Reply To: How I eat a high glycine, high protein, and lower methionine diet

[Zack-Vegas]

Here are some commonly eaten proteins I plugged into Cronometer, coming out to 155g for the day-

Here are the amino acid breakdowns for those proteins together-

Roughly 7g of Glycine, and 4g of Methionine, which is a 1.75:1 Glycine to Methionine ratio.  Pretty low, but standard for the “average” type of proteins most people eat.  If you were to displace some of the chicken or beef with milk or eggs, the ratio would be even lower.

Here is the AA breakdown of a recent day of eating, using the techniques I mentioned above-

In this chart, protein is higher, methionine is lower (and so is cysteine, histidine, and tryptophan), and glycine is waaaaay higher. My glycine to methionine ratio (in diet) is basically 10:1.

10g of that is from glycine powder, but even subtracting that, my dietary glycine is still 3 times higher than the normally eaten proteins.  Proline and alanine are also higher, but not that dramatically.

This is a pretty typical day, and I have been doing this mostly for the past nine months.  Of course, there have been exceptions when travelling, or maybe meeting up with friends for meal out, but I’m hitting this glycine to methionine ratio 6 out of 7 days a week, and even on days when I don’t hit 30, or even 20g of glycine, it’s still much higher than the average proteins I showed at the top of this post.