorption — L-lysine plays a major role in this process.

L-lysine is an essential amino acid: it is one the body cannot make, so it must be obtained through food or supplementation. This NOW Foods product offers a tablet-based way to add L-lysine to a supplement routine. Its stated roles connect amino acid intake with the body's production of proteins and with calcium absorption.

What is NOW Foods L-Lysine made to support?

NOW Foods L-Lysine is made to support healthy connective tissue and calcium absorption. Lysine is necessary for the production of collagen, a structural protein found in skin, tendons, and bones. It also plays a major role in calcium absorption, giving this amino acid more than one clearly described function in the body.

• Collagen is the structural protein associated with connective tissue.
• Skin, tendons, and bones are examples of connective tissue named for lysine's role.

Why is L-lysine called an essential amino acid?

NOW Foods L-Lysine provides an amino acid that the body cannot manufacture. “Essential” means it needs to be obtained through the diet or through supplementation. This product is intended as a supplemental source; its stated role does not replace the distinction between dietary intake and the body's own production.

• Diet and supplementation are the two stated ways to obtain L-lysine.
• The body does not manufacture this amino acid.

What other proteins and compounds does lysine help the body produce?

NOW Foods L-Lysine supplies an amino acid needed for the production of all protein in the body. The listed examples include hormones, enzymes, and antibodies, as well as carnitine and collagen. These examples describe the range of production processes for which lysine is necessary; they are not separate ingredients or additional tablet contents.

• Protein-production examples include hormones, enzymes, and antibodies.
• Carnitine and collagen are also named among the compounds lysine is needed to produce.

This supplement suits adults looking to add L-lysine in tablet form as part of their dietary supplementation, particularly those interested in its stated roles in protein production, connective tissue, and calcium absorption. It is a defined-amount L-lysine supplement supplied as 250 tablets, rather than a product with instructions or additional ingredients described here.

Ingredients

L-Lysine (from L-Lysine Monohydrochloride) (500mg), Gelatin (capsule), stearic acid (vegetable source), cellulose, rice flour, magnesium stearate (vegetable source)